THE reconstituted Pan American Airways has managed to break into a state tax break scheme after airing its proposal to create US$25 million gateway for Latin American cargo from its headquarters in Brownsville, Texas to link with Missouri's Lambert-St Louis International Airport. Pan American and World-Wide Consolidated Logistics president Bob Hedrick's...
SOME airlines have been in talks with Chongqing authorities to open cargo flights for laptops expanding the provincial-status metropolitan area's enormous trade in exporting laptop computers, reports Xinhua. This year, Chongqing will produce 28 million laptops, most of which are for export. The production capacity stands at 30 million units a year. Chong...
CALIFORNIA's Bearpaw Footwear has selected Kuehne + Nagel for US distribution in a bid for the casual footwear provider to scale its logistics requirements, reduce costs and streamline its overall supply chain. The logistics giant will provide integrated services, including international transportation, customs brokerage and US distribution operations. ...
THE global logistics market has risen above its difficulties with revenue growth and margins up, according to the UK's Transport Intelligence report which attribute its "good health" to China's double digit growth from demand for exports in Europe and North America. Although slightly down from 2008 levels, the sector grew by 8.4 per cent with a pr...
TRANSPORT Ministers from the 52 member countries of the OECD's International Transport Forum (ITF) are meeting in Leipzig for a three-day summit on the future of global mobility. The strategic think tank of the OECD (Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development) will provide panel discussions on the theme of "Transport for Society" with a partic...
DHL Global Forwarding has commenced a new rail service in Mongolia, the Genghis Khan Connection, a scheduled thrice-weekly cross border rail service available during the high season from April to October linking Ulan Bator, Outer Mongolia by rail to Tianjin. The 30-day Genghis Khan Connection leverages improving Mongolian infrastructure to help customers...
THE Department Foreign Direct Investment of Hong Kong (Invest Hong Kong) recently held a seminar in Tianjin to encourage local logistics and shipping service operators to strengthen cooperation with Hong Kong, Xinhua reports. Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong, Victoria Tang said Hong Kong provide ideal environment and...
New Zealand transport group Mainfreight reported a 29 percent fall in full year profit as a one-off tax charge hit record earnings, reported Reuters. Mainfreight reported a net profit for the year to March of US$20.6 million compared with $29.45 million a year earlier. However, the result included a $13.67 million deferred tax charge on depreciation of bu...
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