The Boeing Co. has entered an agreement with Canadian firm SkyHook International to build a new commercial heavy-lift blimp designed to meet the infrastructure limits and expense of transporting equipment and materials in remote regions. We conducted a feasibility study and decided this opportunity is a perfect fit for Advanced Systems technical capab...
An item in Wednesday's Shippers' NewsWire misspelled the name of the former Avalon Risk Management president. Scott Wollney now serves as president and chief executive officer of Lincoln General Insurance Co., Avalon's sister company. Source: American Shipper
LOG-NET Inc., a New Jersey-based provider of supply chain execution software, has appointed Bill Heaney as its U.S. Northeast region sales director. Prior to joining LOG-NET, Heaney worked for DHL Express as a national account manager. He has also worked for APL Logistics and Maersk in sales. Source: American Shipper
The American Soybean Association urged the European Commission this week to find a workable and commercially viable answer to soften the European Union's zero tolerance for the low-level presence of EU-unapproved biotech traits in feed. ASA said its position is backed by the European livestock and feed industries. ASA and its European supporters b...
The construction of a natural gas pipeline to link energy-rich Kazakhstan with China began on Wednesday, the Kazakh construction company Kazstroiservis said according to RIA Novosti. The pipeline, Kazakhstan's first natural gas export route to external markets bypassing Russia, is expected to be completed in June 2010 and have an initial capacity of 4...
OJSC First Freight Company (PGK), Russia's leading freight operator, shipped 31.2 million tonnes of freight in the first half of 2008, the company said in a statement according to Interfax. PGK began operating late last year. In the first half it carried 10.3 million tonnes of petroleum cargo, 8.7 million tonnes of hard coal, 6.7 mi...
Wrightbus have won an order to supply 45 new concept single deck buses to Translink, which will be used exclusively for their Ulsterbus services. Northern Ireland’s rural areas are set to benefit from new buses - Solar Rural vehicles - specifically designed to make travelling by public transport more accessible to all. Built on a modified Scania K23...
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) has received its first Boeing 737-300SF (Special Freighter) that will provide additional capacity between Ukraine's capital Kiev and Vienna in Austria. UIA's first Boeing 737-300SF will provide additional capacity between Kiev and Vienna. The modified passenger-to-freighter aircraft was previously used by Kit...
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