Dulles International Airport in Virginia earlier this month became the first airport at which U.S. Customs and Border Protection has deployed a radiation portal monitor to test for radiation on all inbound air cargo. Thomas Winkowski, assistant commissioner for field operations, made the announcement at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affa...
Freight forwarder Panalpina has signed a global Master Lease Agreement with Envirotainer, a company that makes containers for the air cargo industry, to provide temperature-controlled air cargo containers for the health care industry. The two companies have worked together for more than six years in various markets around the world, but this is the fi...
Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics has appointed Stefano Antonini as country manager for Italy based in Milan. Antonini has previously worked for P&O Ferrymasters, C.H. Robinson and Fercam. The Italian market presents many opportunities for the efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly transport solutions that Samskip offers, Antonini s...
Retail Industry Leaders Association President Sandy Kennedy on Thursday called on Congress to pass legislation that would help restore order to the country's battered financial markets. Kennedy said in a statement that RILA member companies include more than 200 retailers, product manufacturers, and service suppliers, which together account for more t...
Oslo Vognselskap, the public transport rolling stock company of the Norwegian capital, has ordered another 20 metro trains from Siemens Mobility. A contract was signed at the InnoTrans trade fair on September 24, 2008 in Berlin. The order is worth about EUR 110 million. The contract calls for delivery to be completed by 2010. This order marks yet anot...
Under new EU legislation, it will be compulsory from 2011 for all new models of cars and small delivery vans to be fitted with automatic daytime running lights to increase their visibility, reports the Times.The new laws have been introduced as the EU predicts that lights could reduce death and injury on the roads by three to five per cent, but the paper ...
Boryspil International Airport, Ukraine’s largest airport, has selected SITA’s airport technology to support its goal of processing 18 million passengers by 2020, up from around seven million today. Increased demand has led to the introduction of an industry open platform, SITA AirportConnect, for the 42 international and 10 domestic airlines using t...
Smiths Detection, part of Smiths Group, has announced that Lufthansa Cargo is acquiring 19 IonScan 500DT desktop bomb detectors for its US airport locations, Shipping Gazette reported. The dual trace desktop explosives detectors recently won US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) approval making it on their Qualified Products List. The 5...
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