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HONG KONG's No 2 airport ground handler, Asia Airfreight Terminal Co Ltd (AAT), handled 61,363 tonnes of cargo in July, an increase of 44 per cent compared with the same month last year. Within this total, export cargo came to 42,808 tonnes, up 53 per cent while July import cargo volume amounted to 18,154 tonnes, up 27 per cent year on year and transsh...
BANKERS and investment managers interested in targeted regional, or inward, investment were given a logistics perspective recently by Alfred Stienen, managing director of FS Mackenzie Group, a member of the Famous Pacific Shipping Group. Mr Stienen said logistics cannot be an add-on to inward planning decisions. Factories and assembly plants will fail i...
THE initial stage of southern, central, and northern rail routes between Guangxi and several ASEAN countries was completed recently, reports Xinhua News. The three rail routes are still expanding, with plans for Guangxi becoming a rail hub for all cities in the province, as well as neighbouring provinces and countries, including Guangdong, Hunan, Guizho...
THE National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has revealed that 20 per cent of fresh fruit and vegetables, 30 per cent of fresh meat and 15 per cent of seafood are spoiled in delivery, costing CNY100 billion (US$147 million) a year, reported China News. To counter this, the central government has launched a five-year plan to develop an agricultu...
Los Angeles International Airport has started requiring air freight shippers to screen 100 per cent of cargo placed in the bellies of wide-body aircraft passing through its gates as part of the Certified Cargo Screening Programme, the Shipping Gazette reported. Some of the security screening will be completed by independent facilities such as Mercury Ai...
The UK-based Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed a dedicated sales team in Johannesburg in place of its South African-based general sales agent ACP Worldwide appointed in 1996, according to the Shipping Gazette. The new team will be headed up by Laurn Baldwin as regional sales manager in South Africa ahead of anticipated seasonal demand between Cape Tow...
Airbus Industrie plans to increase production of its jetliners following fresh orders pouring in, according to Exim News Service. It is estimated that a total of 500 Airbus plane deliveries will take place this year, edging past last year’s record of 498. It increased its forecast for new orders by a third after bumper orders at Farnborough an...
THE British International Freight Association (BIFA), www.bifa.org , is seeking entries for its annual Freight Service Awards competition, celebrating 22 years of recognising the best in the UK freight forwarding industry. In a first for the competition, entries to any of the categories can now be made through the event's dedicated microsite, accessib...
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
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