CHINA Southern Airlines Co and Air France-KLM Group plan to set up a joint venture company to operate services from Paris to Guangzhou, according to comments made by the CEO of Air France Pierre-Henri Gourgeon that were reported by France's Les Echos. The two carriers plan to copy the cooperation model of Air France and Delta Air Lines Inc on the North A...
HONG KONG flag carrier Cathay Pacific is poised to announce its Shanghai-based air cargo venture with its second-largest shareholder Air China according to insiders, reports Bloomberg. Sinopac Securities analyst Jack Xu said the deal could be seen as a direct challenge to the China Eastern-Shanghai Air deal last month which led it to drop from its number ...
THE California Air Resources Board (CARB) is expected to give longer range truckers more time to buy new trucks to reduce emissions, but not those serving ports and harbours will remain subject to more stringent rules and a more aggressive time table. The On-Road Truck and Bus Regulation was supposed to take effect at the end of 2010, requiring the elimin...
INTERMODAL loadings in the United States fell 6.4 per cent in the fourth quarter year on year to 3,266,729, according to the latest report from the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA). During the quarter under review, US domestic containers rose by nine per cent year on year to 1,068,754, while all domestic equipment increased by 0.8 per cent t...
US exporters are complaining about the lack of available containership space to transport their goods and the increased use of slow steaming by carriers on outbound journeys, reports American Shipper. "Currently and for the foreseeable future, the ability of US exporters to meet the demand of their customers will be constrained by the lack of ocean carrie...
The Swiss InterRail Holding AG, a member of the TransInvest Group, and Kaztransservice AG (KTS), the container company of “Kazakhstan Temir Zholy”, the Kazakh railways, are developing and strengthening their cooperation. Zhamboul A. Akhmetov, President of KTS, and Hans Reinhard, CEO InterRail Holding AG, St. Gall, signed specific Memoranda of Un...
Doha: Qatar's RasGas has started output of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a giant new production facility, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. RasGas is one of two LNG producers in Qatar, the world's largest LNG exporter and holder of the world's third-largest gas reserves. RasGas train 7 has capacity to chill enough natural gas to produc...
CHANGING FedEx Express' regulatory status, as favoured by trade unions, would expose the company to risks that could interrupt national and international commerce and irreparably harm feeder airlines, said Walter Clark, CEO of Mountain Air Cargo of Denver, North Carolina. "I am concerned about federal legislation that would alter FedEx Express' business...
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