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Centurion Cargo has appointed Paul Berntsen to vice president of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Berntsen, a 20-year air cargo veteran, will be based in the company’s […]
As Americans celebrated Labor Day, there was still no sign of a thaw in the frozen labor negotiations between the International Longshoremen’s Association and employers of its members. East Coast ports prepare […]
The ocean carrier Maersk Line has added a second (northbound) port call at Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, a new call at Conakry, Guinea and an additional vessel to its weekly […]
The subsidiary of NOL said moving automobiles in containers allows more frequent shipping of vehicles from origin to destination as well as reduces transload times and handling which can lead to […]
DuPont said it will install a scrubber on a Maersk containership to remove sulfur dioxide from its emissions. The scrubber will be placed on the Maersk Taurus. The two […]
The White House on Friday said the United States and Cambodia have agreed to start exploratory discussions on a potential bilateral investment treaty. The announcement follows a meeting […]
Gulf port reopens for business today after minimal damage from Hurricane Isaac earlier this week, with New Orleans port director lauding Army Corps of Engineers, pilots, and Coast Guard for […]
Clerks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continue to discuss a new contract with employers, partially alleviating concerns earlier this week that they could picket and induce […]
The Virginia Port Authority Board of Commissioners announced Thursday evening that Jerry Bridges, who has headed the state agency since 2007, will step down as port director at the […]
The largest organization in the country representing shippers is seeking the assistance of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to get contract talks restarted between dockworkers on the East and Gulf […]
SynchroNet Intermodal Services (SIS) has expanded its North American street-turn service to include shippers and non-vessel-operating common carriers to increase customer visibility. The service, which gives access to a larger […]
James A. Capo, chairman and chief executive officer for the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), said he’s still hopeful the two sides will “get back together and get a deal worked […]
The French port of Marseilles Fos has appointed Arnaud Ranjard to director of development. He replaces Dirk Becquart. Since 2008 Ranjard was strategy and development director for […]
The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing, a group of seven U.S. solar cell and panel manufacturers who fought to impose trade protections against Chinese-made imports, said a new market report […]
Local 1804-1 yesterday evening gave “the authority to recommend and call for a strike if that action becomes necessary when the current Master Contract expires on September 30, 2012.” Its members do […]
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has published an updated list of “controlled carriers” in the Federal Register to reflect the changes it has made since the list was last published […]
Contract talks between the ILWU Marine Clerks Association Local 63 Office Clerical Unit (OCU), and the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Employers Association, are reportedly in danger of breaking down, worrying West Coast […]
INSIGHT Inc. is preparing its operations to tackle the cap-and-trade restrictions being put in place in the United States as it believes California’s adoption of regulations foreshadow things to come. […]
RedPrairie has announced that its warehouse management system (WMS) increased in total market share by growing at a faster pace than the overall WMS market in 2011, coinciding with […]
Maersk Line said it plans to hike rates from the Far East to Asia, starting Sept. 19. The increases are $400 per 20-foot container, $500 per 40-foot container, $565 […]
The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) said its members will apply a low-sulfur fuel charge beginning on Oct. 1. The discussion agreement of 15 of the leading container carriers […]
Transplace, a non-asset-based third party logistics provider, said Great Lakes Brewing Co. has selected it to manage outbound transportation from its warehouse to distributors throughout the Midwest. The Ohio-based […]
The agency has made several improvements to its Compliance Safety Accountability (CSA) enforcement program that will allow it to more quickly identify and address high-risk trucking companies with compliance concerns.
ProSight Specialty Insurance has launched a specialty insurance program for third party logistics customers that will be distributed through Artex Risk Solutions and the Leavitt Group (Pridemark Everest Insurance […]
A news report in Monday’s AS Daily misstated that the MSC Flaminia, a vessel pulled from service due to a fire, was on Mediterranean Shipping Co.’s North Atlantic service. […]
With the peak holiday shipping season kicking into high gear, the nation’s largest trade association for retailers on Monday urged negotiators for the ILA and their employers return to the […]
The dockworker’s union said Friday it has received “expressions of support and vows of solidarity from other unions across the country and around the world,” following last week’s breakdown in contract talks […]
The port and city of Oakland are organizing the $1 billion project, which will include an intermodal yard to serve marine terminals operated by Ports America and the logistics park. […]
Non-vessel-operating common carrier CaroTrans has appointed Lueder Bitter to national import operations manager and John Lourmas as national commercial manager of imports. Bitter is a 30-year veteran of […]
The U.S. Transportation Department will give a $17.8 million grant to reconstruct two major taxiways at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. The Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement […]
By Chris Gillis Maybe it’s a sign of the times, but today’s American shippers appear to be much better informed and prepared to work around potential breakdowns in […]
Greenpack of Puerto Rico appealed a U.S. District Court’s dismissal of its claim for damages resulting from a delayed delivery of perishable food items from Puerto Limón, Costa Rica […]
LTL operator’s focus on expansion and profitability stems from a simple ethos. By Eric Johnson In the less-than-truckload market, Old Dominion Freight Line has become a darling of […]
Do derivatives have the potential to change the way the ocean freight market functions? By Eric Johnson Late June in San Francisco, and the scene was a bit […]
The president of the San Diego Customs Brokers Association, three international trade companies and seven other individuals, are facing federal charges following a probe targeting a multimillion-dollar customs fraud scheme […]
Tradition and much risk go into shipping that morning cup of coffee. By Chris Dupin Whether to fill shelves with supermarket mainstays like Folgers and Maxwell House […]
To meet tight schedules and control costs, managers charter ships, use trains and trucks. By Chris Dupin The 2013 America’s Cup race may be the most spectator-friendly in history. Both […]
Atlantic Container Line has long had a reputation for going its own way, one that looks to be enhanced with its order last month of five new combination container-roll-on/roll-off […]
Claitor’s Publishing has recently issued a second edition of Daniel W. Raab’s Transportation Terms and Conditions. A Miami-based attorney who specializes in transportation issues, Raab told us his […]
FedEx is already known by shippers for its finely tuned express package service, but now the express giant seeks the same customer recognition for its burgeoning air and ocean […]
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals will be 50 years old next year, a time for the group to “ponder where we have come from and where we […]
Logistics providers adapt to tough sales environment by developing creative solutions, collaborating with shippers. By Eric Kulisch U.S. third-party logistics providers fared well last year with revenue increasing […]
PEAK Technologies has completed its acquisition of supply chain service provider Catalyst from CDC Global Services. Catalyst is a highly-specialized SAP services partner and focuses most of its work on […]
Third party logistics provider Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc. will open a new logistics center in June 2013. The facility in Chicago is positioned near O’Hare International Airport, and […]
Dole in San Diego port The Port of San Diego has renewed a lease with Dole Fresh Fruit Co. for its Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal. The new lease is […]
The U.S. Transportation Department on Thursday officially started the Freight Policy Council which will focus on improving the condition and performance of the country’s freight network. The council […]
After several months at regular speed, the ocean carrier Maersk Line has once again added an additional vessel to its weekly MESA service between the Middle East and South […]
Aman Sapra, senior project manager for York, Pa.-based supply chain consulting firm St. Onge Co., was elected president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers’ Lean Division, starting in May […]
U.S. Marshals this week seized food products stored in a Fremont, Calif., company’s warehouse after inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration found widespread and active rodent infestation. […]
The CKYH alliance of liner shipping companies has added a 10th vessel to its weekly MD2 service between Asia and the Mediterranean, increasing roundtrip voyage time from 63 days […]
Fujitsu has announced the introduction of its new Logifit series of logistics solutions that seek to leverage data to help cut costs and improve service and data quality. […]
GAC Energy and Marine Services, a subsidiary of Dubai-based global shipping, logistics and marine services provider GAC Group, has opened a new warehouse in Laredo, Texas, to meet the growing […]
The SEC voted 3-2 on Wednesday to approve implementing regulations which require publically traded companies to determine whether their products contain “conflict” minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union last week filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Port of Portland, contending the port wrongly stepped into a dispute between the […]
The U.S. government on Tuesday has requested consultations with the Argentine government under the dispute settlement provisions of the WTO concerning restrictive trade measures applied to all goods imported into […]
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Import Administration has released the second phase of its electronic document filing system for antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings. The AD/CVD Centralized Electronic Service […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank on Tuesday opened a new office in Seattle to benefit the Pacific Northwest region’s small and midsized exporters. This is the third opening of […]
Australian furniture manufacturer and retailer Fantastic Holdings Ltd. (FHL) has attributed its continued growth in the current soft economy to supply chain optimization services provided by Manhattan Associates. Fantastic has […]
A CSX freight train carrying coal derailed around midnight in Ellicott City, Md., west of Baltimore, killing two people and crushing several cars that were parked nearby in a public […]
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s petroleum and chemical transportation group has bought two new Jones Act tankers from Aker Philadelphia Shipyard. The tankers, scheduled for delivery in September and March […]
The U.S. Commerce Department and the city of Los Angeles will develop a new online resource to highlight domestic suppliers of apparel, textiles and footwear. “There is incredible […]
TOTE, Inc. has appointed Philip H. Greene Jr., a retired rear admiral of the U.S. Navy, to vice president. After 32 years in the Navy, Greene served as […]
The agency is expected to announce rules on Aug. 22. The provisions are part of the sweeping Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation.
The Swiss logistics company Panalpina is introducing new technology to better monitor temperature-controlled air freight. Panalpina says one-fifth of the air cargo moved on some routes within its own controlled […]
The law firm Holland & Knight is cautioning shipping companies that the U.S. government has “significantly ratcheted-up sanctions against Iran with a new presidential executive order and new legislation.” […]
An Italian shipowner and its chief engineer on one of its ships were sentenced Wenesday in federal court in Mobile, Ala., for deliberately falsifying records to conceal discharges of […]
Air Canada has selected CHEP Aerospace Solutions to supply and manage its fleet of cargo equipment, known in the airline industry as unit load devices (ULDs). CHEP will […]
FedEx Trade Networks, the freight forwarding arm of FedEx Corp., has started operations in Glasgow, Scotland, as part of its ongoing expansion initiative. This is the third FedEx […]
Al Stanley, president and CEO of Intermarine, said the company had chosen to merge with Scan-Trans because it had a similar focus and little overlap in operations, leaving the combined companies […]
Port of Houston Authority commissioners voted to not go ahead with a plan to build a marsh of up to 411 acres in Galveston Bay with dredge spoils from […]
Ethiopian Airlines on Wednesday received its first U.S. Export-Import Bank-supported Boeing 787 Dreamliner at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the main terminal of Washington Dulles International Airport. Earlier in […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank on Wednesday opened a new regional export finance center in Atlanta as part of its Global Access program to promote small business exports. This […]
José Viegas, a Portuguese national, has become secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s International Transport Forum. The forum is an intergovernmental organization with 54 […]
The investment firm said Tuesday that it has submitted a proposal to Virginia as an alternative to the offer APM Terminals made in May to operate the state’s three marine terminals in […]
Evergreen is operating the service in response to increasing market demand for feeder space. It said “recent political and economic reforms have attracted significant amounts of foreign investment to the […]
Two shipping companies that specialize in moving project and heavylift cargo – Houston-based Intermarine and Denmark’s Scan-Trans Holding -announced Wednesday that they are merging. The combined companies will […]
“If an index on container rates might prove useful to exporters of agricultural products, such an index should be created by private interests and not an agency of the federal […]
Virginia Transportation Secretary Connaughton said “we are now in the process of reviewing the proposals to determine whether the documents satisfy the minimum submission criteria set out in the request […]
Global supply chain and retail technology provider RedPrairie has acquired Toronto-based Vortex Connect, a leader in best-of-breed mobile workforce management solutions focused on real-time business-to-employee communications and operations. […]
BDP revealed earlier this year that it was speaking to private equity investors to help it grow and diversify capital sources, but decided after a seven month review that the […]
Agility, the Kuwait-based logistics company provider, said it had a profit of 7.8 million Kuwait dinar ($27.6 million) in the second quarter 2012, about equal to what it earned […]
CEVA Logistics on Monday said it has expanded the ancillary services to its less-than-containerload (LCL) ocean freight network in the U.S. Midwest. CEVA augmented its LCL services in […]
Germany’s Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper reported that Erck Rickmers will step down from his job in the Hamburg parliament at the end of August to focus his attention on the […]
Seattle-based Jensen Maritime Consultants, a Crowley Maritime Corp. company, has expanded its presence to the U.S. Gulf with the opening of a third office in New Orleans. The […]
The FAA alleges that between Aug. 2 and Aug. 12, 2010, FedEx employees in numerous locations around the country improperly accepted several dozen shipments containing hazardous materials for air transport.
The U.S. Commerce Department has approved a new foreign trade zone (FTZ) in Miami-Dade County at PortMiami. “The new Foreign Trade Zone in Miami will provide Florida businesses […]
The U.S.-based Coalition for Sugar Reform pointed to a 12 percent increase in world sugar prices from June to July as another reason for Congress to reform the U.S. […]
The private equity firm agreed to purchase 4.4 million common shares of Navigator Holdings Ltd. from the bankrupt Lehman Brothers Inc. (LBI) for $110 million, more than doubling its holdings […]
The International Transport Workers’ Federation said Monday that privatization plans have been temporarily put on hold at Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala’s largest Pacific port. ITF, which is an international […]
COSCO Container Lines on Friday said it will hike its eastbound transpacific rates from Sept. 10. The increases, which apply to origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia, and Indian […]
Zim said it will impose a $20-per-TEU low-sulfur fuel charge, effective Sept. 15, on cargo moving between North Europe/Mediterranean and North America (all coasts) in both directions. Zim […]
The U-Freight Group (UFL) has apointed Steven Wong to vice president of sales and marketing for its main subsidiaries, U-Freight Ltd. and U-Ocean Ltd. in Hong Kong. Wong, […]
The Montreal-based stevedoring and transportation company Logistec has acquired CrossGlobe Transport, a firm which provides port logistics services for forest products, auto parts and other cargo at three terminals […]
Hapag-Lloyd said it would increase transatlantic freight rates on October 1. Rates on eastbound cargo moving through ports on U.S. Gulf coast and the east coasts of Mexico, […]
Trailer Bridge said it had completed a $9 million investment in state-of-the-art high cube 53-foot steel containers. The Company will take delivery of 800 containers this month and […]
Federal, state, and local politicians highlight benefits for Philadelphia of dredging Delaware River, with a proposed terminal expansion based on increasing channel depth from 40 to 45 feet
After postponing new canal transit fee announcement, Panama authority sets new toll structures for next two years to provide pricing stability, while also setting up different rate levels for 10 […]
Accellos, a provider of supply chain execution software solutions, has upgraded its AccellosOne end-to-end Warehouse Management System (WMS) with enhancements aimed at increasing productivity, efficiency, and visibility around warehouse and […]
