Russian cargo carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines said Wednesday it has appointed Worldwide GSA Pte Ltd its as general sales agent in Taiwan. Worldwide GSA Group is a holding company, incorporated in Singapore in 1995, that specializes in airline GSA services in Asia and Australia. It has 13 offices in eight countries -- Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Th...
Michael R. White is pulling double-duty as the new assistant director for cargo standards, Cargo Network Services, and regional director, Americas, for standards organization Cargo 2000. In reality the two jobs are interrelated and both organizations are closely tied to the International Air Transport Association. CNS is an IATA subsidiary that provid...
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) International said it has filed a lawsuit against DHL Holdings USA in the Court of Common Pleas in Clinton, Ohio, where DHL maintains its major sorting center. ALPA alleges that, by proposing to shift its North American flying work away from ASTAR Air Cargo to UPS, DHL is breaching job security commitments it agr...
CEVA Logistics said Tuesday it has joined Cargo 2000 as an associate member to realize new opportunities for productivity gains, cost efficiencies and further quality improvements in customer service. CEVA is one of the world's largest buyers of airline cargo capacity, transporting 400 million kilograms of air freight each year onboard more than 500 f...
AO Kazakhstan Temir Zholy National Co., the country's state-owned rail company, plans to borrow $105 million to build a fiber-optic link for its telecommunications unit and to improve rail network performance, Bloomberg reports according to RZD-Partner. The railway will take a $55 million 10-year loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Dev...
Neptune Orient Lines, the parent of container line APL, said Monday it has appointed Singaporean businessman Boon Swan Foo to its board of directors. Boon is executive chairman of Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd., the strategic marketing arm of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research. Boon has also held various high-level roles in both th...
Transpacific ocean carriers said Monday they plan to start recovering a larger part of the inland fuel costs they incur on the landside portion of intermodal container movements. Member lines in the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said they are intent on narrowing the gap between what they pay for inland fuel in their intermodal operations and wh...
Continental Airlines on Monday said Jack Boisen, vice president of cargo, will retire at the end of the month. He will be succeeded by Jim McKeon, senior director of global sales and marketing. The airline said McKeon has significantly grown cargo revenues since joining the company in 2001 by developing a new global account program, creating a develo...
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