THE Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce has warmly praised the additional 28 scheduled flights between Hong Kong and Shanghai Hongqiao Airport every week. "As the southern gateway to the Pearl River Delta (PRD), Hong Kong's stronger connections with the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) will have important strategic implications," said chamber chairman Antho...
THE US Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection has called for repeal of laws requiring 100 per cent scanning of ocean freight and 100 per cent screening of air cargo. The group, made up of representatives of the trade and transportation sector, said the Department of Homeland Security should shift its supply chain se...
APS Technology Group, Inc has announced that Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Company (GSCCO) of Saudi Arabia will implement its APS OCR Portal and driver kiosks, to automate container identification, remote damage inspection and truck processing at its Jeddah and Jubail terminals. APS, a provider of optical character recognition (OCR) and automation techno...
CHINA expanded railway services this month with cargo and passenger capacity on the Wuhan-Guangzhou railway increasing as train frequencies between the two places some 900 kilometres come down to eight minutes at peak hours and every 20 minutes off peak. Xinhua reported that Guangzhou Railway Group said since the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed passenger rai...
HONG KONG's Singamas Container Holdings announced a hike of up to nine per cent in this year's prices for boxes amid a shortage of equipment and rebounding global trade volumes. The price of a standard TEU has risen 50 per cent this year and it may climb to US$3,000 in December, according to comments made by Singamas chief executive officer Teo Siong ...
Railway authorities of Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan agreed on through tariffs and introduced discounts for transportation of large universal containers via international transport corridor TRACECA in the second half of 2010, the Transport Business reports. The decision was taken at a meeting of the task group working out uniform competiti...
Kuehne + Nagel gained market share in all its business units in the first half of the year, recording net earnings of US$267 million, up almost nine percent. “The entire logistics industry has capitalised on the economic recovery, resulting in rising transport volumes and increased warehouse utilisation,” said Reinhard Lange, CEO of Kuehne +...
Agility, a logistics provider, relocated to a new modern facility in Ho Chi Minh City located close to the Tan Son Nhat International Airport. The new office is 550 sq m and will act as the headquarters for Agility Vietnam and Indochina. Agility currently has three offices in Vietnam in Danang, Hanoi, and Vung Tau and over 120 employees. The new...
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