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UPS Survey Reveals Insights On Marketing to Chinese Consumers.
What do blue jeans, DVDs, moisturizer and athletic shoes have in common? They are among the American products that Chinese consumers desire most, according to a UPS survey of 1,200 middle-class consumers in six Chinese cities.

Doug J. Marchand, Executive Director of the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), the Grand Alliance, comprised of OOCL, NYK Hapag-Lloyd, and the New World Alliance, comprised of APL, MOL and Hyundai Merchant Marine announced the addition of the Asia-East Coast service (also known as the EC3 service), a new express, all-water service between Asia and Savannah via the Panama Canal.

BAX Global, a world-leading provider of supply chain management and transportation solutions, has opened a new office in China to meet growing demand in the country.
The new BAX office in Nanjing will expand the company’s countrywide network, which now consists of four Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises (WFOE), six branch offices, nine representative offices and one joint venture.
BAX Global has been well established in China since the early 1990s and was one of the first international forwarders to open a representative office in Beijing. BAX established it’s first WFOE in China under the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) in Guangzhou in April 2004 and Shanghai in December of that year. BAX had previously established WFOEs in Xiamen, Shenzhen and Shanghai Wai Gao Qiao in accordance with China's Free Trade Zone arrangements.

Biendong Shipping Company and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced the launch of the new joint container service (VSS) linking Haiphong, Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore. VSS shall deploy two of 610 TEU container vessels, one operated by BIENDONG and the other by MOL. These vessels are newly built by Vinashin Shipyard in 2006 with GL class and owned by BIENDONG.

The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] named Nagpur city, located in the State of Maharashtra in central India, as the location for its planned regional maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility.
"We believe that Nagpur will be an excellent location for the Boeing MRO facility because of the tremendous investment being made in the area by both government and private companies," said Dinesh Keskar, vice president of Sales, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "Boeing is committed to helping strengthen India's air transport infrastructure by investing up to $100 million in this MRO facility."

Cargo Connection Logistics Holding, Inc. announced that representatives of its wholly owned subsidiary, Cargo Connection Logistics - International, Inc., recently visited Vietnam to explore opportunities on behalf of the Company. The expedition was primarily informational and represents the first step in establishing a business relationship between Cargo Connection Logistics and freight forwarders in Vietnam.

Recently, China Merchants Container Services Limited and Hong Kong Yi Tong Container Line Limited signed an agreement about provision of logistics services by CMCS.