PANTOS Logistics Hong Kong has acquired ISO28000 accreditation, a standard the company said it will use to increase customer satisfaction in regard to the provision of international freight forwarding, warehouse, distribution, transportation and logistics security services within Hong Kong and Guangdong province in southern China. The company said in a st...
THE European Shippers' Council (ESC) has welcomed the European Commission's white paper to cut transport emissions by "at least 60 per cent" of 1990 levels by 2050, but rejects its implied war on trucking in favour of rail. The ESC said it would oppose measures to force freight from one mode of transport to another - as typically is happening in what h...
THE Asia New Zealand Discussion Agreement (ANZDA) has increased the bunker surcharge to US$650 per TEU and US$1,300 per FEU for dry and refrigerated containers from May 1. This will apply to cargo to and from Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in north east Asia and Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam in south east Asi...
EUROCONTROL, the intergovernmental aviation safety board, will conduct a two-day drill April 13 - 14 to simulate Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption last year that shut down European airspace. Two hundred airlines, aviation authorities and meteorological bodies will take part, involving new computer models and data sharing procedures under the ...
FEDEX Express has launched a new US to South Korea service using a Boeing 777 freighter to link the company's hub at Memphis to Seoul with four direct flights a week, to meet increasing customer demand. The company said in a statement that the new route offers "faster service and larger cargo capacity" to enable it to deliver documents and packages from...
CHINA SOUTHERN, the country's biggest air carrier, posted an almost 18-fold profit increase to CNY5.8 billion (US$883 million) in 2010, drawn on revenues of CNY76.5 billion, an increase of 40 per cent over 2009. Passenger volume climbed 15 per cent last year as worldwide travel took off again after the global downturn receded. Rising wages in China also ...
DB Schenker in the Philippines has opened a central facility in Manila to house under one roof the three units that had previously been located in Metro Manila, in a bid to streamline internal processes and process orders faster. The new central complex located in the Sabrina Compound in Sucat, Paranaque City provides 2,400 square metres of office space ...
REGIONAL Container Lines (RCL), a carrier listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, has posted a profit of US$9.9 million for 2010 following $115.8 million loss suffered in 2009. The profit was largely delivered by a revaluation gain of $20.6 million on company properties rather than operational performance. "If the revaluation gains were excluded, RCL w...
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