The Suez Canal Authority said 68 ships crossed the canal with a record total load of 4.8 million tons on August 9, but concerns are rising about the impact of the Egyptian unrest.
Freight volumes in July rose by 0.5 percent compared to the previous month, something not seen since 1996. Historically, the month-to-month freight result has averaged a 20-percent decline.
U.S. Customs authorities at several ports have stopped in recent months dozens of Land Rover Defender off-road utility vehicles that violated federal highway safety standards, including the requirement for airbags. Customs and Border Protection said some of these illegal shipments require destruction at salvage yards because their Vehicle Identification Number was intentionally altered […]
Total domestic rail traffic rose during the week ending August 10 by 2.7 percent when compared to the same week last year. The increase was due in part to a 6.1-percent rise in intermodal units, according to the Association of American Railroads. Total carloads, which ended the week at 288,803 units and was […]
Total throughput in the Port of Hamburg in the first six months of 2013 increased 3.5 percent from the prior-year period to 68.1 million tons, while container volumes were up 2.1 percent to 4.5 million TEUs. According to the port authority, other northern European ports on average lost about 0.4 percent in volume […]
Keyera Corp. and Kinder Morgan, a large energy distribution and storage company based in Houston, have formed a joint venture to build a $98-million crude oil rail loading facility in Edmonton, Alberta, that will be able to accept product from the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Edmonton for export to refineries in North America. […]
The USPS has added day-specific delivery to its Priority Mail service along with features like free insurance and improved tracking. The postal service is also seeking to ship alcoholic beverages, which is currently forbidden by law.
The energy distribution giant will charge a security fee of $2,500 per tanker that ties up at its Galena Park and Pasadena terminals in Houston, effective Sept. 1.
CEVA will pilot the process in Atlanta, New York, London and Frankfurt before expanding the service across its entire network in 2015.
Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK ), the Japanese classification society, said Wednesday that its analysis of the break-up and subsequent sinking of the containership MOL Comfort “is proceeding rapidly, and ClassNK expects to consolidate its preliminary findings by early September 2013.” “Based on the current findings of the ongoing investigation and analysis, the ClassNK […]
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics said it will expand its ocean transportation service from Veracruz starting Sept. 13 to two to three sailings per month to the U.S. East Coast as auto manufacturers increase production in Mexico. Service calls include the ports of Veracruz, Galveston, Texas; Brunswick, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; and Baltimore. Vessels will proceed […]
The National Industrial Transportation League has requested assistance from the U.S. Government in obtaining clarifications on a value-added tax being imposed by the Chinese government.
The Surface Transportation Board has decided to require railroads to differentiate between positive train control (PTC) expenses and other capital investments when reporting their annual financial statements. On August 14, the board adopted the new rule, which applies to Class I railroads and will help the board so they can better judge what […]
U.S. import prices increased by 0.2 percent in July compared to June, while export prices dropped down by 0.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The slight increase in import prices is the first positive increase in pricing since February. Over the past four months, import prices have declined by 1.8 […]
A showdown could be in the works next month over who has the right to repair chassis used to move containers to and from marine terminals. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the management group that bargains with them, the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), sent a joint letter dated August 6 to […]
Wednesday’s newswire about the Port of Jacksonville should have said the large breakbulk shipment of aluminum ingots being offloaded a vessel was 11,000 tons, not 1,000 tons.
Seaspan Corp., which builds containerships and charters them to liner companies, said it will build and charter 10 additional 14,000-TEU ships to Yang Ming. In January, Seaspan said it had signed deals to have Hyundai Heavy Industries build five similar ships, three of which it will own and two of which it will […]
The Diamond State Port Corp., which operates the Port of Wilmington, Del., and Dole Food Co. said they have reached a deal for Dole to continue to use the port for the next 15 years.
Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) in the Port of Hampton Roads voted 520 to 483 on Monday to reject the terms and conditions of a new local agreement. The Virginia Maritime Association said in a notice posted on its site that “there will be no immediate impact to port operations. The […]
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the incident occurred at 6 a.m half a mile north of the runway at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. The two crew members aboard the plane died.
