THE UK Competition Commission has ordered British airport operator, BAA, to sell Stansted Airport, the nation's second largest air freight hub located 35 miles northeast of London. This comes as the commission upheld a 2009 ruling requiring BAA to sell three of its seven airports in the UK within two years. The airport operator will henceforth have...
HAMBURG Sud North America and Alianca have announced that they will revise their policies on the provisioning of chassis in the Baltimore region effective May 1. Thereafter, Hamburg Sud and Alianca will no longer provide chassis to shippers moving cargo with merchant's haulage through terminals and depots in the Baltimore area. Shippers, their agents...
YAMATAI, a module carrier operated by NYK-Hinode Line, an NYK unit has arrived at the port of Hachinohe in Aomori prefecture as scheduled. Donors to the First Relief Supplies Hotline include the All Japan Seaman's Union, local governments, the Japan Federation of Economic Organisations and NYK: Asahi Glass Co Ltd, Asahi Breweries Ltd, Imabari Shipbuildin...
Agility has broken ground on a new logistics facility in Melaka, Malaysia, that will be open for business in September. The new logistics centre will support a variety of industry sectors and will target the growing alternative renewable energy industries in Melaka. It will also provide a full range of vendor-managed inventory (VMI) and other logistics s...
US consumer spending appears to be improving enough to compensate for the impact of high fuel costs on the package delivery business, DHL Express US chief executive Ian Clough said. Meanwhile, DHL is pushing to expand its fleet of fuel-efficient vehicles and aircraft. It launched an all-green fleet in Manhattan yesterday and aims to buy more Boeing 777 pl...
On 31 March 2011, COSCOL Global Agents Meeting 2011 was grandly held in Guangzhou.More than 100 overseas representatives from 61 global partnership agencies and 26 representatives from COSCO Logistics, COSCO International Freight Co., Ltd. and other domestic agencies attended the meeting. COSCOL CEO Han Guomin made a theme speech on 'The Development Tren...
AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC) has won the Wings of Russia national aviation award for the third year in a row for Cargo Airline of the Year on Domestic and International Routes. "The acknowledgement of our company as the best cargo carrier reflects the successful realisation of our 'cargo supermarket' strategy," said company president Tatyana Arslanova....
ANCHORAGE-based Medallion Foundation has awarded its highest safety award of its Medallion Shield to Alaska's Northern Air Cargo for maintaining higher standards than those set by Federal Aviation Administration. Northern Air Cargo, a unit of Saltcuk Resource Corporation, has gained the award following its completion of the Medallion Five Star programme,...
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