International

Taiwanese carrier’s dry bulk business takes a beating.

PowerFleet is working with the French Red Cross to track and manage shipment that carries healthcare equipment and supplies.

The coronavirus pandemic remains a “major source of uncertainty for the entire logistics industry.”

The International Air Transport Association is preparing to eliminate about 400 jobs as airlines pinch pennies because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The closures of the U.S. land borders with Mexico and Canada for non-essential travel will extend through Sept. 21 to limit the spread of COVID-19.

ATRAN Airlines says increased online shopping has increased express air cargo traffic between Moscow and China’s northern cities.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seize $8 million of marijuana from a commercial shipment at the Canadian border in the latest major drug bust at the Peace Bridge crossing in Buffalo.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized almost 600 packages of methamphetamine and 14,880 pounds of marijuana at the Otay Mesa border crossing.

Truckers are receiving fake text messages, purportedly from the Canadian government, instructing them to self-isolate after entering the country.

Operating profit “turnaround” of more than $300 million reported.

GE Capital Aviation Services now has 74 orders for Boeing to convert versatile, narrow-body passenger planes for express and e-commerce services.

Magma has a nose for cargo. It will operate a new 747 that can open its front end to load big shipments.

Shippers are facing delays at Sydney Airport in Australia because cargo terminals are buried in cargo.

Imports of auto parts, passenger cars and commercial trucks into Texas ports declined 23% through the first six months of the year.

Titanium Transportation Group increased profits and continued to aggressively pay down debt even though revenues fell by almost 10% as the Canadian firm navigated the impacts of COVID-19.

TFI International announces share offering that could raise more than $200 million and give the Canadian firm additional firepower for more acquisitions.

Fastfrate plans to build up U.S. to Canada cross-border business after acquiring small cross-border carrier Bestway, CEO says.

Longshore workers walk for the fourth time since the beginning of July.

Don’t confuse Florianopolis with Indianapolis. It’s in Brazil and LATAM is flying freighters there from Miami.

Bulgaria-based Transmetrics is helping its supply chain customers by using augmented intelligence. Learn more!

Around 55% of people in Mexico said they shop online to avoid leaving home during the pandemic, according to a new report.

Commercial fishing is big business in Alaska. And like all industries, it depends on supply chains to work properly…

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, trucking ponders its next move following President Trump’s payroll tax deferment order; Nikola receives a huge order; and a truck driver is sentenced for a crash that killed five.

Ongoing labor dispute has “paralyzed” port operations.

PayCargo has become a force in the online payment of freight transportation bills and now offers coronavirus-impacted shippers and forwarders credit lines to smooth their cash flow.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexican auto production breaks out of a slump; Trump approves a new international rail bridge; a Mexican carrier acquires 25 new Scania trucks; and officers seize more than $2.4 million in cash at San Diego ports.

Longshore workers at the Port of Montreal say they will go on strike Monday if they don’t reach an agreement with employers. An intermodal executive is hopeful it will happen.

Victoria and the city of Melbourne, Australia, are tightening health measures to stop an outbreak of the coronavirus. Imports and exports could get stuck at terminals and warehouses.

Multiple Lebanese government agencies may have known dangerous ammonium nitrate was stored in a warehouse.

Atlanta-based FleetCor is a commercial fuel-card and business-payments systems provider. The company employs around 8,700 people and provides commercial card services in more than 100 countries.

Airlines are saving every penny possible and with so few people traveling they don’t need more airplanes. That’s hurting sales at Airbus and Boeing.

President Trump says he has reimposed U.S. tariffs on Canadian aluminum imports in response to the market being flooded.

Lead times within electronics supply chains are increasing due to trade wars, COVID-19 and the lack of raw materials.

Containers are used to carry imports to the U.S., but they also carry exports from the U.S. The agriculture industry depends on them, but COVID-19 has caused the system to fray…

The meth seizure occurred at the cargo facility of the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in South Texas.

Container carriers are rerouting goods and assessing damage following Tuesday’s blast.

Canadian truckers report being turned away by doctors, dentists and other health providers if they don’t self-isolate for 14 days over COVID-19 fears.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Trimble is a provider of technology solutions for trucking companies, private fleets, freight brokerage, and third-party logistics providers.

FedEx Freight is expanding its freight distribution operation in Laredo, Texas, near the US-Mexico border.

Container lines, some with damaged or destroyed buildings, are scrambling to reroute cargo bound for Lebanon.

In the past decade, the number of cybersecurity events went up by over 700%.

Deutsche Post DHL saw a significant rise in e-commerce activity during the second quarter due to continued COVID-19 travel restrictions and retail store closures.

Lebanese officials blame confiscated highly explosive material for the blast, according to reports.

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission found during its Fact Finding 29 investigation that the Port of New York and New Jersey showed supply chain resolve during the coronavirus pandemic.

Trade has been destabilized by the pandemic. Can trade credit insurance help de-risk trade to a degree and help solidify supply chains?

With trade relations between the U.S. and China strained, the future of global supply chains could be Mexico.

With airfreight capacity squeezed and rates high between China and the U.S., ocean freight consolidators offer the option of fast, cheaper less-than-container load, trans-Pacific services.

Video shot by another motorist shows the driver of a tractor trailer trying to wiggle the unidentified man off its hood as it sped down the highway.

LaQuenta Jacobs promoted to provide cultural leadership and strategic direction.

Mass adoption of electric vehicles will happen when they are comparable in cost and performance to internal combustion vehicles.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Concern for China’s supply dominance of rare earth metals; CEVA Logistics to operate a warehouse for IKEA in Mexico; Coca-Cola FEMSA acquires 45 Kenworth trucks; Nikola’s new factory to rely on cross-border supply chain.

DHL located a new life sciences warehouse in Indianapolis because the city has many pharmaceutical companies in the area.

Brazilian startup aims to provide tools for freight forwarders to create and maintain partnerships.

“It is paramount that we see progress with crew changeovers,” says The Mission to Seafarers.

Canadian Union of Public Employees says port labor toils for 19 days before receiving a two-day break.

Darren Prokop’s commentary concerns whether price gouging is taking place on container shipping between Asian ports and the U.S.

Boeing has received orders from DHL Express to convert four 767-300s to all-cargo configuration and from AFG for two 737-800 converted freighters.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, Roadrunner continues its revamp with the spinoff of its Ascent Global Logistics business. Plus, Hurricane Hanna leaves its mark on Texas, and e-commerce robots arrive.

Orient Overseas Container Line briefly outlines performance for the second quarter and first six months of 2020.

“This outperformance once again demonstrates that we are in the right locations, and a focus on origin and destination cargo will continue to deliver the right balance between growth and resilience,” Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem says.

Raja Narayanan joins industry disrupter “at this pivotal time where the world is adapting to the new normal.”

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Truck capacity tight near Mexican border; drugs found in shipments of ketchup and onions; DHL opens new foreign trade zone in El Paso; and Commerce opens inquiry aimed at Mexican wire mesh.

More layoffs in Texas aerospace and freight services companies as coronavirus case numbers climb

U.S. border officers seized more than $6 million worth of marijuana after inspecting a Canadian truck at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, New York.

Parts of Texas could get drenched with 4 to 8 inches of rain from a tropical storm expected to make landfall on Saturday.

Enterprises sometimes adopt several different SaaS products, only to end up with processes without cross-functionalities due to lack of integration.

Express carriers UPS and DHL helped push Brussels Airport into the black for June’s cargo volume. Most airports during the pandemic haven’t been able to make up for the loss of passenger flights on which so much cargo typically flows.

Chairman Michael Khouri explains how the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission keeps track of COVID-19-induced ocean container carrier sailing schedule changes for anticompetitive behavior.

Lineage Logistics announces expansion into Canada as it agrees to acquire Ontario Refrigerated Services, the latest addition to growing global footprint.

Delivering on promise will mean fewer headaches and delays, container shipping line says.

American Airlines’ cargo revenue for the first half of the year was $277 million, or 37% lower than the first half of 2019.

Waymo is the exclusive technology partner for implementing self-driving technology across Fiat Chrysler’s full product portfolio.

Thousands of crew members are stuck on board their ships due to COVID-19 restrictions. Learn more in Darren Prokop’s commentary.

Developed by A.P. Møller – Maersk and IBM two years ago, the neutral platform was publishing 2 million events per day within a year and a half.

Canadian trucking and logistics firm Mullen Group reports a large drop in profits in its second-quarter financial results. But the company is positioning itself for recovery as business activity comes back.

World’s largest container shipping line is “committed to a carbon-neutral future of transport and logistics.”

An Ethiopian Airlines plane suffers extensive damage in a fire at Shanghai Pudong airport.

Unisot has created a blockchain-based platform that helps bring end-to-end transparency in seafood supply chains.

Latin American airline mobilized five Boeing 777 passenger planes to move 1,200 tons of N95 masks on board 39 cargo-only flights from China to São Paulo.

Company is leveraging rail service for its Transplace customers.

The coronavirus’ whipsaw effect on the global supply chain took a toll on Kuehne + Nagel during the first half of 2020, but without a rapid internal response the hit would have been far worse, CEO Detlef Trefzger says.

Walmart Canada plans to build two new distribution centers and upgrade its supply chain technology as it spends C$3.5 billion to grow operations.

The increase in freighter flights at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport during the first half of the year was not enough to offset the dramatic drop in cargo transported by passenger planes.

Transship partners with Loadsure to deliver pay-as-you-go, wraparound insurance coverage for all perishable goods.

Central Mexico tops for cargo theft; Flex adds 1,000 jobs in Juárez, $3.3 million of meth found in tile shipment and Mexican sorghum farmers to meet with government on Wednesday.

vailable cargo space on outbound aircraft from China is starting to become scarce again. Shippers better hurry to lock up reservations for the late summer and peak season.

Federal government seeks to widen eligibility for Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy under a program welcomed by the country’s largest trucking organization.

OptimoRoute is a route planning and schedule optimization platform that helps companies organize their mobile workforce and optimize delivery routes.

The U.S.-Canada-border will remain closed for non-essential travel until Aug. 21, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.

The U.S. Border Patrol aided the individual when the train arrived in San Diego, Texas.

Transaction volumes in China surged by an incredible 430% when factories reopened at the end of February.

A digest evaluates the keynote addresses from the virtual event.

Canadian trucking and logistics firm Titanium Transportation Group opens second brokerage office in the United States as it pushes service and transparency.

Virgin Atlantic is recapitalizing without support from the U.K. government thanks to internal and external investors and creditors.

With safety and travel logistics in mind, the annual AirCargo Conference, which draws up to 800 attendees, will take place online in 2021.

‘There is an increasing risk that fatigue and mental health issues could lead to serious maritime accidents.’

Delta Air Lines will retire more than 100 planes by year’s end, reducing the carrier’s available cargo capacity to some destinations after coronavirus passes.

The United States and Canada reportedly agree to extend the closure of the border for nonessential travel an additional 30 days.

German company picks DHL Supply Chain in North America for its flexible and efficient logistics platform to handle sophisticated medical equipment.

Mexico’s new “Administrative Registry of the Automotive Industry of Heavy Vehicles” will contain monthly data from trucking companies, including wholesale and retail sales, as well as import, export and production numbers for trucks in Mexico.