HONG KONG's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) introduction of its "Empty Pickup Appointment" scheme in October for Hong Kong alone as an alternative to an early container pickup may now be extended to the neighbouring metropolis of Shenzhen on the mainland side of the border. The empty pick-up programme allows customers to make empty container bookin...
AIRLINES, freight forwarders and shippers can now gain faster access to the latest regulations and information for the carriage of dangerous goods by air with the launch of "DG Online" by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), and Official Airline Guide Cargo, a division of UBM Aviation (OAG...
US express delivery giant United Parcel Service (UPS) has appointed a Canadian, Stephen Flowers, the former Americas regional chief, president of UPS Global Freight Forwarding. He will be responsible for the international strategy and performance of the company's freight forwarding services, said a company statement. The forwarding organisation includes...
LUFTHANSA CARGO has announced that the Cargo Climate Care Conference 2011 ("Energy efficiency in air cargo: Reality and Vision") for representatives from the logistics and air freight industry will be held on Tuesday March 1 at the Sheraton Hotel near Frankfurt Airport's Terminal 1. The conference will discuss whether "logistics companies are increasingl...
FOR the fifth consecutive year, Japanese shipping giant NYK has been selected as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World in the Global 100 selection. The 2010 Global 100 was announced at the recent World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Of the 3,000 corporate candidates from 22 countries, 100 were selected, inc...
INTTRA, the leading provider of e-commerce solutions for the ocean freight industry, has partnered with Amital Data Limited, a logistics software provider for shipping agents, forwarders, airline cargo sales agents and customs brokers. Israel's global provider of robust off-the-shelf software products for 20 years, Amital hopes its use of the non-vessel...
JAPANESE multi-modal transport and logistics firm MOL has announced a restructuring of its refrigerated sales and trade team in its three US sales regions by assigning sales managers to develop new reefer initiatives. Mark McQueen has been appointed regional manager, reefer sales, Atlantic region; Larry Flading, regional manager, reefer sales, central re...
THE Indian navy and coast guard captured 28 pirates after an exchange of fire only days after they had seized another 15 pirates, rescuing 24 Thai fishermen, whose vessel had been captured and used as a pirate mothership. The 28 men surrendered off Kavaratti, 185 kilometres off the south eastern tip of India after warning shots were fired shortly after t...
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