DHL-Aerologic joint venture links UAE to Asia/Europe
05-24-2010
- Aerologic, the joint venture cargo airline of DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo, will operate a B777F flight between Leipzig and Hong Kong with a connection in Sharjah, the third largest emirate of the UAE, to improve tran..
Kuehne + Nagel offers road services into Croatian region
05-24-2010
- Rehau, a worldwide brand for polymer-based innovations and systems in the construction and automotive industries, has chosen Kuehne + Nagel as its service provider for road logistics in Middle and Eastern Europe.
Under ..
China's top 10 container ports up 26.2% on intra-Asia trade
05-24-2010
- Recovering trade bolstered China's 10 largest container ports' volume increased 26.2 per cent year on year to 26.02 million TEU following 2009's year-on-year drop of five per cent. Ports on the Bohai Rim showed the stron..
Philippine air transport up in Q1
05-24-2010
- Philippine passenger air transport increased by 15% while cargo traffic soared by almost a- third in Q1 2010, local media reported Monday.
The number of air passengers increased to 3.89 million from 3.4 million in the f..
DHL launches customs brokerage services in South Korea
05-20-2010
- DHL Global Forwarding has been awarded a customs brokerage licence to operate in South Korea's Incheon Airport, the world's second largest international cargo airport.
It joins DHL Global Forwarding's network of more th..
China Shipping Container Lines Co. plunges into red in 2009
05-20-2010
- China Shipping Container Lines Co., China's biggest container shipping company by carrying capacity, swung into the red in 2009 with a loss of 6.49 billion yuan (950 million U.S. dollars) as the financial crisis took its..
Malaysian Bulk Carriers Profits up
05-19-2010
- Kuok Group's Malaysian Bulk Carriers profits soared in the first quarter of the year. Bursa Malaysia listed MBC reported a first quarter profit of RM53m, compared to RM16m in the same period a year earlier. Profits were ..
Israel export boxes at Ashdod Port up 44%
05-19-2010
- Israel's ports are seeing a strong recovery in activity, despite strikes and the looming economic crisis in Europe, according to Euclid Infotech.
About 44 percent more full containers left Ashdod Port in the first quart..
St Petersburg Big Port boxes up 43.7% in Q1
05-19-2010
- Trade flows passing though the Big Port of St Petersburg in January-April 2010 grew by 16 percent to 15,752 tonnes, according to SKRIN Newswire.
Container trade totalled 550,206 TEUs, up 43,7 percent from the same perio..
Box ship scrapping slows as demand picks up
05-17-2010
- Sixty cellular ships accounting for 100,000 TEU have been removed from the fleet since the beginning of the year, far fewer than the 208 vessels of 380,000 TEU scrapped last year.
"The rate of deletions is diminishing d..