Hamburg, Germany-based EUROGATE Intermodal GmbH has acquired a 51 percent majority share in Hungarian rail transport company Floyd ZRt. Floyd is EUROGATE Intermodal's partner on the boxXpress.hu six-times weekly service between the German seaports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven and Budapest Bilk. EUROGATE Intermodal, a subsidiary of Europe's biggest c...
Railion Italia S.r.l., an Italian subsidiary of DB Schenker, on Wednesday acquired a 49 percent stake in Milan-based NordCargo S.r.I., a company that transports rail shipments between Germany, Switzerland and Italy. NordCargo was spun off from its parent company, Ferrovienord S.P.A. (FNM), in 2003 and in 2007 generated revenue of roughly 34 million eu...
National Foreign Trade Council President Bill Reinsch said in a speech Wednesday that corruption remains an unresolved scourge on global commerce. Speaking at a one-day conference hosted by international law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, themed Combating Corruption, which focused on the transatlantic anticorruption legal framework and compliance...
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...
Transnautic Aero – the exclusive German member of the EGSAC GSSA network – has promoted Matthias Brall to the post of manager of its Munich office. Brall replaces Martin Bodamer, who has left the company after 6 years to launch a medical logistics operation. Brallworked in airfreight handling prior to joining Transnautic’s Dusseldorf office in 2003. ...
Stage scenery for Russia’s world famous Bolshoi Theatre has been transported from Moscow by AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) for a special production of ‘Spartacus’ in Hong Kong. The Bolshoi Ballet and Orchestra will perform at the Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Center, China, on September 17th 2008 The stage scenery was transported onboard one o...
Rutges Cargo expects to play an increasingly important role for manufacturers of high value and high risk products in The Netherlands after gaining the Transported Asset Protection Association’s (TAPA) Freight Security Requirements (FSR) ‘A’ certification for its secure warehouse operation at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. As a leading supplier of securi...
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has revised its foreign pilot licencing requirements. The amendments, which kicked in on 1 November 2007, benefit the aviation industry in Singapore by widening the pool of pilots that airlines can employ. The revision is part of CAAS’ continuing efforts to ensure that the licensing requirements mee...
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