PAN American Airways, an iconic name in the airlines service, will fly again from Brownsville, Texas, with an air cargo focus, reports the San Antonio Express-News. The reborn Pan American will be based at Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport. "Our officials are excited about the company's opportunity to promote Brownsville as a third g...
PHARMACEUTICAL plant inspections will include further safety guidelines following agreements between the US Food and Drug Administration (FA) and its European Union counterparts to demand pharmaceutical manufacturers maintain best-practice on quality systems, said Bermuda's Textainer, a major lessor of shipping containers. These agreements, said the Te...
DEVELOPING country governments - more than most - would decrease their shipping costs 30 per cent by 2020 if they cut paper work and upgraded infrastructure, says DHL Global Forwarding CEO Hermann Ude. "Thirty per cent improvement is a big ambition but one that governments, shippers and service providers can achieve and must work towards achieving if co...
DEUTSCHE POST DHL has reported third quarter earnings before interest and tax (EBIT), excluding exceptional items, rose by 43.7 per cent to EUR543 million (US$741.6 million) on revenues of EUR12.79 billion, up 13.9 per cent year on year. The drivers of this growth were express and DHL forwarding and supply chain business. However, the Mail business unit...
Mexicana de Aviacion has picked the business plan from a tiny Mexican boutique investment firm as the best option to return the troubled airline to the skies by year-end, reported Reuters. Mexicana de Aviacion, one of Mexico's two major airlines, ceased operations in late August, grounding travellers in Mexico and abroad and leaving thousands of ground...
TNT Express is taking a series of additional measures to protect its customers and their consignments as well as its employees and networks from the threat of parcel bombs. The company has reinforced air and ground security controls, including the screening of consignments, in all countries where it operates. This covers TNT’s own operations, but ...
GERMANY's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has tabled a five-point plan on how to improve air freight security aboard passenger aircraft in the wake of foiled Yemeni and Greek bomb plots. "National measures are not very effective," said Mr de Maiziere, according to Berlin's Bild am Sonntag. "That's why, at my request, the interior ministers are g...
THE US Transportation Security Administration plans to introduce new air cargo screening rules in the wake of the foiled Yemen parcel bombing. TSA director John Pistole said he wants advanced screening technology and more flexible search procedures instead of a same-same "cookie cutter" processes used currently. Plans in the air transport category i...
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