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A group of 20 industry lobbies, representing a cross section of agricultural products shippers and ocean transport services providers, wants Congress to ax a Bush administration initiative to allow purchases of U.S. food aid from foreign sources. The Bush administration has asked Congress to allow up to a quarter of the Food for Peace budget in fiscal...
The European Shippers Council (ESC) is calling for comments and suggestions on a new tool designed to eradicate errors in transport documents and invoices. The ESC, along with representatives of the liner shipping (the European Liner Affairs Association) and freight forwarding (CLECAT) industries have been working jointly to create a guide to the key p...
Summit Global Logistics Inc. said a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newark, N.J., on Wednesday approved the sale of the company's assets and certain of Summit抯 subsidiaries to TriDec Acquisition Co. Inc., a company formed by certain founders of Summit抯 operating companies and members of senior management. The logistics company filed for protection under Chap...
Agility, a Kuwait-based global logistics company, earlier this month established a subsidiary in Slovenia and will create an Austrian unit at the start of April. Agility's Slovenia headquarters are located at the Ljubljana international airport, while an ocean freight division will be based at the Port of Koper. An office for road freight is also plan...
The Boeing Company confirmed an order for three Next-Generation 737s by national flag carrier Turkmenistan Airlines. The order for two 737-900ERs and one 737-700 is worth approximately $221 million at list prices. Turkmenistan Airlines' all-Boeing fleet also includes 717s, Classic and Next-Generation 737s, 757s, and one 767. Turkmenistan Airlines ...
The wings are the most important thing for flying. However, an aircraft would also be no use without its wheels. The two nose wheels and the 16 main wheels of a Jumbo jet, for example, have to carry the enormous burden of up to nearly 400 tons when taking off or landing. The tyre rubber is thereby subjected to extreme temperature fluctuations from minus 6...
The GAC Group has announced the amicable acquisition of 100% of UK-based shipping and logistics group OBC in a move described by both parties as strategically astute. The acquisition which comes into effect on 31st March 2008 will see OBC rebranded as GAC-OBC while continuing to handle vessels in ports throughout the UK, The Netherlands and the US Gu...
The Aquitaine-Euskadi Logistics Platform (PLAE) participated as exhibitor in the International Transport and Logistics Show SITL held in Paris from 12 to 14 March 2008, in representation of Basque-Aquitaine infrastructures. At the show the PLAE had a stand measuring 120 square metres in which to present the different maritime, air, rail and land infra...
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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