USAID Jordan Economic Development Programme (SABEQ) has partnered with DHL Express Jordan to promote sector positioning regionally and globally. This partnership is part of the programme's outsourcing awareness campaign that aims to build a global platform for the exchange of services. Sealing the partnership was the signing of a Letter of Agreemen...
AIRFREIGHT operators in South Korea are benefitting from a strong recovery, according to a report from the London-based emerging market specialist Business Monitor International (BMI) with profit soaring 3,300 per cent in the first quarter. In April 2010, Korean Air reported record results for the first quarter. Operating profits for the company increas...
Cathay Pacific Airways and sister airline Dragonair have announced a year-on-year cargo and mail volume increase of 19.9 per cent to 148,520 tons in June. The month's cargo and mail load factor stood at 75.4 per cent, up 4.1 percentage points, while capacity increased 19.2 per cent. First half year tonnage grew 24.4 per cent against a capacity increase...
STATE-run Russian Railways announced a first half year-on-year increase in container volume of 20.2 per cent, and an overall freight increase of 12.2 per cent, according to Russian Transport Daily Report. Over the six-month period container volume increased to 8.5 million tons with coke rising to 6.4 million tons, up 47.3 per cent and coal to 143.6 mill...
CHINA plans to develop a rail link across the Karakoram into Pakistan through the Gilgit-Baltistan region that is part of the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir. According to reports from Pakistan, Beijing and Islamabad are likely to sign a Memorandum of Understanding for a feasibility study on building the trans-Karakoram railway line during President...
SURFACE freight operators in South Korea can expect a good, but less spectacular recovery than the one the airfreight sector enjoyed this year - with first quarter profits soaring 3,300 per cent, according to a report from the London-based emerging market specialist Business Monitor International (BMI). Korean rail freight is expected to have moderate t...
With more than eight months remaining until it opens, sales of stands at the seventh ASIAN WORK BOAT exhibition in Singapore are gratifyingly ahead of schedule. “Our decision to concentrate on working rather than cargo carrying vessels has been well received by the industry,” said Event Manager, Kishore Navani. “There are more than...
Implement supply chain security correctly and it won't be an unwanted cost, say two executives in the risk management business. Correspondent Phil Hastings reports. Many organisations around the world are still not buying into the idea that investment in better supply chain sec-urity should be seen as an opportunity for value enhancement rather than as...
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