ANOTHER St Louis Missouri delegation is visiting Beijing to pitch nearby Lambert St Louis International Airport to mainland air carriers as the site to base US air cargo operations. It's the latest step in "The Big Idea" project, the region's two-year-long bid to turn Lambert into a Midwestern hub for air freight travelling to and from the world's fast...
IF passed by the US government, the pro-union provisions secreted in an otherwise routine bill refunding a federal agency, would cause FedEx to "stop growing" according to its chief executive Fred Smith. The provision that puts mostly airborne FedEx under the same labour law as its rival, the mostly truck borne UPS, is included in the House of Representat...
WHILE 2009 had been a hard year for Singapore aviation, junior transport minister Lim Hwee-hua says the continued development of open skies policies and support for the low-cost carrier market has ensured that the city-state is poised for recovery. In a recent speech on island-nation's status as a regional air services hub, Ms Lim noted that the Civil Av...
NETHERLANDS-based CEVA Logistics, has signed a EUR6.5 million (US$8.9 million) three-year agreement to manage Samsung's air conditioner supply chain in Italy. CEVA will run the entire operation, including customs clearance in the port of Genoa, storage in Pognano, as well as final distribution to end users across the country. Samsung reportedly picked CE...
LOUIS VUITTON Japan has appointed Kuehne + Nagel to manage warehousing at its Osaka distribution centre, resulting in K+N leasing of a logistics facility at Amagasaki midway between Kobe and Osaka. The Amagasaki plant boasts a handling and storage capacity of 5,600 square metres with state-of-the-art materials handling equipment. The facility will handle ...
Schenker Limited in the UK has been awarded Authorised Economic Operator (AEO - F) status across its multi-modal branches for both Customs simplification and security and safety. AEO status means that the company is a proven, secure member of the international supply chain and identified as a reliable trading partner in terms of both efficiency and compli...
Chinese inland region of Ningxia has received the task assigned by the Lanzhou Railway Administration to achieve an annual rail cargo movement of 43 million tonnes by the end of this year, Xinhua reported. The target is nine million tonnes, or 26.5 per cent more than last year's targeted volume, and 2.3 million tonnes, or 5.7 per cent, more than last yea...
Customers of Canada's big railways Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, blasted service quality, with 62 per cent claiming to have suffered "significant financial loss" because of poor rail service. The federal Rail Freight Service Review, which may lead to regulatory changes, is to be presented to Parliament in the autumn, reported Toronto's Financi...
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