Airports in the US need to spend more than $87 billion for infrastructure and other improvements by 2011 to accommodate increasing passenger and air-cargo demand, according to a study by the Airports Council International North America. In a statement, the group said that “2007 is stacking up to be similar to and in some instances worse than 2000, a year which until now had the dubious distinction of being the peak year for air-travel delays.” Most airport improvement projects - … [Read more...] about US airports need to spend $87b

US-based SEKO, a global provider of freight forwarding and logistics solutions, has expanded its operations into Dubai. The new SEKO-Dubai station covers air, ocean and ground operations throughout the UAE. It serves as a major transhipment and distribution hub, with multimodal transportation throughout the entire Middle East, Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), comprised of 11 former Soviet republics. Due to increasing international trade and business development in the … [Read more...] about SEKO opens office in Dubai

Nearly half (48 percent) of supply chain executives at multi-national companies in the chemical, consumer goods, industrial and retail sectors consider their supply chains to be global, yet operating decisions made on behalf of those supply chains would indicate otherwise. Some 60 percent of the executives said supply chain decisions in their companies are regional or local in scope, according to a recent study conducted by BDP International’s Centrx consulting unit and St. Joseph’s … [Read more...] about Global’ supply chains often aren’t global

UPS Airlines said that by August, it will fly the last of its 16 remaining 727s in its fleet to the New Mexico desert, where they’ll be stored. The planes, built from the early 1960s until August 1984, no longer fit UPS’ needs, spokesman Mark Giuffre said. UPS has placed several orders for new planes over the past year or two, including 27 Boeing 767-300ER freighters announced last month. The freighters are to be delivered between 2009 and 2012. The company also has firm … [Read more...] about UPS to retire B727 fleet