The less-than-truckload carrier YRC Freight on Tuesday said it has released a new dimensional web quoting application via the company’s redesigned website. The quoting application is designed to make it easier for customers to obtain a competitive quote based on density, schedule a pickup, and pay instantly with a credit card. Customers no […]
CEVA Logistics said it will expand its operations in San Diego by opening a new 125,000-square-foot logistics facility with 23 dock doors. The facility will combine two current CEVA operations in the area ‚ one in Poway, Calif., and its current freight management operation in San Diego. The announcement follows CEVA’s recent […]
The UPS Store is the latest company to report a large data breach that jeopardizes its customers information. The retail shipping outlet of parcel delivery company UPS said it discovered malware on systems at 51 locations, or about 1 percent of its 4,470 franchise centers, in the United States. Customers who used a […]
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents employers, said Tuesday that they had reached a tentative agreement on terms for health benefits.
The petitioners for this investigation are the American Sugar Coalition and its individual members. The product covered by this investigation is sugar derived from sugar cane or sugar beets.
Steel shipments into the United States continued to grow in July, expanding by more than 6 percent from June and nearly 56 percent from a year earlier, according to the American Institute for International Steel.
The agreement with the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association ends a lockout at Portland’s Columbia Grain and Vancouver, Wash.’s United Grain facilities that had been going on for more than a year.
In a letter to the president of Local 8 of the dockworkers’ union in Portland, Bill Wyatt, executive director of the Port of Portland, said the port authority had made the decision because of poor productivity at its Terminal 6 container facility.
Maersk spokesman Tim Simpson speaks on the move to a Florham Park, New Jersey location.
The company said the sale of its terminal in Portsmouth, Va., has been concluded with a partnership comprised of affiliates of investment funds managed by Alinda Capital Partners and Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
The 79-year-old chairman and former chief executive of the Pasha Group died last week in Lake Tahoe, Calif. The company has operated a ro/ro vessel in the U.S. mainland-Hawaii trade for years, in addition to offering an array of other services.
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.
