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HOPTRANS Logistics, the principal cargo handling agent at Lithuania’s Kaunas airport, has inaugurated a regular charter service to Shanghai using the 40-tonne capacity of an IL-76 freighter. The company has its own
cargo handling terminal at Kaunas airport in Vilnius with a fleet of over 120 trucks offering road feeder services to Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Russia.
DHLGLOBAL Forwarding Korea has launched operations at its new North- EastAsian global logistics hub in theAir Cargo Terminal at Seoul’s Incheon International airport. The 6,000m2
DHL logistics
centre has been designed to make the company’s processesmore time-efficient by integrating warehousing facilities that used to be scattered at a number of different locations in Seoul and at Incheon International airport.
FOLLOWING DELIVERY of its third B777-300ER, EgyptAir immediately deployed the aircraft on a daily Cairo - New York JFK service inaugurated on 18 October.
WCA hosts ‘invaluable’ event
THE WCA Family of Logistics Networks and the China International Freight ForwardersAssociation (CIFA)were among the organisers of the seventh annual Sino-International conferenceheldatHongKong’sAsiaWorldExpoinOctober. Over 1,400 logisticsprofessionals from171 countries andover 600 cities came
together”withthecommongoalof improvingbusinessservices”–observedWCA Family communications manager,VictorGomez. “For the first time, the event included severalmultinational airlines such as
Emirates,Qatar,ThaiAirways,CathayPacific,Etihadandothers,whohavecometo meetdirectlywiththeir clients, the independent forwarders,”he added. Gomezbelievesthat theeventwasanidealopportunityfor independent freight
forwarders tomeet anddiscussmarketopportunitieswithothersof their kind. “Thesavings intimeandenergytocometoonelocationandmeeteveryoneat one venue iswhatmakes this event soinvaluable,”Gomez concluded.
Australian giant snaps up the Unitpool business
AUSTRALIANsupply chain solutions providerBrambles has acquired Unitpool, the Zurich-based
container
pooling company that owns and manages a total inventory of over 33,000 unit load devices (ULDs) for more than 20 airline customers. Another
Brambles
up. Bertsch remarked: “The acquisition by Brambles is a perfect fit for Unitpool. “It will increase our scale
substantially,” he said. “With Brambles’ financial strength, operational
scale and
subsidiary, CHEP, provides pallet and container pooling services to more than 345,000 customers in 45 countries. Unitpool chairman Ludwig Bertsch
and the company’smanagement team are to be retained within the new set-
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Bertsch: “a perfect fit for Unitpool”
expertise, global resources and deep understanding of the values and benefits of asset pooling at our disposal, we can build on themomentumand develop
Unitpool into a global powerhouse.” Brambles chief executive Tom
Gorman noted that the acquisition “is a key step in building a global container business”.
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