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CHILE's Compania Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) cargo volume increased 48 per cent in the first four months of the year to 1.16 million TEU, and in April the company shipped 284,000 TEU, a 37 per cent year on year increase. CSAV chartered more containerships this year, and was ranked No 1 this month in Drewry Maritime Research's latest report on schedu...
In April, 1,958,610 passengers used Berlin’s airports. This is an increase of 36.9 per cent over the same month of the previous year. The comparison with the results of April 2010 is influenced by the impact of the volcanic ash cloud which grounded many flights in that month: at Berlin’s airports, around 3,500 flights were cancelled, and mor...
After two successive years when Gulftainer’s UAE container terminals – Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) and Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT)– experienced significant growth of around ten percent per annum, the Sharjah-based international ports and logistics company is anticipating further successes in 2011. After adding three new serv...
South Africa’s state-owned Transnet has celebrated a significant milestone in its R5.6 billion (US$811m) expansion of the Cape Town container terminal. On completion, the five-year project will double the terminal’s annual capacity to 1. 4m teu. Group CEO Brian Molefe announced the company had completed major dredging, deepening and refurbish...
Based in Ljungby, Sweden, Svetruck’s global sales continue to break records. Just recently, for example, the company sold two of its 32 tonne heavy lift trucks to an un-named steel mill in North Italy with an annual production of 1.2m tonnes. The first machine was delivered at the end of February and the second at the end of April. The customer now...
Main shareholders of Korea Express have postponed the US$1.4 billion final auction to June after having reached an agreement to sell three wholly-owned units of the country's top logistics company to Kumho Asiana Group separately from the logistics firm, a person familiar with the matter said. "Three business units of Korea Express will be sold in a pack...
THE International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) has announced that four more air cargo industry executives have been elected to the board. Oliver Evans, chief cargo officer of Swiss International Airlines has been elected as vice chairman. He is responsible for the cargo and mail business of Swiss WorldCargo, and is a member of the extended management gro...
LONDON's Drewry Shipping Consultants notes that March air freight out of Shanghai was back to its highest level in five months after falling 5.6 per cent year on year. The Drewry Air Freight Price Index went up 9.2 per cent from February to March as demand increased following Chinese New Year. This showed the Drewry index at 107.1, its highest rating si...
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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