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   The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received 34 ocean transportation intermediary license applications and changes for review.     The FMC received non-vessel-operating common carrier license applications from Alpha Global Enterprise, Valley Stream, N.Y. (Philip Lam, operating manager); Marine Express, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (Maribel M. Rivera, vice president); Seagull Logistics, Charlotte, N.C. (Inderjeet K. Harisinghani, president); […]

FMC reviews 34 OTI license applications

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received 34 ocean transportation intermediary license applications and changes for review.

   The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received 34 ocean transportation intermediary license applications and changes for review.    The FMC received non-vessel-operating common carrier license applications from JZ Cargo Logistics Corp., Pembroke Pines, Fla. (Joan S. Ziade, president); Malecon Shipping, Bronx, N.Y. (Arisleyda Polanco, president); Metro Box Cargo, Hayward, Calif. (Ammabelle P. Bote, member); Overland […]

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received 34 ocean transportation intermediary license applications and changes for review.

   Trade was among the areas directly affected by the shutdown, in part because import and export licenses and applications could not be processed.

   The National Freight Advisory Committee will hold its second public meeting Nov. 21 in Washington, D.C., according to a Nov. 8 notice in the Federal Register.

   APL Turquoise, a ship deployed on APL’s Asia-Australia Express (AAX) service that connects Singapore, Port Kelang, Malaysia, and various ports in Australia was unable to offload cargo in Fremantle because of a dispute about labor rules.    The ship berthed at the port of Fremantle on the morning of Oct 29.    APL said […]

   “North Europe Global Port Tracker” projects a recovery in container cargo volumes next year, just as significant numbers of ultralarge containerships are being delivered.

   Cargolux will commence a new South American routing between Luxemboug and Buenos Aires using Boeing 747 freighters starting Nov. 13.    The service will route via Viracopos, Brazil, on the way to Buenos Aires, and the return leg will make stops in Latacunga, Ecuador; Bogota, Colombia; Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; and Kent, England.    Officials […]

   The supply chain software provider JDA this week released a new set of technical services aimed at helping companies optimize their supply chains.    The expanded offering amounts to a broadened spectrum of managed technical services for cloud, analytics and data-management endeavors.    “Backed by thousands of software implementations, each in a unique technology […]

   The growth was a bit stronger than many experts had expected and was followed Friday morning by the announcement that the unemployment rate inched up to 7.3 percent even as the economy created 204,000 jobs.

   The U.S. Maritime Administration said Thursday it will spend $1.4 million on two projects looking at use of liquefied natural gas as a fuel for marine propulsion.    In the first project, MarAd will provide Horizon Lines, Inc., with $900,000 to assist in conversion of Horizon Spirit to operate on LNG and the monitoring […]

   In October, American Airlines generated 167,881 cargo ton miles, an 18.6-percent increase over October 2012.    The strong October results helped the carrier claim a year-to-date result of 1.498 million tons, a 2.2-percent increase, year over year.    An antitrust suit brought by the Department of Justice to stop a proposed merger between American […]

Minjie    China COSCO Holdings Co. Ltd. said Thursday in a notice posted with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that it “has been informed by the controlling shareholder, China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, that Mr. Xu Minjie, an executive director of the company, is under investigation by a relevant regulatory body.”    On Friday, in a second […]

Biden    Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx toured CSX’s sophisticated Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal in Wood County on Wednesday, the latest stop by Biden to promote the need for infrastructure following visits to the ports of Baltimore, Savannah and Charleston in recent weeks.    The CSX facility opened in 2011 at […]

   U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Wednesday that its annual Trade Symposium, postponed last month due to the government shutdown, has been rescheduled for March in the Washington, D.C., area.

   Matson said Wednesday it has signed a contract to have Aker Philadelphia Shipyard build two new 3,600-TEU containerships for an aggregate price of $418 million.    The new ships will  be equipped with dual fuel engines that have the ability to burn liquefied natural gas (LNG); the vessels are expected to be delivered in […]

   The company’s first service began two weeks ago, and Schneider will have the new program, which links three cities in Mexico to Chicago via a new interchange point, fully up and running by the end of next week.

   At a meeting with the New York Shipping Association and Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor over hiring additional longshoremen there was “a great deal of progress,” according to the area port authority.