China's railway cargo transport rises in March

14:41, April 09, 2020

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  S.Korea consumer price rises 1 pct in March

  SEOUL, April 2 (Xinhua) -- South Koreas consumer price rose 1 percent in March from a year earlier, staying above 1 percent for the third consecutive month, statistical office data showed Thursday.File photoThe consumer price index (CPI) stood at 105.54 in March, up 1.0 percent from a year earlier, according to Statistics Korea.The consumer price inflation hovered above 1 percent for the third consecutive month, after recording 1.5 percent in January and 1.1 percent in February each. For the whole year of last year, the headline inflation stayed below 1 percent.Core consumer price, which excludes volatile agricultural and oil products, gained 0.7 percent in March from a year earlier. The OECD-method core price, which excepts volatile food and energy costs, added 0.4 percent, marking the lowest in over 20 years since December 1999.The so-called living cost index, which reflects the price for 141 daily necessities, advanced 1.8 percent in the month.Fresh food index, which gauges the cost for fish, shellfish, vegetable and fruit, went up 3.8 percent last month.

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  Jumbo military planes touch down at Pudong to pick up coronavirus prevention supplies

  A Russian Air Force IL-76 cargo plane. Five massive military planes from Russia and Algeria landed at Pudong airport on Saturday to pick up coronavirus prevention supplies. The planes include two IL-76 transports belonging to the Algerian Air Force and another two from the Russian Air Force.

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  World's largest cargo plane joins convoy to transport medical supplies from China amid pandemic

  Antonov An-225 Mriya, a cargo plane which is the worlds biggest aircraft, drives along an airfield starting its first commercial flight to the Australian city of Perth, in the settlement of Hostomel outside Kiev, Ukraine, May 10, 2016. (Photo: Agencies)The worlds largest cargo plane, the An-225, has joined the international convoy to transport medical supplies from China.Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worldwide, foreign countries have been running short on medical supplies, and with China possessing high production capacity, sending large military aircraft to transport medical supplies has become an efficient option to help relieve supplies shortage and fight the COVID battle, experts said on Monday.The An-225 arrived in North Chinas Tianjin on Sunday evening to transport 400 tons of medical supplies bought from China, including seven million masks and several hundred thousand protective suits, to Poland, cannews.com.cn, a Chinese news website onthe aviation industry, reported on Monday.The An-225 is the worlds heaviest and largest cargo aircraft and has just been upgraded, which kept the plane grounded for nearly two years, Ukrainian media Kyiv Post reported on Saturday."With only one flight, the An-225 can bring as much cargo from China as 10 Boeing 787 Dreamliners," the Kyiv Post quoted the Polish Ministry of State Assets as saying.Despite this, the giant aircraft may have to make two round trips to fulfill the Polish contract, because its maximum capacity is about 250 tons and the medical supplies weigh 400 tons, the report said. This is probably the reason the An-225 was chosen for this mission, analysts said.Air defense expert Fu Qianshao told the Global Times on Monday that the An-225 was originally designed to airlift a spacecraft, so it was given very strong payload-carrying capabilities, much stronger than other heavy military cargo planes like the C-5 and An-124, which are already o...