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TNT Hoau, TNT's road distribution arm in China, has completed its nationwide day-definite road distribution network. Following recent extensions to Chengdu, Chongquing, Zhengzhou, Xian, Yantai and Xiamen, the company now offers guaranteed day-definite ground delivery to 26 of the country's largest cities, using 246 day-definite line-hauls. The service f...
THE US Federal Highway Administration has set a new goal to complete highway and bridge projects in half the time it takes today, said Administrator Victor Mendez. Usually, completion times run 10 to 15 years, including a six-year eco review as well as nine years for planning, design and construction, reports American Shipper. Under what is called the "...
FEEDER operators have cautioned against any sudden increase in tonnage, which they say would stymie the recovery in the container sector. Analysts however are not so sure. Doom sayers, such as Singapore feeder, Sea Consortium, fear that any move by main line operators to re-introduce laid-up vessels and abolish slow steaming activities - the operating of ...
CREDO Shipping is to extend its coverage to East Africa with its monthly Spice Service deploying 1,730-TEU Lissy Schulte on a port rotation of Karachi, Jebel Ali, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Karachi, reports Alphaliner newsletter. The Singapore-based company usually acts as non vessel operating common carrier (NVOC) in the south east Asia and south ...
HONG KONG's OOCL has announced that it is limiting acceptance of online cargo booking to no more than eight weeks and in some circumstances less than that because of "tight space" in the Canada-US export market. OOCL is now limiting acceptance of online booking requests via oocl.com or cargosmart.com to eight weeks, reported American Shipper. Shippers bo...
EXPRESS logistics start-up Deccan 360 aims to offer lower cargo tariffs than rivals by keeping costs down, says founder GR Gopinath, who plans to reproduce his own experience in setting up Air Deccan, India's first budget airline. "We are selling our product on expansion network besides distributing cargo 10-15 per cent cheaper," Mr Gopinath told India'...
AIR China is to suspend the lines from Chongqing to Centrair, a Japanese airport located near the city of Nagoya, on March 27, and launch another new line to the airport from Chengdu the following day, Logistics Week reported. The new line offers one round-trip flight per day and will stop over at Shanghai. In the meantime, the carrier will increase the...
HONG KONG's Cathay Pacific Group announced a record profit of HK$4.69 billion (US$604.4 million) in 2009, compared to a loss of HK$8.69 billion the previous year. Group revenue fell by 22.6 per cent to HK$66.97 billion in 2009. The price of aviation fuel in the first half of the year was significantly lower than mid-2008, though it rose in the middle o...
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