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Delta Cargo, the freight unit of Delta Air Lines, has selected two applications from Canadian logistics software company Descartes to extend domestic electronic cargo bookings to all the freight forwarders it works with. Descartes GF-X Exchange combined with Descartes CargoBooker provides our customers with the ability to readily access our carrier in...
Northwest Airlines' freight division, NWA Cargo, will reduce its fuel surcharges for domestic and certain international markets, effective Sept. 15. The Minneapolis-based airline said the reductions are a response to the recent drop in jet fuel price. NWA Cargo's surcharges for all domestic shipments will be reduced from 50 cents to 46 cents per pound. F...
The recent return to earth of oil prices has caused FedEx Corp. to upgrade its earnings guidance for its first quarter ended Aug. 31. The Memphis, Tenn.-based company now expects to report first quarter earnings of $1.23 per diluted share, compared to the previous expectation of 80 cents to $1 per diluted share. FedEx has maintained its fiscal year ou...
Intelligent Global Pooling System, operator of the world's first radio-frequency identification-tagged all-plastic pallet pool, received approval and certification from FM Global, a commercial and industrial property insurance firm. The approval was granted after the iGPS pallet underwent big burn fire tests, in addition to a number of other tests con...
Continental Airlines Cargo, the first US airline to offer a structured cold chain product, has now become the first airline to be accredited as a Qualified Envirotainer Provider. Accreditation under the Qualified Envirotainer Provider Training and Quality program (QEP) is formal recognition that Continental Airlines employs industry-recognized best pr...
Forward Air Corp. said it has completed the acquisition of Spartanburg, S.C.-based Service Express, a provider of dedicated distribution and truck consolidation services in the mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States. Service Express had 2007 sales of $39 million. Forward Air, Greenville, Tenn., is a provider of time-definite trucking services...
DHL said Monday its expanded central Asia hub at Hong Kong International Airport is fully operational. The hub's size has been doubled to 35,000 square meters, which is about the size of 120 tennis courts. It will have capacity to handle 40 million shipments per year, with an average throughput of 75,000 pieces per hour. The facility is one of the...
DSV Road AS, a Norwegian company within the DSV Group, has purchased 100 percent of the shares in Waagan Transport Group AS, comprising the companies Waagan Transport AS, Waagan Bil AS and Sandtorp Thermotransport AS. Financial details of the acquisition, still subject to approval by the Norwegian competition authorities, were withheld. Once regulato...
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
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