Pacific Islands

Turboprop maker ATR scraps brand-new model to concentrate on existing variety

Turboprop airplane maker ATR stated on Wednesday it would scrap development of a brand-new design created to take off and arrive at brief runways and concentrate instead on its existing portfolio. The French-Italian business, co-owned by Jet and Leonardo, said the choice to halt the brand-new ATR 42-600S Short Liftoff and Landing (STOL) advancement followed an extensive market review and remaining supply chain stress. ATR is the world's biggest producer of local turboprop aircrafts, with a family of aircraft seating 42 to 78 individuals. In 2019, the Toulouse-based manufacturer announced strategies to establish an unique version of its smallest design

Passenger Transportation Services

Growth across Pacific slows as post-pandemic rebound fades, says World Bank

Pacific island specifies back $271 mln regional policing strategy

Pacific Island states have actually backed an Australian-funded A$ 400 million ($ 271 million) plan to improve cops training and create a mobile regional policing unit, Australia stated on Wednesday, as Canberra looks to lower China's security footprint in the location. The Pacific Policing Initiative will establish 4 cops training centres across the Pacific as well as a separate center in Brisbane, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said after the strategy was agreed by consensus during a meeting of Pacific Islands leaders in Tonga. The initiative will likewise produce a multi-country policing force that can be deployed to countries in

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Air travel regulators press for global efforts to deal with turbulence

China's Xi backs Fijian PM's Pacific strategy ahead of regional meeting

Chinese President Xi Jinping told going to Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka he backed his Ocean of Peace plan during a conference in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese state media reported, days ahead of a summit for Pacific Island leaders in Tonga. China likewise vowed to step up its trade ties with the archipelagic state, which wishes to upgrade its ports and ship structure, roads, and sewage facilities, but can only do so through protecting much better terms for its farming and fisheries exporters owing to deep debts. China values Prime Minister Rabuka's vision for an Ocean of Peace and is

Southern Africa

Olympics-Surfing-Olympic internet users score with 'remarkable' drifting athlete's village

Olympic surfers based in Tahiti will lose out on the phenomenon of the Games' opening event on Friday, however might have exceeded their Parisbased peers with their accommodation in a freightercumcruise ship working as a drifting athletes' town. With limited lodging options in the little villages dotted around Tahiti's southern coast, Paris 2024 decided to house most internet users in the uniquelooking 126metre (413foot) Aranui 5, which is anchored in the lagoon about 10 km (6.2 miles) from the venue of Teahupo'o. It's my very first time on a cruise liner, so yeah, it's enjoyable, stated New Zealand web surfer