ROLLS-ROYCE Group has won a contract to supply US$130 million worth of V2500 aircraft engines to China Southern Airlines, reports Dow Jones. The engines will be used to drive 20 Airbus A320 aircraft in the China Southern fleet to be delivered next year. The order includes a long-term services agreement. China Southern is already one of the largest c...
HONG KONG's Dragonair plans to resume service to Fukuoka in Japan from its Hong Kong base. The carrier plans to commence daily Fukuoka service on October 31, operated by an Airbus A320 aircraft. "Dragonair will be the only airline operating direct non-stop service between Hong Kong and Fukuoka," said Dragonair chief executive officer James Tong in ...
UNION PACIFIC, the largest US railway by revenue, has posted a 53 per cent year-on-year second quarter net profit increase to $711 million, reported Bloomberg. Union Pacific CEO Jim Young said congressional legislation now in the works would increase government oversight of mergers and allow shippers to challenge rates. The measures are making it hard f...
THE Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) overseas development assistance (ODA) in Africa is to concentrate on improving the roads in Tanzania with a US$80 million grant to strengthen infrastructure on roads between Iringa and Dodoma. The Road Sector Support Project is key to improving trade on the 260 kilometre road network between Iringa and D...
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and DHL have launched Asia's first Sustainable Supply Chain Centre, aimed at providing best practices to achieve sustainability in the supply chain. "The issue of sustainability is very broad. The centre is focused to take away all that noise and provide simple, usable solutions to achieve sustainability in th...
The next generation of the internet, dubbed as the Internet of Things or IOT, is expected to bring profound changes to the global supply chain via intelligent cargo movement and consolidated businesses as well as technological advances. Born out of a spread of logistics information, IOT incorporates current state-of-art technologies, including electroni...
KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP has announced a US$12 million settlement, subject to court approval, with Japan Airlines for the carrier's involvement in an illegal air freight price-fixing cartel. Kaplan Fox serves as one of four co-lead counsels representing a class of direct purchasers from defendants of air cargo shipping services for shipments to,...
SINGAPORE's Changi Airport Group (CAG) has launched the second stage of a two-phase tender process for a third ground handling licence from four short-listed companies, namely AirAsia Berhad, Aircraft Service International Group, Jetstar and SIA Engineering Company. These four bidders need to submit detailed proposals including their business and finan...
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