LOOP D of the China Europe Express (CEX) service jointly operated by Grand Alliance ocean liners, Hapag-Lloyd, NYK Line and OOCL, together with New World Alliance carriers, APL, MOL and HMM, has added a call at Hamburg with the arrival of the 6,182-TEU NYK Lyra. This comes in addition to the services that the two alliances operate separately that also cal...
FedEx Express announced that it will add approximately 1,000 service points to its network in Taiwan through a commercial agency agreement with Chunghwa Post, Taiwan’s official postal service authority. FedEx International Priority service will be made available in phases at more than 1,000 Chunghwa Post outlets, which will be established as FedEx A...
DHL is going to invest some US$9 million in Pakistan to strengthen its freight forwarding and supply chain operations in the South Asian country which, the DHL executives believe, is potentially a huge market for multinational companies, Business Recorder reported. Further, DHL wants Pakistan and India to remove mutual trade barriers which were discomfort...
DUBLIN - Iceland's clouds of volcanic ash are menacing European air traffic again, but transport chiefs insisted Tuesday they are learning from last month's crisis and won't let the hard-to-measure emissions ground their continent again. Rising volcanic activity spurred aviation authorities in Ireland, northwest Scotland and the Faeroe Islands to shut ...
FEDEX Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., has launched two new flights from Hong Kong to the US and Europe, deploying its new Boeing 777 Freighters, the world's largest twin-engine cargo aircraft. The new services fly non-stop from Hong Kong to the FedEx super hub in Memphis, Tennessee, as well as direct from Hong Kong to FedEx Express' European hub a...
HONG KONG Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl), the airport's No 1 ground handler, has announced that April freight volume surged to 248,027 tonnes, up 41.9 per cent year on year - and 9.9 per cent up on the highs of April 2008. Cumulative tonnage for the first four months of the year came to 884,770 tonnes, up 38.7 per cent year on year. Export volume gr...
THE US Supreme Court has again refused to hear pleas from a Michigan-led six-state and one Canadian province backed petition to close the Chicago Ship Canal because of fears it gives access to Asian carp to enter the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River system. American Waterways Operators, the barge industry association, have said lock closures would c...
NYK LINE's logistics arm, Yusen Air & Sea Service (YAS), has posted a 42 per cent profit increase to US$16.6 million for fiscal 2009 drawn on an annual revenue of $1.3 billion, a decline of 26.3 per cent. The Japanese forwarder reported lower demand for sea and air cargo services on European and North American routes, down 35.4 per cent for a loss of...
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