ContainerPort Group has moved to a larger and more centrally located facility in Indianapolis. The new facility is located near Interstates 65, 70 and 465 and a short drive to the CSX rail ramp and the newly opened Indiana Rail Road Co.’s intermodal ramp, which is operated by CPG and serviced by the […]
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received three ocean transportation intermediary license applications and a change for review. The FMC received a non-vessel-operating common carrier license application from Zhejiang Sunmarr International Transportation Co., City of Industry, Calif. (Ya Liu, deputy general manager); and an ocean freight forwarder license application from Gator Source and Supply Co., […]
FMC reviews 3 OTI license applications
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received three ocean transportation intermediary license applications and changes for review.
Seaspan Corp. said it has exercised options to build five 10,000-TEU containerships at Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. The ships are scheduled for delivery in 2015 and will be constructed using Seaspan’s fuel efficient SAVER design. Seaspan said it expects to sign long-term time charters […]
Japanese ocean carrier MOL announced an agreement with Kansai Electric Power Co. for joint ownership of two new liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers that will sail under long-term charter contracts signed in June 2012. Kansai Electric Power will hold a 70 percent share in the Bahamas-based MOL subsidiary that will own the two […]
The organization asked TSA Administrator John Pistole to certify that its 100-percent cargo screening program for passenger flights has achieved the threshold mandated by Congress and to remove the reporting requirement for screening data.
U.S. economy to grow about 2.5 percent next year, experts say. The U.S. economy will continue to muddle along at nearly the same slow pace of the past couple years in 2014, according to economists at last week’s FTR Associates conference in Indianapolis. William Strauss, senior economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said a […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank will support for a “seven-figure purchase” of two new American agricultural aircraft by Jose Antonio Goncalves Viana, a soybean and corn agribusiness in Brazil. The buyer is a repeat customer of Air Tractor Inc., a small business manufacturer of specialty aircraft. For this transaction, Ex-Im Bank provided a medium-term […]
Under the multi-year contract, American Worldwide Agencies will serve as sales agent for AAL’s direct port calls to and from Long Beach and Los Angeles; Vancouver and Everett, Wash.; and ports in British Columbia, Korea and China.
The London-based industry consultancy Drewry predicts that more ocean carriers will cancel sailings instead of withdrawing whole services during the winter and this practice will continue until the P3 alliance of Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Co., and CMA CGM begins its new services in the second quarter of next year. “More sailing cancellations are on […]
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has acquired the SRO Group Vehicle Manufacturing Division (SRO Manufacturing). WWL said the acquisition will enhance its technical-services offerings in Australia, providing additional value to existing and prospective customers for equipment assembly and processing. Additional services include design, manufacture and installation of customized solutions for utility vehicles, and mining […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that will restrict imports of potentially harmful perfluorinated chemicals that could be used in carpets. The regulation will require companies to report to EPA all new uses, including in domestic and imported products, of these chemicals once used for soil and stain resistance in […]
The Georgia Ports Authority said it handled 2.5 million tons of cargo in August, 8.5 percent more than in August 2012. Container volume amounted to 280,873 TEU, 3.8 percent more than in August 2012.
The National Brotherhood of Teamsters and ABF Freight System have reached another 30-day contract extension because the parties have not yet come to terms on two of the supplemental agreements to the National Master Freight Agreement. Both parties approved the National Master Freight agreement at the end of June, but have been going […]
DHL Global Forwarding’s freight division has implemented a reporting feature that tracks a company’s carbon footprint automatically. The new feature is included as part of DHL’s track and trace system. Customers can find out emissions data related to their shipments on DHL’s site by entering in their shipment information and clicking on the […]
French authorities have approved Norbert Dentressangle’s acquisition of Daher’s freight forwarding activities. Financial details were not released. The deal for the freight forwarding business, which generated revenues of 80 million euros last year from its 11 offices in France and Russia, was first announced in July. According to a press release, this […]
The division, called SEKO Omni-Channel Logistics, is aimed at giving customers a single platform for global fulfillment, delivery management, returns solutions, and e-commerce development and design.
Emirates Airline has commenced A380 services between Dubai and Brisbane, as well as new services from Dubai to Milan, New York and the Philippines. The service to New York, which is being flown on a Boeing 777-300ER, routes through Milan. The carrier already serves the two cities and will now have three daily […]
The Florida East Coast Railway will begin hauling cargo from the Port of Miami next month after completing the first phase of an on-dock facility for ship-to-rail transfer of intermodal boxes, setting the stage for potential new cargo business into Florida, the Southeast, and the Midwest. The short-line railroad, which operates between Miami and Jacksonville, expects to […]
