McCarran International Airport

McCarran officials said Thursday that traffic at the primary airport servicing Sin City is up 3% through the first three months of the year.

Allegiant Air posted the largest year-over-year increase by percentage. Nearly 30% more passengers used the airline in Las Vegas in March compared with the same month last year.

Traffic for Southwest Airlines was flat. Southwest is the airport’s largest carrier. Traffic on US Airways flights was down more than 15%.

Officials say the airport handled 9.9 million passengers, combined, between January and March.

Source: USA TODAY. Travel

If you would like to find out more about the airline industry, join us at Low Cost Airlines World Americas conference taking place May 3–4, 2012 in Miami!

Click here to visit the event website.

“The convertible debt carries a 7% interest per annum and inclusive of the interest, a total internal rate of return of 12% per annum.” the article noted.

Ms. Ting Zheng, Chief Executive Officer of cord blood bank stated, "We are extremely pleased with our new partnership with KKR. Their investment in CCBC enhances our capital base and validates our long-term growth platform in China and potentially beyond. Partnering with one of the world’s leading private equity firms also increases our visibility, broadens our shareholder base and enhances the long-term value for all CCBC shareholders."

"Our partnership represents a landmark investment in the China healthcare space," said Mr. Julian Juul Wolhardt. "Together with CCBC, we are proud to serve the China market by offering high quality healthcare services that can positively impact the lives of many. With our global expertise, we are dedicated to further strengthening CCBC’s market leadership position."

The World Cord Blood Congrhttp://www.terrapinn.com/2012/world-cord-blood-congress/index.stmess will be hosted a session on global cooperation for cord blood banking. 

In one of the graphics from his presentation, he showed 27% users use mobile web to research their destinations via mobile.  29% use their mobile to actually reserve and book accommodation, whilst 39% of smart phones users have a travel app installed on the mobile.  He also looks forward to the developments in LBS and NFC technology.

One of the more interesting points of this presentation is the rise of tablets and travel.  44% of iPad users travel for business.  75% of mobile traffic to lastminute.com came from iPad users and the tablet owners salary results from Google declare the 36% of iPad users earn 80k+ which shows the gap in wealth between smartphone and tablet users.  have you tapped into this market?  If you’re in the travel business then having a tablet app is an essential business tool for travellers on the go.

To find out a bit more, download David Slocombes presentation here: Location and Context in Mobile Services

ADWEA has securely positioned itself as the regional innovator in smart electricity. As utilities focus more and more on anticipating changing patterns to better manage supply and demand, ADWEA has implemented a well adapted an Automated Metering Reading (AMR).

There are many benefits to introducing AMR:

· Improve service quality and reduce overall operational costs

· Improve cash flow as you reduce the estimation process

· Generate bills on a regular and frequent basis

· Increase frequency of meter readings as lack of access to remote and difficult meters is removed

· Deduct faulty meters at an early stage to minimize costs

· More accurate billing and revenue as AMR detects errors

I would suggest reading this case study by ADWEA which highlights not only the benefits of introducing this AMR technology but also how to overcome some of the key technical challenges and how to integrate smart metering and billing.

Download the presentation

While researching for some materials for our conference this September, I happen to stumble upon Ms Jane Hart’s listings of the top 100 tools for 2011, which include:

Thank you for the wonderful feedback.

It’s day one of the internet show Melbourne centre today! Great crowd, good content and loads of networking.

Seminars are packed and spilling out of the theatre. People we spoke to were taken aback by the huge turnout. It is Australia’s leading internet business show afterall so having a huge crowd is quite a norm.

Join us at day two of internet show Melbourne tomorrow! Seminars are running tomorrow

Bergen light rail, a part of the Bergen programme for transportation, urban development, and the environment, is set up to coordinate and prioritise public transport and road construction for a period of 20 years. Mott MacDonald has been recently appointed as the detailed design engineer for Stage 3 of the Bergen light rail transport system project. The company will oversee all aspects of the project including civil, systems and environmental design, architecture, landscape, noise and vibration, traction power substations and ancillary buildings. Worth about 220 million Euros, it comprises of the 7.2km of double track from Rådal to Flesland airport, 2.8km of tunnels and over 1km of structures including a feature structure over the Flyplassvegen at Birkelandsskiftet. (read full article here).

Mott MacDonald will be part of the Consultants Showcase at MetroRail Asia 2012. If you are interested to hear from top consultants on the design and planning strategies for metro construction, don’t forget to join us in Mumbai this October. For more information, you can download the event agenda here.

Other regions forecast to increase apparent steel use includes CIS (4.1%) and MENA (5.7%) with global apparent steel use to rise by 3.6% in 2012. Despite the solid growth of world steel demand anticipated in 2012, uncertainties such as a worsening euro debt crisis, high oil prices and geopolitical tensions in oil producing regions and the possibility of a hard Chinese landing remain significant downside risks.

Interestingly, The World Steel Association forecast that by 2013, the emerging and developing economies will account for almost 75% of the world’s demand for steel, in sharp contrast to 61% in 2007.

With speakers coming from Africa, Central Asia, Europe, India, China, USA, Latin American, Japan etc, the 8th World Scrap Metal Congress 2012 promises to provide illuminating insights to the global scrap metal markets. Download the draft agenda here to get a sneak peak for the event!

Gaz has over 25 years of experience in the international upstream oil and gas industry. He has primarily worked in the Exploration, New Venture and Field Development areas in the Australian, North African/Middle East, Indian sub-continent, SE Asian, Gulf of Mexico and offshore China basins.

He has have been living in Sydney for past 18 years with his wife and two sons. Prior to joining AWE LTD, he has worked with various Sydney-based companies including Pan Pacific Petroleum, Novus Petroleum and ROC Oil in various roles.

At AWE, he is managing the Shale Resources Group. The group is actively managing their producing interest (10%) in the Suguarloaf AMI in the Eagle Ford Shale project in the USA. In addition, the group is assessing the potential of the shale targets in Onshore Perth Basin, Australia where AWE has large acreage holding.

He has been active with professional groups including Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) where he has been the federal secretary in 2001/2002. He is a member of AAPG, SEG and SGE.

He spoke on the following during the event

• Taking advantage of Australia’s close proximity and abundant resource supply
• Capitalize on Australia’s first-hand experience of the rapidly evolving technology used to exploit for shale gas
• Advance and diversify your unconventional gas portfolio

Download the presentation slides here.

Shale Gas World Asia 2012 will feature more speakers like Gaz. Visit our website for more information or contact philip.parba@terrapinn.com today.