At its annual press conference held recently in Frankfurt, Lufthansa Cargo chairman and CEO Karl Ulrich Garnadt said that there had been a "geographical shift" in its capacities for various regions.

While analysts say this should be a growth year for air cargo, pressing challenges such as increasing EU regulation, the pent-up demand in Asia Pacific, and the cost of global security still weigh heavy on the sector.

Recently, government issued Government Regulation No. 8 of 2011 on Multimodal Transport (‘Regulation’), as a legal framework to govern the operation of multimodal

Thailand has been inundated with severe floods in its recent history and the automotive sector, which has an annual production capacity of about 2 million units in 2010, has been one of the most affected industries.  The recent inundation of floods in Thailand has not only had a major effect on local automotive production and supply chain disturbances but is also likely to have short  term effect on regional and global supply of automotive parts and vehicle exports.

Local shipping companies are striving to expand their market share in China & India to offset declining export and import demand from and to the USA & EU. Although Asian countries have higher purchasing power, Thai ports are still not ready to accommodate potential trade expansion within the Asian Economic Community.

2015 ASEAN Connectivity and Its Implication for Indonesian Ports and Logistics Infrastructure

The 5^th Export Logistics Model Award 2011 (ELMA 2011) organized by the Office of Trade Logistics, Department of Export Promotion, Ministry of Commerce, has been upgraded.  It will now include the Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) model as well as the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

A recent ban on night flights ordered by an administrative court in the state of Hesse – Frankfurt is located in that state – will cause huge losses running into double-digit

Thailand is still not fulfiling its economic potential due to a lack of trade facilitation, delays and poor project planning, a seminar heard.

On 23rd July 2011, a collision between two high speed trains in China's Zhejiang province resulted in the death of 35 people and left 192 injured. Initial reports suggest that the first train was stationery due to a power outage caused by a lightning strike when the second train struck it from behind.