AUSTRALIAN competition regulator has launched legal action in the Federal Court against Air New Zealand and Japan Airlines International for allegedly fixing prices in the air cargo industry, reported the Australian Associated Press. But the New Zealand Press Association reported that Air NZ general counsel John Blair said the Australian Competition and C...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU (JN) Port in Navi Mumbai, India's largest container port, is reported to be "inundated," as 13,000 boxes pile up at the gateway waiting a week to moved inland by rail to container depots. This results from a lack of trains being operated by Container Corp of India (Concor), an Indian Railways unit, to move them to depots like Tughlakabad...
SOUTH AFRICA's United Transport and Allied Trade Union (UTATA) and the South Africa Transport and Allied Workers' Union (SATAWU) will see help the big labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (CSATU), after the employer, the state-run logistics giant Transnet, said would not budge from its last wage offer, leaving the country's strik...
The Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference & Expo held last week in Las Vegas, Nevada provided an important opportunity to highlight the commencement of two new Rapid Transit Services featuring Wright Group’s StreetCar RTV. StreetCar RTV (Rapid Transit Vehicle), delivered by one of Europe’s leading innovators in Public Transp...
Japan Airlines (JAL) has applied to the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) to revise from June 1, 2010, its international cargo fuel surcharge for flights departing from Japan only. Since April 1, 2009, JAL started adjusting its cargo fuel surcharge levels on a monthly basis by using the one-month average fuel price of...
United Parcel Service (UPS), the world's largest package delivery service, said it expected strong growth in the second quarter in its Asia business, Reuters reported. The company added that the volcanic ash cloud hampering air traffic in Europe did not present any issues for its business. The company plans to add two aircraft in Hong Kong and 11 in Sh...
Rates in warehouse logistics have reached its ‘bottom’, will no longer be cheaper, PortNews IAA reports citing the analytical review by Relogix, a logistics provider. "Tariffs of 2009’s level (below $0.30 for the storage of a r/m a day) will unlikely be seen on the services market,”-PortNews quoted Vera Gorbacheva, Sales and Market...
US DOMESTIC first quarter container volume increased 15.7 per cent year on year, reports California's Trucking Info. Intermodal volumes went up 8.4 per cent in North America, including Canada, year on year in the first quarter as consumer demand and restocking increased, according to the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA). IANA reported vol...
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