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AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC), a unit of Russia's Volga-Dnepr Group, recently flew 1,275 pigs - each one 45 kilos, the weight of a slight 5'4' adult - from Montreal to Vladivostok in a 747 which normally seats 467 passengers. Previous shipments safely delivered by ABC include rare Akhal-Teke horses for breeding from Russia to China, 105 show horses fro...
SRI LANKA Railways has earned LKR28 million (US$245,181) from transporting 300 containers loaded with essential goods and equipment for the Sri Lanka Army by rail to the nation's north following a resumption of service after two decades. Two special trains hauled the containers from Colombo Fort Railway station to Thandikulam station in Vavuniya, accordi...
A LARGE number of private sector container train operators (CTOs) inducted by Indian Railways (IR) in intermodal business in January 2006 "are feeling without steam," according to an unidentified senior executive of one of the licensee operators whose comments were cited in a report by India's Financial Express. Most of the 16 CTOs who each paid licence ...
SINGAPORE's Samudera Shipping Line (SSL) Ltd, a regional container shipping line serving Asia, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, has announced an unaudited loss of US$8.75 million for the whole of 2009 compared to a profit of $26.75 million in 2008. The result comes as revenue in 2009 decreased by 25.5 per cent year on year to $330.19 million,...
MANILA's shipping company, NMC Container Lines (NMCCLI) of Magsaysay Transport & Logistics Group, made its maiden call to the port of Batangas, the key port of the CALABARZON (CAvite, LAguna, BAtangas, Rizal, and QueZON) region of the Philippines before the harbour master decided to stop calls until the tsunami alert was called off. The NMCCLI's ves...
Growth in refrigerated vehicle manufacturing and consumer behaviour go hand in hand. The economic growth in the transport of chilled foods and goods started in the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s and has continued up until the present day. Growing incomes mean growing consumption and quality demands. Therefore freight carriers and logistics companies, t...
Siemens was awarded the contract for the maintenance of the baggage handling system (BHS) in Terminal Three (T3) at Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA). The new contract was concluded between Siemens and Beijing Bowei Airport Support Ltd. (Bowei), a subsidiary of BCIA. Under the terms of the contract, Siemens will assume responsibility, together wi...
- RETRACK, a European research project, has launched a weekly rail freight service between Cologne, Germany and and Györ Hungary carrying automotive products, agribulk and chemicals. Transpetrol, a leading provider of rail logistics services and member of the VTG Group, is the operator of the weekly RETRACK train. Two other RETRACK partners, LTE Logi...
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
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