The Food and Drug Administration's efforts to inspect the manufacturing integrity of overseas pharmaceutical suppliers before their products reach U.S. consumers still fall short, a congressional watchdog agency representative warned. The FDA has been under fire from Capitol Hill and numerous consumer advocacies for allowing tainted and mishandled pha...
Antidumping and countervailing duties are collected by governments to help offset certain overseas trade practices that clearly harm domestic industries. Then why is it that U.S. Customs and Border Protection failed to collect more than $613 million in AD/CD from fiscal years 2001 through 2007? The question was recently raised by the chairman and ...
Logistics company BDP International has acquired a 50 percent stake in the Spanish company Euromodal S.A. Established in 1991, Euromodal provides a full range of logistics and transportation services, including ocean, air and road freight, custom brokerage, multimodal transport, warehousing, stock control, picking and packing, fiscal depot, bonded war...
Kuehne + Nagel on Wednesday opened a new logistics center in Malaysia at Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam. The new facility provides 22,000 square meters of warehouse space and features a dedicated chemical storage area for about 4,000 pallet positions and a 2,000-square-meter temperature-controlled area. Access to the facility is provided by 40 hydraulic lo...
California-based Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) announced the award by Boeing Commercial Airplanes to provide Cabin Services System (CSS) on every Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental airplane. In addition to this new contract, Panasonic also supplies CSS to Boeing for the 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Panasonic is the world's leading supplier of ...
Etihad Crystal Cargo, a division of Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, has selected Descartes’ global logistics network (GLN) to provide its air cargo electronic data interchange (EDI) services. Descartes will provide a range of electronic communications services aimed at strengthening links between Etihad’s cargo division and its trading partners and ...
Today, Sydney Airport joined the global aviation industry in a Declaration on climate change that was signed by industry leaders at the Aviation & Environment Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. Although aviation only accounts for two percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, today's declaration was designed to demonstrate and strengthen the industry's ...
European aircraft manufacturer Airbus will next month raise the catalog list prices of its planes above the standard increase as a consequence of the weak U.S. dollar and high metal prices. On top of the 2.74 percent normal escalation for 2007, the May 1 price increase comprises an additional $2 million per single-aisle aircraft and $4 million per wid...
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