AMERICANS and Europeans provide all but one of the top 10 third-party logistics providers today, but developing countries will join the front ranks in the next 10 years, says CEVA Logistics chief executive Logistics John Pattullo. "It's inevitable that there will be Chinese, Brazilian or Indian 3PLs that become important global providers," he said. "It...
DB SCHENKER's most modern terminal for land transport is now connected to the road and rail network. The EUR26 million (US$36.17 million) logistics centre opened in Salzburg, Austria in April to serve as a hub for goods in Europe. The 80,000 square metre site is home to a 10,000 square metre transshipment hall, a 4,250 square metre logistics hall and a...
BUILDERS of the Nanning-Guangzhou railway have been told by Guangxi provincial Communist Party secretary Guo Shengkun to finish the job and open the rail line four months ahead of schedule by January 2013 rather than by May of that year. The railway runs through Guigang and Wuzhou city and covers 577 kilometres, 349.8 kilometres in Guangxi and 227.3 kil...
CONSTRUCTION of railway linking China's Yunnan province and Laos is planned to start in late October, reported Xinhua. This 530-kilometre railway, expected to be completed in 2015, will link Mohan port in Yunnan's Dai autonomous prefecture of Xishuangbanna and Vientiane, the capital of Laos. It is part of the trans-Asian railway network, which will co...
US and European taxpayers are subsidising foreign airlines to the tune of billions of dollars by helping them buy Airbus and Boeing jets with loans denied to domestic carriers, airline lobbyists said. The claim marked the start of a concerted lobbying campaign by airlines on both sides of the Atlantic challenging the rules for government export measures...
With an eye on the the commissioning of the prestigious International Container Transhipment Terminal at Vallarpadam by Kochi port, several logistics companies are gearing up to offer modern logistics services in the region, reported the Hindu. The Kochi-based Unilog is one such company that has launched services to offer fast and secure services across...
RUSSIA's AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the scheduled cargo airline of the Volga-Dnepr Group, has moved four aerobatic aircraft from Maastricht, Netherlands, to China for the second China International Sports Airshow in Laiwu. The planes, were carried in a Boeing 747, said a company release, and first touched down in Beijing before being taken by road ...
THE declared intention of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) to spread air traffic across southern California has failed to materialise, says a law suit filed by troubled developer who invested US$6 million on the promise that cargo would be diverted from LAX to Ontario Airport, reports the Riverside Press-Enterprise. Aero Ontario RFP, LLC, the developer...
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