In brief: Deutsche Post Splitting Logistics Unit

Here is a short brief from Transport Topics about Deutsche Post AG, the parent company of DHL Americas, which situation has been debated previously in the medias, and also on the Transport Information Group (see references below). I think that creating two divisions should be a way for Deutsche Post to, first evaluate cost and [...]

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Containerships Global Fleet 2002-2007

I found data about containerships global fleet and wanted to make these figures available to those who can find it interesting or useful. You will find a PDF file and Excel spreadsheet in the Downloads section of the website. According to these recent figures, large containerships will definitely be in the merchant marine future. From [...]

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In brief: UIC HIGHSPEED 2008

The UIC conference on High-Speed Rail will be held March 17-19, 2008 in Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Center, Europaplein in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Six major topics will be discussed during the three-day congress: Topic 1 – High Speed Rail and Society; Topic 2 – High Speed Rail in Practice; Topic 3 – From Single [...]

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CMA CGM recent moves

A common service between Asia and United States in partnership with Maersk and MSC, a separation from Hapag Lloyd and Hambourg Sud for the operation of Northern Europe to India-Pakistan lines, and an increased service between Asia, India and the Gulf region. These are all recent evolutions in CMA CGM shipping services that allow CMA [...]

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Berlusconi said Alitalia should remain Italian…

Still in negociation with Air France-KLM, Alitalia’s destiny is the Italian Government hands. Final decision is expected when the new Italian Government will be formed, after the National Assembly elections scheduled on April 13 and 14, 2008. Berlusconi’s view of Alitalia’s status Rightist Silvio Berlusconi, ex-Italy Prime Minister is pretty much against selling Alitalia to [...]

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Beijing opens the world largest airport terminal

Olympic games in 2008 that created “a multibillion dollar boom in Chinese construction projects“, more and more tourists travelers in China everyday, low-cost workforce, low construction and materials costs, Norman Foster’s incredibleness and eventually communism (?). This is maybe what help Beijing to build the biggest airport terminal worldwide. In order to allow more aircrafts [...]

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Against the future Nantes-Paris airport

Following the Environment Rountable in October 2007, people thought the new infrastructure would not be built but, the airport project in Notre Dame des Landes 25 kilometers from Nantes will not be cancelled in spite of the President’s declaration. On Saturday, March 1, around 2,000 to 3,000 people protested in Nantes to ask for the [...]

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Debate: French High Speed Trains

This post is more a debate than regular news article. I received recently an interesting request about French High Speed Rail networks. From what I know and what is publicly (or not) available, I wrote an answer to the following questions. I also updated what I wrote in the email with some additional answers I [...]

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In brief: Emirates to fly its first A380 to NYC and London

Emirates Airlines, based in Dubai, is the largest Arab airline, the world’s fastest-growing airline, and also the biggest Airbus customer for the brand new A380 superjumbo. The company has ordered 58 aircrafts and announced it will use its firsts A380 superjumbos to fly to London Heathrow and New York, and also to Sydney (Australia) and [...]

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Transport Information Group: two months after

Here we are, two months after the beginning. Couple evolutions, couple problems, couple projects. February: review of the Transport Information Group evolutions In February, I have been trying to follow a regular publication rhythm with 3 articles a day. This will not change during the next month, but the schedule may be modified to fit [...]

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