Hong Kong logistics company Trans Global Logistics has named Gary Chan general manager of its Hong Kong operations. Chan spent the last eight years with Speedmark Transportation, where he was most recently general manager of air freight for Speedmark's North America and Europe division, based in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was Thailand general manage...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has extended its grace period before enforcing a mandate for electronic filing of Shipper's Export Declarations, an official said in a story for the Journal of Commerce Online. A regulation requiring the use of the Census Bureau's Automated Export System and eliminating the use of paper-based export documents went in...
Economists are anticipating the third quarter will be the start of a significant recession that could last awhile. Even before the credit crisis of the past few weeks, economic indicators from August and September presage a period of negative growth, according to a report by Dow Jones & Co.'s Marketwatch. Many consumers and business have felt the ...
The United States and the five Central American countries have agreed to give Costa Rica an extension to approve its ratification of the U.S.-Central American-Dominican Republic free trade agreement. Costa Rica, along with the United States, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, signed the free trade agreement on Aug. 5, ...
The Estonian-Chinese maritime transport agreement will, in the opinion of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia, create opportunities for Estonia becoming a regional distribution centre, The Baltic Course reports according to RZD-Partner. “The maritime transportation agreement will remove obstacles from developing trade betwe...
Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd, operator of the world's biggest fleet of bulk carriers for shipping commodities, yesterday said that a weak yen, a fall in oil prices and strong freight rates in the first half could push its April-September profits above its earlier estimates. Kenichi Yonetani, senior managing executive officer at Mitsui OSK, also said that the ...
LUCKNOW: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on a two-day tour to her parliamentary constituency Raebareli, had a chance meeting with SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav at Amausi Airport, Lucknow, on Saturday. Waiting in the VVIP lounge for the Delhi-bound flight, Sonia had a surprise guest as Mulayam walked in through the doors. Congressmen discreetly wit...
The latest aviation figures for the past 10 years reveal Darwin has one of the highest rates of birdstrikes in the country. The statistics released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau show from 2000 to 2008, 532 aircraft were affected by birdstrikes, only Sydney and Brisbane had more. While in Alice Springs for the same period, bird strikes af...
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.
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