MOSCOW's Domodedovo International Airport has been awarded the International Aviation Transport Association (IATA) Airport Platinum Status for joining an IATA programme to simplify business by switching to standard 2D flight information bar-coding on boarding cards. The programme seeks to reduce costs at the largest of Moscow's three airports by imple...
DACHSER, a German family-run logistics company, is continuing to expand its global network with Dachser's Air & Sea Logistics (ASL) unit setting up a team for the Polish air-sea freight market in a branch office at Warsaw airport. The Polish arm of Dachser will now handle its customers' intercontinental air and sea freight consignments following i...
AUSTRALIA's Toll Group has announced plans to acquire WT Sea Air Group and Genesis Forwarding Group in the UK. "These two UK-headquartered acquisitions combine to provide significant scale to our Toll Global Forwarding (TGF) division in Europe. WT is expected to generate revenue this year of around A$170 million (US$148.8 million) and Genesis is expect...
KUEHNE + NAGEL has opened a new distribution centre near Riga in Latvia to bolster its position in the contract logistics market in the Baltic region. Designed to serve as the central hub for Kuehne + Nagel's logistics activities in the Baltics, the new centre will enable the company to further expand its portfolio of integrated supply chain management...
A NEW 'Moscovite' container rail service linking Duisburg and Moscow has commenced and covers the 2,200 kilometres between the two in seven days, German railways logistics specialist DB Schenker has announced. "We passed the test run with flying colours," said DB Mobility Logistics management board member Karl-Friedrich Rausch. "We have seen an increa...
US TRUCKING's earlier robust growth slipped 0.6 per cent in May, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA) figures. The trade association said its index of for-hire motor carriers fell 0.6 per cent in May on a sequential basis, after rising in March and April. Progress continued year on year, with tonnage up 7.2 per cent, reported American ...
Schenker Logistics has signed a five-year contract to operate a 3PL warehouse, a TMS load centre and provide lead logistics activities at Spirit AeroSystems’ greenfield start up located in Kinston, North Carolina. Spirit’s employees at the new facility in Kinston will build the composite centre section of the fuselage and the front spars for...
QKL Stores Inc, a leading regional supermarket chain in Northeastern China, has announced the implementation of a state-of-the-art logistics management system in its new Harbin-based distribution centre. Logistical capabilities of the new 19,600 sq meter distribution centre, which commenced operations on April 26, 2010, include the utilisation of logist...
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