FEDEX has pledged to give US$1 million cash donation and in-kind transportation to support earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Japan by supporting several agencies providing food, shelter, medical supplies, water purification units, blankets and hygiene kits. The agencies FedEx will support the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Heart to Heart I...
THE American Trucking Associations' seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index declined 2.9 per cent in February after increasing 3.5 per cent in January. Compared with February 2010, tonnage climbed 4.2 per cent, though this was smaller than January's 7.6 per cent year-on-year increase. Tonnage is up 5.9 per cent in the first two months of 2011 ...
ARRESTS by India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of 10 customs men, implicated in a bribery network involving an Ahmedbad forwarder, has now provided evidence implicating higher officials, reports the Indian Express. "Investigations are leading us to top officials. We are scrutinising documents seized from the arrested officials that have given ...
FedEx Corp chief financial officer Alan Graf called a potential acquisition of TNT NV's express business "too expensive" and reiterated that FedEx doesn't need to do a deal in Europe, reported Dow Jones Newswires. "We look at a lot of things all the time," Graf said in response to a question at a J.P. Morgan conference in New York that FedEx periodicall...
Maersk Line, the world's biggest container-shipping company, will slash the number of ship calls in Hong Kong by about a third starting from next month when it transfers the business to an affiliated container terminal at Nansha. The Nansha facility, Guangzhou South China Oceangate Container Terminal, is partly owned by APM Terminals, which, like the con...
TMC, a division of C.H. Robinson Worldwide, has expanded the capabilities of its Managed TMS, making it the first organisation to offer TMS software plus managed services globally. Managed TMS® provides a single platform for optimisation, shipment visibility, business intelligence, and freight payment as companies around the world continue to build i...
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has given a cautious welcome to the UK government’s decision, announced in this week’s budget, to abandon the next increase in fuel duty which was planned for April 1 and put in place a “fair fuel stabilizer” to remove some of the uncertainty over fuel prices. Peter Quantrill, B...
KOREAN AIR has commenced a twice weekly cargo service from Seoul/Incheon to St Petersburg. The Boeing 747-400F with a 100-ton capacity will take off Wednesdays and Fridays. KE593 departs Seoul/Incheon at 2055 hrs and arrives in St Petersburg at 0015 hrs. The returning freighter KE594 will depart Frankfurt at 0645 hrs and arrive in Seoul/Incheon at 0105 h...
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