KOREA Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) opened a logistics centre in Tianjin , which will act as a base to help Korean companies to expand their business in the Chinese market, Xinhua reported. The centre will offer a wide range of supports to small and medium Korean firms covering logistics, customs clearing and marketing. This is the f...
DFDS Tor Line has decided to invest in a scrubber system to reduce the sulphur content in exhaust fumes from vessels. Scrubbers use a process where salt water is added to the flue gases to remove the sulphur. "The use of scrubbers is as an effective means of reducing sulphur emissions, which in turn reduces acidification of the marine environmen...
Since the middle of 2007 the move of agricultural exports westbound from bulk to container have increased by 18 per cent compared to last year because of a lack of capacity and rising freight rates. Speaking at a annual conference for agriculture in San Francisco , the BSNF railway vice president Fred Malesa spoke of the increase in US wheat, soybean...
DB SCHENKER has been ranked the largest overland transport operator in Europe , according to Transport Intelligence's latest report, European Road Transport & Logistics 2009. When taking into account all road and rail freight revenues, the German freight giant was almost twice the size of its nearest rival, SNCF (Transport & Logistics) in sec...
DHL has announced that it is enhancing its strategy concerning the levels of service and quality provided to customers in the life sciences and healthcare sector, following the recent launch of Deutsche Post DHL's Strategy 2015. "Strategy 2015 aims to broaden DHL's leadership in the logistics sector by strengthening its cross-divisional collaboration ...
The GAC Group's anti-piracy service called GAC Protective Solutions, powered by Cerberus, that will now provide security and protection for ships, cargo and crew. Core services include the provision of sea marshals, crisis management, crew training, protective equipment supply, intelligence reports and alerts, coordination with international and Coali...
CHENGLINGJI port near Hunan province's Yueyang City has completed its first Songyang Lake phase of reconstruction and delivers an annual container capacity of 300,000 TEU, reports Xinhua. Chenglingji Port is situated on the right bank at the confluence of the Yangtze and Dongting Lake , northeast of Yueyang city proper. Yu...
SUDDENLY rising fuel costs are prompting carriers to abandon their much vaunted cost-saving scheme to re-route largely empty eastbound ships from Europe to Asia via the Cape of Good Hope to escape Suez Canal fees because it no longer appears to save money. According to AXS-Alphaliner's bunker price movement calculations, based on September 2008 to Ju...
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