The Port of Long Beach handled 587,114 TEU in September, 14.7 percent more than in September 2012. Volumes of containers holding imports and exports as well as empty containers were all up over last September’s levels. Imports increased 16.2 percent to 307,981 TEU; exports rose by 17.2 percent to 134,676 TEU; and empties […]
Hillwood Properties — developer of the 18,000-acre, mixed-use AllianceTexas development in north Fort Worth — said it will build a speculative, 1 million-square-foot industrial building, called the Alliance Center North 2, and Gateway 57, a 310,000-square-foot industrial facility. Also announced previously as a speculative build, Alliance Center North 1 will be completed as […]
American Airlines Cargo has expanded its 737 cargo service from Hartford, Conn. The airline now flies three daily departures out of the city to Dallas-Fort Worth, and one departure each to Los Angeles and Miami. According to officials, tender times at the Hartford facility for unscreened and screened ConfirmedFS products are 240 minutes […]
The Federal Maritime Commission has reached seven compromise agreements recovering a total of $617,500 in civil penalties. The agreements were reached with nine non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) and freight forwarders located in the U.S. and abroad. The agreed penalties resulted from investigations conducted by the FMC’s area representatives in the Seattle, South Florida, […]
Cordero Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Mario Cordero is asking fellow regulators in the European Union and China to join with him in a global regulatory summit on the proposed P3 Network of the world’s three largest container carriers — Maersk Line, CMA-CGM and MSC — on the major east-west trade lanes. The summit […]
Hidden in last week’s law to reopen government at existing funding levels and raise the nation’s debt is a provision raising the cap on allowable spending for the Olmstead lock and dam project on the Ohio River in Illinois to $2.9 billion from the current $1.56 billion. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers […]
While industry change comes in the form of challenges like competitive pressure from railroads, high fuel costs and the worsening driver shortage, ATA President Bill Graves also said governmental change has a huge impact on trucking.
Trade across U.S. borders is growing, but money spent on infrastructure is not keeping pace, according to a report by the Coalition for America’s Gateways and Corridors. In Connecting North America: U.S. Road Border Needs, the organization found that the U.S. must make a commitment to improving the flow of goods across all […]
A rise in trade between Asia and North American helped raise air cargo rates on East-West trade lanes in September for the second straight month, according to Drewry’s East-West Air Freight Price Index. The average rate for a kilogram of cargo ended the month at $3.24, rising $0.10 over last month. The price […]
“This financing will expand the number of commercial biorefineries in operation in the U.S. that are producing advanced biofuels from non-food sources,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement.
The Maryland Port Administration said all ships are working normally again at the Port of Baltimore after the International Longshoremen’s Association agreed to a 90-day contract extension on Friday.
The National Industrial Transportation League, the largest shipper organization in the country, is asking the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to closely examine the planned P3 Network that Maersk, MSC and CMA-CGM — the world’s three largest container shipping companies — plan to begin operating next year. “While we recognize that the operational details […]
Port officials will be meeting with Hanjin and terminal operator ICTSI Oregon in coming weeks. It said Hanjin will continue with weekly direct calls at Terminal 6 for the duration of the calendar year.
MSC said export cargo from the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada to North Europe (including Scandinavia and the Baltic region), the western Mediterranean and Israel will be subject to a peak season surcharge of $200 per 20-foot container and $400 per 40-foot container, effective Nov. 18, 2013. MSC said the increase […]
The U.S. Grains Council (USGC) said that on last Friday, Oct. 18, the first-ever bulk shipment of U.S. sorghum to China berthed and began unloading at the Guangzhou Port Facility.
Canadian National Railway may be facing an Oct. 28 strike by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents 3,300 CN workers, after the two parties were not able to a new contract during the negotiation period. The collective agreement expired July 22, and negotiations ended on Oct. 7, with CN rejecting the teamsters’ […]
FedEx Express’ fleet modernization continued Friday when it introduced its first of 50 767-300 all-cargo planes it has ordered from Boeing. In recent years, FedEx has transitioned to more fuel-efficient, lower-emission aircraft such as 777 widebody and 757 narrow-body freighters. During the summer, it parked its last Boeing 727. The 767, with a payload capacity of 127,000 pounds and […]
In the initial step toward making the Port of Lazaro Cardenas a hub for automobile shipping, SSA Mexico has begun processing vehicles at the port, loading the cars for export to Latin America on NYK Line’s MV Talia. To further boost operations, officials will build a ro-ro facility at the port on 600 […]
Shippers are a diverse group, and they can’t be expected to agree on everything. Still, we are surprised by the reception a proposal by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to require verification of container weights received from some shipper groups. In late September, the IMO Subcommittee on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and […]
By Renee Roe, Director, BPE Global In our July 2013 Second Thought column we discussed the strategic road to trade compliance. With 2014 now upon us, global supply chain practitioners begin to ask themselves: Did all of my efforts help the company make their revenue goals?…
