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MISSISSIPI ports of Biloxi and Gulfport are looking to a larger share of cargo going from the expansion of the Panama Canal in 2014 as well as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, reports the South Mississippi Sun Herald. "The opportunities on this coast are endless," said Gulf Coast International Cargo president Mike Aliseen, who runs air cargo facility a...
CHINA Southern Airlines has announced that the carrier will formally join SkyTeam Cargo by November this year, becoming the first Chinese member of the alliance, Xinhua reports. China Southern has two Boeing 747-400 and two 777-200 freighters and is going to buy another four 777-200s. By 2011, the carrier will have a cargo fleet consisting of eight freigh...
Port of Tauranga's US$10.6 million purchase of major Auckland cargo firm Tapper Transport is a "bittersweet" deal, according to port chief executive Mark Cairns, the Dominion Post reported. Tapper founder Simon Tapper died after a long battle with cancer early last week, just before the deal went public. Cairns said Tapper was a charismatic and well-re...
Åsa Torstensson, Sweden's Minister for Communications, has named County Governor Per Unckel responsible for investigating companies and authorities in connection with the poor railway performance during the winter of 2009/10. The aim of the investigation is to improve railway transport so that re-occurrences may be avoided in the future. Unckel will ...
1,300 visitors and delegates from around 60 countries attended the second IT-TRANS Conference and Exhibition in the renowned TramTrain city of Karlsruhe, Germany, on 24-26 February. This biennial event, co-organised by UITP and the Karlsruhe Congress Centre (KMK), is dedicated to IT Solutions in Public Transport. Over three days, almost 90 speakers gave s...
The number of damaged cars owned by Far Eastern Railway in January-February 2010 increased in 4 times compared with the same period of 2009 - to 6.1 thousand units. According to Far Eastern Railway press-service, Alexei Gladilin, the first deputy chief of the railway, reported that during the ministerial meeting on the preservation of the rolling stock on t...
The biggest showcase ever in Europe of cars 'talking' to each other and the traffic infrastructure to achieve greener, safer and smarter road transport is opening its doors in Amsterdam RAI (The Netherlands) next week, on March 24. The participants are welcomed to ride in one of the vehicles of the demonstration tour, driving in and around Amsterd...
The most successful city bus of all time is now also being used by the transport company Keisei Bus in Japan, which recently put ten new Citaro articulated buses into operation. The company plans to put five more of the buses into operation in late 2010. Keisei Bus, one of the top mass transit companies in Japan, transports around 250,000 passengers per day...
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.
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