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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands-The Netherlands' national broadcaster is reporting that a Dutch freight ship has been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. NOS news reports that pirates seized the ship, the MV Amiya Scan, in the Gulf of Aden. The shipping company, Reider Shipping BV, based in the town of Winschoten in the far north of the Netherlands...
Introduction Increasing amounts of equity based capital will target the European warehousing and industrial real estate markets and going forward equity and low leverage buyers will dominate the market. This report analyses the European warehousing market, providing a detailed overview of the market conditions, and Datamonitor's country-wise 2008 o...
The hugely successful 10th Annual European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit passed last week in a flurry of thought leadership, information exchange, learning and networking. SCL Europe 2008 once again proved itself as the must attend event in the calendar at which to gain unparalleled insight into the current issues and best practices that are shaping ...
Heart to Heart International, a global humanitarian organisation, in cooperation with FedEx Express yesterday delivered relief supplies valued at more than US$1.5 million to the earthquake devastated province of Sichuan. It is the first major shipment of private aid from the US to the quake zone. After departing from Kansas City International Airpo...
Lufthansa Cargo has extended by 15 months its contract for World Airways to operate three MD-11 freighters on its behalf between Europe and the United States, effective July 1. Peachtree City, Ga.-based World Airways is a subsidiary of Global Aero Logistics Inc. and has been operating continuously for Lufthansa Cargo since 2006. World Airways has ...
In 2008 Finnish Railways will service 15-20 thousand TEU of transit containers transported from Transsiberian Railway, Henri Kuitunen, General Director of VR Ltd told to correspondent of IA “RZD-Partner.Ru”. He added that the forecast will be right “if everything goes according to the plan till the end of the year”. Henri Kuitunen noted that thi...
The German government has announced plans to widen and dredge the Kiel Canal, allowing the 62 mile long waterway to take vessels of 280 metres in length and 33 metres wide. The minimum depth will be increased through dredging to 10.5 metres. According to its website the Kiel Canal is the world's busiest artificial waterway, running from Brunsbüttel t...
OJSC TransContainer, a subsidiary of Russian Railways (RZD) (RTS: RZHD), will offer 14%-19% of its shares in a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in 2009, Fyodor Andreyev, an RZD senior vice president, told reporters in Sochi according to Interfax. Andreyev said TransContainer would float 15%-20% of its shares in an IPO in Russia...
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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