FedEx Express has opened the FedEx Hub Nacional Mexico distribution center, representing a $48-million investment from the company. Officials said the 70,000-square-foot development will serve as the center of operations in Mexico. The center will also include an automatic sorting system that can handle 13,500 packages each hour. “FedEx sees the potential […]
The Port of Virginia has found business for its idle Portsmouth Marine Terminal for the first time since it was closed in 2011. A portion of the terminal will serve for six months as a staging area for automobiles.
California’s Port of Hueneme has conducted its first operational and safety vessel test of its recently installed grid-based shore-power system. The first vessel to test the new plug-in system was Hamburg Süd’s Cap Pasley.
Japanese ocean carrier MOL announced Monday it has launched new services to carry cars produced in Mexico to a number of U.S. East Coast and West Coast ports to meet growing demand. Automakers have rapidly expanded production capacity in Mexico in recent years and analysts predict auto production will increase by more than […]
MOL (America) said it will stop supplying chassis for store-door moves (where a container is delivered to a consignee or shipper’s place of business rather than a marine terminal) effective May 1.
Union Pacific will invest more than $9 million in April on a rail line between Iowa’s Missouri Valley and Arlington, Neb. The project is expected to be completed by the end of the month. The project includes the replacement of 19,300 railroad ties, insertion of 10,250 tons of rock ballast, and the installation […]
The Lake Carriers’ Association, which represents 17 American companies that operate 57 U.S.-flag vessels on the Great Lakes ice, said only three coal cargos were loaded so far this season starting in March — one on Lake Superior, one on Lake Michigan and one on Lake Erie. The association said its members’ vessels […]
Airbus and Boeing have received RFPs for 50 wide-body aircraft from Delta Airlines, which is seeking to upgrade its fleet. According to Cowen and Company, Delta’s 16 B747-400s and 58 B767-300ERs have an average age of 20.1 years and 17.8 years, respectively. “We expect Delta to look at aircraft with proven technology, […]
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has expanded its roll-on/roll-off vessel service to South America’s west coast this month by adding a monthly call to San Antonio, Chile. “San Antonio is an important addition to WWL’s ocean network because of its close proximity to Santiago, Chile’s capital — a rising market for both auto and heavy […]
OIA Global, a Portland, Ore.-based logistics services provider, has opened a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “Consistent with last year’s acquisition of Bellville Rodair International, OIA Global is continuing our growth strategy, allowing us to further build our infrastructure in one of the world’s fastest growing markets,” said Charlie Hornecker, OIA’s chief […]
The American Institute for International Steel reported shrinking steel exports in February over January, especially for the NAFTA region, which represents about three-quarters of total U.S. steel exports. The association reported a 9-percent drop in U.S. steel exports to Canada, and an almost identical 9.3 percent drop of these shipments to Mexico. […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank has established a partnership with Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce and World Trade Center Charleston in South Carolina.
A 2,840-TEU container ship, the Hansa Constitution, went aground in Hong Kong harbor on Sunday afternoon. A video posted to YouTube shows the 633-foot ship slowly coming to rest just short of a seawall near playing fields at the University of Hong Kong in Pok Fu Lam. The ship is owned by […]
Saltchuk Resources said it will acquire Tropical Shipping, a company that operates ships between the U.S. and Canada and the islands in the Caribbean and Bahamas, from AGL Resources, an Atlanta-based natural gas utility holding company. AGL Resources did not say what the sale price was, but said, “after-tax cash proceeds and repatriated […]
CEO Lovetro says chassis pool operator “intent on providing a broader suite of services.” TRAC Intermodal, the largest chassis leasing company in North America, is looking to enter the drayage business. TRAC’s fleet of 310,000 chassis is spread across the United States among 546 locations for its marine chassis and 154 locations for […]
Greater cooperation among all air cargo stakeholders — airlines, freight forwarders and shippers — will help erase the communications gap between shippers’ expectations of service quality and what the airlines actually provide, according to the European Shippers’ Council. To that end, the industry as a whole needs to collaborate on new pilot projects […]
Fred Smith, chairman and chief executive officer of FedEx Corp., in an April 10 speech pushed back against those saying that new flight-and-duty time rules for passenger airline pilots should apply to cargo airlines too. Calls for the change have become louder after investigators looking into a UPS Cargo plane crash in Alabama last […]
OOO “Garant-S” sued Empire United Lines and Michael Hitrinov, its president and owner, for losses arising from a third-party theft of Garant’s automobiles.
By Alan Spear, U.S. director of cargo security loss control for AIG Global Marine If you feel baffled by our information-intense culture, you’re not alone. Not only are we bombarded with “stuff”—some useful, most not—we are fed daily statements which are misleading and/or inaccurate. It has become more difficult to adhere to KISS (Keep […]
It’s hard to go much more than a week in the supply chain business without hearing about the silos that separate everyone. Carriers don’t talk to shippers. Inbound doesn’t talk to outbound. International doesn’t talk to domestic. Procurement doesn’t talk to finance. Sourcing doesn’t talk to transportation. Merchandising doesn’t talk to anyone.
