Seago Line will open a direct weekly call from Aarhus, Denmark, to St Petersburg, with the first call scheduled for Jan. 25. The service will depart on Saturdays and arrive to First Container Terminal, St. Petersburg, on Thursdays. Seago Line, part of the A.P. Moller Maersk Group, has its own offices in […]
“Our air pollution problem is so bad that communities from around the state are uniting to take on the issue. Moving to electrification and zero emission transportation technologies can literally save lives,” a coalition member said.
The Panama Canal Authority and the consortium building the waterway’s new set of locks met Tuesday, with the contractor proposing a new arrangement to jointly finance ongoing construction while claims for cost overruns go through arbitration.
Congestion at the Oregon port’s Terminal 6 caused the operator ICTSI to take the unusual step on Tuesday of allowing truckers to only deliver empty containers in the morning and pick up import containers in the afternoon.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Wednesday morning advised users to check individual terminal Websites for the latest information on servicing vessels and their hours of operation for Thursday, Jan. 23.
“This significantly younger fleet, combined with the fact that the P3 carriers will deploy significant larger vessels than the G6 carriers, means that the P3 alliance will have substantial lower unit cost than the G6 alliance,” the analyst said.
The Stifel Logistics Confidence Index, which measures freight activity and sentiment among European air and ocean freight forwarders and shippers, fell marginally in January, but has stayed above the bellwether 50 mark for 12 consecutive months. The index is produced in partnership with U.K.-based analyst Transport Intelligence (Ti). In the air freight […]
Maersk announced it will add a new direct service from the East Coast of South America to West Africa on Jan. 28. Maersk’s WAFEX (West Africa Express) will use a fortnightly service operated by Delmas (SAMWAF) that operates with three 1,700-TEU ships. The port rotation includes Buenos Aires (Argentina), Rio Grande (Brazil), […]
COSCO and Eimskip signed a cooperation last week that focuses on North Atlantic transportation and international refrigerated freight forwarding, Eimskip said in a news release Tuesday. The Icelandic carrier also said the companies reached an agreement regarding cooperation on potential Arctic sailings.
GUPC told the Panama Canal Authority on Monday that its demand for an repayment advance of $400 million is not a shakedown for extra money, but a way to jointly bridge the gap until differences can be sorted out in a legal setting.
Israel’s Globes newspaper said last week Zim and its creditors have signed a debt settlement that includes a 50 percent write-off of Zim’s $3 billion debt, mostly to foreign banks. It said the write-off will be the largest in Israel’s history.
Car Carriers Investment AS, a 50/50 joint venture between a subsidiary of Klaveness Marine Holding and a subsidiary of J.P Morgan Global Maritime Investment Fund, intends to start a voluntary cash offer for all of the carrier’s shares.
The federal agency has, as expected, awarded Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. a $51.9 million option for the project to deepen the Port of Miami’s harbor to 50 feet, which will enable it to receive the largest containerships in operation today.
The petroleum and railroad industries met last week in Washington to discuss how to improve safety related to crude oil transport by train with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. The American Petroleum Institute said strong railcars that do not easily leak in a derailment are important, but the first priority is finding ways to […]
Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. (SLSMC) said the waterway saw a surge in ships carrying grain in December, but volumes were lower on the waterway in 2013 than in 2012. “A relatively late harvest in the Prairies producing record breaking volumes led to a delay in the movement of grain. Once the […]
Southeastern Freight Lines has opened a new service center in Jacksonville, Fla., the company announced Monday. The new center includes 125 dock doors, 22,000 square feet of office space, and more than 19,000 square feet of warehousing. Southeastern said the new center will help it be more efficient, enhance delivery performance, and […]
The ports of Seattle and Tacoma said last week that they have filed a discussion agreement with the Federal Maritime Commission that will allow them “to gather and share information to identify potential options for responding to unprecedented industry pressures. “The leaders of both ports believe that recent developments in the shipping industry […]
Envirotainer has opened a new service station in Duesseldorf, the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the company announced Tuesday. The station, one of more than 50 Envirotainer stations worldwide, was opened to ensure availability of temperature-controlled air cargo containers for customers who ship pharmaceutical and healthcare products, the company […]
Logistics and trade professionals are more optimistic about the global economy than they were last year, according to the annual Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index. The index ranks 45 major markets and points out factors that make them attractive to service providers and industry leaders. More than 800 executives were surveyed. In […]
The International Civil Aviation Organization reports that 2013 was the safest year on record in terms of fatalities for scheduled international air operations. Although the number of fatal accidents involving scheduled commercial operations stayed steady at nine during 2013, ICAO said, fatalities themselves dropped to 173 from 372 in 2012. “These results […]
