AFTER denying links to 13 munitions-laden containers, Iran's ambassador to Nigeria, Hussein Abdullahi, has admitted the consignment was Tehran-ordered under a deal with Gambia signed before UN sanctions banning such trade were enacted. "It is based on the agreement signed between Iran and Gambia three years back," Mr Abdullahi told media. The boxes wer...
GLOBAL marine terminal operator DP World has opened an inland container terminal in Lahore, linked by 1,000 kilometre railway to the company's Karachi Qasim box port. DP World Lahore, also known as the Prem Nagar Dry Port, was inaugurated by Pakistani railway ministry chairman Shahid Hussain Raza, who explained how it was his department's first public p...
CHONGQING's investment on roadway fixed assets totalled to CNY37.4 billion (US$5.7 billion) last year, up 21.5 per cent year on year, 33.5 per cent more than its annual budget, Xinhua reports. CNY34.3 billion was spent on the road transport, up 24 per cent, 37.1 per cent over budget. (Source:http://www.schednet.com)
LOGISTICS major GAC says the biggest challenge that the company and its clients faced in Egypt was the shutdown of the internet and mobile phone services. "Alternative means of keeping in touch with clients had to be immediately established," said Erland Ebbersten, group vice president for Africa, Russia and Central Asia, speaking from his Cairo office. ...
QANTAS AIRWAYS LTD has rejected claims made by the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) about Qantas pilots' job security being under threat, saying they are "completely unfounded." The threat of industrial action from AIPA comes during ongoing negotiations with Qantas management, including CEO Alan Joyce, for a new enterprise bargainin...
UPSTATE New York's National Air Cargo (NAC) has received necessary federal permits to begin operating its National Airlines (NA) charter service, reports Buffalo Business First. The Orchard Park company said the US Department of Transportation issued a foreign charter certificate to National Air Cargo for charter services. NA faces Federal Aviation Admin...
THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) has UK aviation policy and called on the British government to transform air transport competitiveness through tax cuts, regulatory reform and bring an end to crippling climate change taxes. IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani blasted Britain's "punitive policy" on climate change carbon emissions, p...
A BRITISH security contractor, who wrote "SAS Handbook" has co-authored a report for GAC Protective Solutions, on how to fight Somali pirates, which concludes that the best way is to rely on firms like his own Hereford-based security company, AKE Ltd. "There needs to be a clear understanding of what constitutes appropriate weaponry that will provide...
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