HONG KONG International Airport's air cargo throughput rose to 301,000 tonnes in January, an increase of 43.3 per cent compared to the same month last year. Nearly all major markets showed double-digit year-on-year growth, with imports and exports recording annual yearly gains of 55 per cent and 51 per cent respectively in January. Transshipment volumes ...
CEVA Logistics, a global supply chain management company, has signed a three-year contract with Mazda to manage the distribution of automobile spare parts across Italy on behalf of the Japanese car manufacturer. According to the terms of the agreement, Ceva will be responsible for collecting the spare parts from the Mazda warehouse in Klagenfurt, Austria ...
SWISS forwarding giant Kuehne + Nagel has been awarded an exclusive logistics contract by Las Vegas Sands Corporation to manage the warehousing, delivery and installation to hotel units in the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort in Singapore. Under the agreement, KN Hotel Logistics will be responsible for on-time delivery and installation of all furniture ...
THREE major corporations have dropped out of an influential lobby pressing for US global warming legislation in what the Wall Street Journal says is the "latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away". Oil giants British Petroleum (BP PLC) and ConocoPhillips as well as heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar have quit the three-year-old America...
CHINA's "social logistics" logistical efforts in support of stimulus spending, disaster relief and other non-profit projects cost six per cent more in 2009, while for-profit logistics increased eight per cent in value, reported Xinhua. The country's logistics value experienced a high then low manner which coupled with falling 3.3 per cent in first quart...
Container traffic from and to Russia via Hamburg is picking up again. Growing demand for feeder transport capacity prompted the launch of an additional feeder service between the Port of Hamburg and the Russian Baltic seaport of St. Petersburg. According to an announcement by liner shipping company Delta Shipping Lines, two feeder ships of the Sietas 151 ...
For the first time, the European Union’s Marco Polo Project has granted financial support to a road transport company, Emons Cargo, for an innovative congestion alleviation system based on a highly efficient double-loading transport concept that decreases the number of trailers on roads by one third, thus significantly reducing fuel consumption and CO...
Under the umbrella of EuropeAid, the IRU Academy organised, in partnership with European Profile, a two-day seminar in Azerbaijan to help both the public and private sectors meet the requirements of the upcoming AETR legislation of Driving and Rest Time Rules by September 2010 and the implementation of the Digital Tachograph in non EU AETR Countries on 16 J...
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