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U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez arrived in the Czech Republic today with the goal to strengthen economic ties between the United States and the Eastern European country. We look forward to further expanding our bilateral commercial activity as well as building a strong foundation to enhance transatlantic cooperation in the months ahead, Gu...
FedEx Corp. paid $2.4 billion in 2004 for the chain of copy and print-service providers called Kinko's. It rebranded the chain FedEx Kinko's, and expanded it from 1,200 to 1,900 stores. Monday it said it has decided it doesn't like the name and will rename chain FedEx Office. The company said this would allow it to record a charge of approximately...
The U.S. Justice Department said May 29 it has intervened in two private civil lawsuits alleging a price-fixing conspiracy in the shipment of household goods for Defense Department personnel between the United States and Europe. The Justice Department has charged Belgium-based Gosselin Worldwide Moving, its managing director Marc Smet and four German ...
UPS said it has expanded capability to manage the shipment of temperature-sensitive medical items, including around-the-clock intervention when necessary to utilize refrigeration or replenish dry ice to protect product quality. The company said it was targeting pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries, particularly global clinical trials,...
Deutsche Bahn has indicated it will begin a scheduled freight service linking China with Germany in three months, according to an article by Forbes. The route, first pilot-tested earlier this year, would allow container movement by land from the world's biggest manufacturing nation to western Europe. It would slice 20 days of transit time off the typi...
The chairman of Airbus' parent company EADS said last week the airplane manufacturers might start production in India soon to be nearer its customer base there. If we want to sell in India, we have to produce in India, said Louis Gallois at the Berlin Air Show, according to a report from India Aviation, an online news source. There are lots of enginee...
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the scheduled cargo airline of Russia's Volga-Dnepr Group, has appointed Ludwig Hamburger as regional director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Prior to joining ABC, Hamburger was Air New Zealand's Europe region manager. Source: American Shipper
British Airways World Cargo has appointed Faisal Yaqoob country cargo manager for Bangladesh. Yaqoob joined the airline 2004 and was commercial manager for Pakistan. He will report to Johnny Rubio, area commercial manager Middle East, Central Asia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Source: American Shipper
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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