The first train between Iraq and Turkey started its operations, BBC News reports. This service has been halted in 1980s, BBC News reports. The train left the Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday, February 16, and is expected to arrive in Turkish Gazientep 18 hours later, before making the journey back. The distance to be covered by the train is approx. 500 km. ...
Intercontainer-Interfrigo SA is increasing its service frequency on the Basel – Rotterdam corridor with the introduction of a new shuttle train to and from Basel Bad UBF. The "Erasmus Shuttle" will initially operate on a once weekly basis. In all, there will now be six shuttle trains per week in operation between Basel and Rotterdam (five from Basel S...
THE noisy, dangerous but roomy and versatile Russian IL-76 heavy lift aircraft which runs afoul of European noise pollution regulations is putting its defenders and detractors at odds, reports London's International Freighting Weekly. Under Stage 3 noise regulations introduced in the EU in 2002, the old version of the aircraft is banned, but Volga-Dnepr ...
DALLAS/FORT WORTH International Airport registered a 38 per cent increase in air freight tonnage to and from Asia in December 2009 compared to the same month a year earlier. Total cargo tonnage, including freight flown in the bellies of passenger aircraft, rose by nearly six per cent in the first three months of the airport's current fiscal year, after b...
CONTINENTAL Airlines and its wholly-owned subsidiary Continental Micronesia have submitted a joint application to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to fly non-stop to Tokyo's Haneda Airport from the carriers' respective hubs at Newark and from Guam. In a similar move, United Airlines has also applied to DOT to provide non-stop air service from i...
HONG KONG's Kerry Logistics has landed a number of major contract deals with the most recent being Daimler Northeast Asia Parts Trading and Services Co Ltd (DPTS) selecting Kerry Logistics in the first quarter of 2010 to manage the licence attainment of its imported spare automobile parts in China. Under the terms of the two-year contract, Kerry Logistic...
Russian Railways, the world's largest infrastructure company, plans to sell 35 percent minus one share in its cargo unit TransContainer in an initial public offering, according to CEO Vladimir Yakunin, Reuters reported. Russian Railways executives earlier said the IPO may take place at the end of this year or early next year, and the company can opt for ...
Contract logistics activity slowed last year during the downturn and players are now turning to Asia to help lift bottom lines, reports Correspondent Phil Hastings International contract logistics providers are looking at emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific region for new business development opportunities to make up for some of their revenue losses in r...
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