SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) and China Eastern, have announced they will join together in investing US$2 billion in China Cargo Airlines. They will also be joined by investment partners China Ocean Shipping Group and Eva Airways, said Bloomberg. Dow Jones reported China Eastern Airlines and China Ocean Shipping will invest in China Cargo Airlines, which wil...
WHILE western Europe recovers from heavy Christmas snows, flights are still being cancelled to and from the eastern US as record accumulation beats century-old snowfall records. In Europe, fault finder have targeted airports, which found themselves unable to clear snow that seldom falls in these quantities with both British and continental aviation inte...
AUSTRALIA's Toll Group, a major Asia Pacific logistics provider, has announced that it has acquired the business assets of McLaughlin Freightlines (MFL), a specialist transport provider for Australian poultry. Toll has also divested the majority of its 16.6 per cent interest in Shenzhen Chiwan Petroleum Supply Base (SCP). "Toll took the decision to...
THE American Trucking Associations (ATA) have told a federal regulatory agency that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has no authority to have a programme that would use stickers to identify trucks that comply its clean-air scheme. The ATA told the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) that federal law precludes state ...
New orders for commercial aircraft and parts plummeted $6.6 billion in November, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Thursday. Orders for other transportation equipment increased a bit, but the volatile aircraft market held the sector to a $6.2 billion or 11.9 percent decline to $45.5 billion. The decline in orders for transportation equipment, the third i...
Caterpillar Logistics Services is expanding its reach in the Middle East with a new 450,000-square-foot parts distribution center in Dubai, part of what the company says is a larger global expansion effort. The site expected to open in 2012 will be the third Cat Logistics is adding to its network in five years and will bring faster, direct distribution ...
Emirates SkyCargo, a leading force in the industry drive towards e-freight, has recently crossed a milestone with its inaugural paperless flight, Exim News Service reports. EK702, from Mauritius to Dubai, became the first flight on its global network to operate with a hold filled entirely with shipments which had been processed electronically. The B...
Boeing will resume flight test activities on the 787 Dreamliner. The company has installed an interim version of updated power distribution system software and conducted a rigorous set of reviews to confirm the flight readiness of ZA004, the first of the six flight test airplanes that will return to flight. "Initially, we will resume a series of Boeing ...
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