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DB Schenker completes Vietnam JV purchase
DB Schenker has strengthened its foothold in Vietnam’s logistics arena after taking a 100 per cent stake in its joint venture, Schenker Gemadept Logistics.The Germany-based logistics giant has bought the remaining shares in the company, formed in July 2007 to provide logistics and supply chain services through an agreement between ...
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DB Schenker combines rail, road and air to beat ocean
German logistics giant DB Schenker has combined rail, road and air freight to transport 21 tonnes of cell phone electronics from China to South America across three continents.The consignment was transported by rail from Chongqing in central China to Duisburg, Germany, via Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland. The next step ...
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DHL adds China to Thermonet network
DHL Global Forwarding is expanding its services for the life sciences and healthcare industry in China.It has added Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to the company's worldwide DHL Thermonet network of certified life sciences stations.The 2,000 sq m facilities in Shanghai and Beijing are owned by DHL Global ...
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Kerry Logistics boosts network
Asia-based Kerry Logistics has bought a controlling stake in Dubai’s Able Logistics Group and a majority stake in the sea and air arms of Canada’s Total Logistics Partner (TLP).Able Logistics is an international freight forwarder with offices across UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and China.Total Logistics Partner Ocean Consolidators and Total ...
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Formula One arrives in Sochi
Three flights conveying Formula One racing cars and spare parts from Nagoya following the Japanese Grand Prix arrived at Sochi International Airport on October 7, as part of the preparations for the forthcoming Russian Grand Prix.Operated by the Basel Aero subsidiary of Russian industrial group Basic Element, the airport lies ...
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Why China still depends on Hong Kong
As the civil unrest on the streets of Hong Kong gradually abates, the interesting question emerges of whether China needs the former British colony just as much as Hong Kong needs China.Mark Whitehead, CEO of handler Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl), is clear that the relationship is two-way, ...
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Iraq crisis a temporary setback, believes dnata
Dnata, which holds the sole cargo and ground handling concession at Iraq’s Erbil airport, is confident about the future there despite the current turmoil.Erbil began attracting a lot of freighter calls as investment poured into the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, where most of the country’s oil reserves are ...
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Cargolux: Betting big on China
How many B747-8 freighter flights between Zhengzhou and Luxembourg can the market sustain? That was the question when Cargolux announced that it was to sell a 35 percent stake to Henan Civil Aviation and Investment Company Ltd (HNCA), an enterprise owned by the Chinese province of Henan.The deal, completed in ...
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DHL expands Asia air network
DHL is expanding its Asia air network by adding a five times per week B737-400SF flight connecting the economies of Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong.The new service, operated for the parcels and logistics giant by Thailand’s K-Mile Air, connects Bangkok, Hanoi and Hong Kong, using a newly converted freighter with ...
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Agility appoints Poulsen for Greater China Area
Agility has appointed Soren Poulsen as chief executive for the Greater China Area (GCA), responsible for leading the forwarder’s Global Integrated Logistics business in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.Poulsen, with around 25 years logistics industry experience, has spent more than 10 years of his career in management positions in China.Prior ...
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Zhengzhou route pays off for Cargolux
The introduction of a new route from Luxembourg to China’s Zhengzhou airport in June has paid off handsomely for Cargolux as today, just five months on, it dispatches the 10,000th tonne of cargo between the two hubs.European freighter operator Cargolux will build on its early success by introducing a fifth ...
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Damco responds to Zhengzhou growth
Also responding to the commercial shift from China’s coastal areas to well-connected inland hubs, Maersk forwarding and logistics unit Damco has opened a new commercial office in Zhengzhou, focused on electronics exports."Zhengzhou has become a very important multimodal hub for Damco, with its strategic location, well-connected transportation network and advanced ...
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DHL Supply Chain boosts Chinese logistics investment
DHL Supply Chain (DSC) has more than doubled its commitment to infrastructure investment in China, with a further Euro113m added to the Euro105m committed by the German-owned logistics operator last year.The total Euro218m investment will support the development of DHL’s Chinese network and, in particular, six new logistics facilities scheduled ...
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Chinese economic growth slows and sustainability pressures mount
Economic and environmental pressures are coming to bear on the Chinese economy, and the logistics industry has a key role to play in responding to the challenge.That was the message delivered by Lv Jijian, deputy director of trade in services for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, to the Sino International ...
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Qantas management reshuffle
A top level management reshuffle at Australian carrier Qantas has seen Gareth Evans appointed chief executive of Qantas International and Freight.Evans, currently chief financial officer for the Qantas Group, has been a senior executive at Qantas for 15 years and brings experience from previous roles that spanned network, pricing, scheduling ...
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PACTL's record November
Shanghai's Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) saw November year-on-year freight volume growth of 13.9 per cent to 147,267 tonnes, the strongest monthly result in its history.PACTL’s domestic cargo volume grew by just under 13 per cent year-on-year to 9,744 tonnes in November, while its international cargo volumes rose by ...
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My Opinion
Speaking about the growth in road feeder services by the terminal operator’s trucking subsidiary, HACIS.Mark Whitehead, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals’ chief executive says:“HACIS is already highly successful in its scheduled road feeder services between Hong Kong and China, but even in this it has barely scratched the surface of ...
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Monster challenge
Some 13 teams from carriers and the air cargo industry vied for Hactl’s 2015 International Forklift and Pallet Building Competition, the best in its eight-year history said the Hong Kong handler.The 300 spectators included under-secretary for transport and housing Yau Shing-mu, chief occupational safety officer of the Labour Department, Wu ...
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Shanghai sets freight record
Shanghai Pudong International Airport has set a new cargo record, handling a total of 1.5m tonnes of freight in 2014, with growth of 16.15 per cent year-on-year.Shanghai Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal Co Ltd. (PACTL) - a joint venture handling operation between Shanghai Airport, Lufthansa Cargo and JHJ Logistics Management ...
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‘We will keep Hong Kong in pole position’, says government
Air carriers have welcomed a political commitment to maintain Hong Kong’s status as an international logistics and aviation hub.In his policy address, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), C Y Leung, said he would support the development of a third runway at Hong Kong International ...