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STATE-OWNED Canadian National Railway (CN) plans to spend C$1.7 billion (US$1.7 billion) on track infrastructure to improve the safety, productivity and fluidity of its railway network, fleet upgrades, and the development of new facilities such as distribution centres. A report by CNW Telbec gave a breakdown of the company's capital investment programme ...
THE 2011 outlook for the US trucking market remains positive, but new safety rules will make three to five per cent of its drivers "unemployable." "We anticipate that the driver market will become more challenging during 2011," said Werner Enterprise. "We believe changing industry safety regulations are tightening driver supply." Over all, the industry ...
MOROCCO's Tangier Med Port handled 2.06 million TEU in 2010, representing an increase of more than 70 per cent compared to the previous year. London's Containerisation International attributed the surge to "the continual build-up of the port's two terminals and its growing popularity among ocean carriers to use its facilities as a drop-off/pick-up poin...
CHINESE Railway Minister Liu Zhijun has been fired and placed under investigation by the ministry's Communist Party secretary for "severe disciplinary violations," reports London's Financial Times. Reports have give no indication of why Mr Liu was removed by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, but criminal charges are expected shortly, sa...
Boeing Co unveiled the latest passenger version of its 747 jumbo jet, hoping to win orders for a model that for now has only two airline customers, reported the Wall Street Journal. About 10,000 workers, guests and members of the news media attended a ceremony on Sunday at the company's wide-body jet factory in Everett, Washington. The new plane, the 7...
ATLANTA area Global Aviation Holdings, parent company of North American Airlines and World Airways, has opened in Hong Kong under the direction of Todd Hildreth as director of cargo sales for the Asia-Pacific region. Jamaica, NY-based North American Airlines operates Boeing 757-200s and 767-300s. World Airways, located in Peachtree City, Georgia, deploys ...
JAPANESE forwarder Kintetsu World Express and German forwarder Schenker had screening certificates revoked by the US Transportation Security Administration for certain of their facilities fail to meet air cargo inspection standards. TSA also issued "suspension orders" on warehouses operated by Swiss-based Panalpina and New York's Concordia International ...
INTER-REGIMENTAL rivalry is brewing fast between veterans of the British Army's Special Air Service and the navy's Royal Marines over market share in anti-piracy security business. Until recently, the "army and "navy" companies had gone their own way discreetly drumming up trade from shipping lines traversing pirate infested waters of the Indian Ocean a...
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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