JAPAN's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has commenced operations at its international cargo depot at Naha Airport in Okinawa Prefecture in a new facility that focuses on the delivery of semiconductors and fresh foods between three airports in Japan and five cities in Asia. This 24-hour international depot serves as a hub for an air cargo network connecting T...
EUROPEAN carbon emission taxes stand to increase use of air cargo facilities at east coast Canadian airports, because they are closer to Europe than any other in North America, reports the Halifax Chronicle Herald. Under the European Union (EU) rules, Halifax offers a cost advantage, says airport marketing chief Jerry Staples, because it is closest to Eur...
KOREAN AIR, the world's largest international commercial air cargo carrier, has announced it has beaten its own record for export air cargo shipments this month thanks mostly to soaring demand of South Korea's IT products. South Korea flag carrier will operate an additional 41 freighter flights this month, its largest operation ever, to move a record vo...
INTEGRATED logistics services provider, the Toll Group, has announced in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange that the company has acquired Logistics Distribution Systems (LDS), a private international freight forwarding company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for an undeclared amount. Dubai-based LDS provides international sea and air freight f...
THE Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has completed the assembly of 11 new rubber-tyre gantry cranes (RTG) for its Savannah container port that have been designed to conserve 83,000 gallons of diesel a year. Operating within a spectrum from 800 to 2100 rpm, these energy efficient container straddle carriers burn an average of four gallons of diesel per hour t...
AGILITY has announced that third quarter profit rose 15 per cent year on year to KWD40.5 million (US$141.6 million) drawn on an 11 per cent increase in gross revenue of KWD413.5 million. But net revenue only increased 0.42 per cent to KWD156.3 million compared with the same period last year. Third quarter operating profits rose by five per cent to KWD43...
The Chairman of Airport Authority Hong Kong, Dr Marvin Cheung Kin-tung, today welcomed the appointments of three new members of the Board by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The new members—the Honourable Chan Kam-lam, the Honourable Albert Ho Chun-yan and Mr Allan Wong Chi-yun—will join the Board on 1 January ...
After a successful launched of an advanced ATS – Automatic Tracking System since November 2008 by International Cargo Centre Shenzhen - ICCS, enabling airlines, forwarders, consignees and shippers easily tracking the status of their international shipments, in and out of Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, ICCS decided to double the existing ...
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