TRANSPORT-ZIMBABWE: Govt Omnibus Operators Lock Horns

They have been stranded before. This time it is not over fuel shortages but fare increases that have seen thousands of commuters in the capital, Harare, subjected to long queues as a number of vehicle operators have opted to stay-away.

TRANSPORT-NIGERIA: Flags Fly Half Mast as Air Death Toll Rises

Flags were flying at half-mast Monday in all government offices throughout Nigeria, as the West African nation mourns victims of the weekend plane crash in the northern city of Kano.

TRANSPORT: Travelling within West Africa a Nightmare

Travelling within West Africa can be a nightmare. Roads are bad, and passengers often spend long hours covering a short distance.

TRANSPORT-SENEGAL: New Airline Exceeds its Own Expectations

Fourteen months on from Air Senegal International's inaugural flight, Director-General, Zouhair Mohamed El Aoufir, says the airline has far exceeded its own expectations.

TRANSPORT-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Vital Lifeline for Emerging Economy

Rail transport in Southern Africa has a history of glamour, but today travel glamour is associated with air transport and new auto highways.

TRANSPORT-AFRICA: Too Many New Airports Fighting for the Same Customers

A kind of airport fever has taken hold of the neighbouring nations of South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique, with major new international airports opening, under construction or planned within close proximity of each other.

TRANSPORT-LATAM: Tri-Nation Inter-Oceanic Route in the Works

Integration projects aimed at consolidating the post-border dispute peace deal signed by Ecuador and Peru in 1998 will also include Brazil, which plans to participate in the construction of a highway-river-railway route that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across South America.

TRADE-RUSSIA: Russia Ambiguous Over Oil Output Cut

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, is pressing Moscow to extend a current oil export cut through to June, however Russia is refraining from making any promises.

TRANSPORT: U.N. Seeks to Reinforce Air Safety

A crisis threatening the global airline industry is forcing the United Nations to look for a new strategy to reinforce safety and security in commercial air travel.

ECUADOR: Mysterious Crashes Across Colombian Border

Authorities in Ecuador have no clear answers regarding two air accidents just across the Colombian border, that left a death toll of 120 this month. The two planes, with highly experienced crews, were both off course when they crashed.

RIGHTS-MEXICO: ‘Over Our Dead Bodies’ Say Farmers to New Airport

Plans for a badly needed new international airport in Mexico City, a megaproject that has awakened the interest of powerful investors, have run into stiff resistance from small-scale farmers whose land is to be expropriated.

TRANSPORT-SOUTH AMERICA: Soybeans Block Inter-Ocean Railroad Project

Powerful international grain trade interests have blocked one of South America's most ambitious plans for an interregional railway crossing, according to experts.

TRANSPORT-LATAM: Terror Attacks Put Salt in Airlines’ Wounds

The layoffs of 1,750 employees announced by Brazil's flagship airline Varig marked the beginning of an adjustment period in Latin American commercial aviation, which was already in trouble but was pushed over the edge by the repercussions of the Sep 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.

TRANSPORT-CUBA: Bicycles Losing Ground

The once omnipresent bicycle is becoming less and less common in the streets of the capital of Cuba, despite the health benefits of this green-friendly, inexpensive means of transportation, and the continued shortfall in collective public transport.

TRANSPORT: Eritrea’s Railway Rising from the Dead

Eritrea's railway is rising from the dead.

MALAYSIA: Govt Urged to Rethink Transport Policy

Without an integrated urban transport policy, Malaysia's roads are teeming with private vehicles, but lack public transportation, an alarming trend that needs fixing, say experts.

TRANSPORT-PERU: Internal Disputes over Road Links with Brazil

The Peruvian government's decision to keep an old promise to build a highway giving Brazil a route to the Pacific coast has triggered a conflict between four of the Andean nation's provinces.

TRANSPORT-INDIA: Govt Took Us for a Ride, Say Taxi Drivers

Sohan Singh, who drives a taxicab in India's national capital, has not seen his family for two days. Reason? He was stuck in a miles-long queue waiting for his turn to fill up on compressed natural gas (CNG).

LABOUR-ARGENTINA: Aerolineas Crisis Brewing 10 Years, Say Unions

The crisis afflicting Aerolíneas Argentinas reached a tension-filled peak Wednesday when the government failed in its negotiations with the Spanish holding firm that owns the airline, triggering protests in the offices and on the runways of the capital's airports.

/CORRECTION/TRANSPORT/LABOUR-ARGENTINA: Flagship Airline in Final Throes?

Aerolíneas Argentinas, a company that was privatised in 1991, is in its ninth day of a strike triggered by the layoff of more than 500 technicians. The airline may soon be shut down, agree union leaders, meaning 5,000 people would lose their jobs.

TRANSPORT/LABOUR-ARGENTINA: Flagship Airline in Final Throes?

Aerolíneas Argentinas, a company that was privatised in 1991, is in its eleventh day of a strike triggered by the layoff of more than 500 technicians. The airline may soon be shut down, agree union leaders, meaning 5,000 people would lose their jobs.