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Nov 2, 2015

MOTOR TRANSPORT AGREEMENTS: * The Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal - ** India with Myanmar, Thailand. Motor Vehicles Agreement

* West Bengal - Kolkata, Dhaka, Agartala cargo transport trial run flagged off
-- A trial run of cargo transport between Kolkata and Agartala through Dhaka, reducing the distance by nearly two-thirds, was flagged off today as part of the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) sub-regional initiative for uninterrupted cargo movement... The BBIN Motor Vehicles Agreement would mean that there would not be any requirement of transshipment of cargo at international borders between the countries and vehicles of each country would run uninterrupted through these countries through designated corridors... 
(Photo by Ashoke Chakrabarty - The trial-cum-pilot run of the cargo vehicle on the Kolkata-Dhaka- Agartala route being flagged off in Kolkata on Sunday. Vijay Chhibber, Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Alapan Bandyopadhyay, Principal Secretary, Transport Department, West Bengal, and other dignitaries were present)    --  Kolkata, WB, India - PTI/The Economic Times - 1 Nov, 2015


** India to sign Motor Transport Agreement with Myanmar, Thailand

-- India is set to sign a motor transport agreement with Myanmar and Thailand for seamless movement of cargo among these countries next year... Union Road Transport and Highways Secretary, Vijay Chhibber, talk after flagging off the trial-run of a cargo vehicle under the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) this it's a sub-regional initiative for uninterrupted cargo movement... The signing of the India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT) agreement on the lines of the BBIN initiative, which will throw open seamless movement of cargo, passenger and private vehicles would give a huge boost to economic activities among these countries in the region... 
New Delhi, NB, India - The Northeast Today - November 02, 2015

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Apr 23, 2015

CONCEPT CARGO TRANSPORT * Norway: From highway to waterway

* Oslo - Cargo Ferry moves transport from road to sea

-- A new competitive and eco-friendly maritime transport concept, the Cargo Ferry project, was presented in Oslo yesterday. The result of more than two years of work, the concept has been developed as an alternative transport solution for containers that are carried for more than 200km on land. The project was presented on board Nor Line’s brand-new LNG fuelled ship, the M/S Kvitbjørn... Incorporating many innovative features, the M/S Kvitbjørn is fuelled by liquefied natural gas (LNG) and can carry as much cargo as 200 trucks. Using LNG as fuel virtually eliminates sulphur and particulate emissions, as well as significantly reducing the vessel’s NOx and CO2 emissions... A fully developed solution with the capacity to deal with the cargo volume identified in the report will require 14 ships transporting the equivalent of 220,000-270,000 45-foot containers annually. However, the overall transport price will be 20-30% lower than if trucks are used and the concept is flexible, punctual, eco-friendly and has daily departures... 
(Photo: The M/S Kvitbjørn is fuelled by liquefied natural gas -LNG- and can carry as much cargo as 200 trucks)  --  Oslo, Norway - Hellenic/International Shipping News - 21 April 2015

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Aug 4, 2009

Smarter Container * USA - Employed for China Shipments

Quality Logistics Shipments From China to United States Receive Unprecedented Cargo Container Tracking, Monitoring & Security From Impeva Labs Global Sentinel® Services

Silicon Valley,CAL,USA -Marketwire -August 3, 2009: -- Quality Logistics Smarter Containers™, carrying Class 1.4G fireworks, are being monitored in real time as they travel from Hunan, China to Silsbee, Texas. The continuous tracking and monitoring of the containers and their cargo, throughout their global, intermodal transport (ocean, truck and rail), are being realized through solutions implemented and managed by Impeva Labs, a provider of dynamic, global asset management systems... China Customs and U.S. CBP (Custom and Border Protection), CPSC (Consumer Protection Safety Commission) or any other government agency can have full access to the tracking data starting from the loading point in China. The data will show any route or travel schedule deviation critical to U.S. authorities.

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Nov 13, 2008

OVERSIZED CARGO * USA - Turbine transport vexes some drivers

St. Cloud,MN,USA -The St. Cloud Times, by Kirsti Marohn -November 12, 2008: -- It’s an increasingly common sight in Central Minnesota: an oversized semitrailer-load of wind turbine parts rumbling down the highway, drawing the attention and sometimes the frustration of other drivers... St. Cloud is on a main route for wind turbine components traveling from the port of Duluth to destinations across the Midwest, where the demand for wind energy is soaring... (Photo courtesy of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority - Parts of a wind turbine are transported through Duluth. Some say the turbines pose a safety risk when carried on busy roads)

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Oct 5, 2008

DELIVERYING * France - Airbus A300 on the move

Thanks to Michael Targett, online editor at www.flightglobal.com/ and to Biglorryblog - 5 Oct 2008: -- The forward section of an A300 Airbus has been delivered to Paris city centre where it will form part of an Airbus exhibit to celebrate the centenary of France's aeronautical industry. Makes sense, and what better way to deliver it than behind a French MAN TGA prime mover... The exhibition is taking place between 4 and 12 October 2008 on the Champs-Elysées and the Place de la Concorde. As well as the A300 forward fuselage, the Airbus exhibit includes an A320 wing, an A340 fin and the nose cone and engine air intake from an A380...

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Sep 6, 2007

TRANSPORT? * India - Mumbai to Kolkata by truck: 11 km an hour

9 tonnes of cargo, 23 toll points, 26 border checkposts, 8 days’ travel

New Delhi,India -The Indian Express, by ZEENAT NAZIR -September 05, 2007: -- The 2,150-km journey from Mumbai to Kolkata takes just over two days by rail and four days by car. But drive a a cargo-laden truck and the trip takes almost eight days, courtesy checkposts and toll points that occur by the dozen along the way. It traverses the distance at a snail’s pace of just 11 km per hour, losing almost two days idling at checkposts and other technical barriers, reveals a recent study... Conducted by Transport Corporation of India (TCI), the study tracked the progress of a truck carrying 9 tonnes of general cargo between the two metros, and revealed that it had to stop 23 times along the way for toll collection and another 26 times at border check posts for sales tax, octroi and documentation verification purposes, which together accounted for a massive 32 hour set-back in the journey... With these issues continuing to impact the profitability and productivity of the trucking business — leading to margins as low as 3-4 per cent in some cases — companies like TCI and Indo Arya are diversifying into areas like warehousing and logistics, or shifting to other modes of transport like rail... (Photo by geocities.com/india500cc : India's Road, many buses and cargo trucks going in both directions)

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