FLORIDA's Charter Logic Holdings Inc, a private jet charter company, has announced its launch into the air freight business with the start of its Worldwide Air Cargo Division. Having already serviced air cargo flights to Haiti and Europe, Charter Logic felt there was an opportunity to add a complementary service to its existing portfolio, a company state...
LAMBERT-ST LOUIS International Airport hopes to atone for snubbing FedEx 25 years ago by gaining a prominent cargo carrier in China Cargo Airlines, a new player to the market. The Missouri airport needs to build cargo volume to increase revenue which despite a US$1 billion expansion four years ago, flights has halved in the last decade. "Cargo drives d...
INDIA's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered against seven customs officials across the state of Gujarat which implicate a Ahmedabad-based freight forwarding company. Following raids by the CBI, customs officials were identified as KC Suresh, Akhil Barot and Chandubhai Kalal from Air Cargo at Ahmedabad, OP Pandey from Mundra port, and Dev...
TRADE Partners Worldwide, a global agency network for clients in the transportation, logistics and international trade industries, has been selected by Kerry Logistics to execute a public relations campaign on behalf of the company. It said in a statement that it will provide marketing and public relations support for the logistics firm that aims to expan...
TANZANIAN President Jakaya Kikwete has announced a joint plan with neighbouring Rwanda and Burundi to raise US$3.5 billion to build a railway through the three countries to boost regional investment and trade through Port of Dar es Salaam. Dar es Salaam is closer to the Indian Ocean for Burundi, Rwanda and the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of...
GERMANY's Hamburg Sud and Chile's Compania Chilena de Navegacion Interoceanica (CCNI) have expanded their joint transatlantic Panama-North America west coast service from north Europe. The WAMS service has been linking the North American west coast and the Central American west coast, including Mexico, with Cartagena in Colombia since the beginning of 2...
PORTEK International, a port operator headquartered in Singapore, has signed an agreement to purchase six units with a total floor space of 12,324 square feet within the Lion City's Westech Building in Pandan Loop for S$7.05 million (US$5.54 million). The premises will be used as the new offices for the company and its Singapore subsidiaries. They expect...
SINGAPORE's container shipping and logistics group NOL is donating US$100,000 to the Japanese Red Cross Society, to aid victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of Japan earlier this month. NOL said it will also match its employees' contributions to the Japanese Red Cross Society. "Like everyone, we are saddened by the dest...
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