Maersk Line said it’s “business as usual” at the Port of Lazaro Cardenas on Mexico’s west coast Mexico’s federal government and military took over the port city last week in an effort to end criminal activity. Maersk noted the port “is undergoing some changes including temporary replacements of a number of port officials […]
MOL Group said it’s expanding its logistic services. The Japanese company noted “in recent years, particularly in the Mekong region, the group has aggressively developed its networks, and providing a wide variety of competitive service options in Thailand and Vietnam.” MOL said it “has confidence in the future growth of the logistics […]
The Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA) said it has released an information paper on the electrification of rubber-tired gantry (RTG) cranes in ports and terminals – “a key issue facing the container shipping industry as it strives to improve sustainability and efficiency.” “Energy efficiency and reducing emissions are two objectives that the world’s ports […]
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is expected to take a hard look at the proposed P3 vessel-sharing agreement between Maersk, CMA CGM and Mediterranean Shipping Co., but regulatory scrutiny is much more likely to come from the Europe, according to Bruce Carlton, president and chief executive officer of the National Industrial Transportation League. The agreement […]
The Korean Register and Russian Register of Shipping have recently entered an agreement to cooperate on shipbuilding. The aim is the continued development and promotion of the international shipbuilding industry and the agreement includes: Technical cooperation and development of common rules for icebreakers/ice-classed vessels. Technical cooperation for LNG and offshore vessels operating in […]
Yusen Logistics and Imperial Health Services have started a dedicated, temperature-controlled ocean freight consolidation service from Europe to southern Africa. This weekly service, which begins in January, will also include East and West Africa later in 2014. Yusen explained the service will be cost competitive with air freight. “With a door-to-door pallet […]
On Monday, the first shipment of fresh citrus from Uruguay to the United States was unloaded from a vessel at the Port of Philadelphia. USDA is requiring fruit from the country be cold treated and shipped in refrigerated containers.
A House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee panel specially created early this year to come up with recommendations for improving the nation’s freight transportation system released its final report on Oct. 29. The panel’s work is supposed to help Chairman Bill Shuster and his colleagues develop a surface transportation reauthorization bill next year that […]
More than 80 percent of motor carriers surveyed have experienced a loss of productivity under the new rule.
Obama administration officials continue to put the spotlight on the importance of port infrastructure and investment to the U.S. economy. Foxx On Monday, Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx toured the Port of Oakland, including the site of a rail-served trade and logistics park adjacent to marine container terminals being developed with the help of […]
The Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) this week announced a pilot program undertaken in collaboration with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), aimed at improving lag times between the issuance of a roadside inspection report to a driver and delivery of the report to intermodal equipment providers and motor carriers. The […]
Robert Bugbee, president of Scorpio Tankers, has been named as the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) Commodore for the year 2014. The 2014 Commodore Award will be presented to Bugbee on March 19, 2014, at the dinner marking the conclusion of the annual CMA conference and trade exposition at the Hilton Hotel in Stamford, […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has created a new industry committee to provide advise on issued related to trade and immigration user fees, port staffing levels and inspectional services, the agency announced Monday. Committee members represent the trade and travel industries that pay a customs, immigration or agriculture user fee. The CBP User […]
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Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo., on Thursday offered legislation to create an infrastructure bank designed to help states and localities attract private capital for building and maintaining the structural systems for transportation, water and wastewater, and energy networks. The BRIDGE Act (Building and Renewing Infrastructure for Development and Growth in Employment […]
Senior officials from the United States and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met Friday to discuss enhanced cooperation in multilateral fora, an increased focus on intellectual property protection, development of e-commerce infrastructure, and removal of barriers to bilateral trade as important work to be done under the recently inaugurated U.S.-CARICOM Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). Deputy U.S. […]
At Sweetwater, one facility will offer space for materials required to drill for shale oil and gas in the Permian Basin and Cline Shale formations, while the other will handle grain unit trains for feed distributor Cape & Son.
The logistics software provider Descartes last week released a new same-day delivery optimization product aimed at retailers and distributors. The system, unveiled at the company’s user conference in Miami, enables dispatchers to receive, automatically assign and execute orders throughout the day, placing pick-up or delivery orders on the routes best suited to meet […]
“U.S. agricultural exports from 2009-2013 increased by a total of more than $230 billion – and the average volume of bulk commodities exported increased by nearly 4 million tons per year,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
