Reportedly, Deutsche Bahn i.e. the latters' DB Schenker has good chances to acquire the German state's one-third holding in Duisburger Hafen (Duisport), which is also owned by the municipality of Duisburg and the federal state of NRW. The latters stick to their one-third shares in Europe's largest inland port, which is used by big logistics/forwarding gr...
Continental Airlines will resume its exclusive non-stop flights from Hong Kong to Guam to operate twice-weekly and deploy Continental Micronesia's fleet of Boeing 737-800 from April 2 in line with Hong Kong's participation in the Guam/CNMI Visa Waiver programme. The flights have a capacity of 155 seats, including 14 business class seats and 141 coach an...
INDIA's Alliance Air, a unit of financially troubled Air India (AI) unit, will become an all-cargo airline as it transfers assets into the newly formed Air Alliance Services, which will also absorb the assets of AI's cargo division, reports the Business Standard. The move comes after Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel directed the AI board to prepare ...
GLOBAL mail and logistics services group, Deutsche Post DHL, has dispatched its first logistics team to provide on-the-ground logistics support to the international relief effort underway in earthquake-hit Haiti. The DHL Disaster Response Team (DRT) Americas will be operating out of Toussaint l'Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince to manage ...
NORTH AMERICA's Great Lakes iron ore shipments totalled 31.8 million net tons in 2009, the lowest since 1938 in the Great Depression, according to the Lake Carriers' Association (LCA). Shipments were 46 per cent lower than 2008's 59.2 million net tons, according to the LCA, as reported by America Shipper. This represents the 18 American companies that ...
THE first phase of the new rail container terminal located in Chongqing's Shapingba District has been completed and commenced operations, reports Xinhua. This is the third of the 18 planned rail container terminal in China by Chinese Ministry of Railway after the Shanghai and Kunming terminal. Construction was started on the terminal in October 2007, e...
THE planned merging of Japan Airlines (JAL) cargo business with Nippon Cargo Airlines has been delayed over uncertainty of its future structure. A JAL spokeswoman told International Freighting Weekly (IFW): "Initially, both companies planned to come to a decision on this by April 2010, but in view of the current restructuring happening at JAL, this schedu...
SOUTHWESTERN China city Chengdu plans to roll out five international air routes linking US, Europe and Middle East in 2010 in a bid to develop a more extensive network covering major air hubs of the world, Xinhua reported. The five routes will connect Chengdu to Los Angeles or San Francisco, Frankfurt or Paris, Tokyo or Osaka, Dubai or Doha, and to Asian ...
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.
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