An e-learning tool from Exis Technologies receives endorsement from both TT Club and ICHCA International after lobbying at the IMO makes IMDG Code training mandatory for shore-based staff from 1st January 2010. IMDG Code training for all shore side staff involved in dangerous goods transported by sea, including shipping line booking staff, container packe...
Kuehne + Nagel has been awarded a contract to manage the BMW South Africa Parts and Accessories Distribution Centre in Midrand. From the facility, parts are distributed to the whole of South Africa as well as to five neighbouring countries. At the end of 2008, Kuehne + Nagel was awarded a contract to manage part of the BMW-operated logistics facility in M...
On the first European Bus and Coach Day, the European private bus and coach industry, represented by the IRU, called upon EU policy decision makers to set the objective of doubling the use of collective passenger transport by bus and coach in the future EU White Paper on European Transport Policy. This would be a “Smart Move” since realising t...
Australia's Qantas Airways Limited is temporarily housing the last of the Royal Australian Air Force's Caribou transports at its Qantas Defence Services hangar at Canberra Airport. Qantas said in a statement that it has donated the use of the hangar facility to the Australian War Memorial as it takes delivery of the aircraft from the Royal Australian Ai...
SITA today announced a ten year, $26.7 million agreement, with the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) for a complete upgrade of passenger processing at the country’s two international gateways, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), Nairobi and Moi International Airport (MIA), Mombasa. This includes the installation of the country’s first eve...
Bombardier Aerospace announced that AMR Eagle Holding Corporation, the parent company of American Eagle Airlines, Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas will acquire 22 CRJ700 regional jetliners. The transaction represents the conversion of 22 options held by the airline into a firm order contract. Based on the list price for the CRJ700 aircraft, the contract would be...
Bilfinger Berger has further strengthened its position as an industrial services provider in Scandinavia. The Group will maintain production plants of AkzoNobel in Sweden and Alcoa in Norway on the basis of long-term contracts. The orders have a total volume of over €80 million. Bilfinger Berger is now AkzoNobel's exclusive outsourcing partner in Sw...
DHL Global Forwarding is once again taking the lead by partnering with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its global e-freight campaign. Intended to take the paper out of air cargo, e-freight will continuously reduce the number of paper documents that DHL Global Forwarding has to handle with every air cargo shipment. Of the 30 documents r...
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