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Gary G Burrows

Emirates SkyCargo operates vaccine charter to BH Airport, Brazil

Emirates SkyCargo has transported over 25 tonnes of vaccines from Milan to BH airport, Bello Horizonte in Brazil on its Boeing 777 freighter aircraft. This is the largest shipment of vaccines that the air cargo carrier has transported on a single flight and it is also the first time that BH Airport has received such a large shipment of vaccines. Given the extreme sensitivity of the vaccines to temperature fluctuations, the ... [+]

Charter Flight Launched Between PIT and SHA

Nonstop seasonal charter services connecting Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA), China, started on August 3, 2018. The service is provided by China Eastern Airlines and is the region’s first nonstop air link with China. Aircraft utilized on the route is a Boeing 777-300ER. The service particularly ... [+]

AAPA Urges Strong Corps Funding for FY 2019

AAPA urged key House and Senate Appropriators to adequately fund the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) navigation program in a final FY 2019 Energy and Water Development (E&WD) Appropriations bill. In a letter to Congressional leaders delivered on August 9, AAPA supports specific funding levels for Corps’ accounts from ... [+]

Quick Quotes Now Available

All customers now can benefit from Hapag-Lloyd’s new digital quotation tool Quick Quotes. After a successful global implementation, Quick Quotes is opened to the public with immediate effect. This enables shippers around the world to simplify and significantly speed up their quotation process for container shipments. Quick Quotes generates online quotations ... [+]

Port of Corpus Christi CEO Appointed to U.S. Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Committee

Sean Strawbridge, CEO for the Port of Corpus Christi, has been appointed by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) to the U.S. Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Committee (MTSNAC). MTSNAC is a chartered, non-federal body that advises the U.S. Secretary of Transportation through the Maritime Administrator (MARAD) on matters relating to U.S. maritime ... [+]

NC Ports achieves unprecedented growth in FY2018

North Carolina Ports moved a record number of containers through the Port of Wilmington during the 2018 fiscal year, which ended June 30. Wilmington recorded 38% year-over-year container growth and year-over-year general cargo growth is up 18%. “In the last few months of FY18 the Port of Wilmington handled a record ... [+]

MARAD Awards Port of New Orleans $2.5 Million Grant

The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has been awarded a $2.5 million U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) grant to support the current container-on-barge shuttle service operated by SEACOR AMH between New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Memphis, and to launch a new container-on-barge shuttle service on the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal ... [+]

Turkish Cargo hauls 5 endangered white rhinos from Johannesburg to Shanghai

Providing a contribution to preservation of natural balance besides global trade with its live animal carrying operations performed to 122 countries worldwide, Turkish Cargo carried 5 white rhinos, born under the supervision of the specialist teams, to Shanghai from Johannesburg via Istanbul. While the species of white rhinos was once the ... [+]

ZIM reveals details of the new Asia – America network

ZIM is pleased to inform that following the announcement of the new Strategic Partnership Agreement with the 2M alliance, details of the new improved Asia - U.S. East Coast – Asia network are now available. Nissim Yochai, ZIM EVP Trans Pacific Trade, said: ”The new alignment will enable ZIM customers to ... [+]

Wen-Parker Logistics opens warehouse in Columbus, Ohio

Wen-Parker Logistics (WPL) recently announced the opening of a new warehouse facility in Columbus, Ohio. The new Columbus facility, located at 6967 Alum Creek Drive, will provide distinct advantages for WPL’s business partners that include: access to over 44,000 square feet of warehouse space, 24-hour video surveillance, 9 dock doors and ... [+]

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