Logistics
SEKO Logistics has added 100,000 square feet of warehousing and fulfilment capacity in Hong Kong as it continues to build an ‘ecommerce gateway’ for retail and high-tech customers targeting China’s online consumer market, which is forecast to see spending exceed US$1 trillion in 2017.
SEKO’s latest investment in Hong Kong has seen the opening of a new 50,000 square foot warehouse on the border of Shenzhen in southeastern China, which links ...
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Solar Impulse 2’s historic mission to become the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the globe and to showcase that clean technologies can achieve the impossible was successfully achieved with the logistics support of Chapman Freeborn and Volga-Dnepr Airlines.
The Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) project chose Chapman ...
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APL Logistics Ltd. announced on August 15 the setup of APL Logistics Oman, a new joint venture company with Arab Global Logistics LLC in Oman. APL Logistics Oman will spearhead efforts to develop Oman as a regional logistics hub to serve local and international customers ...
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American Airlines Cargo has safely delivered over 65 tons of high-tech broadcast equipment and athletic gear to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Broadcasting equipment was shipped out of Japan and London to Rio for high-resolution filming at the sporting festival. One of the largest shipments of ...
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By the time athletes started competing for medals at the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the logistics experts at DB Schenker will have completed the bulk of their work. Schenker Deutschland AG is once more the official co-partner of the German ...
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Online retail giant Amazon is the latest household name to bring distribution operations to Northeast Florida. The company is establishing an 800,000 square-foot fulfillment center in North Jacksonville.
“Becoming a member of the Jacksonville community is very exciting for us as we grow our presence in Florida. We’re proud ...
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Port partner Havertys Furniture recently opened a newly expanded 300 thousand sq. ft. distribution center in Lakeland, Fla.
More products will be shipped through JAXPORT to serve Havertys’ 25 stores in the growing Florida market.
The company says it is able to reduce incoming freight costs, particularly ...
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WTO members need to avoid putting up barriers and “get trade moving again” in order to address slow global economic growth, according to the Director-General’s mid-year report on trade-related developments issued on 25 July. The Trade Monitoring Report concludes that the “best safeguard we have ...
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Trucks carried more US freight by value with NAFTA partners Canada and Mexico in May 2016 compared to May 2015 but declines in all other freight modes led to a 3.1% decrease to $89.8 billion in the total current dollar value of cross-border freight. May ...
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has established a Build America Bureau, which will drive transportation infrastructure development projects in the United States by streamlining credit and grant opportunities while providing technical assistance and encouraging innovative best ...
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