Sunland Logistics Solutions, a South Carolina-based third party logistics services provider, has entered a partnership with Artisan Logistics as their in-house carrier to support Sunland’s customers with transportation services outside its network. Sunland provides transportation for shuttle and dedicated moves within a 200-mile range of its warehouses throughout the state. Artisan […]
The report suggested supply chain companies targeting new talent aim to recruit in the fall, not the spring, “or risk the near 100-percent placement rates shutting you out of that year’s candidate pool.”
A record amount of container cargo moved through the Port of the Port of New York and New Jersey in the first six months of 2014. The agency attributed the increase to an improving economy and diversion of cargo that would normally move through West Coast ports. Cargo moved from the West Coast because […]
A USDA official said the situation at the Port of Vancouver doesn’t “ensure safe access to the UGC facility for the GIPSA, and therefore [USDA] is conditionally withholding official grain weighing and inspection services.”
Expeditors International turned in net earnings of $91.3 million during the second quarter, a year-over-year decrease of 1 percent, while net revenues ticked up 3 percent to $484.7 million.
Brown Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has introduced a bill ensuring transportation spending it used toward products made in America. In addition to creating Buy America preferences for materials used in transportation projects, the “Invest in American Jobs Act” would “prevent segmentation to circumvent Buy America standards” and make the Department of Transportation allow […]
Egypt plans to improve the Suez Canal by building a 45-mile section parallel to the existing canal that will act as a bypass so ships can travel in two directions, boosting the waterway’s capacity. The plan was unveiled today by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at an event to launch the Suez Canal Axis […]
The demise of the network of electric trolley cars that once crisscrossed Los Angeles is an important and controversial chapter in the history of public transportation.
The program was developed and implemented by the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and the Environmental Defense Center.
The bank also announced that it will pledge $3 billion in financing to support U.S exports to Sub-Saharan Africa over the next two fiscal years.
The White House announced Tuesday that the United States has entered an agreement to boost trade and investment with the Economic Community of West African States. “Africa is an increasingly critical trading partner for the United States, and the signing of this Trade and Investment Framework agreement with the 15 countries of […]
Less-than-truckload carrier Dayton Freight has relocated its Columbia, Mo., service center. The facility includes 32 truck doors and was “constructed in response to increased customer demand,” the company said. Dayton Freight has operated in Missouri since 1986 and has four facilities in the state, including Columbia, Springfield, Sikeston and St. Louis.
Ships transiting the Panama Canal have relatively fewer accidents than those using the Suez Canal or the Kiel Canal, and the number of ship casualties has dropped over the past decade, according to the German insurance company Allianz in a new report, Panama Canal 100: Shipping safety and future risks. But the insurer […]
Net profit for the second quarter rose by 9 percent to 461 million euros. Operating earnings ended the quarter at 654 million euros, up by almost 6 percent, year-over-year.
“The second quarter results were indicative of a rebounding economy and higher-than-predicted import shipments,” said Joni Casey, president and chief executive officer of the Intermodal Association of North America.
International air cargo demand ticked up in June by 2.3 percent, when compared to June 2013, after showing a 4.9-percent rise in May, according to the latest figures from the International Air Transport Association.
There was more merger and acquisition activity in the transportation and logistics industry in the second quarter of 2014 than in the first quarter of this year, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The Panama Canal Authority and the consortium working on the expansion project have signed an agreement that incorporates a variation reached in March to the original 2009 contract.
King Ocean moved approximately 140,000 TEU through Port Everglades in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2013, and recently added a 7.3-acre Midport marine terminal to its existing 33.8-acre Southport terminal.
Delta Air Lines flew 218.2 million cargo ton miles in July, an 8.4-percent increase, year-over-year. For the first seven months of the year, Delta’s 1.35 billion cargo ton miles represents a 0.5-percent increase over the same period in 2013.
