The South African Competition Commission has referred cases of collusion in the cargo carriage market against eight airlines to the Tribunal for adjudication. The airlines face allegations of fixing the price of the fuel surcharges and cargo rates on cargo flown into and out of South Africa. Airlines allegedly involved in the price fixing conduct…
UPS has set a new automotive goal to improve its fuel efficiency by 20%; and has officially opened a new facility in Portland, Oregon. UPS has set a new automotive goal to improve the fuel consumption of its entire US package delivery fleet by 20% between 2000 and 2020. The new target build on gains…
News from GEFCO GEFCO Spain launches new two-wheeler service, renews contract with DIA; GEFCO Romania develops new door-to-door logistics solution for Anaka; GEFCO Spain renews DIA partnership for three years; GEFCO Germany obtains ISO 14001 environmental certification; GEFCO Portugal is certified an Authorised Agent by INAC. GEFCO Spain GEFCO Spain has developed a new service…
GateKeeper granted exclusive worldwide licence; signs exclusive agreement GateKeeper USA has been granted an exclusive worldwide 99-year licence from an affiliate of Phoenix Partners for the fabrication of Basalt Fiber through a proprietary process in the manufacturing of cargo and shipping containers. The proprietary process creates Basalt Fiber, which is then converted into a composite…
The Manatee County Port Authority has awarded the contract for Port Manatee’s Berth 12 dredging project to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. The project, which includes dredging the berth to a depth of 41 feet at mean-low-water and extending it from 1,000 feet to nearly 1,600 feet, is the final piece of Port Manatee’s…
Deutsche Bahn is to invest around €19 million by 2014 in the expansion and modernisation of transhipment and storage capacity on Duisburg’s Coal Island. Coal Island in the Port of Duisburg, which is an ideal strategic location for the transhipment of imported bulk materials, currently has an annual capacity of 2.5 million metric tons. This…
The US Attorney’s office has moved to dismiss the indictment against an Agility subsidiary, following the company’s filing of motions to discover the government’s evidence against it. This evidence includes, but is not limited to, the Price Negotiation Memorandum, a set of exculpatory materials that Agility says the government has tried to conceal from the public for…
AirBridgeCargo Airlines has taken delivery of its third Boeing 747-400 freighter in four months, increasing its total fleet to ten B747Fs. The latest aircraft joined ABC on July 23rd, and will be deployed on the airline’s existing route network linking Europe and Asia via hubs in Russia. According to executive president Tatyana Arslanova, the three…
Japanese loan boosts development of India’s rail freight network The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed a loan with the Indian government to help develop the country’s freight rail network, adding to what will be the largest amount of ODA loan ever allocated by Japan to a single project. This is the second phase…
Norbert Dentressangle Transport Services has been appointed by French fine wine specialist Nicolas to provide a bespoke UK transport solution for its eighty UK retail outlets. In an effort to steer away from the dedicated distribution solution it inherited with the acquisition of several Oddbins stores in the UK, Nicolas sought a move towards a…
Traxon Europe offers EDI link to South African customs, and Virgin Atlantic Cargo has brought sales in-house in South Africa. Traxon Europe now offers airlines and the South African Revenue Services (SARS) a two-way communication channel for EDI messages. Following the lead set by the US, Canada, India, China and the European Commission, South Africa…
CMA CGM has taken delivery of the CMA CGM Leo – the fifth in a series of twelve 11,400 TEU vessels ordered from Hyundai Heavy Industries for delivery between 2010 and 2011. Registered in Valetta, the CMA CGM Leo will be one of the largest containerships sailing under the Maltese flag. One other vessel scheduled…
Airfreight demand continues recovery in June According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), international scheduled air cargo statistics for June showed continued strong demand growth as the industry recovers from the impact of the global financial crisis. Compared to June 2009, international scheduled freight traffic showed a 26.5% improvement. Capacity increased only slightly above…
According to Xinhua News Agency, China Southern Airlines will open two new air cargo routes to Amsterdam this month. One of the new routes is from Shanghai to Amsterdam with stopover at Vienna. The other is from Guangzhou to Amsterdam. China Southern Airlines recently took the delivery of two Boeing 777-200 freighters, increasing the size…
Azerbaijan Airlines orders two Boeing 767F aircraft; LAN Cargo joins Boeing’s Component Services Program. Azerbaijan Airlines has signed an agreement to substitute two next-generation 737 aircraft for one 767-300ER and two 767 Freighters, a new model type for the Baku-based airline. Azerbaijan Airlines now has a total of eight Boeing aircraft on order: two 767-300ERs,…
Mandala Airlines has appointed Asia Airfreight Teminal Co (AAT) as its cargo handling agent at Hong Kong International Airport, effective July 19th. Jakarta, Indonesia-based Mandala Airlines operates scheduled services to three international and seventeen domestic destinations, using a fleet of narrow body aircraft. The airline launched its inaugural flight to Hong Kong on July 19th,…
DHL appointed logistics partner for Australian desalination plant DHL Global Forwarding has been appointed as the logistics partner for the Victoria Desalination Project. – Australia’s largest seawater desalination plant on the Bass Coast, near the town of Wonthaggi. DHL-GF is responsible for delivering approximately 60,000 revenue tonnes of construction equipment and material for the $3.5…
Agility will launch an Australian domestic shipping service between Melbourne, Victoria and Bell Bay, Tasmania in early August. The service will be operated by Agility Shipping – a joint venture between Agility Logistics and Transworld Marine Express. The JV agreement was signed on July 23rd. The three-times-a-week service will be served by Australian-flagged and Australian…
FESCO and First Quantum have resolved the conflict between shareholders of National Container Company (NCC), with FESCO selling its stake in NCC. Less than four years after paying $375 million for its 50% stake in NCC, FESCO has now agreed to sell it to an undisclosed investor for $900 million. Following a disagreement over the…
According to the latest reports, a Lufthansa Cargo MD-11 freighter crashed this morning at 11h38 (local time) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The aircraft, coded Flight LH 8460, was on a flight to Riyadh from Frankfurt, Germany. According to initial reports, the aircraft was piloted by a two-man crew, both of whom are receiving treatment in…
JF Hillebrand has strengthened its European network with the acquisition of Bulgarian logistics specialist, Bora Shipping. The Sofia, Bulgaria-based beverage logistics specialist has been working in partnership with JF Hillebrand for a number of years. According to JF Hillebrand’s area manager for Northern Europe, Bernd Jordan, Eastern Europe is an emerging wine market with huge…
DB Schenker Rail Polska is investing approximately €22.5 million in expanding its facilities at the Szczecin and Swinoujscie Baltic Sea ports. In cooperation with the port authority, DB Schenker will invest in the new wharfs and cranes by 2018, which will increase transhipment capacity in the medium-term and boost growth in the exchange of goods…
Hellmann Healthcare Logistics launches new packaging solution Hellmann Healthcare Logistics, the new vertical solution of Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, has teamed up with temperature-controlled packaging specialists, Cool Logistics India, to develop a specialist solution for its airfreight services from and within India. With temperatures reaching up to 50°C in the summer and a lack of temperature-controlled…
APL has moved a step closer to an environmental breakthrough, having completed the retrofit of five vessels for cold-ironing. Cold-ironing enables a ship to turn off its diesel generators at berth and connect to cleaner shore-side power. The clean-air technique will be introduced next winter at APL’s marine terminal in Oakland, California, where APL expects…
Mölnlycke Health Care has signed a three-year+ agreement with DSV, which includes final distribution into fourteen countries combined with a tailor-made linehaul set-up. In addition to the operational activities, DSV will support Mölnlycke in the development and roll-out of its logistics strategic plan. The contract is valued at more than €50 million. Mölnlycke’s strategy focuses…
FlyhtStream taps black box data in-flight AeroMechanical Services (AMS) and Iridium have developed a solution that can monitor aircraft emergencies in near real-time, as opposed to searching for the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) after the event in order to determine what caused an aircraft to crash. Sharon Gill reports … With AMS providing data and…
CMA CGM extends FEMEX service in Europe CMA CGM has introduced two new calls in Tilbury, UK (Southbound) and Lisbon, Portugal (Southbound and Northbound) on its French Europe Med EXPRESS (FEMEX) service linking North Europe to Greece and Turkey, with immediate effect. These additional calls will provide: Direct weekly connections from UK and Portugal to…
With negotiations reported to have been "positive", the MEA lock-out at the Port of Montreal will be lifted at 08h00 tomorrow (Saturday). During the lock-out, some shipping lines were diverting vessels to other ports. However, while Halifax can handle the extra vessels, the Port reported that the offloaded containers were stacking up, despite extra trains…
UPS has attributed its better-than-expected results to the reorganisation of its US domestic operations and significant growth in the company’s international business. UPS reported a consolidated Q2 operating profit of $1.4 billion on revenues of $12.2 billion. Operating profit was up 56.42% (Q2 2009: $895m) and revenues up 12.96% (Q2 2009: $10.8bn). Overall, the average…
Peters & May has secured a major new contract with Southampton, UK-based Griffon Hoverwork. All sister companies under the Peters & May group umbrella will be involved in fulfilling Griffon Hoverwork’s national and international transport requirements. The services to be provided range from documentation preparation, secure packaging and onward transportation of spares through to the…
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