DIMERCO Express Group, a global transportation and logistics service provider based in Taiwan, earlier this month held two seminars in Taipei and Hsin Chu for customers based in Taiwan to discuss and demonstrate "comprehensive international logistics services to build a supply chain model in China." The company gathered a total of nine speakers, including...
THIRTY-SEVEN containers were jettisoned from the barge CSF 2302 on the Sungai Batanghari River in Indonesia as they were being towed by the tug Cathay III Tujuan Singapura on their way to Singapore. A report by Indonesia's Tribun News said the containers were jettisoned because they were improperly stacked, causing the barge to list. The action was sa...
DESPITE a threatened strike and a contrary decree from the transport minister, the metropolitain government of Indonesia's capital city Jakarta has banned container and heavy trucks from the inner-city toll road until June 10. The Organisation of Land Transportation Owners (Organda), representing 16,000 trucks, urged members to strike if the ban remains ...
Dutch logistics company TNT NV is preparing to separate its mail and express operations, but pressure on management at the express business is mounting as doubts grow over its ability to deliver a turnaround and some shareholders argue the company should explore a sale, reported Dow Jones Newswires. If shareholders on May 25 approve the company's demerge...
An eruption by Iceland's most active volcano was set to keep the island's main airport shut while other European nations watched for any impact on their air routes from a towering plume of smoke and ash. Experts said they saw little chance of a repeat of last year's six-day closure of airspace, which also hit transatlantic flights, when another Iceland...
OMAN's national carrier, Oman Air Cargo, is to start truck services for the pan-Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries from Muscat and Salalah to connect its road service with select airports in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar effective June 1. The road feeder service will be operated by its partner M/s Able Logistics Group (...
VOLGA-DNEPR Airlines has received a certificate from the Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia's Ministry of Transport permitting the carrier to perform its own cargo handling at Russian airports. The certificate gives Volga-Dnepr Airlines the right to handle and load various types of cargo at Russian airports without the need to use external agencies. ...
THE Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) has gained net profit of US$9.5 billion in the region, after $1.7 billion loss in 2009 it brought in a 6.4 per cent net margin above industry average. The region's 23 airlines surveyed increased its combined total revenue year on year by 30 per cent to $147 billion, boosted by a cargo revenue uplift of 52 p...
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