THE Memphis FedEx hub will be inspected by the Airports Council International-North America Air Cargo conference on March 10-12 just a month after the airport was named the world's busiest cargo station for the 17th consecutive year, reported the Memphis Daily News. Dubbed Critical Partnerships for Uncertain Times, the event is set for March 10-12 at the...
18% fall in the West European trailer market plus 22% production decline forecast for 2009 – a $2 billion loss of revenue for the transport market. If the figures above don’t look serious enough then they can be expressed in the number of vehicles. In 2009 demand for trailers will be down 37,000 units and the decline in production will be...
Just before the start of SIMA on February 22, 2009, one of Europe’s largest agricultural shows in Paris, France, Goodyear will have sold 1 million units of its immensely popular OPTITRAC tire range. Manuel Pintado, Managing Director of Goodyear’s European farm business comments: “The success of our OPTITRAC range is a result of its excel...
February 27 marks the opening of the new manufacturing plant of Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) in Saltillo, Coahuila, in northern Mexico. The President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, was on hand for the opening ceremony. The facility, which was built with an investment of $300 million, is expected to create 1,400 direct jobs and 200 indirect on...
The European Commission has obtained guarantees from the French government on the absence of protectionist measures in the French plan for aid to the automotive sector, the EC said in a February 28 2009 statement. According to The Sofia Echo, in a letter to European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, French secretary of state for industry Luc Chatel sa...
Changi Airport has always aimed to provide excellent service to its customers. This would not have been possible without the commitment and contributions of all airport staff. At the Annual Airport Reception organised by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) today, airport staff from the entire airport community were recognised for their efforts ...
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has safely delivered two white tiger cubs on its scheduled flight from Frankfurt to join the Brothers’ Zapashny circus in Moscow. The five month old cubs arrived in Russia onboard one of ABC’s Boeing 747 freighters. The circus is one of the most popular entertainment shows in Moscow and is highly regarded for the ...
The global economic downturn will lead to an increase in incidents of cargo crime, warns the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA). Latest statistics from the Association’s Incident Information Service (IIS) for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region show 3,756 reported incidents of cargo crime during 2008 with a total loss value ...
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