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A group of 65 relief organizations, agricultural groups and ocean carriers urge Congress to approve an emergency supplemental bill that includes $859 million in fiscal year 2008 and $395 million for fiscal year 2009 to fund the country's biggest international food aid programs. The P.L. 480 Title II food aid program has been tested this year by increa...
Russia will begin to accept a range of imported U.S. livestock, including breeding cattle and bovine embryos, fattening and slaughter swine, and breeding and sports horses. Russia will also accept cattle born on or after the implementation of the 1997 U.S. ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban. The value of these new markets for U.S. exporters is substant...
British logistics service provider Wincanton has entered the fray for U.K. competitor TDG with news of a preliminary offer made last month. Wincanton on April 14 made an indicative cash offer at a value of 281.25 pence per ordinary share (equivalent to ?.90 per ordinary share less the dividend of ?.75 pence per share proposed on Feb.27 and payable on ...
Italian Member of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani is set to replace Jacques Barrot as Europe's Transport Commissioner. Tajani, part of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, has been nominated to replace Franco Frattini, Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, but will actually assume Barrot's portfolio, with the transport commissio...
International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) recently announced the appointment of Maritel Abad Santos as the new Business Development manager. Prior to her appointment, Abad Santos had been the administration manager for ICTSI Ltd. since 1998. She joined ICTSI in 1994 as executive assistant to the executive vice president. Abad Sant...
In Bergheim, near Salzburg, Austria, the biggest and most modern freight forwarding terminal in DB Schenker's European land transport network is to be created. An investment volume of around 21 million euros is being put into a complex that will serve as a transport hub for the flow of goods in Europe. The first cut of the spade was made on 24 April. ...
The European Commission decided today to lodge a case to the Court of Justice over the incorrect transposition by Poland into its national law of EU legislation on the Community system to monitor the traffic of ships in EU waters. The Directive in question aims to enhance the safety of maritime traffic by improving the response of authorities to incid...
Kochi: The second and final day of ShipTek 2008, the international conference on Shipbuilding and Conversion Technology resumed at 9.00 am. There were two sessions included for the final day. The topics included in the first session were Conversion of Single Hull Tankers, Some Major Design Aspects of FPSO Conversion, Opportunities & Challenges in Rig...
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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