Cargoitalia, Italy’s all-cargo flag carrier, will start MD11 freighter services from Milan to Atlanta on February 2, providing the only maindeck cargo link between the two cities. Atlanta will be served twice a week from Milan, using Cargoitalia’s 90-tonne capacity MD11 freighters, arriving on Monday and Thursday. Both services will operate ...
A CUSTOMS officer go-slow to protest Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) anti-corruption raids at Air Cargo Complex in Andheri north of Mumbai has been delaying freight movement, clearing only a quarter to a half of daily throughput, and risking spoilage of perishable freight. "Now that the officials are also not clearing cargo beyond duty hours, a lo...
SINGAPOREAN Transport Minister Raymond Lim expressed satisfaction at the glowing performance and prospects of Changi Airport in a recent speech at the Swissotel Merchant Court Hotel celebrating the 30th anniversary of the opening of Terminal 1 and the 100-year anniversary of start of civil aviation in the city state. "When Terminal 1 opened in 1981, it ...
THE US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) proposes to require the air cargo industry to screen 100 per cent of the cargo carried on passenger aircraft bound for the US by the end of this year. Previously, TSA had said the deadline for screening 100 per cent of international inbound cargo had been delayed until at least 2013, given the complex ...
Cargo traffic at Hong Kong's international airport surged to a record high in 2010, reported Dow Jones Newswires. The Airport Authority said cargo throughput jumped 23 percent to 4.1 million metric tonnes. “Signs of continuing robust market demand lead us to anticipate further growth in 2011, which will likely be single-digit because of the h...
Even though consumers spent most of 2010 on the sidelines, retailers found a way to tap into pent up demand when it counted the most. According to the National Retail Federation, retail industry sales (which exclude automobiles, gas stations, and restaurants) for December rose 5.3 percent unadjusted year-over-year and 0.5 percent seasonally adjusted fro...
North Queensland's “cackleberry” supply chain could take a direct hit if Kelso egg producer Geoff Ironside doesn't get hundreds of thousands of cartons up here by the end of next week. His Twelve Oaks poultry farm at suburban Kelso produces one million eggs a week that are sold north from Mackay and west to Mount Isa, the Townsville Bullet...
Kuehne + Nagel International has bought three South American companies which specialise in perishables logistics, reported Dow Jones Newswires. Kuehne + Nagel has agreed to take over the two Colombian companies Translago SAS and Agencia de Aduanas Excelsia Ltda, as well as Ecuador's Mastertransport SA. By acquiring these specialised forwarders in C...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi