A NEW service between Taiwan and Chennai from Wan Hai, Evergreen and Interasia will start April 29 with the sailing of the Karin Schulte from Taichung, it has been announced. The TMT service will deploy four 1,300-TEU vessels with two from Wan Hai and one each from Evergreen and Interasia, said a Wan Hai statement. The service will run on a 28-day rot...
MARSEILLES based CMA CGM, the French shipping giant, has announced a wide range of rate hikes in a "rate restoration" programme. From May 1, there will be a US$400 per FEU rate increase from Asia and the Indian subcontinent to the North American west coast. Rates from Asia and the subcontinent to the US and Canadian interior via west coast ports will go ...
Kuehne + Nagel China has further expanded its wide range of value-added services and is among the first logistics companies to provide in-house quality control services in Shanghai. The modern, multi-purpose quality control centre is located in Kuehne + Nagel's container freight station (CFS), close to Shanghai's city centre and Waigaoqiao seaport. ...
Lufthansa Cargo is expanding its route network in Asia and offering customers once-weekly flights from Frankfurt to Dhaka on Wednesdays, starting today. The flights to the capital of Bangladesh will be operated by a Lufthansa Cargo MD-11 freighter. “Bangladesh has assumed growing importance as a production base for the international fashion indus...
THE DHL Express focus on international shipments in the US rather than domestic deliveries has paid off, with volume reaching 15,000 packages a day helped by key Dell Inc computer and Amazon book deliveries. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), US trade routes account for more cargo volume than pre-recession levels in bellyhol...
MUMBAI airport has posted a 13 per cent increase in cargo to 44 million tonnes from April 2010 to March 2011 despite infrastructure bottlenecks and strikes, reports the Indian Express. This after operations were hit by infrastructure bottlenecks and strikes. The airport handled 44 million tonnes of international cargo last year. At the airport's air ...
SINGAPORE plans to establish a new 'Centre of Excellence in Advanced Packaging' following the signing of a master research collaboration agreement (MRCA) between Applied Materials and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's Institute of Microelectronics (IME). According to Singapore's Minister of Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang, who witnes...
LOGISTICS provider Agility has announced that it will move its Asia Pacific regional headquarters from Hong Kong to Singapore by mid-2012. But Greater China headquarters will remain in Hong Kong headed by CEO James Gagne. "Following the announcement made in 2009 about Agility establishing an Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, we have decided to co...
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Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi