Customs and Trade Services, a textile and apparel broker based in Miami, has opened an office in Burlington, Wis., near Milwaukee. The company said in a release that the new office will enhance business relationships with clients in the area. Robert Whitley will lead the office.
Young James Young, chairman of Union Pacific, has died at 61 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Young, a lifelong resident of Omaha, Neb., was elected Union Pacific Corporation chairman in January 2007, and served as president and chief executive officer from 2005 to 2012. “Jim was an icon at Union Pacific […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is to formally establish the Commercial Driver’s License Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse by listing it in the Federal Register, according to the organization.
Drewry said the container ship capacity on ultra large container vessels (ULCVs, or ships with capacity of more than 10,000 TEU) will increase by 31.4 percent this year, followed by a further 30 percent in 2015. The London-based consultant says in its Container Insight Weekly newsletter that “even though some of the deliveries […]
The Intermodal Association of North America is recommending that the U.S. Department of Transportation include freight intermodal connectors as part of the nation’s Primary Freight Network.
Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific has agreed to pay shippers $65 million to settle a private class-action lawsuit alleging price fixing of air cargo transportation between 2000 and 2006, according to Hausfeld LLP, one of the law firms representing the claimants. Eight years ago, competition authorities in the United States, European Union, Australia, […]
New Jersey’s Commissioner of Transportation said last week he had tried to arrange for a waiver to the Jones Act so that he could arrange a shipment of road salt from Searsport, Maine, to Newark on a foreign-flag ship to alleviate a shortage of salt. The Jones Act requires that cargo shipped between […]
Dave Brooks. Ram Menen. Both leaders were mainstays in the air cargo arena — Brooks, former head of American Airlines’ cargo operations, and Menen, the long-time cargo boss at Emirates Air Line who shepherded the cargo program from its infancy. Brooks retired in 2012, and Menen followed shortly thereafter, settling into retirement in Luxembourg […]
In this decision (Estes Express Lines v. U.S. Federal Circuit. No. 13-5056. Jan. 3.), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Court of Federal Claims and remanded a case for further proceedings, siding with a trucker seeking to recover funds from the federal government. Estes Express was seeking to […]
Failure to embrace technology is often borne out of an inability to see past the immediate impacts and toward an ultimately more efficient future. Breaking news: the Internet is important to international trade. That statement comes as a result of attending a panel at a think tank in Washington, D.C. in early February […]
Consumers are an influential bunch, and just as they have pushed express companies to deliver products when and where they want them, so too are they having the same effect on old school container transportation providers — namely through strong demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. Fifteen years ago, one had to wait […]
New ocean transportation trends and infrastructure, especially transshipment and the expansion of the Panama Canal, will enable the refrigerated container sector to continue its rapid growth on Latin American trade lanes, Robert West, principle strategist for ports and marine terminals at Australian engineering services firm WorleyParsons, said at a recent port industry conference.
By Walter Kemmsies, chief economist, Moffatt & Nichol Economic recovery has been uneven in most segments of the economy, particularly the freight movement industry. In some regions volumes have exceeded previous peak levels but in others they have not. This is particularly evident in port volume data…
International Shipholding Corp. (ISC) — the parent company of several shipping companies including Central Gulf Lines, Waterman, United Ocean Services and CG Railway — said it will return its headquarters to New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, ISC relocated its corporate headquarters to Mobile, Ala. In New Orleans, ISC will create 100 new […]
Build it and they will come is not a viable strategy for container terminals in the international maritime sector. Ocean terminals are hugely expensive. Banks and investors are unlikely to make loans or deploy capital on the speculative assumption that a good idea for a cargo hub will attract enough business to provide an […]
Ocean transportation intermediaries question FMC’s push for new regulations. The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is continuing its review of proposed changes for regulating ocean freight forwarders and non-vessel-operating common carriers, also known collectively as ocean transportation intermediaries (OTIs). The FMC said there are about 5,900 licensed OTIs and foreign-based NVOCCs within its records. […]
Officials say re-branding reflects Florida bay port’s regional scope. The Port of Tampa is now called Port Tampa Bay, part of a re-branding effort designed to emphasize the port’s regional reach beyond the city and attract more business from shippers and carriers. Port President Paul Anderson splashed the news, along with a new […]
The White House’s Rural Council has launched a new “Made in Rural America” export and investment initiative. “This initiative is charged with bringing together federal resources to help rural businesses and leaders take advantage of new investment opportunities, and access new customers and markets abroad,” council said. Specifically, the Rural Council — […]
On Jan. 4, CBP implemented new features of its Automated Commercial Environment, marking the second successful deployment of new features in less than six months. The new deployment improves Cargo Release by: Expanding the pilot program to include foundational capabilities for ocean and rail manifest shipments. Allowing processing of in-bond transactions with partial […]
During a regularly scheduled meeting in Dublin, Ireland, in December, global customs chiefs discussed how to implement the World Trade Organization’s breakthrough agreement on multilateral trade covering trade facilitation, achieved days earlier in Bali, Indonesia. If enough countries accede to the Trade Facilitation Agreement it could provide an annual global benefit of between […]
