Berlin is all set for the international fresh produce sector’s premier event of the year. A total of 2,302 exhibitors from 71 countries (2009: 2,283 from 78 countries) will be present at FRUIT LOGISTICA 2010 from 3 to 5 February giving an unparalleled overview of global fruit and vegetable production and trade. Exhibitors at the leading trade fair for...
CHINA Eastern Airlines has launched a Nanning to Rangoon service which adds its total ASEAN destination routes up to eight, reports Logistics Week. The new flight MU20011/2 deploying 50-seat CRJ airplane flies twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays, departing from Nanning at 1000 hrs and landing in Rangoon at 1040 hrs, then returning at 1130 hrs and arrivin...
AIR FRANCE-KLM has signed a letter of intent to sell two new Boeing 777 freighters, which have not been delivered yet, to the FedEx Corporation. "This sale is in line with the current slump within the global air cargo industry," the carrier explained. It said the sale would not affect the number of flights operated by Air France-KLM's cargo division, w...
AIRCRAFT maintenance and conversion company Pemco World Air Services has been awarded a contract to convert six Boeing 737-300 passenger planes into freighter aircraft for China's Hainan Airlines, a process the Alabama-based company has already started. Pemco already delivered one reconfigured freighter to Hainan in October 2009 and a second in January 2...
BREAKBULK is fast becoming the first-strike marines, hitting the beaches of Africa where sophisticated container operations lack modern terminals to access the market. At the same time, breakbulk ships still in the trade are often so old that they fail to meet quality demands of modern-day shippers and insurers alike. "According to the feedback we get, ...
JAPAN's leading express delivery provider, Yamato Transport, has started a joint venture with Shanghai Bus Logistics in Shanghai that marks the introduction of Yamato's Kuroneko Takkyubin service into Shanghai of a time-scheduled door-to-door delivery commonly used in Japan, Xinhua reported. The joint venture, Yamato Transport (China), entailing an inve...
Denmark-based VIKING Life-Saving Equipment announced the company’s 50th Anniversary and the 50th Anniversary of its Chairman of the Board, Mr Tage Sørensen on February 1, 2010. The occasion will be celebrated at the company’s offices around the world, and with a grand reception to be held at VIKING’s headquarters in Esbjerg in Denma...
- Saigon Premier Container Terminal (SPCT) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was officially opened over the weekend. The DP World-operated container terminal, located along the western shore of the Soai Rap River, began operations in October 2009 just two years after construction began in September 2007. Phase one of the development has two berths and storage ...
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