In southwestern Yunnan province, giant concrete pillars bestride the fields, tracing the route of one of scores of new rail lines that China is building, Reuters reported. In western Xinjiang, construction crews toil on a lonely line crossing the desert wastes to the Silk Road city of Kashgar. From one end of the country to the other, China is in the mid...
TNT said there is little to no backlogs in its facilities in Europe, thanks to its road service and contingency plans put in place since April 15, Business Times reported. It had on last Tuesday resumed flights to and from Europe, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Shanghai and New York along with domestic flights in Europe. "We are doing our utmost to secure c...
Multimodal freight service provider Freight Management Holdings (FMHB) expects net profit to grow by up to 20 percent in the current fiscal year, aided by growth from all divisions except rail freight services and cost and margin improvements, Business Times reported. Managing director Chew Chong Keat said the group has fixed an internal net profit growth...
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), a global shipping and logistics company, managed to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 32% last year. The company also cut its sulphur dioxide emissions (SO2) emissions by 135,000 tonnes in a nine year period from 2000 to 2009, an amount nearly equal to all the SO2 emissions from road vehicles in the United States fo...
Russian rail operator First Cargo Company (FCC/PGK, a Russian Railways’ subsidiary), running a new multimodal transportation service, plans to raise traffic volumes this year to 3.2 million tons of various cargoes, including coal, metals and ore, to be doubled in 2011, the Company’s press office reported citing Salman Babayev, Director General o...
HONG KONG's Gammon Construction Limited and Hip Hing Construction Co Ltd have been awarded a HK$4.2 billion (US$5.4 million) to build the airport's new air cargo terminal by Cathay Pacific Services Ltd. The building of the new 280,000-square metre terminal at Hong Kong airport will employ more than 1,000 workers at the peak of construction and is schedu...
HONG KONG Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) posted its highest daily throughput record on April 23, moving a total of 10,080 tonnes, and surpassing its best daily volume of 9,850 tonnes in September 2007. Of the 10,080 tonnes handled, exports accounted for 55 per cent at 5,541 tonnes, with imports coming to 2,607 tonnes and transhipments, 1,932 tonnes. ...
THE Burlington Northern Sante Fe (BNSF) railway held a gala ceremony recently to celebrate the completion of its seven-year project to create a state-of-the art intermodal facility in Memphis, which claims is the world's most modern. With all the environmental bells and whistles, the intermodal hub, which has been fully operational since late last year, ...
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