Career Tracks: Yang Ming names new CEO

The board of Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. has elected Cheng Cheng-Mount as chairman and chief executive officer.

Effective Thursday, Cheng succeeded Hsieh Chih-Chien as leader of the Taiwanese container carrier. Cheng was appointed by the National Development Fund, Yang Ming’s second-largest shareholder, to the company’s board of directors in 2018. 

Cheng, who earned a master’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, began his career as an assistant research fellow at...

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LATAM lands Brazil’s last COVID-19 emergency air bridge flight

LATAM Airlines cargo airlift

LATAM Airlines Group (NYSE: LTM) said this week it has landed its last flight of a three-month “air bridge” between China and Brazil to transport much needed protective face masks to fight the coronavirus pandemic in the South American country.

The Chilean carrier flew 39 flights from China transporting 240 million N95 surgical masks under contract with Brazil’s Ministry of Infrastructure. The project marked the first time LATAM Group aircraft have operated in China.

The airline started the air...

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Ένεση ρευστότητας για την Qatar Airways

Η Qatar Airways ανακοίνωσε τη συμφωνία της με την τράπεζα Standard Chartered, με την οποία εξασφαλίζει χρηματοδότηση ύψους $850 εκατ. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο, η αεροπορική με βάση την Ντόχα επιθυμεί να ενισχύσει τη ρευστότητά της, καθώς είναι ιδιαίτερα σημαντική για τη συνέχιση της λειτουργίας της.

Με τα περισσότερα αεροσκάφη καθηλωμένα στο έδαφος, μοναδικό πλεονέκτημα για την επιβίωση μιας αεροπορικής εταιρείας είναι η ρευστότητά της. Αν και η Qatar δεν έδωσε στη δημοσιότητα πολλές λεπτομέρειες για...

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Leading Welsh food & drink distributor Wild Water Group signs logistics alliance agreement with GAC

From left, Peter Orange & Mark Horton (GAC), Ken Rattenbury & Nigel Payne (WWG) and Mike Millar (GAC) together with 1.5 million turkeys in Wild Water Group’s cold storage and distribution facility in Cardiff Docks.

Grangemouth, United Kingdom, 2 January 2019 – The largest bespoke temperature-controlled storage and distribution company in South Wales, the Wild Water Group, has appointed GAC as its international freight forwarding partner from the new year.

The Wild Water Group serves the food &...

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