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Cargolux Airlines International last week in Seattle took delivery of its 16th and final Boeing 747-400 freighter. The Luxembourg-based all-cargo airline in 1993 became the first operator of the 747-400F and will gradually replace them from 2009 with 13 new B747-8Fs that will be powered by General Electric's GEnx engines. Up until Boeing developed...
China Merchants' logistics division will begin running a dedicated container rail line between Shekou Container Terminal and the inland Chinese city of Changsha starting Aug. 1. The line is anticipated to boost container flow between Shekou, one of the terminals in the Port of Shenzhen in South China, to Changsha, a growing interior city and capital o...
Command responsible for providing air and sea logistics to the U.S. Navy in the Middle East changed leadership last week in Bahrain. Navy Capt. Stephen H. Kelley accepted command of Sealift Logistics Command Central from Navy Capt. Anthony H. Dropp, who has held the position since July 2007. In his new role as SEALOGCENT's commander, Kelley will a...
The increasing importance of Central Asia in the world oil and gas business has prompted Middle East logistics major GAC to establish a new subsidiary in Kazakhstan, the company said Monday. GAC Kazakhstan LLP was officially registered in June in Almaty, the country's old capital and commercial center. The initial goal was to secure logistics busi...
Maersk Lines has increased its Bunker Adjustment Factor charge in light of increasing fuel surcharges, the National Business Review reported. On New Zealand-US services the price has been raised from US$438 a TEU to $844, and on routes to Asia and Europe it has been raised from $350 to $675 per TEU. Maersk ships call at all of New Zealand's contai...
A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said on Wednesday, 12 years after such an explosion destroyed TWA Flight 800, killing all 230 people aboard. The new safety requirement, announced by Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, applies to new passenger and c...
On 12 July Maersk celebrated 80th Anniversary of Maersk Line. On July, 12 1928, “Leise Maersk”, the first vessel to depart in Maersk’s liner service, sailed from Baltimore on the U.S. East Coast en route to the Far East via the Panama Canal. In her holds were Ford car parts and general cargo. Leise Maersk was carrying 3,600 tons of cargo, the equivalen...
Jean-Marc Lacave will join CMA CGM Group as Chief Executive Vice-President and member of the Executive Board as of 1st September 2008. He will be in charge of the following departments, previously under the responsibility of Alain Wils - Inland transportation (Rail, River barging, Road transportation),Intermodal, Internal audit, Insurance, Legal, Human...
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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