NORTH China's Jinzhong city in Shanxi province registered a cargo transport volume of 6.06 million tonnes in March, up 15.2 per cent year on year and 7.8 per cent over February. The city's cargo turnover volume grew 41.3 per cent year on year and 4.5 per cent over February to 1.22 billion tonnes per kilometre. From January to March, Jinzhong's carg...
DEUTSCHE Post DHL has announced that Danzas AEI Emirates, its joint venture with the Al Tayer Group, has launched a scheduled air freight service into Dubai World Central (DWC). The inaugural flight from Frankfurt-Hahn to Dubai World Central was carrying 37 unit load devices with approximately 75 tons of commercial cargo for more than 85 customers. The se...
ALASKA Airlines CEO Bill Ayer says no to merger in defiance of analysts' comments that the Seattle-based carrier is too small to operate alone, reports the Seattle Times. "The history of mergers in this industry is not a good one," Mr Ayer said. "There have been rumours about somebody buying Alaska Airlines as long as I've been here and probably longer ...
AIR freight operations at the Chennai airport are expected to take more than a month to be brought back to normal because of a manpower shortage, according to clients and customs agents. The Times of India reports that malfunctioning customs processing software combined with "administrative chaos" has created a cargo backlog since the last week of April....
SWISS WorldCargo announced recently it will be adding four destinations to its flights in June. The new destinations from Zurich will serve Beijing, Anchorage, Orlando, and Beirut, operated in partnership with Edelweiss Air. (Source:http://www.schednet.com)
THE arrival of the 4,860-TEU MSC Cargoue, the largest containership deployed on the Swiss carrier's weekly Canada Express service, marks a "milestone" in the development of the Mediterranean-America market, said Montreal port CEO Sylvie Vachon. The arrival of the 54,549-ton, 275 metre long vessel, discharging 2,450-TEU at the Termont Terminal, before dep...
APM TERMINALS, Maersk's port operator, handled 7.8 million TEU globally in the first quarter, up two per cent year on year with non-Maersk business accounting for 46 per cent, an improvement of 42 per cent over last year. Nils Andersen, CEO of parent company AP Moller-Maersk Group, said the positive performance in the first quarter was due to "continuin...
Logistics Plus has acquired Horizon Logistics, the 3PL subsidiary division of Horizon Lines, Eyefortransport reports. Under terms of the agreement, Horizon Lines has transferred the majority of its Horizon Logistics staff based in Irving (Texas) as well as its operations in Lexington (North Carolina) and San Francisco (California) to Logistics Plus. This ...
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