EPR Transportation & Logistics News

Emirates SkyCargo Transports Its Heaviest Ever Item

Emirates SkyCargo came to the rescue of a ship undergoing repairs when it transported a 36-tonne rudder part - the heaviest single item ever carried by the freight division of Emirates Airline. The rudder stock, which measured 9.16 metres long and 1.05 metres wide, was required for urgent repairs to a ...

Emirates SkyCargo Celebrates Start Of New Freighter Service

Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates Airline, yesterday celebrated the inaugural service on its new Far East and Australasia freighter route. The weekly air cargo service, operated by its new Boeing 777 freighter, will fly Dubai-Singapore-Sydney-Hong Kong-Dubai, providing the key trading points with additional connectivity to Emirates' Dubai hub, which can ...

China Eastern Airlines Forges New Uniforms

Recently, China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited (CEA) launched an initiative to change uniforms of its first-line service personnel, replacing the existing ones with a history of nearly 10 years. What is more significant is the cooperation CEA joins hands with Hachette China—the parent company of ELLE magazine, relying on the latter's ...

ISILaunch & Spaceflight to Provide Global Spaceflight Services for Small Payloads

Spaceflight Services (Spaceflight) and Innovative Space Logistics BV (ISILaunch) announced today that they have teamed to create a global spaceflight services provider for small and secondary payloads. Spaceflight and ISILaunch currently offer spaceflight services on a variety of orbital and suborbital vehicles for small and secondary payloads, with operations centered in ...

Riviera Jet And Helicopter Charter Service

HeliRiviera, the helicopter and jet charter company based at Cannes Airport on the French Riviera, has expanded to provide local helicopter and international private jet charter. The company also offers a range of flight support services, including air management for private villas and super yachts. Cannes airport offers landing facilities for medium-sized private ...

National Carrier Gulf Air And TNT Express, One Of The World’s Leading Providers Of Express Delivery Services, Have Signed A Global Incentive Agreement Programme (GIAP)

The GIAP, introduced by Gulf Air in 2007, is designed to provide its key global partners with incentives to boost their cargo traffic volumes and reciprocally ensure that Gulf Air is endorsed as a 'Core Carrier' of its partners. "Global incentive arrangements are a key strategy in building effective partnerships, especially when it ...

Emirates Expands Its A380 Global Network

Emirates, the award-winning airline, notches up yet another first as it begins operation of the world's first A380 commercial service f r o m Dubai to Australia and New Zealand, as Sydney and Auckland join Emirates' rapidly-expanding A380 network. Taking off f r o m its new home - Emirates Terminal ...

Pilot Freight Services, a worldwide provider of transportation and logistics services, has signed a multi-year contract with Catapult International for its international ocean rate management system called Catapult QMS

Catapult will consolidate all of Pilot's ocean contracts into an easy-to-use website where employees and customers will be able to sort rates by an origin/destination combination. Rates and surcharges are managed by Catapult’s maritime analysts. "Catapult's technology will drastically reduce our quoting time by providing an instant rate web interface for ...

Villaplus.com Has Helped Over 1000 Clients Who Were Affected By The Recent Collapse Of The Uks Third Largest Tour Operator XL Leisure Group

VillaPlus.com, the independent tour operator, has successfully helped over 1000 people affected by the collapse of the XL Leisure Group, which incorporated XL Airways UK Limited. In an effort to ease disruption caused to travellers following the dissolution of XL, the VillaPlus.com overseas representatives were at the airport to assist clients being repatriated ...

Welcome to EPR Transportation & Logistics News

EPR Transportation & Logistics News is a new blog, part of EPR Network, that is going to be focused on and will be covering the transportation & logistics news and stories from press releases published on EPR Network. EPR Network (EPR stands for express press release) is one of the nation’s largest ...

Scottish Broadband Plan Would Be Boon To Small Businesses, Says Parcel2Go

New plans to dramatically increase the speed of broadband internet services to homes and businesses in Scotland by 2015 have been welcomed by the UK's largest online parcel delivery specialist. Parcel2Go, which helps individuals and businesses across Britain to send consignments to addresses here in the UK and countries all over ...

Parcel2Go backs findings of global parcel delivery survey

The UK's largest online parcel delivery specialist has said it is unsurprised by the results of a recent study highlighting the growing importance of online delivery services. A worldwide survey of 93 members of the Universal Postal Union showed that 70 per cent believe postal e-services are strategically important for the ...

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