British Airways World Cargo said Friday it is resuming flights from London to Jeddah and Riyadh for the first time since 2005. The airline will start five weekly services to both of the Saudi Arabia cities from March 29. A Boeing 767 will be used for the Jeddah flights and a 767 for the Riyadh flights. BA stopped serving Saudi Arabia more than thr...
U.S. Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff reiterated Tuesday that overseas scanning of ocean containers makes sense at high-risk ports, depending on space limitations and foreign government cooperation, but that 100 percent inspections would wreck maritime trade by clogging ports. It would be the equivalent of strip-searching every single person who ge...
The decline in the volume of freight transported by rail in Poland is the consequence of the overall market slowdown, with companies reducing their production of steel and cement, and other materials which are traditionally transported by rail, Esmerk reported. The lack of new road building projects in 2008 has meant that aggregate transport - one of the ...
We are in a situation that has rarely occurred before, said Dr. Andreas Otto, Board Member Product and Sales, addressing senior correspondents on the prospects for 2009 in Frankfurt on 17 November. In the present uncertain business environment no one is venturing a forecast for the coming year, he added. The financial crisis and its effects is puzzling al...
Lufthansa Cargo has recently launched a new image campaign to underline the leading role of its quality, network, security, environmental protection and express in the air cargo industry. Highlighting those attributes is the new corporate slogan Networking the world. Our new campaign is designed to communicate the expansive global network in which we ...
President-elect Barack Obama ended two weeks of speculation by formally naming Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico to be secretary of commerce. Richardson is a former secretary of energy and United Nations ambassador during the Clinton administration, who endorsed Obama last spring after dropping out of the Democratic race for president. ...
More than 40 of the nation's governors met with Barack Obama in Philadelphia Tuesday and asked that $175 billion be included in a massive economic stimulus package to help states deal with huge budget deficits. The National Governors Association said $136 billion should go for ready-to-go infrastructure projects to repair and upgrade bridges, highways, po...
A weekly freight rail service linking China to Germany will most likely compete with sea-air service when it begins after the Chinese New Year in 2009. The block train service, headed by DB Schenker in partnership with Chinese and Russian state-owned railways, cuts across five countries to provide and an alternative to ocean and air services ...
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