“Establishing a company-owned chassis fleet gives Schneider complete control of assets used in an intermodal move and makes our service even more efficient for shippers,” stated Bill Matheson, president of Schneider’s intermodal services.
According to the Cass Truckload Linehaul Index, truckload linehaul rates in November were 1.8 percent higher than in November of last year. Linehaul rates for the first 11 months of 2013, on average, are up 1.8 percent as compared to 2012. Truckload volumes continue to grow, posting a three-month average of 7.2 percent […]
Tiger Cool Express announced Wednesday it has acquired an initial order of 200 refrigerated containers for its start-up operations this spring. “The acquisition of our first 200 refrigerated containers for the efficient and safe delivery of fresh produce and food products across the country is just the first of several orders we will […]
The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia’s (Bahri) subsidiary The National Chemical Carriers received a new chemical tanker on Wednesday in South Korea. The vessel, named the NCC FAJR, is the first of its kind due to its large size, with dead weight tonnage of 75,000.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food on Wednesday pledged to improve trade in beef and beef-related products between the two countries.
CEVA Logistics said Wednesday that it will renew its business with Ford Motor Company, specifically at the Kentucky Truck Assembly Plant, and has also secured a contract renewal for Vileda, a cleaning solutions provider. “Our role with Ford is to help drive cost effectiveness in its manufacturing processes,” said Jim Barnett, CEVA’s vice […]
Let’s face it, shippers and non-vessel-operating common carriers are wed to their liner carriers, for better or worse. The economics of the container shipping industry are such the carriers that are here today will be the ones there tomorrow for shippers and NVOs. Even during the depths of the recession several years ago, […]
In a new analysis, Drewry Supply Chain Advisors has found that “carriers continue to be spooked by the specter of imminent big ship deliveries and so are fighting to hold onto market share. “This market behavior will put further pressure on freight rates through 2014.” It added that the issue really comes […]
By Alan Spear, U.S. director of cargo security loss control for AIG Global Marine Since retiring on Aug. 2, I’ve been thinking about writing on the experience, but wanted to wait at least a few months to let it settle in…
This case arose out of a disagreement between Radiant Global Logistics’ Airgroup and fashion apparel shipper Donna Karan over a stolen shipment. The parties did not dispute any fundamental facts about the shipment or theft. At issue were two questions — whether Airgroup’s liability for the theft was limited by the Carmack Amendment […]
Considering Shanghai is the world’s busiest container port and China is the world’s largest producer of containerized goods, it’s remarkable that the country’s announcement in September of a new free trade zone in the port city made relatively little splash. The proposed FTZ had been a long time coming, with the shipping, banking, […]
Knatz, former L.A. port director, leaves this month after a four-decade career at SoCal ports. There’s never a quiet time to be head of the Western Hemisphere’s biggest container port. But it would be hard to find a more consequential eight-year stretch than the one Geraldine Knatz presided over as executive director of the […]
Transition to new chassis management model is “painfully slow process.” The transition to a new chassis management model in which a new set of middlemen have taken over from where ocean carriers left off is still evolving and technical problems are being worked out. “It has been a painfully slow process,” acknowledged Phil […]
By Eric Kulisch and Jon Ross New portal allows truckers to reserve chassis on day leases. There aren’t any apparent commonalities between fine dining and drayage, but it turns out there’s one link: technology. Just as a prospective diner can hunt for a reservation at a favorite restaurant at precisely the time and day […]
Express carrier’s “turn data into insight” initiative is topped by ORION rollout. Anyone who has received a parcel delivery from UPS knows its drivers carry small handheld computers that the company calls “delivery information acquisition devices,” or DIADs. They are just the most visible evidence of a 20-year project at the company to […]
If the liner industry consolidates will that benefit or hurt shippers? Shippers and liner carriers enter 2014 amid potentially great change in container shipping. Last June, Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co., and CMA CGM announced plans to join forces on the major box trades in the second quarter of 2014, creating a vessel-sharing agreement […]
When Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co., and CMA CGM announced in June their intention to form the P3 Network, many analysts figured it was just a matter of time until other carriers responded to the challenge. In early December the six containership companies that belong to the G6 Alliance said they also want […]
Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos’ disclosure on 60 Minutes Dec. 1 that Amazon was studying the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deliver small packages in urban areas was met with skepticism by some supply chain experts.
In November, two airlines that are part of the U.S. Military’s Civil Reserve Air Fleet — a group of commercial airlines that provide the Defense Department with planes for short-notice, large-scale cargo and troop deployments — announced they had weathered significant operational blows due to a curtailing of military spending on air freight capacity. […]
Reaching consensus on improvements to the global trading system will take at least a decade despite continuing efforts by many developing countries to reach an agreement, William Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council, said Nov. 18 in Seattle at a conference organized by the Washington Council on International Trade. The failure […]
