SAS Cargo inaugurates a new route between Scandinavia and India. The route is operated by SAS International with Airbus A340/330 and three weekly round-trips. In the winter traffic programme, the flight leaves Copenhagen for Delhi on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, and returns from Delhi on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Each flight offers an a...
China-based all-cargo airline Great Wall Airlines said Friday that Kuah Boon Kiam will become its new president, effective Oct. 1. Kiam, 38, was regional vice president West Asia and Africa with Singapore Airlines Cargo, one of Great Wall's shareholders. A spokesman for Great Wall confirmed to Shippers' NewsWire that after three years with Great...
The U.S. wood pallet industry has an effective plan for its part to prevent the spread of invasive wood-eating pests throughout the nation's forests, but is increasingly frustrated by what it says is a failure by the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to act upon it. The Alexandria, Va.-based National Wooden Pallet ...
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff in a speech Friday called attempts to require overseas technology-based inspection of all ocean containers a throwback to Soviet-style command-and-control methods, as the standoff between the department and congressional Democrats over cargo security policy intensified. Congress one year ago passed a law ...
Asia's biggest and the world's third-biggest construction company - China Railway Group Ltd. targets CNY 30 billion (EUR 3 billion) of overseas orders in the second half of the year, Bloomberg reported. It is more than double the value in the H1. Chairman of the company, Mr Shi Dahua, said that projects include building highways and railways. - Our o...
A FedEx Freight truck terminal in Fontana, Calif., now receives 54 percent of its energy needs from solar power thanks to a new rooftop solar array installed by BP Solar.The solar panels can produce 370,551 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, and reduce carbon emissions, FedEx said. A second FedEx Freight facility in Whittier, Calif., has been usi...
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has appointed Kathryn McQuade as executive vice president and chief financial officer, with immediate effect. McQuade joined Canadian Pacific after 15 years at Norfolk Southern in 2007 as executive vice president and chief operating officer. She will assume responsibility for all functions currently reporting to the CFO: ...
YRC Worldwide Inc., the Overland Park, Kan.-based trucking and logistics holding company, has named Mike Kelley to the newly created position of chief sustainability officer to develop and see through the company's environmental targets. Kelley, who was recently appointed by Kansas state Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to serve on the Kansas Energy and Environ...
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