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Hitachi Transport System and Nippon Express are ramping up operations in China to tap the area's rapid economic growth fuelled by government investment and foreign corporations, the Nikkei business daily reported. Hitachi Transport has signed a deal with China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, to provide deliveries to convenience stores at gas...
SOUTH BEND, Indiana's small, but fast-growing Towne Air Freight has made its fifth acquisition in four years with the take over of HBI Freight, one of the largest full-service air cargo and home delivery trucking companies on the eastern seaboard. Towne Air, founded in South Bend in 1963, is privately held, and employs 1,800. Washington-based HBI emplo...
THE US Air Forwarders Association, representing more than 300 members, is calling on the government to implement risk-based assessment for inbound cargo, instead of 100 per cent screening. The association is demanding that Congress cooperate with the Transport Security Administration (TSA) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to introduce a risk-base...
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told American, Canadian and Mexican political leaders that 100 per cent screening of air cargo was easy to say "but not the best way." Ms Napolitano said the measures in place after the recent Yemeni bomb plot have "bolstered security better than an infeasible bill that would require all packages on air-ca...
Pilots at the world's largest airline are stepping up their protest against outsourced flying in what could emerge as a key stumbling block in the merger of United and Continental, reported Dow Jones Newswires. Flight crew will start "informational picketing" today against what they view as efforts by management to expand the use of regional partners f...
Having terminated its cargo flights at the end of October, Japan Airlines is seeking to enhance the profitability of its remaining cargo business, according to the Nikkei Report. The airline, which is undergoing court-led rehabilitation, decided to discontinue cargo flights to revamp its money-losing freight operations. It now intends to use the holds o...
UPS Logistics Technologies, a 145-person division of Sandy Springs-based UPS, is being sold to a private equity firm, reported The Atlanta Journal. The Baltimore-based division creates hi-tech transportation routing and fleet management systems and sells software that manages more than 200,000 vehicles, such as food and beverage delivery trucks. It is u...
Panalpina announces a strategic partnership with the Shanghai Lingang Group to provide a comprehensive bonded warehouse solution. The solution includes pick and pack, quality checks, and U-Turn shipments. The partnership follows a strategic development meeting between Dr Rudolf W Hug, Chairman of Panalpina Group, and the top management of th...
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
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