Sunteck Transport Group, a non-asset-based provider of transportation services, has added an agent office in Fayetteville, N.C., bringing the total of Sunteck agent offices to 50. Rudy Young, doing business as Tar Heel Freight, is based at 214 Cedar Creek Rd., Suite B, 28313 and (800) 230-5575. The office has more than seven years combined experience ...
YRC Worldwide has named Timothy A. Wicks as chief financial officer following the August departure of Stephen Bruffet to rival trucking and logistics provider Con-way Inc. Wicks was senior vice president for strategic growth initiatives at UnitedHealthcare. He also spent time early in his career working on finance and economic issued for Northwest Air...
With time running out in the 2008 U.S. legislative calendar and a presidential election on the horizon, senior Colombian government officials, including President Uribe, are in Washington this week to make a final pitch to lawmakers to approve the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement before the end of the year. House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelo...
European Union competition authorities Friday approved DSV's acquisition of Brussels-based ABX Logistics. The final closing is expected on Oct. 1. At that time, DSV said it would provide information on its plans for the ABX integration. In June, Danish logistics group DSV A/S entered into an agreement with 3i Group plc and 3i funds, the management...
During the summer holidays, Czech Airlines carried 1.2 million passengers. Compared to the same period last year, that constitutes a 3.4 percent increase. Czech Airlines noted the greatest increase in the number of passengers on its charter flights, which carried 275,200 passengers, which is 8.5 percent more clients than last summer. In July, the to...
Malev, the national carrier of Hungary, today announced the introduction of web check-in. This new service, using the technology of aviation IT specialist SITA, enables Malev passengers departing from Budapest Ferihegy airport to check-in quickly and easily from anywhere, avoiding queues and speeding their journey through the airport. Peter Leonov, C...
GAC Logistics has joined Cargo 2000, an air freight industry coalition within the International Air Transport Association that aims to streamline air cargo processes, achieve cost efficiencies and improve customer satisfaction. GAC said membership of Cargo 2000 will enable it to better monitor carrier performance, verify transit times and cut labor in...
The Inter-American Development Bank said Tuesday that it has agreed in principle to loan the government of Panama $400 million for expansion of the Panama Canal. Work began last year to build a third set of locks on both sides of the strategic isthmus that can accommodate 12,000-TEU vessels, more than double the size of vessels that can currently tran...
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