THE acting head of the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said she had little confidence that 100 per screening of air cargo on passenger planes mandated by the Homeland Security Department come about before two years. Addressing the congressional House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, TSA acting director Gale Rossides said the ...
SHANGHAI's airports have recorded cargo throughput of 244,700 tonnes in January, a strong growth of 82.2 per cent over the same month in 2009, with an aircraft movement of 25,094 flights, up 14.1 per cent, Xinhua reported. Guangzhou's Baiyun Airport handled 91,640 tonnes of freight, surging 97.6 per cent year on year. Its passenger volume rose 4.9 per c...
HONG KONG's Asia Airfreight Terminal (AAT), the No 2 airport ground handler, has announced a 40 per cent year-on-year increase in cargo throughput to 42,145 tonnes in February. Export cargo came to 27,955 tonnes in February, a growth of 56 per cent against the same month last year. Import cargo came to 13,873 tonnes, up 16 per cent. Transshipment cargo v...
RUSSIA's TransContainer has announced the launch of regular block train service from Moscow to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), one of remotest territories and famous as the coldest place on earth where temperatures fall to 80 below zero. The first two-block container train, which departed from Moscow to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), consists of 39 long fit...
CONTAINER Stuffers LLC (CSL) is unveiling two new machines at the Wood Technology Show in Portland, Oregon, March 9-11 designed to load forest products - logs and lumber into standard TEU and FEU boxes. "You really have to see it in action," said Container Stuffers CEO Troy Williams. "Our equipment can load a 40-foot container in four minutes," compared t...
FreightScan, LLC, a leader in the development and deployment of innovative technology solutions for the freight and logistics industry, have announced they have formed a strategic partnership with Swissport International – this newly formed partnership will enable Swissport to install automated dimensioning systems in facilities across its global netw...
Logistic-services provider Transport Corp of India has raised freight rates by 10 percent to 20 percent to absorb a recent hike in diesel prices and higher cost on truck tires and spare parts because of an increase excise duties, according to its executive director, Dow Jones reported. "Market wise, the freight has gone up by 15 percent to 20 percent. So ...
Schenker (Asia Pacific) has officially opened its first ever IT Shared Services Centre (SSC) at the Jiangsu Software Park in Nanjing. The SSC occupies more than 15,000 square feet and will primarily pool IT functions such as application development, maintenance, application operations, information and communication technology infrastructure and help desk,...
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