ATLANTA's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport received its 14th all-cargo carrier with South Korea's Asiana Airlines' inaugural flight for its scheduled cargo service deploying a 747-400. Overall air cargo increased 22 per cent during the first seven months of 2010 year on year, and international freight was up 35 per cent. Asiana Airlines use o...
AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC), the scheduled cargo unit of Russia's Volga-Dnepr Group, has launched a twice-weekly all-cargo service to Paris Charles de Gaulle deploying a Boeing 747 to link on route both Moscow's Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports. Paris becomes the seventh European city in ABC's growing network, reinforcing its position as Russia...
HONG KONG's Dragonair, Cathay Pacific sister carrier, has launched a further daily service from Shanghai's old and more convenient Hongqiao airport to bring its total of 16 daily HK flights since it began chartered services to Shanghai. Flight KA859 will be operated by an Airbus A330 with departure from Hongqiao at 1320 hrs and 1610 hrs, arrival in Ho...
UPS has started offering a new ocean freight service that promises up to 20 per cent faster door-to-door delivery than other less-than-container-load (LCL) services on the market. UPS's Preferred LCL Ocean Freight service combines UPS's North American ground network with containerised ocean services to provide Container Freight Station (CFS) to door d...
Struggling with rising freight volume and continuing losses, FedEx will merge its FedEx Freight and FedEx National LTL networks, closing as many as 100 facilities. The company plans to complete the merger by Jan. 30, 2011, laying off approximately 1,700 workers, terminating leases and selling off some assets. The combination will provide customers a...
Freight costs on shipments from India will go up substantially effective Oct. 1 following a tariff increase decision by state-owned rail operator Container Corporation of India. The planned hike follows a steep upward revision of container haulage charges, ranging from 150 to 200 percent, announced by Indian Railways, also effective Oct. 1. “I...
UPS launched Wednesday a less-than-container-load ocean freight service between Japan and the United States. Preferred LCL Ocean Freight combines UPS’s North American ground network with containerized ocean services to provide delivery from Japan to the U.S. in as little as 11 to 18 days, the company said. After arriving at a West Coast port, ...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) today called on the world's governments to unite in support of aviation's ambitious targets to combat climate change and agree to a global approach at the upcoming International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) Triennial Assembly in Montreal. "The past 18 months have been the worst financia...
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