The Air Transport Association of America (ATA) has asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to dismiss the European Union application of an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and declare it illegal. Acting on behalf of its members, the ATA said that aviation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions should be regulated on a global sectoral basis, and…
PostNL’s Italian subsidiary, TNT Post Italia, has signed a commercial agreement Buffetti Group that will allow customers to pick up TNT Post registered mail from more service points in Buffetti’s extensive network. The partnership will start in the second half of July in a selection of Italian towns, with the aim of gradually extending the…
Effective July 1st, Dachser Taiwan is now a 100% subsidiary of Dachser Far East following the completion of an incremental share acquisition during the last seven years. Dachser originally established a 50:50 joint venture with Leader Mutual Freight System in 2004, increasing that stake to 80% in January 2009 before buying the remaining shares in…
On June 1st, DB Schenker Logistics opened its own office in Reykjavik, Iceland. Prior to this, customers relied on the service of a partner. The new Iceland subsidiary now represents the global DB Schenker network with 2,000 locations in more than 130 countries. The focus of the activities is on general air and ocean freight….
DHL has launched a new direct LCL service connecting Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Hong Kong in China. With weekly scheduled shipments to Hong Kong, the service provides companies in Vietnam with access to twelve major trading ports in North America and eleven in North Asia, reducing transit times by up to three…
Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics has expanded its Portugal / North Spain service, which provides a connection between the Iberian Peninsula and the Port of Rotterdam in Northwest Europe. Effective immediately, Samskip will increase the frequency of its sailings from once a week to three and even four departures on certain routes – from the North…
CSAV has announced the suspension of its Mare Nostrum (MNA) service, citing the unfavourable economic environment affecting the trade between the Far East and the Mediterranean. The last sailing on this service departs Xingang today. This announcements follows less than a month after CSAV temporarily suspended its ASIAM service due to market conditions on the…
WFS has been awarded a contract to provide cargo handling services to US Airways in the carrier’s freight facility in Philadelphia. Services include cargo warehousing, customer service and cargo screening. WFS has supplied the latest TSA-approved technology for x-ray and ETD cargo screening. With a total annual throughput of 120,000 tonnes, Philadelphia is the largest…
A new joint venture has entered the UK contract logistics marketplace – Coventry-based Harlequin Logistics, which operates solely on a domestic, ambient basis. Harlequin Logistics has six shareholders, five of which are well established privately-owned hauliers: Dumfries-based Currie European, John Raymond from Bridgend, Kent-based R.Swain, Northallerton-based Prestons of Potto, and Fakenham-based Jack Richards. These five…
APL Logistics has extended its footprint in the Middle East with two agency appointments in Iraq and Kuwait: Iraq Transcontinental Shipping Co and Kuwait Transcontinental Shipping Co. The appointed agencies have offices in Basrah, Bagdad and Umm Qasr in Iraq and Ardiya in Kuwait. APL Logistics‘ services offered include supply chain design and engineering, international…
Following an agreement signed in March, Kirby Corporation has completed the $604 million acquisition of K-Sea Transportation. The newly acquired company is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Kirby. K- Sea operates a fleet of 58 tank barges and 63 tugboats along the US east, west and Gulf coasts, as well as Alaska and Hawaii,…
SDV is awarded a four-year contract with Thales Alenia Space and a three-year contract with CLARINS. Thales Alenia Space has awarded a SDV a four-year contract to transport satellites from assembling facilities in France and Italy to the Kourou launch site in French Guiana, the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, as well as the Vandenberg satellite…
ECS Group is pressing ahead with the international expansion of its GSSA sales network, with plans to cover major locations in India by the end of 2011. Already this year the company has opened new operations in Vietnam and Hong Kong as well as Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou in mainland China. Further growth in the…
According to Reuters, DHL-Sinotrans International has sold its entire domestic courier business, Beijing Sinotrans Express Co, to Uni-top – a small Chinese delivery company. DHL-Sinotrans is Deutsche Post’s 50:50 joint venture with China’s Sinotrans Air Transportation Development Co. Reuters reports that the decision to withdraw from its money-losing domestic delivery business will enable the company…
CMA CGM has expanded its eco-container fleet by another 18,000 new units, bringing its eco-container fleet to nearly 140,000 TEU. The CMA CGM Group has done much to minimise the impact of its activities and support development of new, more economic and eco-friendly solutions for its customers. Since 2005, CMA CGM has offered customers containers…
Working to develop a new sustainable logistics concept, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has launched its first ‘green‘ sea containers, which will enter a carbon neutral journey from the US on behalf of Kreidezeit Naturfarben. This initiative was jointly developed to improve environmental and sustainability efforts by both organisations. Kreidezeit Naturfarben has been leading climate neutral transportation…
Nautilus International has completed the acquisition of Suderman Contracting Stevedores and Suderman Terminals. Galveston, Texas-based Suderman serves a range of cargo and cruise sectors, including dry bulk, project cargo, wind energy and the passenger cruise industry, and has operations in various Texas ports. According to Nautilus chairman, president & CEO James Callahan, the integration of…
APL develops a new intermodal container terminal in Joliet, Illinois; and NOL’s joint venture container terminal in Qingdao opens for business well ahead of schedule. APL has confirmed the purchase of 43 acres of land in the city of Joliet, Illinois, to develop its latest intermodal container terminal in the US. Located within the CenterPoint…
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) will upgrade its Asia – East Coast South America (CSW) service from July 2011 through 2012, launching ten new 5,600 TEU containerships and replacing the currently operated vessels. The new vessels will adopt a new wide-beam and shallow-draft design, featuring high loading capacity and compatibility with shallow-draft ports in South America,…
UPS and Merck (known as MSD outside the US and Canada) have significantly expanded their existing distribution and logistics agreement to include aspects of Merck’s global supply chain around the world. UPS currently manages the distribution, warehousing and transportation of Merck’s medicines and vaccines in North America. The UPS-Merck collaboration began in 2003 with package…
APL Logistics has run its first double-stack container train service in India. APL IndiaLinx, its rail operations arm in the country, stacked ninety 40-foot boxes two high on a train that departed Mundra Port on the west coast on June 16th bound for an inland container rail terminal at Kishangarh, near Delhi. The double-stacked train…
Renault has awarded DHL a three-year contract covering the management and distribution of replacement batteries for its entire electric vehicle range. In order to facilitate the market launch of Renault’s new line of electric vehicles, DHL will be the first logistics provider to implement a comprehensive international solution for the distribution of replacement lithium ion…
Geodis Wilson has launched a new vertical business unit dedicated to providing integrated logistics solutions to luxury hotels and resorts and their suppliers worldwide. Needing everything on start-up from the furniture, fixtures, equipment, silverware and linen, these establishments and their suppliers then require ongoing supply chain services for many years. "Geodis Wilson expects to become…
Iberia has begun direct flights to Brussels and extended its Madrid – Gran Canaria route to Nouakchott. Iberia has launched direct B737F flights between Madrid and Brussels, to expand its ‘cool and fast‘ product for perishable goods. Iberia’s ‘cool and fast‘ freight product offers door-to-door transportation and delivery, and the new route links the under-served…
Turkish Cargo has added a new A330-200F to its fleet, and has added five new destinations to its cargo route network. Turkish Cargo has added another A330-200F to its fleet, which now comprises four A310Fs and two A330-200Fs. Effective July, the carrier will expand its global route network of 23 destinations to include another five:…
A series of UK government-backed trials have shown that deliveries can be made out-of-hours without disturbing local residents. The realisation of the environmental, economic and road safety benefits of delivering goods out-of-hours has taken a significant step forward with the results of the Quiet Delivery Demonstration Scheme (QDDS) trials. Developed by the Freight Transport Association…
US imports by shipping volume grew 7.2% in the first five months of 2011 compared with the same period last year, but growth slowed down in May as economic expansion weakened, according to Journal of Commerce and PIERS Economist Mario Moreno. Moreno, who forecasts growth of 4.7% for the year, said that May imports were…
England Logistics has joined the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a SmartWay Transport Partner. The SmartWay Transport Partner program helps transportation companies calculate their environmental performance and set improvement goals designed to significantly reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution. With initiatives to promote energy efficiency and air quality within the freight transportation sector, England…
BT signs a Global Innovation Partnership agreement with DHL; DHL enhances two of its online services. Communications solutions provider BT has signed a Global Innovation Partnership agreement with Deutsche Post DHL. BT will now support the DHL Solutions & Innovations (DSI) unit to foster innovations and develop new logistics services products and technical solutions. The…
DB Schenker Logistics has launched a tracking application for BlackBerry smartphones, which is available as a free download on the BlackBerry App World. The app offers the same convenience as the recently-launched Version 2.0 for iPhone. Clients can use customer-specific search criteria to track shipments, including all references entered at booking, such as delivery note…
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