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NEW TRANSPACIFIC AIR CARGO SERVICE PLANNED
 
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia-based air cargo carrier Transmile Air Services has said it will acquire a pair of B747-200 or DC-10 freighters and launch a new Hong Kong-US cargo service sometime during the third quarter of this year.
 
The service will reportedly link Hong Kong and Los Angeles with five return cargo flights a week with the carrier aiming to increase its business from express companies.
 
Transmile currently provides dedicated air express services to United Parcel Service (Singapore), and DHL International.

Transmile currently operates four flights a week between Hong Kong and Malaysia, as well as routes between Kuala Lumpur and Kuching, Penang, Kota Kinabalu, Manila, Jakarta, Mumbai, and Chennai.
 
Those services will feed shipments from Malaysia to both Hong Kong and the US.
 
MOL'S STARLINK SYSTEM POISED TO GO LIVE
 
TOKYO, Japan - Transpacific carrier Mitsui OSK Lines, Ltd. (MOL) is ready to take its new STARLINK information system live in an all-out effort to promote the expansion of the company's logistics business.
 
STARLINK is an MOL-developed system that meets customer needs with real-time Web tracking capability and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

The new system's main features include web tracking through a user-friendly interface that allows customers to trace their purchase orders and shipments anytime, anywhere over the Internet; and purchase order management that allows customers to track and trace their shipments by P.O. number, item number, and Stock Keeping Unit (SKU).

With its Event Tracking capability, STARLINK enables customers to set up an events and exception rules profile to trigger exceptions automatically by the system with the exception notice e-mail sent directly to the designated handling person and then logged in the system until it is cleared.

STARLINK also offers a User Defined Report feature that lets customers define, run and extract their own report format of report.

With this feature, customers can download all of their required data into a spreadsheet, which can be further manipulated by other PC software or to combine with customer's internal data to produce more complete, more useful reports.

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