THREAT detection technology provider Smiths Detection has unveiled its new, dual-view X-ray inspection system designed to meet the growing global demands of screening large cargo, pallets and freight items on both passenger and cargo aircraft.
The compact HI-SCAN 145180-2is is capable of screening objects up to 145 cm by 180 cm, meeting the maximum skid/pallet size allowed by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and will join its 16 inspection units already on the TSA Air Cargo Screening Qualified Technology List (ACSQTL).
The dual-view capability speeds throughput by providing the operator with two high-resolution adjoining images, eliminating the need to scan twice to obtain the same information.
Said Smiths Detection president Mal Maginnis: "A smooth flow of air cargo is critical to the global economy. Our new, advanced Xray inspection system will allow shippers to screen bulk items without unpacking shipments, scanning individual boxes and then re-assembling the pallet or large shipment."
The HI-SCAN 145180-2is, which also features a highly compact footprint, will save customers time and money, he said in a company statement.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
Iran will provide petroleum products to Tajikistan, said the Embassy of the Islamic Republic in Dushanbe on Friday.
President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon asked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for assistance to overcome the effects of last winter.
This week, Russia, at the request of the official Dushanbe, provided humanitarian aid to Tajikistan that have been delivered in three planes.
Source central asian news service
en.ca-news.org
HANJIN has launched a new shipping line to Europe calling at Tianjin's Euroasia International Container Terminal, Xinhua reports.
This is the third international shipping route started from Tianjin, using four 13,000-TEU and seven 10,000-TEU ships, offering one sailing a week, calling at Algeciras, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Le Havre.
Hanjin is the largest shipping company in Korea and the ninth biggest in the world. It has a fleet of 100 containerships with a total capacity of 483,000 TEU.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
THE governor of Rizhao city, Yang Jun, says the port's throughput has reached 250 million tonnes and will hit 350 million tonnes by the end of the year, reported Xinhua.
According to Governor Yang, during the last four years, the eastern China port in Shandong province invested CNY11.5 billion (US$1.82 billion) on port facilities. This year, Rizhao will launch 200 projects with an investment total of CNY31 billion. The city government also plans set up an exclusive fund for port development.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
A new domestic shipping lane to Taizhou has been launched at Guangdong province's port of Humen as the 15th domestic trade lane calling at the Dongguang facility, Xinhua reports.
The Qingdao's Defuchang Shipping Company, deploying 6,400-tonne ships , will call at Quanzhou in Fujian and Taizhou in Zhejiang province. The company's ships will start with a weekly sailing and will increase frequency based on market demand. Cargo can be shipped to Pearl River ports such as Shunle and Sihui via a feeder network at Humen.
Both Taizhou and Dongguan are manufacturing cities. Taizhou's energy, commodity and automobile industries are thriving, while Dongguan is known for the manufacturing IT products and furniture.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
SOUTH WEST China's big manufacturing centre Chongqing recorded a waterway cargo volume of 8.31 million tonnes in February, 16.2 per cent more than in the same period in the preceding year but 6.4 per cent less than in January, Xinhua reports.
In the same month, port of Chongqing handled 9.48 million tonnes, a robust increase of 41.1 per cent compared to the same period in 2011, 8.6 per cent more than in January.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
PROLOGIS European Properties (PEPR), one of Europe's largest owners of modern distribution facilities, has announced the sale of eight logistics assets across Poland and Germany for a total of EUR71.8 million (US$95.8 million).
The company said in a statement that the net proceeds from the sale will be used to further deleverage the business.
The disposal in Poland, to privately-owned real estate firm Hines Global REIT, covers 73,000 square metres in five buildings, which are 93 per cent occupied, located in Warsaw and Bedzin. The aggregate sales price for the Polish portfolio was EUR51.2 million.
The disposal in Germany, to pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners, comprises just over 36,000 square metres in three fully occupied buildings, two of which are in Saarwellingen, western Germany, and one in Malsfeld in northern Germany. The aggregate sales price for the German portfolio was EUR20.6 million.
Said PEPR chief executive Peter Cassells: "These disposals are fully aligned with our active portfolio management strategy designed to optimise value for our unit holders through investment in core assets in prime locations."
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
A TORONTO area company's deodorants, chest rubs, petroleum jellies, soaps and cosmetics have been banned in the US by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from shipping products to dollar stores until it meets acceptable quality control standards.
The FDA accused Pax-All Manufacturing of failing to perform acceptable testing, labelling or documenting, and having no testing programme to assess proper storage or expiry dates, reported the Toronto Globe and Mail.
The FDA said it found, during an inspection last September, that Pax-All had not cleaned or maintained equipment "at appropriate intervals to prevent contamination that would alter the safety, identify, strength, quality or purity of the drug product investigators uncovered other deficiencies that lead us to question the effectiveness of your current quality system to achieve overall compliance with [good manufacturing practices] at your facility."
The agency cited Pax-All for using duct tape and cardboard to repair its filling lines. "These materials are not suitable materials of construction or easily cleanable, and are not adequate for the manufacture of drug products," the FDA letter said.
Pax-All is under an "import alert" and can't export products to the US until it can show the FDA it has complied with its standards.
Pax-All vice-president Mario Merino said "it's absurd" that the FDA has targeted the company, and said he has to put up with "hassles and inspections" that Asian manufacturers of similar products aren't subject to. "It's because we're close to them. It's easy for them to inspect us. They don't go there [to Thailand and China]."
Mr Merino said the company has less than US$15 million in annual revenue.
Said Consumer Federation of America director Rachel Weintraub: "We see concerns popping up about products in dollar stores."
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
SOUTHEAST Fujian province invested CNY3.5 billion (US$554 million) in road transport infrastructure in the first two months of this year, up 11 per cent year on year, reports Xinhua.
The investment in building mainline highway stood at CNY1.5 billion while that of rural highway cost CNY251 million to cover 221 kilometres.
By the end of February, the province has 78 projects of mainline highway under construction with a mileage of 1,037 kilometres. Six of the projects have been started while four will commence and completed this year.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
NIPPON Express USA has announced the completion of its acquisition of Associated Global Systems, a global logistics service company based in New York. The move is intended to strengthen Nippon Express' presence in the US.
AGS has been providing logistics service since 1958 and now has 75 US locations and a worldwide network of overseas partners. The company provides warehousing and transport domestically and internationally, handling freight logistics for shipments of any size, including project and over-sized cargo. It transports freight to or from every zip code in the US and postal code in Canada and to 205 countries around the world. It also specialises in home domestic delivery services.
AGS will become a consolidated subsidiary of Nippon Express USA, which is a subsidiary of Nippon Express, a global logistics service provider. The impact of the transaction on Nippon Express consolidated earnings is expected to be non-material, said a company statement, which added that Jim Tucci will continue as CEO of AGS.
Said Nippon Express USA president Kenryo Senda: "With the addition of AGS' freight forwarding services, residential delivery, and e-commerce services, our clients will benefit from Nippon Express expanded service offering in the US."
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
A HIGH German federal court, upholding a lower court ruling, which overturned a still lower court's decision, has ended a debate over which liability system prevails in air cargo - the Montreal Convention or the German Commercial Code, according London's International Law Office, a legal news and commentary portal.
The plaintiff, the shipper's insurer, claimed compensation for loss of cargo from the defendant parcel service, which was flown from Cologne to Miami, then moved to the airline's warehouse, but was not delivered to the Miami consignee.
At first, the Dusseldorf District Court allowed the claim and ordered the defendant to pay EUR17,234 (US$22,667) in compensation plus interest based on the Commercial Code, ruling that the Montreal Convention did not apply because overland carriage was not mentioned in the air waybill.
But on appeal, the Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court ruled in favour of the less severe from the defendant's view point, Montreal Convention, and cut the award in half to EUR8,258 plus interest to cover the actual cargo loss alone.
In the next appeal, the Federal Court of Justice dismissed the claimant's plea and confirmed that judgment, ruling that the Montreal Convention prevailed in cases of overland carriage to an air carrier's warehouse following carriage by air.
With this judgment, the high court ended the debate over which system applies to an air carrier's liability for loss or damage to cargo when the cargo has left the airport, but has been brought to the air carrier's warehouse, said the commentary on the case.
"Views differed as to whether the national law or the Montreal Convention should apply. The [German] federal court has now settled for the Montreal Convention, ruling that an air carrier is liable for the entire time the goods are within its custody and extended the liability to risks which are not purely air transport, said the report, signed by Jens Jaeger or Marco Remiorz, lawyers at Hamburg's Dabelstein & Passehl.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
AIR CANADA's pending strikes have been put on hold following the passage of anti-strike law forcing its machinists, of ground crew and mechanics and pilots unions to accept binding arbitration and abandon strike action.
The airline is also facing legal action from the Quebec provincial government over the closure of its aircraft maintenance company, Montreal-based Aveos Fleet Performance, which laid off 2,600 workers.
Despite legal action over two labour disputes referred to the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) by Canadian Labour Minister Lisa Raitt, wildcat strikes by ground crew has disrupted flights out of Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City on March 23. The walkout was allegedly prompted by the suspension of three workers at Toronto's Pearson International Airport for allegedly slow-clapping Ms Raitt at the airport.
The airline also asked the CIRB to end the "illegal strike" of its pilots when a higher-than-normal number sick calls were made on March 17. The pilots union who claim foggy weather resulted in flight cancellations denied this.
Once an arbitrator from a possible five has been chosen a final offer of the unions or the airline in its entirety within 90 days.
The Air Canada Pilots Association (ACPA) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), which represents 8,600 ground crew and mechanics at the airline, says it will challenge the back-to-work law as unconstitutional as it removes collective bargaining rights, said IAMAW vice president Dave Ritchie.
CIRB executive director has all three disputes in a "holding pattern" due to the legal challenges of the recent adoption of the back-to-work legislation which has "impacted on the urgency of dealing with the question of essential service."
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
AIR cargo entrepreneur Wayne Hoffman, retired chairman of Tiger International, the Century City-based parent company of Flying Tiger Line, has died at the age of 89 peacefully at his home in Indian Wells.
Hoffman retired from the firm in 1986, but continued to remain a consultant for the airline and was instrumental in positioning its freight business a result of a career begun in the railways after World War II.
"Freight became the cornerstone revenue producer of the airline under Wayne Hoffman's direction," said Flying Tiger Line chief operating officer Joseph Healy. "We weren't self-sustaining in freight until Hoffman came, and we started to grow at 25 per cent a year in freight."
Mr Hoffman began his career in the legal department of the Illinois Central Railroad, moving to the New York Central Railroad where he eventually became vice-president until 1967, recalled the Los Angeles Times obituary. Between 1968 and 1978, he was responsible for growing the airline from about US$76 million gross revenue to a half billion thought to have been helped by his transport management knowledge.
Described by some as blunt and informal, family friend Nissen Davis said his innovative vision as a multi-modal transport organisation which encompassed trucking and rail cargo transport was scuppered by recession of the early '80s and rising fuel prices and interest rates.
Born in Chicago in 1923, he went on to complete a law degree at Illinois University and then served in the army in World War II, flying combat missions in China against the Japanese. He won a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts and reached the rank of captain by end of war.
He leaves behind his wife of 66 years, three children, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
On April 6 cruise ship MSC MELODY (204,7 m, flag of Panama) was moored at the berth #15 of the passenger terminal of the port of Odessa. According to Assistant Chief on duty of the passenger terminal of the port Sergey Sopilko, the ship with 1118 passengers onboard arrived to South Palmyra from Yalta. In order to meet tourists - the Germans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Italians sightseeing bus tours on 12 buses are ordered by the company, tour operator "Inflot". A part of the guests chose to explore the main attractions of the historical center of Odessa with pedestrian tours. At 12:30 MSC MELODY will head for the next port of the Mediterranean-Black Sea Cruise - Istanbul. It should be noted that the vessel is moored in Odessa, an hour late than it is scheduled- due to heavy fog the ship was delayed on the roads. Last year, for the same reason, the captain of MSC MELODY general decided not to enter the port. At this time, thanks to the professionalism of the fleet towing service of the port of Odessa the liner has successfully been brought to the port in the morning fog. Press-Service, OCSP.
Source Odessa Commercial Sea Port
CHONGQING, the provincial status city on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, has recorded an international cargo volume of 1.11 million tonnes in January and February, 25 per cent more than in the same period in 2010. International containers totalled to 65,000 TEU.
Air cargo volume surged 180 per cent to 7,916 tonnes. On waterfront, trade cargo totals to 1.09 million tonnes, international containers jumped 33.9 per cent to 48,000 TEU. Overland trade cargo totalled 5,024 tonnes and 256 TEU.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
.jpg)
The magazine SEA has been published since 1935
International business magazine JŪRA MOPE SEA has been published since 1999
The first magazine in Eurasia in the four languages: English, Chinese, Russian and Lithuanian
|
|