International express operators have grudgingly agreed to a demand by the Chinese authorities that they should only continue to deliver business documents and small parcels on the mainland under a system in which their rival China Post would also act as regulator. The operators, represented by the Conference of Asia-Pacific Express Carriers, said they continued […]
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The European forwarder TNT has formed a partnership with China Southern Airlines that led to the launch in late October of a direct freight service between Shanghai and the Belgian city of Liege. The two companies are sharing capacity on a twice-weekly B-747 freighter, which may be increased to four times a week early in […]
Shanghai Pudong International Airport has opened the first security facility in China that does not require a 24-hour waiting period for shipments. The 8,000 sq metre facility allows air freight shipments to be X-rayed immediately and then transferred to a protected security area where they are loaded onto pallets for onward distribution. The Chinese authorities […]
A 26 per cent fall in telecoms equipment purchases in the first three quarters of 2002 has adversely impacted major suppliers, said Bloomberg. ZTE, the largest equipment supplier in China, reported a third-quarter profit of Yn37m, down from the Yn134m it made in the first half of the year. Even worse hit were , Datang […]
The Chinese government has thrown its weight behind domestically developed third generation mobile phone technology, said the Financial Times. It is providing funds for the development of the TD-SCDMA technology that is being developed jointly by the stateowned Datang Telecom of Siemen Germany. It is also earmarking a dedicated radio spectrum for 3G services and […]