After nearly 20 years as a supplier of ethanol buses, Scania is now broadening its range of ethanol-powered vehicles for urban traffic. Today the company’s first ethanol trucks are being unveiled to international trade journalists, who are test-driving the trucks in Sodertalje. Starting next year, this will enable hauliers, authorities and municipalities ...
Renault Trucks will be present at this first Central European rally organised by ASO further to the cancellation of the Dakar 2008 in January, with competitors in the race itself or in a race assistance capacity. From Budapest to Balaton Lake, the competitors will be driving some 3,000km in what will, on occasions, be difficult conditions on paths and...
The U.S. Agency for International Development will invest $7.9 million to develop an automated program to significantly reduce the time it takes shipping documents to process through customs administrations in Southeast Asia. The system, which will be developed in partnership with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, will allow shippers, freigh...
Third-party logistics company Globe Express Services has opened an office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to tap into the Southeast Asian nation's potential, after Cambodia's government approved the launch. We feel Cambodia is the next area of growth after Vietnam, said Georges Mejaes, Globe's executive director. "In order to better service the needs of our ...
A Taiwanese legislator has asked the Ministry of Justice to investigate why the country is footing the bill for the U.S. Container Security Initiative program at the Port of Kaohsiung, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reached bilateral agreements to station teams in 58 ports around the world to help ide...
Chile's Livestock and Agricultural Service has approved the U.S. inspection, control and certification systems for poultry, allowing these products to enter the Chilean market. This agreement represents a strong foothold for U.S. poultry exports to South America, said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, in an April 10 statement. Under the agree...
Detention charges on containers in Indian ports are riling importers there, according to a report in the Economic Times Tuesday. The issue is this: shipping lines give shippers five days free time before assessing detention penalties. However, the lines continue counting days even when their offices are closed, argued shippers. So, if an empty is drop...
The Hawaii Department of Agriculture said it will kick off a three-year pilot project this month to track tomatoes and other produce from farms to store in an effort to improve food safety. The agriculture-tracking project, which utilizes radio frequency identification technology now being used by several supermarket chains and some farms, will make H...
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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