The Alabama State Port Authority on Monday completed the purchase of two industrial properties formerly owned by Walter Energy. The properties cost the port $25 million, and include about 35 acres fronting the port’s channel and another 63-acre tract within one-half mile of harbor. Both properties are adjacent to the port’s Choctaw Point […]
Classification services provider ABS has opened a new office in Beijing. The firm opened its first office in China at Shanghai in 1993. “Our Beijing office will be central to our operations as we seek to expand our presence and service offerings throughout China,” said Kwok Wai Lee, ABS’s vice president of […]
A retail trade association has once again called on the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) to reach an agreement on an new contract to replace their agreement which expired July 1. Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) President Sandy Kennedy urged the two groups to “remain focused on […]
A coalition of trucking groups, led by the American Trucking Associations, asked the U.S. Transportation Department to remove the scores produced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability fleet monitoring system from the agency’s website. The groups cited in a letter to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on Friday that recent […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank has authorized a pair of direct loans to two wind power projects in Peru for the export of wind turbines manufactured in Hutchinson, Kan., and Fort Madison, Iowa, by Siemens Energy. The financing, valued together at $65 million, represents Ex-Im Bank’s first renewable energy transactions in Peru. “During […]
Yusen Logistics has begun a less-than-containerload service from the United Kingdom to the United States to provide customers more shipping options, the company said Tuesday. Yusen’s U.S. transportation network will deconsolidate shipments and move them to their intended inland destination by truck or rail.
The National Transportation Safety Board has revoked the status of UPS and the Independent Pilots Association as “interested parties” able to provide technical assistance for its investigation of a UPS Airbus A300 freighter that crashed in Birmingham, Ala., last August. Two flight crew members were killed, and the plane was destroyed upon impact […]
The carrier imports and exports approximately 800,000 units out of the United States every year; out of those 800,000 units, 350,000 units are out of JAXPORT, Per Folkesson, president of Region Americas, explained.
The import restrictions challenged by the United States in this dispute include an import licensing requirement and restrictive trade-related requirements imposed by Argentina.
Oscar Hasbun, the chief executive officer of CSAV, said his company has “a reasonable expectation that we will be able to obtain the necessary approvals from regulatory authorities this year.”
A new tenant that specializes in the export of steel scrap could significantly increase Port Canaveral’s small breakbulk volumes. The Central Florida port authority has signed a one-year lease for a four-to-five-acre facility with Port Canaveral Scrap Terminal LLC to ship scrap metal to mills in Turkey, with a minimum guarantee of 100,000 […]
ZIM said a reduction in revenues was a result of discontinuing some lines, not having revenues from a container manufacturing plant sold in 2013, and a 3-percent drop in average freight rates from the second quarter of 2013.
UPS will open two package-distribution warehouses in the Dallas area by November, adding more than 700,000 square feet of handling space to the region. Officials await the opening of the 495,000-square-foot Independence building in Fort Worth, Texas, which will serve customers living in the counties of North Tarrant and South Denton. More than […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday that California citrus farmers may restart exporting to China this season. In April 2013, California-origin citrus was barred from entering China after interceptions of brown rot.
Probably better known to French tourists and stamp collectors than many people in the logistics industry, the container carrier said nevertheless Reunion’s location puts it at “the crossroads between Europe, Asia and Africa.”
Sea Star Line has placed an order for 100 new 40-foot and 50 45-foot refrigerated containers. The order comes in the third year of a five-year plan that aims to reduce the average age of Sea Star’s reefer box fleet to less than three years old. Sea Star operates between the U.S. mainland, […]
The Danish container carrier said its customers were unprepared for the Russian counter-sanctions and it is working with these shippers’ origin offices to “find the best and most cost efficient way to send back the goods.”
International customs officials at the World Customs Organization in Brussels have recently agreed on 234 changes to the global system that categorizes products that are imported and exported around the world.
Econocaribe Consolidators of Miami has filed a complaint against another ocean transportation intermediary, Amoy International of City of Industry, Calif., at the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission, asking for reparations of about $192,811, plus interest and attorneys fees. The non-vessel-operating common carrier claimed Amoy violated the Shipping Act and other laws by misdeclaring goods. […]
Globe Tracker International has formed a strategic relationship with Total Soft Bank Ltd. Globe Tracker, a Danish firm, specializes in global assets tracking, while Busan, South Korea-based Total Soft Bank is a global port and maritime information technology company. The new venture will focus on the delivery of wireless tracking solutions for […]
