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   The Canada Border Services Agency will introduce enhancements to its system in order for it to modernize commercial border processes, and make them more streamlined and predictable, the agency announced Wednesday.    The update will affect service providers and carriers who are connected with CBSA, requiring them to make necessary upgrades. The agency said […]

   The U.S. Department of Transportation must expand the Obama administration’s safety focus from distracted and drunk driving, and unsafe bus operators to aviation and the transport of energy supplies in the wake of last month’s fiery accident in North Dakota when a BNSF Railway unit train hauling crude oil collided with a car that […]

   The 20 largest container shipping companies lost an aggregate of $1.3 billion between 2008 and 2012 according to Dynamar, which attributes this increased volatility to the creation of the Shanghai Containerised (Export) Freight Index.

   The project is 72-percent complete, and officials insist they will finish the project, either with the current contractor or another one, if issues regarding payment of cost overruns cannot be resolved.

   The Japanese shipping company said the alliance will “organically connect TraPac’s expertise in top-level terminal operation with Toronto-based Brookfield’s knowledge of the infrastructure business in North/South America, Australia and Europe.”

   “Supported by the strength of an expanding economy, we delivered 6-percent volume growth in the quarter, despite another sharp decline in coal,” stated Michael Ward, the carrier’s chairman, president and chief executive officer.

   The Greenbrier Companies said Thursday that its Gunderson Marine division has received an order from Kirby Offshore Marine to build an articulated ocean-going oil and chemical tank barge, with an option for a second unit, to meet growing demand.    The 578-foot tank barge is one of the largest in Gunderson’s history, and will […]

   Cathay Pacific Airways’ and Dragonair’s traffic figures for December show a year-over-year decline in cargo, despite more capacity being available, Cathay Pacific announced Thursday.    The airlines reported that they carried 139,608 tons of cargo and mail in December, a decrease of 5 percent compared to December 2012. Capacity, measured in available cargo/mail ton […]

   The Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon announced Wednesday that it shipped more cargo during the fourth quarter than any other quarter in the port’s 37-year history. Between October and December of last year, the port shipped 1.59 million tons — more than the total annual volume in each of the port’s first five years of […]

   The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday easily passed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that formalizes last month’s bipartisan budget agreement to keep the government running for the remainder of the fiscal year.    H.R. 3547, which must still be approved by the Senate, provides modest help for federal port and inland waterway […]

   The Port of Dunkirk announced Wednesday that Del Monte France will import its bananas from Cameroon via the Port of Dunkirk, using CMA CGM’s PC Hebdo line.     Del Monte’s agreement with CMA CGM, which recently announced the reorganization of its PC Hebdo service, has positioned the Port of Dunkirk as the leading European […]

   The Federal Maritime Commission wants more information on the proposed expansion of the G6 vessel-sharing agreement (VSA).    Commissioners voted to ask for additional information from the G6 container carriers — APL, Hapag Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, MOL, NYK and OOCL — who want to expand their six-way cooperation into the Asia-U.S. West Coast […]

   Pacific International Lines (PIL) will begin calling the Port of Seattle next month.    Singapore-based PIL’s new Asia Pacific Northwest Service (ANW) will call Terminal 30 in partnership with China Shipping Container Lines’ (CSCL) and United Arab Shipping Company’s (UASC) existing joint service.    The service will have a port rotation of Nansha/ Hong […]

   Railroad shippers anticipate an average base rate increase of 4.1 percent over the next six to 12 months, according to Cowen and Company’s 4Q13 Rail Shipper Survey.    “This result is above the 3.6 percent expected in our 3Q13 survey, representing the second consecutive quarterly improvement and the first time since 1Q12 that pricing […]

   Catapult International announced Monday the release of the newest addition to its suite of online rate-visibility software products. As an extension to Catapult’s rate and quotation management system, Catapult QMS, Catapult stated its QMS LiteTM will provide a clean, simple user interface to retrieve rates, check transit times and book shipping confirmations.    “Multinational […]

   MOL is planning to sell a 49-percent interest in its TraPac terminal subsidiary to a Canadian company, Brookfield Asset Management.

   Evergreen has taken delivery of an additional 8,508-TEU containership built at CSBC Corp.’s shipyard in Kaohsiung. The ship, Ever Lucid, will join one of the Taiwanese carrier’s Far East – Europe strings.

   INTTRA said the Chilean container shipping company CSAV will make INTTRA a preferred e-shipping platform for its shippers and freight forwarders.       “By making INTTRA’s e-commerce capabilities and network available to our customers, we are accelerating execution on our top priority — to deliver the highest level of service by using the best technologies […]

   Governments should wait to adopt further rules about the submission of advance data for air cargo security until ongoing pilot tests can be completed and harmonized global standards are agreed upon, TIACA’s Douglas Brittin said.

   A bill that seeks to halt shipping fees charged by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been passed by New Jersey’s Assembly and Senate.    New Jersey Sen. Bob Gordon and Sen. Nicholas P. Scutari say the bill is needed to protect the competitiveness of the port.    The bill […]