Kuehne + Nagel International AG has appointed Peter Ulber to its management board in charge of sea and air logistics, effective Jan. 1, 2009. Ulber will succeed Reinhard Lange, who will become the new group chief executive officer following the retirement of Klaus Herms. Ulber joined the Swiss logistics and forwarding company in 1983 and was mos...
Intelligent Global Pooling Systems has signed a long-term supplier contract with Netherlands-based Schoeller Arca Systems to manufacture 30 million plastic pallets for the company over the next five years. Because the marketplace has responded so enthusiastically to our offering, we have commissioned Schoeller Arca to produce a record number of pallet...
The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday lowered growth projections for Asia as inflation and global economic uncertainty take their toll. The continent is expected to see economic growth of 7.5 percent for 2008, after it grew 9 percent in 2007, largely a result of inflation climbing from 4.3 percent last year to 7.8 percent this year. Uncoupling is ...
American Insurance Group, the largest U.S. insurance company and a major financial services provider, needs a $75 billion infusion of capital to stave off collapse. News about AIG's dire situation surfaced on the same day that venerable Wall Street investment house Lehman Brothers said it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and Merrill Lyn...
Though they're in competition these days, ocean carriers and airlines seem to have much the same strategy when it comes to combating rising fuel costs -- better cost management and a focus on lucrative routes. Like the mantra of Singapore's APL, which has been blowing the profitability trumpet all year, air carriers have had to scale back services tha...
The VI International Conference “Transport Service Market: Interaction and Partnership. 10 Years to Railway Reform” will take place at Crocus Expo in Moscow on October 29 and 30, 2008, with Business Dialog Ltd. and the editorial board of the RZD-Partner magazine as its co-organizers. This year’s conference will address the most pressing challenges fac...
PKP Cargo, Polish state-owned rail freight operator, starts direct services transporting coke from Poland to France, with Germany as the transit country. The services are monitored so that the receiver of goods is consistently informed of their whereabouts. The journey takes 36 hours, one way. PKP Cargo already supplies copper directly to France and ...
The CEE Rail Infrastructure Forum 2008 will take place on October 20th, 2008 in Warsaw. The Forum is organised by Railway Market Forum in cooperation with PKP Polish Railway Lines, Railway Business Forum, European Infrastructure Managers, Community of European Railways and Infrastructure Companies and under the auspices of the Ministry of Infrastruct...
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