THE Trade Commission of Ecuador in Los Angeles has announced that Ecuadoran roses will fly to the world's most expensive rose market in Japan through Mercury's LAX airport's perishable centre with Apollo Freight handling shipments. Hitherto the roses went through Amsterdam and Frankfurt or Miami. In the two months that the programme has been underway, ...
UNITED Airlines has placed firm orders for 25 Airbus A350 extra wide-bodied aircraft and 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, and has also clinched future purchase rights for 50 of each aircraft. The carrier expects to take delivery of the aircraft between 2016 and 2019. "Over the last few years we have made fundamental improvements in United's performan...
On the 1st of January 2010 some organizational changes are planned in Deutsche Bahn’s rail freight transport division, DB Schenker Rail, Railway Market - CEE Review reports. DB Schenker will be divided into 3 regional departments: Region West, Deutschland/Region Central, Region East. These three departments will be responsible for more than 100 subs...
Bombardier Transportation revenues rose to USD 2.5 billion, a USD 254m increase over the same period last fiscal year. EBIT reached USD 159m, up from USD120m a year ago, while EBIT margin increased to 6.3% versus 5.3%, Marketwire informs. Free cash flow reached USD 32m, compared to a usage of USD 243m last fiscal year. The order backlog stood at USD 29.3 ...
Geodis Wilson is concluding its preparations for a new logistics center at Vejle, Denmark. “This new facility will be Denmark’s leading ocean and air freight competence center”, states Allan Geert Nielsen, Managing Director Geodis Wilson, Denmark. The global freight forwarder will create a 3,250 m2 state-of-the-art facility employing 120 p...
Emirates Group owned business technology provider Mercator has recently successfully gone live with its product SkyChain in Latin America. SkyChain is a specialised IT solution aimed at airline cargo companies and is designed to maximise customers' performance, help them raise their service quality and optimise their resources. A highly automated system,...
Transport firm Karl Georg Zech (Austria) has started bankruptcy proceedings, according to Austrian Times. The firm, in Nüziders in Vorarlberg’s Bludenz district, entered bankruptcy proceedings yesterday in Feldkirch provincial court. The Credit Protection Association of 1870 (KSV) said the firm had debts of 1.2 million Euros at the end of 2008....
Airports Council International (ACI), representing world airport operators, has announced that total global air cargo traffic increased by 1.3 per cent in October year on year, with freight up 1.4 per cent and domestic freight up 2.2 per cent, the group's monthly FreightFlash report. "The black ink in all three freight categories is the best traffic news...
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