US CUSTOMS officers will work on Chinese soil this year to audit security practices at 100 mainland factories and logistics facilities that provide cargo to the United States. While mainland on-site trials were conducted in February, and US Customs runs on-site inspections in many countries, China has refused regular access up till now. As a result, the ...
Although cargo volumes have not been affected, logistics firms have to brace for a double-whammy impact on its operation: Increasing cost of fuel and at the same time excess truck capacity, reported Manila Bulletin. Bert Lina, chairman of Air21 under its flagship Airfreight 2100 Inc, the exclusive licensee of Federal Express Corp in the Philippines, said ...
Six chief executives of freight forwarding agencies have been arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) for allegedly using the passwords of three officers in the rank of assistant comptrollers to exempt their containers from being scanned at the ports, reported All Africa newspaper. Checks at the port showed that 22 of the freight forwarders are on t...
TBB Global Logistics said it will offer container freight swap agreements through an agreement with ICAP Logistics, a broker for the freight-futures contracts. TBB, a third-party supply chain management firm, said it will be the first U.S. non-vessel-operating common carrier (NVOCC) to offer the futures contracts. The contracts are settled against the Sh...
LUFTHANSA CARGO has been voted the world's best air freight carrier by freight forwarders all over the world as well as being named the Best European Cargo Airline for the second year in succession at the 2011 Cargo Airline of the Year Awards in London. The Cargo Airline of the Year awards have been presented annually for the last 29 years by the logisti...
THE mayor of Cleveland Frank Jackson has unveiled a US$1.6 billion master plan for the redevelopment of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport over the next two decades. As part of the plan, airport authorities will expand the roadways leading to and out of the airport, boost the capacity for air cargo handling, and upgrade facilities for aircraft mainte...
CARGO airport operator at Chek Lap Kok, Asia Airfreight Terminal (AAT,) has won the Hong Kong Awards of Environmental Excellence (HKAEE) Sectoral Award - Transport and Logistics Silver Award at a ceremony at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre officiated by Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong. The HKAEE Sectoral Awards was organised ...
GERMAN express delivery giant DHL has announced the start of a less-than-container load (LCL) service connecting El Salvador to Hong Kong and other markets in the north and south of the Asia Pacific region in a bid to reduce transit times. This development attempts to capitalise on the agreements El Salvador established last with Taiwan and Japan in the ...
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