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A DEAL has been signed to build smart airport information systems by Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA), Chinese internet company Tencent and the government-funded China Civil Aviation Science Popularisation Foundation. The three parties are to develop information systems, many based on internet clouds, that expand the availability of airport information, boosting its accuracy and timeliness.…

For the past year, passengers flying out of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) have had to cough up a Hong Kong dollars HKD70-180 (USD9-23) Airport Construction Fee for the privilege. Should they want to see where their money is going, they need only look northwards from the glass-sided terminal to observe the construction of the hub’s third runway, which is due to be completed in 2024.…

Beijing’s new international airport, tentatively named Beijing Daxing International Airport, saw the steel structure of its terminal buildings completed on June 30, suggesting that its operations will begin in 2019 as planned.

Located 46 km south of the Chinese capital’s city centre, the airport is meant to take pressure of the Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA), which is reaching its capacity limits, and the project draws much additional rationale from the Chinese central government’s ambitious decision to build a new megacity at Xiongan in northern China, as announced in April.…

Nearly two years since Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) in September 2015 announced plans to build a fourth runway and a new air control centre by 2017 and inaugurate both in 2018, these projects are still not being materialized.

On January 17, the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee deputy director Wu Jianguo, for his part, revealed that the fourth runway is “brewing”, without however mentioning any timeline.…

WORK is advancing on a major expansion of Santiago’s Pudahuel International Airport to cope with Chile’s rapidly-growing aviation market. But airlines feel they are bearing more than their share of the USD1 billion construction cost.

Officially known as Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, the facility has been Chile’s gateway to the world since it opened 50 years ago.…

Japan’s top cattle and meat producers are gearing up to compete in the country’s next ‘Wagyu Olympics’, the country’s premier beef cattle show, to be held in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, on September 7–11. Delegations of wagyu experts, industry insiders and farmers from each prefecture as well as overseas groups are expected to attend for competitions as well as wagyu taste challenges and opportunities to exchange information and good practice.…

A MAJOR Japanese corporation with significant meat trading interests – Mitsui & Co Ltd – is undergoing talks on potential business opportunities with the Rusagro Group, one of Russia’s largest vertically integrated livestock and agricultural holding companies.

Hiroo Yoshida, of Mitsui’s corporate communications division has confirmed that Mitsui has acquires a token amount – 0.005% – of Rusagro’s capital and the companies are “exploring the possibility of co-operation”.…

THE RUSSIAN government is planning to promote exports of Russia-produced poultry meat and pork to China and has already started talks with the Chinese government to secure the necessary health approvals to increase exports beyond current low volumes.

Impetus for the move has come from the top, with Russian President Vladimir Putin stressing in a speech that the government has high hopes for selling poultry to the Chinese, as, according to predictions of the Russian agriculture ministry, China may face with its shortage this year.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) meat industry has expressed disappointment over the decision by Russia to extend by 18 months its ban on EU exports of meat and meat products, but is optimistic that producers will continue finding alternative markets.

Leaders of EU farm industry association Copa-Cogeca and the European Livestock & Meat Trading Union (UECBV) stressed to GlobalMeatNews that the European Commission, food industry companies and EU member states had successfully adapted to Russia’s actions.…

WITHOUT European Union (EU) supervision, the fight against fraud, in the UK at least, will become more difficult after ‘Brexit’, European fraud experts claim.

“London is already known to be a major money laundering centre, so that can only get worse once the EU ‘strings’ have been severed,” predicted Hugh Penri-Williams, fraud consultant and vice president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) France.…