The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will extend up to $500 million to Armenia to upgrade its main corridor road as part of a broader thrust to improve connectivity, and boost trade, growth and livelihood opportunities in the Caucasus and Central Asia subregions. The ADB Board of Directors today approved funding for the North-South Road Corridor Investment Pr...
Mercedes-Benz do Brasil is hiring 800 new employees to work in trucks and buses production, in its plant in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. Furthermore, the current 350 temporary employees will become regular contract employees during October. Additionally to the mentioned figures the company will take over 160 apprentices as regular employe...
Singapore Changi Airport has received another five awards, including four ‘Best Airport’ titles, in the month of September 2009. These awards were for Changi’s excellence in airport facilities and services.Changi Airport has been voted the “Best Airport in the World” by readers of Business Traveller (UK edition), a leading glob...
Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Coughlan TD, performed the opening ceremony at the new Letterkenny offices of the global aviation IT specialist SITA which is currently recruiting for 80 new positions as it expands its Irish software development centre. Tánaiste Coughlan said: “The expansion into the new ...
A new Cargo Checkpoint is being tested at Schiphol airport that aims to minimise potential disruptions to the logistics chain. The Cargo Checkpoint is a partnership between Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS), the Netherlands Customs Authorities and Air France Cargo-KLM Cargo, who have joined forces to develop Schiphol as Europe's cargo mainport. The Cargo...
Airbus welcomes the latest steps towards the approval by ASTM International, one of the largest voluntary standards developing organizations in the world, for the use of a 50 per cent synthetic jet fuel in commercial aviation. Synthetic liquid jet fuels can be made from biomass, natural gas or coal. All of these are known as xTL fuels. "This breakthrough ...
TNT has launched a dedicated service to provide improved solutions for the service logistics sector in Southeast Asia - a market worth around €410 million. According to eyefortransport, the new Storapart service enables customers to optimise inventory holding and transportation for critical spare parts around the region. The service is designed to ca...
The Polish competition office has applied a EUR 13.60mn (USD 19.93mn) fine on PKP Cargo, the state-owned freight company. The ruling, issued in July 2009, was a victory for the open access freight operator ChemTrans Logistics, and will end a long-running dispute, Logistics Finland reports. Source: Transportweekly
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.
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