Swedish and Norwegian infrastructure ministers Åsa Torstensson and Liv Signe Navarsete met recently to discuss a possible electrification of the Meråkerbanan rail track between Trondheim and Storlien. The ministers stated that they are interested in encouraging sustainable and efficient rail transports in the mid Nordic region. The national rail...
DTZ predicts that during the second half of 2009, a warehouse space of between 180,000 and 230,000 square metres will be built in Poland, which means that the supply of the warehouse space will fall by almost 40%, year on year. Still, the predictions of DTZ show more optimistic future for the warehouse development sector than the predictions from the beginn...
Wallenborn Transports S.A., a leading European supplier of logistics in road feeder transportations, air cargo distribution and related services with home base in Luxembourg has acquired Haugsted AirCargo Services, one of the leading trucking and handling operators in Scandinavia. After strengthening its executive management in April 2009 with the joining...
The Irish Exporters Association has welcomed the decision of the Government to launch a new €250 million subsidy scheme to protect over 27,000 jobs in the industry. The Employment Subsidy Scheme (Temporary) will provide a subsidy of €9,100 per worker over 15 months. It will be aimed at exporting companies in the manufacturing or internationally ...
In its special meeting today, the Supervisory Board of Continental AG agreed upon the following changes in the Supervisory Board and Executive Board: Effective immediately, the chairman of Continental's Executive Board, Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann (48), steps down from Continental’s Executive Board by mutual agreement. The Supervisory Board thanks Dr. N...
Daimler Buses North America recently received orders for more than 300 transit buses, motorcoaches, and shuttle buses. The biggest contract was awarded by the mass transit company King County Metro in Seattle, which ordered 93 of the extremely environmentally friendly Orion VII diesel-electric hybrid buses for delivery in 2010. Once the current order is c...
Czech Airlines will initiate scheduled service from Prague to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, thereby enhancing the connections between Europe and Central Asia. With this new Czech Airlines route, Tashkent, the largest city in the area, will be linked to Prague twice a week. On the basis of the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with ...
United Cargo has announced the launch of Temp Control (sm), a service designed for convenient shipping of healthcare and pharmaceutical products that require strict temperature controls and monitoring during transport. Because medications, vaccines and similar pharmaceutical products often require transport under strict temperature conditions in order to ...
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