NATIONAL Airlines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pentagon carrier National Air Cargo, has delivered humanitarian aid to Haiti on behalf of the Belgian and Swiss governments. A total of 130,000 tons of aid were transported by two planes which departed with equal payloads from two separate locations in Zurich, Switzerland and Ostend, Belgium. The relief ai...
THE Florida Air National Guard's 101st Air and Space Operations Group, a part time militia, will perform air operations in emergency response to Haiti with Florida Guardsmen assisting the Haitian government, Federal Aviation Administration, and US Southern Command to coordinating the flow of supplies into Haiti's Port-au-Prince Airport since January 15. ...
JAPANESE flag carrier, Japan Airlines (JAL), Asia's biggest air carrier, will continue to maintain flight services despite filing for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo District Court. The company is now under the new management of the state-controlled Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation (ETIC) under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law. JAL president a...
GAC Transfer Services S A and European ship-to-ship (STS) service provider MariFlex have teamed up to launch a new joint solution named, 'GAC Transfer Services-Powered by MariFlex' (GTSM), in a bid to provide "a wider range of services and choice of ship-to-ship transfer locations across Europe, Asia, the Arabian Gulf and Indian Ocean." The alliance aim...
THE Shanghai Railway Administration, Ningbo Port Group and China Railway Container Transport Co Ltd have inaugurated a new sea-rail intermodal service, the "Coastal Express", between two eastern China cities of Ningbo and Wenzhou, Logistics Week reported. The new service will run on the Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou Express Railway at 100 kilometres per hour, ac...
ALATAW Pass, a western China checkpoint on the border of Kazakhstan in Xinjiang, recorded a trade cargo volume of 23.2 million tonnes in 2009, up 22.4 per cent year on year, Xinhua reported. Import cargo handled by the checkpoint soared 45.7 per cent up to 18.4 million tonnes, while export cargo shrank 24.4 per cent to 4.9 million tonnes. (Source: www....
Scania and leading construction and industrial equipment manufacturer Terex, based in North America, have signed a long-term agreement which means that starting in 2011, Scania will supply engines for some vehicles and other heavy equipment manufactured and sold by Terex. The company is one of the world’s largest original equipment manufacturers (OEM)...
THE Italian all-cargo airline Cargoitalia launches two new destinations following its successful restart in the summer last year by adding Dubai and Chicago to its existing network services to Asia, North America, and Africa. A bi-weekly service has begun to Dubai from Milan which will then allow for a further outbound stop to Hong Kong, its inbound leg w...
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