ALASKAN carrier ACE Air Cargo pilots Ameer Ali, 28, and co-pilot Emily Lewis, 23 bodies found trapped in the craft four days after a failed flight from Sand Point, Alaska en route to Anchorage crashed. The pilots bodies were recovered in the Beechcroft 1990 underwater near Sand Point. The Coast Guard called off its searches 24 hours after the crash but AC...
A new trucking service for exports from Hangzhou via Shanghai to Japan has been launched between the Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport and Shanghai Pudong Airport, Logistics Week reported. The first batch of cargo using the service, weighing 124 kilograms, has been carried to Shanghai airport and was loaded onto Japan Airlines aircraft. Hangzhou is an investmen...
PANAIR Cargo has appointed European Cargo Services as its cargo general sales agent (GSA) in 20 countries in Europe and Singapore. As a result, the Panamanian cargo airline is now represented by ECS in the European countries of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Roma...
SOUTHWESTERN China city Chongqing's airport customs recorded an aggregate export cargo volume of 29.2 million tonnes in 2009, down 24.8 per cent year on year, with a value of US$140 million that slid 23.3 per cent over 2008, reports Logistics Week. Value of exports under the form of general trade fell 34 per cent to $85.5 million, accounting for 60 per c...
CROWLEY Maritime Corporation, working under contract with the US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), has successfully transported 12 x 20-foot containers of relief supplies across a beach in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in an experimental "lightering" operation. The success of this operation, which involved lifting the containers from a Crowley container ship a...
From its 1995 launch the Sprinter already was in a class of its own: semi-forward control, high-traction rear-wheel drive, timelessly modern looks, spacious cab, an extensive engine range rounded off by a direct-injection diesel unit which was as powerful as it was economical. And it was the company's first commercial vehicle to be known by a name instea...
Tango. That is the evocative name of the new trams that will begin entering service throughout the Geneva region’s public transportation network by the end of 2011. Last June, the planned purchases were publicly put out to tender in order to implement the canton’s structure plan for public transportation between 2011 and 2014. The winner of the ...
In the first 11 months of 2009, the turnover of Romanian Railways CFR SA amounted RON 976.6m, according to Railway Market - CEE. It is 7% less than in the same period of 2008 when the turnover amounted RON 1 billion 48.4 million. Losses between January and November 2009 amounted RON 648.7m, 34.2% more than in the same period of 2008, when the compan...
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