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THE air cargo challenge after the January 12 Haitian earthquake appears to be best met by experienced northern fliers accustomed to air freight handling in the world's most hostile environments - the high Arctic. Canada's Eskimo-owned First Air, the only Canadian commercial operator of heavylift Lockheed 382 Hercules, has flown two of them to Washington...
CARGOLUX Airlines, winner of the Hactl's annual International Forklift and Pallet Building Competition at Hong Kong airport, took four awards - the overall championship, also named pallet building champion and took first-runner-up spots in the forklift and in forklift safety categories. First runner-up for overall champion was Nippon Cargo Airlines and t...
SCHENKER Logistics (Malaysia) is the first company in Malaysia to attain ISO 28000:2007 certifications on Supply Chain Security, audited and issued by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA), the company has announced. The certification specifies the security management system of the supply chain that also includes risk assessment and operational syste...
BABCOCK & WILCOX, a company that handles enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, faces a fine of US$35,000 because it delayed reporting a uranium leak in a container it for more than two hours after its discovery. The radioactive chemical was found when workers at the Lynchburg, Virginia, facility spotted traces of it in oil on a saw used to cut fuel compo...
WEEKLY eastbound transpacific ocean liner carrier capacity to the US West Coast fell six per cent between October and December 2009, according to the latest World Liner Supply quarterly report from American Shipper research affiliate ComPair Data. The report said that eastbound transpacific capacity to the US east coast decreased 5.3 per cent during the r...
THE Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement (TSA) is imposing an Emergency Revenue Charge (ERC) to help liners make interim revenue recovery before the next service contracts in May and will apply to shippers who have binding service contracts with TSA member lines also. According to Asian Shippers' Council (ASC) the policy guideline, ranging from US$320 pe...
New car sales rose last year despite the recession, figures released on Wednesday have shown. Statistik Austria reported that 319,403 new cars had been sold last year - an increase of 8.8 per cent over 2008 and the highest number since 1992. But sales of new trucks plummeted by 23.6 per cent year on year to 28,650. The agency around 30,000 Austrians ha...
In fiscal 2009 the Knorr-Bremse Group posted sales of EUR 2.76 billion (2008: EUR 3.38 billion). In a difficult economic environment the company benefited from its strong strategic position with two divisions, Rail Vehicle Systems and Commercial Vehicle Systems, in markets that developed very differently. Despite a sharp downturn in its freight car and lo...
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
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