Logistics giant DHL is celebrating five years of operations in fast-growing Mongolia with the launch of a new rail service – the Genghis Khan Connection, a scheduled tri-weekly cross border rail solution available during the high season from April to October linking Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia by rail to Tianjin, China and out to the rest of the world. D...
Multiple airlines yesterday cancelled flights for the following morning as volcanic ash continued to drift south and west from Iceland. Loganair, the Scottish regional carrier, was the first outside Iceland to announce cancellations as a result of the latest eruption of Grimsvotn, the country's largest volcano, reported Dow Jones Newswires. Later yeste...
THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved the PharmaPort 360 temperature controlled shipping container for use in air transport, announced company CEO Lew Rosenblum after 18 months of government testing. "We are grateful to [US Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown] and former Congressman Charlie Wilson for their help in navigating govern...
THE air freight industry, with 216 orders for new widebody freighters at the end of April, will see the bulk of the new capacity coming on line in the next year or two, Flight International reported. The first of the latest wave of new freighters was the Boeing 777-200LRF, which entered service in February 2009. Thirty-nine of these are now flying, for ei...
FLIGHT cancellations have hit British airports as volcanic ash spreads over Britain from Iceland for the second time in little more than a year. US president Barack Obama cut short a visit to Ireland to fly to England as the column of ash approached the republic. British Airways cancelled flights to and from Scotland as did Aer Lingus, Flybe and Logan...
NORTHWEST China's Ningxia Autonomous Region registered a railway cargo volume of 11.13 million tonnes during the period from January to March, 1.41 per cent, or 159,300 tonnes less than the same period a year ago, Xinhua reports. The report said the fall was the result of the Chinese New Year holiday in February and inadequate train for cargo transporta...
THE north east province of Jilin plans to achieve a logistics industry added value of CNY112 billion (US$17.25 billion) by 2015, Xinhua reported. During the National 12th five-year Plan period, which is from 2011 to 2015, the province aims to increase the annual growth of its logistics industry value to above 15 per cent. (Source:http://www.schednet.com)...
CONTAINERSHIP owners have placed orders for a total of 1.6 million TEU of new capacity since June 2010, surpassing deliveries recorded in the same period which hit 1.4 million TEU, according to Alphaliner data. "With all 2011 and most of 2012 delivery slots currently booked, attention now turns to 2013 slots. Scheduled deliveries for 2013 have surged fro...
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