Maersk has provided additional details on the service it will begin offering May 19 connecting the U.S. East Coast with the West Coast of South America. Maersk will charter space from MSC on its Andean Feeder Service, with an allocation of 150 FEUs each week. Half of that allocation will be from Port […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday awarded funding to more than 600 agricultural trade organizations to help promote exports of their products to overseas markets. The funding was made available through the 2014 Farm Bill. USDA will begin accepting applications for 2015 export development program funding Thursday. “Now that Congress has […]
To download this report you must be an American Shipper Global Schedule Subscriber, a BlueWater Reporting Individual Subscriber or a BlueWater Reporting Corporate Subscriber or you may purchase the report directly by visiting https://www.bluewaterreporting.com/G6TATPAnalysis The G6 Alliance of liner carriers, which includes Singapore-owned APL; Japan’s NYK Line and MOL; HMM of South Korea; […]
The Transportation Intermediaries Association has updated its joint broker-shipper contract with the National Industrial Transportation League due to regulatory changes stemming from MAP-21 and released a new broker-forwarder contract.
The European Parliament has voted to make regulations regarding airport noise restrictions more transparent. Once signed into law, the new regulations are expected to take effect in 2016.
The Antwerp Port Authority has acquired the former General Motors plant inside the port area. The Belgian port plans to develop the 96-hectare site to attract manufacturers of industrial and petro-chemical products to the port complex. “Such sites are invaluable because they make it possible to attract new industry and generate additional […]
Cory Logistics, part of Braemar Shipping Services, has entered a joint venture with supply chain specialist Navarm Ltd. to provide a range of surface transportation logistics services to the nuclear power industry. Cory-Navarm, based in Somerset, U.K., will start work with EDF Energy, which is developing the Hinkley Point C power station in […]
Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to pay $108 million and plead guilty to felony violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to avoid prosecution, the U.S. Justice Department and SEC announced.
World Trade Organization economists expect global trade to grow by 4.7 percent in 2014 and 5.3 percent in 2015, the WTO said this week. Although the 2014 forecast of 4.7 percent is more than double the 2.1 percent increase of last year, it remains below the 20-year average of 5.3 percent, the organization […]
Three of the biggest U.S. less-than-truckload carriers will post shipper-direct spot rates on the online freight marketplace uShip, the company said Wednesday.
The Global Shippers’ Forum said it will organize a new global campaign “to confront the imposition of unsubstantiated shipping surcharges, terminal charges and more than 20 other non-negotiable local charges on shippers worldwide.” GSF said it will focus on “persuading national competition authorities or other appropriate regulatory bodies to introduce new shipping regulations […]
After a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Dangerous Goods Panel last week, ICAO has banned the shipment of lithium metal batteries as cargo aboard passenger aircraft. According to an update sent out Wednesday by the Airforwarders Association, the prohibition does not extend to batteries carried by passengers or batteries contained in […]
Inchcape Shipping Services has opened a new office in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. The office will be headed by Aldo Limongelli, who brings 38 years of maritime experience, and initially include four staff. “In a market driven by the oil, gas and dry bulk sectors, the opening of this new office will […]
Member lines of the Asia Australia Discussion Agreement will be subjected to a rate increase beginning May 15 — $500 per TEU and $1,000 per FEU on dry and reefer cargo from Greater China to Australia.
Old Dominion will raise its base rates by an average of 4.3 percent in May, the company said. The increase won’t be felt across the board, officials said, but will instead take into account a customer’s length of haul. In July, the carrier increased the base rate by an average of 4.9 […]
IAG Cargo will add in June an additional flight between its hub in Madrid and Panama once per week, bringing the service to a daily schedule in July. The carrier already offers five flights each week on the routing, and uses Iberia’s A340-300, A340-600 and A330-300 planes for the flights. “The additional […]
ProTrans, a U.S.-based transportation and supply chain management provider, has expanded its coverage by opening a new center in Kansas City, Mo. “The opening of the Kansas City Center allows ProTrans to continue to improve transit times from suppliers to our customers,” Director of Consolidation Operations John Ousley said in a statement. “Our […]
Air quality regulators in Southern California have proposed a rule that they say would “ensure emission reductions associated with sources operating in commercial marine ports” are achieved this year and beyond.
Foxx U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx embarked Monday on a weeklong “Invest in America, Commit to the Future” bus tour that will take him to eight states, where he will try to drum up support for funding a large surface transportation bill and restoring solvency to the Highway Trust Fund before it runs out […]
U.S. Bank on Monday unveiled a new extended term financing capability aimed at allowing shippers to more easily extend their days payable outstanding without delaying payment to their carriers.
