SUPPLY chain and logistics industry leaders from Asia will gather at the Raffles Town Club on Plymouth Avenue in Singapore November 12 for a gala awards night banquet, said a statement from organisers. Awards will be presented in 16 categories, including presentations for corporate social responsibility and green supply chain initiatives, supply chain ris...
THE Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANY-NJ) have signed a 35-year lease extension with the City of New York for the 202-acre Howland Hook Marine Terminal in Mariners Harbour on State Island that will allow sublease holder New York Container Terminal to build a fourth berth, reports the Staten Island Advance newspaper. The extension, which will...
HOPES mount in south Texas for federal grant approval to fund channel dredging by the US Army Corps of Engineers to enhance the fortunes of the Port of Corpus Christi. Deputy port director Frank Brogan said if the agreement is reached, the US$1.1 million in federal funds would allow tenders to be called in the next few months. So far, projects include d...
THE Callao marine terminal at Lima, with its developed capacity of 850,000 TEU capacity a year and 1.4 million TEU by end of its second phase, has received a visit from UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Dubai World and DP World chairman Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and CEO Mohammed Sharaf welcomed the delegation together with Peruvian ...
FEDEX Express, the world's largest express delivery company, has introduced a next-business-day service connecting mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore with France and Germany. Germany, Europe's largest economy, grew 1.3 per cent year on year in the second quarter, while France, grew 1.4 per cent, said a FedEx statement. "A revived European economy...
LUFTHANSA Cargo and Hermes Transport Logistics are "intensifying their cooperation" with Lufthansa Cargo handling logistics of incoming shipments arriving at Leipzig Airport since August. Aside from imports, Lufthansa Cargo is responsible for arranging and loading truck transports to the Hermes bases at Haldensleben und Altenkunstadt. In future, the freig...
DUBAI's flag carrier Emirates is making Africa the new frontier of its air cargo market and the place to watch is Kenya as it moves from developing country to developed country status, reports Nairobi's Capital Business. "Africa has got the potential you rarely find anywhere else," said Emirates vice president Ram Menen, adding that it will enjoy double...
The International Road Transport Union (IRU) announced that the Special IRU Company Award 2009 was attributed to Flygbussarna Airport Coaches in Sweden for its innovative business policy and successful public campaign to raise customers’ awareness of buses and coaches’ excellent environmental record and to promote a wider use of their services. ...
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