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China Airlines to Raise Fuel Surcharge Up to 50 Percent

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese airlines including China Southern Airlines will raise domestic jet fuel surcharges as much as 50 percent from Tuesday to offset pressure from high oil prices, an aviation industry website said on Monday, citing regulators. Regulators...

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News items 2008-06-30

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Rechargeable cards are the new layaway

Dear Heloise: Now that many stores have stopped having in-store layaway, I thought of a new way to put items on layaway. Most retailers now offer rechargeable, prepaid credit cards or rechargeable gift cards. Simply purchase one, put a little money on it and write what it is being used...

Articles 2008-06-26

Lufthansa Cargo raises fuel surcharge

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Lufthansa Cargo, the cargo division of German airline Lufthansa, is to raise its fuel surcharge. The company will increase its surcharge from EUR1.20 per kilogramme to EUR1.25 with effect from 7 July 2008. The increase comes soon after...

Articles 2008-06-25

Firm disputes cost overruns fixed by state of Maryland

Attorneys for Gebhardt & Smith LLP and the Maryland Port Administration sparred in court Tuesday over how the state calculated operating cost overruns that it says the law firm -- once the largest tenant at the World Trade Center-- must help pay. Both sides questioned Joe Ford,...

Articles 2008-06-25

Graphic Packaging Increases Prices on Coated Unbleached Kraft Grades

Company to Reset Freight Allowances to Offset Transportation Surcharges MARIETTA, Ga., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Graphic Packaging International, Inc., a subsidiary of Graphic Packaging Holding Company , today announced price increases for its coated unbleached kraft CUK grades to cover higher costs for mill inputs, including fiber,...

Articles 2008-06-24

Dow Announces Further Price Increases, Freight Surcharges and Idling of Plants

Seeks to restore margins as hydrocarbon and energy costs continue to climb MIDLAND, Mich., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Dow Chemical Company will raise the price of its products by as much as an additional 25 percent in July in an effort to offset the continuing...

Articles 2008-06-24

World Trade Center lease dispute goes to trial in Baltimore

The law firm Gebhardt & Smith LLP will not be able to claim that its lease was illegal to defend itself in a two-year-old lawsuit with the Maryland Port Administration, a city judge decided Monday The bench trial in Baltimore City Circuit Court focuses on $317,500 in...

Articles 2008-06-24

Kronos Worldwide, Inc. Announces a New Energy and Raw Materials Related Surcharge and New Price Increase for all Titanium Dioxide Products Sold Outside of North America and Europe

CRANBURY, N.J., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kronos Worldwide, Inc. announced a new energy and raw materials related surcharge and a price increase for all titanium dioxide grades sold outside of North America and Europe including among other areas, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Asia. ...

Articles 2008-06-24

CNH to Implement Surcharge of Five Percent

CNH Global N.V. (NYSE: CNH), a world leaderin the agricultural and construction equipment businesses, has announcedthat, in response to sharp and sustained increases in its costs for steel,energy, commodities, and transportation, it will implement an approximate5% across the board surcharge on the base price of all whole goods orders,including attachments...

Articles 2008-06-23

DuPont Titanium Technologies Announces Price Increase for Titanium Dioxide Products in North America

WILMINGTON, Del., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DuPont Titanium Technologies today announced a price increase for all DuPont titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades sold in North America. Effective July 1, or as permitted by contract, North American United States and Canada prices for DuPont coatings, plastics, specialty, paper and...

Articles 2008-06-23

Air Products To Update Product and Energy Surcharges for Liquid and Bulk Industrial Gas Products in North America

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Effective July 1, 2008, Air Products will update product and energy surcharges for all of its liquid and bulk products in North America. These updates are being implemented as a result of the continued extraordinary cost increases for diesel fuel,...

Articles 2008-06-23

Cooperation agreed by China Airlines and China Southern Airlines

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Taiwan-based China Airlines and Chinese carrier China Southern Airlines have signed a memorandum of cooperation, agreeing to deepen their existing partnership. The two airlines are planning to represent each other's businesses in passenger, cargo, maintenance and ground handling operations. They...

Articles 2008-06-23

British Airways' premium passengers to pay higher fuel surcharge

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD British Airways is reportedly planning to introduce different levels of fuel surcharge for different classes of travel. The change will apply to the airline's passengers travelling in the first class, Club World and World Traveller Plus cabins, according to the...

Articles 2008-06-23

Malaysia Airlines looks to cut costs

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Malaysia Airlines is reportedly planning to reduce flight frequencies on selected routes and will also impose a freeze on recruitment. This is in addition to an expected increase in the fuel surcharge, and comes as the airline tries to meet...

Articles 2008-06-23

IT'LL COST YOU pounds 1 FOR TROLLEY AT THE AIRP

GREEDY airport bosses are to charge passengers pounds 1 to use a luggage trolley. It comes on top of a raft of fuel surcharges and other fees that have already left plane-users reeling. And unlike supermarket trolleys, you won't get your money...

Articles 2008-06-22

H.I.S. Reports Market Gains for the First Half ended April 30, 2008

Tokyo, June 20, 2008 - JCN Newswire - H.I.S. Co., Ltd. (TSE1: 9603), a leading travel and airline ticket agency, has announced record results for the first half ended April 30, 2008. Against declines across the travel industry, the Group actively sought to increase share through aggeressive management, and net...

Articles 2008-06-20

Colorado Springs Retail Briefs: June 20, 2008

Retail shipping service owners have found that offering U.S. Postal Service products and services makes good business sense and pays dividends. Since its inception two years ago, more than 2,000 retail shipping service operators have surpassed $40 million in sales by participating in the Postal Service's Approved...

Articles 2008-06-20

US speeders slapped with fuel surcharges on top of fines

WASHINGTON AFP — Some cash-strapped US municipalities are resorting to slapping fuel surcharges onto tickets issued to speeding drivers in order to fill dwindling city coffers hit hard by skyrocketing gas prices. Beginning July 1, the Georgia town of Holly Springs, near the city of Atlanta, will add...

Articles 2008-06-19

US Postal Service Federal Credit Union Outsources ATM Locations to Select-A-Branch ATM Network

Select-A-Branch ATM Network ("S-A-B")announced that the US Postal Service Federal Credit Union ("USPS FCU") hasoutsourced five branch ATM locations to S-A-B. In addition, USPS FCU hasnow joined the S-A-B Network, providing branded, surcharge-freetransactions to its own card holders. S-A-B ATMs are equipped with the company's patent-pending software, whichallows multiple financial...

Articles 2008-06-18

Speeders to pay extra for police fuel

HOLLY SPRINGS, Ga. -- The surging price of gasoline has come to this: a "fuel surcharge" on your next speeding ticket. Drivers caught speeding in this north Atlanta suburb soon will have to pay an extra $12 -- to cover $4-a-gallon gas costs for the police officers who...

Articles 2008-06-18