The U.S. Senate late Thursday passed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2014 that consolidates 14 appropriations bills for various federal departments. Funding for several freight-related programs is included.
GUPC, the consortium hired to build a third set of wider locks for the Panama Canal, on Monday qualified its ultimatum to suspend work Jan. 20 if its demands to be reimbursed for $1.6 billion in cost overruns are not met.
The Global Shippers Forum, which includes the U.S. National Industrial Transportation League as one of its members, wants the block exemption for the liner shipping industry in Europe, which is due to expire on April 25, 2015, ended.
The first of the ships is scheduled to be handed over by November. The remaining four containerships are slated to be delivered by the end of the first quarter of 2015.
IAG Cargo has signed a commercial agreement with Qatar Airways to purchase capacity on Qatar Airways-operated freighters, and as a result of the deal, IAG is ending an agreement with Global Supply Systems.
RoadOne IntermodaLogistics has started an initiative with GreenFleet Ventures that will allow North American owner-operators to lease newer vehicles and more environmentally friendly tractors, according to a news release. RoadOne said the program actually began Oct. 1, with 20 tractors being made available to owner-operators. “We are pleased to work closely with […]
Acquired last August by XPO, 3PD is the largest provider of “high-touch, last-mile” deliveries in North America, said Karl Meyer, the unit’s chief executive officer. Meyer, former national delivery manager at Home Depot, founded 3PD in 2001 with his brother Randy, who serves as its chief financial officer, to provide last-mile deliveries in […]
Third-party logistics provider XPO paves a path forward through acquisitions. XPO Logistics, a third-party logistics company that has seemingly made a business of acquisitions over the last two years, started 2014 by buying the third-largest intermodal player in the market, Pacer International. This step into the intermodal arena is somewhat new for XPO, […]
FMC says it will carefully review the proposed P3 Network and G6’s expansion. Last month the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission requested additional information about the proposed expansion of the G6 vessel-sharing agreement (VSA). The carriers in the alliance — APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, MOL, NYK and OOCL — are seeking to […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection experienced an increased workload for border enforcement in fiscal year 2013, ended Sept. 30, despite tight manpower constraints from the sequester.
Pre-inspection of overseas shipping containers and trucks prior to crossing the Canadian border into the United States is one of the key accomplishments achieved under the Beyond the Border Initiative last year, according to a progress report issued by both countries in December. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in […]
With U.S. infrastructure headed south, heavy equipment shipper sends 40 percent of cargo north. Stu Levenick, president of Caterpillar, said aging U.S. transportation infrastructure and related shipping inefficiencies raise cost and reduce the competitiveness of his company and others. “Our aging infrastructure and the shipping inefficiencies it creates has added an estimated three […]
Allegations of a plot cooked up by at least one member of the administration of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and an executive at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (exactly how many people were involved is unclear) to tie up traffic on the George Washington Bridge has tarnished the bi-state […]
The Port of Cleveland is about to embark on a bold move – offering a scheduled all-water container service from one of its terminals in the Great Lakes to the Port of Antwerp in Europe this spring.
The Plaquemines Port District in December purchased 550 acres of land, including 1.5 miles that fronts to the Mississippi River, as it looks to implement its 2010 master plan for developing a port and turning around the area’s economy. Officials said facilities could sprout up along the river, including coal and container terminals, […]
Greenfield port plan off Louisiana coast would rely on immigrant investors for funding. An investor group with a unique financing scheme that involves a controversial federal immigration program and wealthy foreigners fronting money for a new deep-water port at the mouth of the Mississippi River in exchange for permanent U.S. residency says the government […]
Transportation companies, 3PLs still see value in maintaining, growing their blogs. Before Twitter, and even Facebook and LinkedIn, there was a revolutionary new way that people and companies communicated using the Internet as a connective thread: blogs. Often obscured by society’s headlong leap into newer, more immediate social media platforms, blogs have persisted, […]
When it comes to transportation and compliance concerns, retailers have enough on their plates to make even the healthiest eater blush. But it’s often difficult to determine just what the highest priority issues are at any given moment. And often, those best placed to assess the market’s pain points are technology vendors, since […]
Swayed by changing market conditions and trends, retailers continue to drive logistics services. In the wake of the 2009 financial crisis, U.S. liner imports fell 16 percent, exports by 14 percent, and liner companies laid up about 500 containerships. When business picked up later that year and in 2010, many retailers found themselves […]
In December, officials at American Airlines Cargo were finally told what they had been waiting a long time to hear: Start talking with your colleagues at US Airways because the merger is finally complete.
