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   Norway’s Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding (WWH), a part owner of the roll-on/roll-off carriers Wallenius Wilhelmsen, American Roll-on, Roll-off Carrier, and Eukor, said its profit was lifted by a gain from […]

   The six commissioners of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on Wednesday voted unanimously that domestic producers of photovoltaic solar panels are harmed by similar imports dumped on the U.S. market […]

Innovative Trailer Design Industries (ITD) of Mississauga, Ontario, has built four 60-foot trailers for Walmart and two others that are being operated under a 12-month pilot program for Ontario’s Ministry of […]

   Saddle Creek Logistics Services, a Lakeland, Fla.-based third party logistics provider, named James Thomas director of business development.    Thomas will oversee development of Saddle Creek’s new customer relationships […]

   The Preactor Group, a developer of production planning and scheduling software (APS), has entered a partnership with Epic Data International.    Andy Willis, chief operating officer of Preactor North […]

   MiX Telematics, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based provider of vehicle tracking and fleet management solutions, launched its Asset Tracking 1300 series, an online trailer tracking and monitoring service for fleet […]

   Blue Tree Systems, a provider of trailer tracking, reefer monitoring and in-cab fleet management solutions, appointed Jack Jacobs to national sales executive for North America.    Jacobs, who was […]

   The U.S. Export-Import Bank voted Thursday to guarantee a JPMorgan Chase loan totaling $35 million to Devco International of Tulsa, Okla., for the design and construction of a sulfur […]

   The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (AmCham Shanghai) on Thursday elected Robert A. Theleen, chairman and chief executive officer of ChinaVest Ltd. and current AmCham Shanghai vice chairman, […]

Jeffrey E. Miles was named deputy executive director for operations. He will be responsible for operations at the ports of Wilmington and Morehead City and inland terminals in Charlotte and the […]

   Deutsche Post DHL said it had consolidated net profit of 382 million euros ($487 million) in the third quarter, 0.8 percent less than the 385 million euros earned in the […]

   Matson had a profit of $19.1 million in the third quarter ending Sept. 30, more than double the $8.7 million earned in the same period a year earlier.    […]

   Two Pakistani nationals have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on charges alleging that they operated Internet sites that illegally shipped pharmaceuticals from […]

   International shipping, logistics and marine services provider GAC Group has appointed Bengt Ekstrand as its new group president, effective in January.    Ekstrand takes over for Capt. Lars Säfverström, […]

   The Anchorage Economic Development Corp. (AEDC) has promoted Jon Bittner to vice president.    In his new position at AEDC, Bittner will be responsible for day-to-day operations of the […]

   Mississippi’s governor says he wants to speed up development of the Port of Gulfport.    The Sun Herald newspaper, reporting on a meeting it had with Gov. Phil Bryant Wednesday, […]

   Supply chain management services firm Ameriquest has appointed Kate Freer to vice president of marketing for business services.    Since joining AmeriQuest in 2004, Freer has led the marketing […]

   The classification society Bureau Veritas has named Philippe Donche-Gay executive vice president in charge of the marine and offshore division, merging the two units.    The change follows the […]

   Kenco, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based provider of distribution, transportation and supply chain services, named Steve Perry vice president of human resources for Kenco Management Services.    “His skills and experience […]

Beverly Fedorko, a spokesperson for the New York Shipping Association, said longshoremen were eager to return to work and “anxious to get the port back and running and get that […]

ECS Group, a general sales and services agent based in Paris, has acquired three companies in Italy founded by Glauco Martinelli, including Air Transport Consultants Spa (ATC), Airfreight and Data […]

   A leader of the Virginia Maritime Association and Virginia’s transportation secretary have engaged in a very public debate about the financial health of the Hampton Roads ports.    In […]

The bank has extended provisions to help exporters and financial institutions located in those portions of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast that have been declared federal disaster areas due to the […]

The DOT agency on Monday said it’s leading an Interstate Petroleum Transport Team to ensure the quickest and most efficient movement of fuel to the region devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

   Expeditors International of Washington said it had a profit attributable to shareholders of $88.5 million for the third quarter of 2012, compared with $106.6 million for the same quarter […]

   The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that a state agency violated the law when it negotiated an agreement before issuing a key permit needed to deepen the Savannah […]

Arc Terminals said it is working with Canadian National Railway to build a rail tank car unloading terminal in Mobile, Ala., to handle Western Canadian heavy and Bakken light crude […]

   Associated British Ports (ABP) has named James Cooper its new chief executive officer, following the retirement of Peter Jones at the end of March 2013.    Prior to this […]

   The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security Office of Technology Evaluation has initiated a Website to show preliminary results from its ongoing U.S. Space Industry ‘Deep Dive’ assessment. […]

   The American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) is supporting Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) and emergency management agencies across the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States in the aftermath of […]

The federal government issued issued a temporary blanket waiver of the Jones Act to immediately allow additional oil tankers from the Gulf of Mexico to deliver product from the Gulf […]

   The U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) said labor negotiations between the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association, which represents employers, and International Longshore and Warehouse Union Locals 4, […]

   Container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey are reopening in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.    The Maher and APM Terminals in Elizabeth, N.J., received […]

   Third party logistics services firm DSV, together with real estate developer Habacker, will build a 60 million euro ($76.7 million) logistics facility in Krefeld-Fichtenhain, Germany.    The 80,000-square-meter facility […]

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will receive on Sunday the first ships to call at container terminals in the port since it was hit by Hurricane […]

   Former senior global logistics leader at GE Electric Power and Water, Vikash Patel, has formed a third-party logistics firm specializing in the transportation management of project cargoes, such as […]

Some container shipping companies indicated they were changing ship rotations, diverting cargo to other ports, or setting up special phone numbers or offices in the wake of the Northeast storm.

“The Corps’ decision is a crucial step for a project more than a decade in the making,” said Curtis Foltz, Georgia Ports Authority’s executive director. “It is a leap forward […]

   OOCL said starting Jan. 1 it will no longer provide chassis for import and export shipments to and from Norfolk and Front Royal, Va., as well as for Kansas City, […]

   Drewry said Asia-Europe spot container rates have soared ahead of annual contract talks.    It said the Shanghai-Rotterdam container freight rate index increased by 38 percent, or $788 per […]

   Singapore Airlines Cargo will park one of its 13 freighters, citing “continuing weakness in demand for air freight shipments and high fuel prices.”    The plane will be removed […]

While the ports of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Norfolk said operations were returning to normal following Hurricane Sandy, it appeared many facilities in the Port of New York and New Jersey […]

The offer period is further extended until one week after clearances from the European Commission and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) have been obtained, but under no circumstances later […]

“Central to our concerns with EU biotech labeling and renewable energy regulations is the fact that they represent discriminatory non-tariff barriers to U.S. access to EU markets for soybeans and […]

   Radiant Logistics of Bellevue, Wash., said it has completed the acquisition of assets of its operating partner Marvir Logistics, a privately held company based in Los Angeles that has […]

   Kerry Asia Road Transport (KART) has started a twice-weekly less-than-truckload service connecting Shenzhen and Hanoi, through its ASEAN-China road network.    The LTL service will initially connect the industrial cities […]

   Damco, the freight forwarding arm of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has appointed Ivan Thuynsma to global head of its mining vertical.    He will be responsible for the development of Damco’s […]

   The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Decisive rescued a four-man crew from an overdue 87-foot coastal freighter, Two Brothers, over the weekend after the vessel became disabled and […]

   Horizon Lines reported a profit of $1.4 million in the third quarter ending Sept. 23, compared to a $111.7 million loss in the same 2011 period.    Revenue was […]

   The ship lessor Seaspan Corp. said Tuesday it had a profit of $17.8 million in the third quarter ending Sept. 30, compared to a loss of $122.6 million in […]

“We are standing by to provide assistance for transportation services, staging areas, storage, expert advice, and other vital resources,” said ALAN President Jock Menzies.

   Fednav Ltd. signed a long-term contract to transport nickel and copper concentrates from Canadian Royalties’ Nunavik Nickel Project in northern Quebec to customers in Europe, as well as handle […]

   Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has won the contract to provide cargo handling for British Airways World Cargo (BAWC) at London’s Gatwick Airport.    The new contract, effective Dec. 1, […]

   Swissport International, a provider of ground services to the aviation sector, has won cargo handling contracts with Lufthansa and Finnair at Copenhagen Airport.    Services for Lufthansa will begin […]

The wind turbine is Walmart’s first onsite industrial-sized wind turbine and will generate about 2.2 million kilowatt hours of power, providing up to 20 percent of the Red Bluff, Calif. […]

   A 168-foot tanker washed ashore on Staten Island in New York Monday night during Hurricane Sandy.    A WABC report featured striking footage of the John B. Caddell aground […]

   The Panama Canal Authority said it has awarded a contract to Vinci Construction Grands Projets of France to build a new bridge on the Atlantic side of the canal. […]

   A new logistics center is slated to open in Lansing, Mich., Tuesday.    The Website M Live reports that Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, will […]

   Ship classification society ABS has opened a technology center in Busan, South Korea.    Researchers at the ABS Korea Energy Technology Center (KETC) will work independently and in partnership […]

   Kapsch TrafficCom IVHS Inc., a subsidiary of Kapsch TrafficCom AG, has appointed John Freund to senior vice president for sales and business development in North America.     He joins Kapsch […]

A new report from the National Research Council says that due to insufficient funding, many portions of the Army Corps of Engineers’ water infrastructure program are not being maintained at […]

   Ports from Virginia to New York have closed facilities Monday in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy’s landfall.    The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey closed its facilities […]

“Warehouse robberies typically are the largest value incidents due to the high volume of product stored in a single location. Brazil has recorded several multi-million dollar losses this year due […]

   Deutsche Post DHL said it will build the largest parcel center in Germany in the Hessen city of Obertshausen, near Frankfurt.    The facility will have a sorting capacity […]

Echo Global Logistics said Thursday it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Sharp Freight Systems, an intermodal and truckload brokerage firm based in Yorba Linda, Calif., and with […]

The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) named Deborah A. “Deb” Hadden, deputy port director of properties and transportation, as acting port director. She will oversee all aspects of Massport’s maritime department.

   The Singapore-based ocean carriers Orient Overseas Container Line and Pacific International Line, along with vessel partner Mitsui O.S.K. Line of Japan, have added a new port call at Fremantle, […]

   German airline Lufthansa Cargo will boost its flights this winter to 300 destinations in 97 countries.    Of these flights, 49 destinations will be served by the carrier’s freighters. […]

   Accellos, a provider of supply chain software, released a new series of mobile applications for smartphones and tablets that provide real-time access to supply chain information.    The new […]

   Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) will start new freighter flights connecting Tokyo’s Narita International Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, starting Nov. 5.    Nippon Cargo’s twice weekly […]

   International Shipholding Corp. had a profit of $1.78 million in the third quarter ending Sept. 30, compared to $2.85 million in the same 2011 period.    Revenue was $61.2 […]

   SynchroNet Intermodal Services has started a new door-to-door service, DoorLogistics, which provides standard ISO boxes (20-foot, 40-foot, and 45-foot containers) door-to-door pricing and operations support.    The new service offers […]

   Third party logistics company CEVA Logistics has appointed Cindy Cochovity to executive vice president of business development for the Americas region.    She has been with CEVA or acquired […]

   At least a dozen law firms have announced they have launched investigations into or filed lawsuits against Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) in the wake of a plunge in OSG’s shares […]

   Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) said Daina Shipping Co., the owner of the containership Rena which went aground off the coast of Tauranga last October, pleaded guilty on a charge […]

   Rogers, Ark.-based Don’s Cold Storage, which provides temperature-controlled warehouse and transportation services to a variety of industries, will build a new cold storage and distribution center in Joplin, Mo. […]

   If you ask senior managers in the third party logistics services profession in the United States how they got into the industry, the answer you’ll often get is “I […]

   In April 2003, Toshiba American Information Systems contracted with CEVA for door-to-door delivery of its products. The two firms agreed their transportation agreement would be “governed by and interpreted […]

   Various estimates on the width of human hairs range from .017 to .25 millimeters. An even smaller width figured in a steel duty dispute. (See: Arcelormittal Stainless Belgium v. United […]

Postal Service could save switching mail from truck to intermodal rail.    By Chris Dupin       The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Office of Inspector General’s Risk Analysis Research Center […]

Hawaii dairyman transforms company into a specialized tank container operator.       By Chris Dupin       There are many routes that entrepreneurs have taken to the shipping industry, but […]

   American Shipper associate editor Chris Dupin recently reported that the U.S. Transportation Department is scrapping obsolete ships in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in California at a faster than […]

FMCS director George H. Cohen on Wednesday said in a statement that negotiators for the dockworkers’ union and their employers have completed two days of talks and “discussed a number of major […]

Before joining Pacer, Svindland served as managing director at AlixPartners, a business-advisory firm, where he co-led the Global Transportation and Logistics Practice, working with carriers and shippers.

   UPS said it is expanding its global healthcare distribution network in the Asia-Pacific region by opening three facilities in China’s Hangzhou and Shanghai, and Sydney, Australia.    The new […]

Giove    Michael F. Giove has been appointed chief operating officer of Nautilus International Holding Corp., parent of the stevedoring company Metro Ports, effective Oct. 29.    Reporting directly to […]

   Freight forwarder and customs broker Coppersmith Global Logistics has promoted Bobby Shaida to national sales manager.    Shaida, a 22-year industry veteran, has served as business development manager at Coppersmith […]

   Canadian Pacific Railway said it had a profit of $224 million, an 20 percent increase over the $187 million earned in the third-quarter of 2011.    Total revenues were […]

   Bahri, the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, will take over ownership of the fleet of the Saudi Arabian Oil Co., now operated by the oil company’s subsidiary Vela in […]

   Pacer International said it had a profit of $1.1 million in the third quarter ending Sept. 30, compared to $6.6 million in the same 2011 period.    Revenues were […]

   Third party logistics services firm Regal Logistics acquired a new distribution center in Los Angeles.    With 120,000 square feet of warehouse space, Regal’s new facility, which includes 14 dock […]

    Pacer International said it has entered into a multi-year agreement to arrange, manage and provide intermodal freight transportation services for both automotive parts and freight-all-kinds shipments between the United […]

   New Course, a consulting and integration services company focused on SAP supply chain software projects, has formed a partnership with MWPVL International.     MWPVL is a global supply chain and […]

   The U.S. Export-Import Bank has authorized more than $50 million to guarantee a loan extended by Apple Bank to Aeroservicios Especializados S.A. DE C.V. (ASESA) of Mexico that will […]

   Montreal-based supply chain consultancy KOM International Inc. has appointed Hector Orozco to partner responsible for the company’s Vancouver office.    Orozco will develop KOM’s West Coast market. He is […]

   The U.S. Export-Import Bank and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) on Wednesday signed a co-financing agreement that will facilitate future export transactions involving companies in both the United […]

   GT Nexus said the U.S. Shippers Association (USSA) will use its supply chain platform.    USSA contracts for about 50,000 TEUs of ocean freight per year. Member companies include […]

The carrier will build two new tankers at NASSCO’s shipyard in San Diego, but said it’s commitment to build the ships is contingent on approval of a $340 million Title XI […]