Greenpeace Hails Beijing 2008 ‘Green’ Partnership
Global environmental lobby groups, including Greenpeace and the WWF, have made presentations to the seventh World Conference on Sport and the Environment in Beijing. Each NGOs attending the conference have been working with the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Organising Committee (BOCOG) to help create a so-called ‘Green Olympics’. In addition to working with BOCOG, Greenpeace teamed up with Coca Cola to set up 6,000 ozone- and climate-friendly coolers and 350 corresponding vending machines in all official venues at the Beijing Games. Lo Sze Ping, Director of Campaign and Communications for Greenpeace China, hailed the trilateral partnership between a sponsor, an NGO and an Organising Committee, and said it will leave a legacy far beyond Beijing 2008.
TS Lines Launches China-Middle East Service
TS Lines will launch a second China-Middle East commercial shipping
service in mid-November, Eye for Transport reports. The carrier will
initially deploy five vessels ranging from 1,300 to 1,700 TEU to the
new service, to be replaced later with five new 2,546 TEU vessels that
are scheduled for delivery between January and March 2008. The 35-day
port rotation will be: Qingdao - Shanghai - Ningbo - Hong Kong - Shekou
- Port Kelang - Jebel Ali - Bandar Abbas - Port Kelang - Hong Kong -
Qingdao. TS Lines counts 23 vessels, ranging from 1,000 to 3,100 TEU on
24 services covering more than twenty countries.
Staples and UPS Open Co-branded Stores
Staples and UPS have opened a new joint venture launching co-branded
stores in China. The new co-branded store format, called Staples UPS
Express, combines Staples’ office supplies and document processing
services with UPS’s packaging and international shipping services. The
first two Staples UPS Express locations opened today in Beijing, one in
the CBD and the other in the Financial Street. Two Shanghai stores are
planned to open by the end of 2007.
Last update : Tuesday, 30 October 2007
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