GLOBAL NVOCC (Non Vessel Common Carrier) CargoGulf is continuing its expansion in southeast Asia with the opening of its seventh office at Port Klang, Malaysia. The latest addition is intended to further enhance consolidation services to freight forwarders and logistics companies across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, a company statement s...
SOUTH AFRICA's nationwide transport strike did not end as hoped after the state-run logistics giant Transnet refused to let one union, the United Transport and Allied Trade Union (UTATU), to return to work without a deal with the other, the still striking South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union (SATAWU). Transnet employs 54 000 with SATAWU rep...
The first Boeing 777 Freighter to enter Qatar Airways' fleet completed a 16-hour flight from Boeing's Everett, Wash., Delivery Center to Doha, Qatar, and has been placed into service. The airplane was delivered May 17. "The 777 Freighter will expand on the great track record that Qatar Airways' 777 passenger airplanes have established," said Marl...
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., Tokyo announced the launching of “MAIZURU BENTEN,” an 88,000 DWT-type special coal carrier at Marugame Shipyard of Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Japan on May 21, 2010. MAIZURU BENTEN is same type as “K” Line’s specialized fleet for transport of thermal coal known as the “Corona-series.&rdq...
- Following recent “intensified attempts” by the authorities to ban the transportation of overweight boxes by truck, First Container Terminal (FCT) has launched a new container service for its St Petersburg terminal customers - the Saint-Petersburg Express container block train that will shuttle between Saint Petersburg and Moscow twice a week. ...
Logistics company DHL has started building an integrated distribution centre with an investment of US$1.5 million in Vietnam's southern province of Binh Duong, Thoi bao Kinh newspaper reported The centre will cover 15,000 sq m in the Song Than ICD. DHL has appointed Adrian Shou as managing director of DHL Global Forwarding Vietnam. Last month, DHL-VNP...
TNT and Con-way Freight are expanding intercontinental connections between the US and Europe with new service gateways at Los Angeles International Airport and Miami International Airport. The new strategic locations will improve transit times for customers of TNT and Con-way Freight day-definite door-to-door international freight services between Europe ...
THE US Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the big American airline lobby, has made good its threat to sue over a National Mediation Board (NMB) ruling that changes union representation. "Today, ATA filed a lawsuit seeking speedy review of the National Mediation Board final rule, which changes procedures by which airline and rail union representat...
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