Russia customs officers in St. Petersburg have discovered 21 kg of cocaine on board a ship from Ecuador, the customs press-service said on Monday according to RIA Novosti. The ship arrived in Russia's second largest city on Friday. A crew member later admitted during questioning that the drugs belonged to him. The ship was travelling under a Malte...
The IRU welcomes the European Parliament’s strong call, with 591 plenary votes for and only 18 against, to bring back the 12-day continuous driving derogation for drivers engaged in international coach tours in Europe. The large cross-party majority obtained in Parliament, recognises the IRU’s and ETF’s joint commitment in this regard. The IRU thus r...
Hattersheim: Following the signing of a Total Cargo Management agreement with Italian carrier AirOne, cargo counts has transferred responsibility for its sales and handling services in America and Italy to its parent company Lufthansa Cargo (LCAG) after putting the business out to tender. AirOne will serve the Milan-Boston route with Airbus A330-200s ...
Ohio politicians, businesses and unions are gearing up to fight DHL Express over its decision to close its Wilmington air freight hub and hire UPS to fly its packages instead of incumbent carriers ABX Air and Astar Air Cargo. German postal and logistics group Deutsche Post last week announced that DHL would pare underutilized assets in its ground netw...
“The volume of transit container transportation from Russia which used to be before 2005, will hardly restore soon”, Aimo Ahti, mayor of Kouvola (Finland) said according to RZD-Partner. According to him 50,000 TEU per year should be transported to provide stable cargo flow between China and Europe via Finland. Two factors hamper achievement of this p...
On 4 June this year, in Warsaw, the General Meeting of the Port of Gdansk Authority SA was held. In line with the adopted agenda of proceedings, resolutions were passed concerning the approval of the Financial Statement and the Board's Report on the Company activity as at 31 December 2007. The General Meeting additionally discharged the members of the Man...
SITA is expanding its aircraft communications service to serve short-haul aircraft by using the Iridium® network. This key expansion to a potential market of 5,000 aircraft was announced to more than 30 airlines during the May meeting of the SITA AIRCOM User Group in Madrid and three have already committed to using the service. The new SITA offering r...
Scania aims to boost global sales in the construction vehicle segment by 50% from 12,000 units in 2007 to around 18,000 in 2010. Scania sees great potential in emerging markets, where infrastructure is in the initial phase of expansion. Increased focus on complete vehicles with bodywork and on comprehensive service support from Scania make vehicle own...
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