Yamato Transport said today that a worker had failed to deliver some 21,000 direct mails and catalogues sent by 1,200 companies between November last year and this month, according to Jiji Press. The delivery man, in his late 30s, working at a branch in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, kept the undelivered packages at home and burnt some of the...
ANCHORAGE's Northern Air Cargo has added its first Boeing 737-300 freighter to its fleet. The Ex-US Airways/Hamra Air 737-301 was converted into a freighter at Miami and is now in service in Alaska. (Source:www.schednet.com)
THE US Federal Aviation Administration has proposed fining Everett's Aviation Technical Services US$530,250 for failing to follow approved procedures regarding the maintenance of 14 Southwest Airlines' Boeing 737s. The FAA alleges that ATS failed between January 2007 and March 2008 to follow Southwest's 'Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Programm...
APL LOGISTICS has commenced container Cross-Border Trucking service from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Cai Mep Port in Vietnam. The new service offers shippers a later cut-off times at APL Logistics' container freight station in Phnom Penh. "Cross-Border Trucking is a service recovery solution designed for shippers when production runs unexpectedly late,...
To address the increased demand for freight and express services, TNT SAB Express recently announced that its customers in Saudi Arabia would soon be served by three new Boeing 777-200 long-range freighters that will be added to its fleet in 2011, reported Al-Bawaba News. TNT has revealed that it has signed an agreement with Guggenheim Aviation Partners...
Rolls-Royce has won its second big engine contract since its safety scare with a US$1.8 billion deal with Air China, reported The Guardian. The deal is to supply engines for 20 new wide-bodied Airbus aircraft for Air China. The engines are different from the Trent 900 model used on the Airbus "superjumbo" that exploded in mid-air but are part of the sam...
Bailed-out insurer AIG has put its rail-car unit up for sale, though trade buyers are complaining of being excluded from the auction, the Wall Street Journal reported. The paper said the assets of AIG Rail Services have a book value of about US$660 million but it was not clear how much American International Group was seeking for the business. AIG Rail,...
DHL Global Forwarding is partnering with Interstate Transport and Trans World Forwarding (TWF) to offer customers a complete perishables supply chain solution starting from the point of consolidation at origin across Latin America to destinations across North America, reported BusinessWire. This industry first in offering a complete solutions-driven exp...
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