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HONG KONG International Airport (HKIA) suffered a 5.9 per cent drop in air freight to 242,000 tonnes in February compared to the same month the previous year. Stanley Hui Hon-chung, chief executive officer of Airport Authority Hong Kong, said this was "mainly due to the impact of the Chinese New Year. The combined cargo volume for the first two months of ...
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, campaigning to get the UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to impose greater sulphur fuel emission restrictions may drive cargo costs up to the point where freight is diverted to trucks, already under fire for causing even more pollution. Alfons Guinier, Secretary General of the European Shipowners' Association (ESA), addre...
THE North Africa and the Middle East (MENA) region is expected to provide better outsourcing than Eastern Europe, according AT Kearney's latest Global Services Location Index (GSLI) report. This means the region is likely to generate more business for freight forwarders, container shipping lines and logistics firms than for those operating in Eastern Eur...
SOUTHEAST China's Fujian province posted a six per cent growth in waterway freight volume to 14.12 million tonnes in January, reports Xinhua. Waterborne passenger volume came to 1.14 million person trips, a year-on-year 25 per cent increase. Provincial rail freight volume grew 5.6 per cent to 40.3 million tonnes while the rail passenger volume increase...
XIAMEN provincial trade value to Taiwan reached US$3.9 million in January under the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and mainland China which took effect on January 1, reports Xinhua. The import and export cargo volume came to 1,539 tonnes with the CEFA preferential tariffs of $220,000. Xiamen customs has increased four cat...
Tradeteam, part of the world’s largest logistics company – DHL, has won a six year contract to provide supply chain services to Whitbread, the UK’s largest hotel and restaurant group. The new deal will see the leading drinks logistics company provide a full range of services for Whitbread’s 584 hotels and restaurants, operating und...
Orlaco Products, a producer of camera and monitor solutions for a wide range of vehicles and vessels, will have a stand at the NUFAM which will open its doors from 14 to 17 April in Karlsruhe, Germany. The local trade fair has international allure and attracts countless visitors from the transport branch. This is the event for Orlaco to present itself. T...
The prices of air freight transports departing from German airports were by 24.1% higher than in 2009 on an annual average in 2010. As further reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), transport prices in the fourth quarter of 2010 were up 23.2% on the fourth quarter of 2009. Compared with the third quarter of 2010, the prices rose an average 5...
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.
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