Swissport has secured multi-year handling contracts from Etihad Cargo in Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna. Swissport will handle cargo on both passenger and freighter flights for the carrier. The company was previously certified as Etihad Cargo’s preferred handling partner, winning contracts in Athens, Geneva, Larnaca, Nairobi, Seoul and Toronto. “We are proud […]
The European Commission is investing 600 million euros ($730 million) in research funding to develop new technology, heading off massive congestion in the region’s airspace expected to balloon out of control in the next 20 years.
The vessels will each have a capacity of 770 FEUs and be used in the company’s U.S. West Coast operations. Self-geared and equipped with gantry cranes, they will be delivered in late 2015 and early 2016.
The Port of Virginia achieved its best TEU throughput for the first half of a calendar year with 1.054 million standard shipping units processed between January and June, the Virginia Port Authority said Tuesday. The port’s volume represented a 6 percent increase over the first half of 2012. The Port of Virginia, […]
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) has purchased England Logistics’ freight forwarding business for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition, SCS adds offices in Ningbo, Shanghai and Qingdao, China; and Los Angeles to its current locations in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Virginia. According to Les Brand, SCS’ chief executive officer, the new […]
SUDS automates managing and processing of carrier contracts and numerous amendments. When a contract is uploaded, the system extracts and organizes rates from large volumes of rate agreement contract data.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun issuing nearly $2 million in fiscal year 2012 payments through a program that assists farmers and producers in U.S. territories who paid to transport either an agricultural commodity or input used to produce it. The USDA announced the sign-up period for the fiscal year 2013 program […]
Ozburn-Hessey Logistics has signed a lease to fully occupy the 185,520-square-foot Pan American North Distribution Center just outside of Miami. The company, which operates more than 130 distribution centers worldwide, will move into the space this fall. OHL’s lease stands as the largest one signed in the Miami area this year. The […]
International organizations covering aviation, the maritime industry and customs have banded together to enhance collaboration on security and other procedures. Leaders from the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Maritime Organization and the World Customs Organization met in London July 8 to talk about common goals. Discussion included risk-management issues and international mandates […]
In its latest update on the containership MOL Comfort, the Japanese liner company MOL said that firefighters have been unable to bring a fire under control on the section that remains afloat because of adverse weather. The ships fractured in two parts on June 17. The aft section of the ship sank 10 days […]
Days after delivering the first in a series of 20 new 18,000-TEU ships to Maersk Line, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering has reportedly landed another order for three giant containerships. Citing a Korean regulatory filing from earlier this week, Bloomberg said Daewoo has snagged an order worth 481.2 billion won ($424 million.) Dow […]
Import volume at the nation’s major container ports is expected to increase 1.1 percent in July over the same month last year, but a slow summer should be followed by significant increases as retailers head into the holiday season.
Crowley said its petroleum distribution group completed its acquisition of Anderes Oil, a fuel company in Ketchikan, Alaska, on July 1. The Anderes family, after 50 years of serving Ketchikan, is leaving the oil business to pursue other interests. “This is our first venture in the southeast Alaska market and we are […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank said Transnet SOC Ltd., a company based in Johannesburg, South Africa, will receive about 1.1 billion South African rand ($108 million) in financing to support the purchase of 53 American-made General Electric locomotives. Ex-Im Bank’s financing to Transnet will now total $230 million. In February 2011, the bank approved […]
The U.K.-based freight forwarder Neon Freight has gone live with the ediEnterprise system from logistics enterprise system developer CargoWise. Launched in November 2012, Neon Freight provides air and sea freight, customs brokerage, European road freight and warehousing services. Ian Mallon, founder and managing director of Neon Freight, said he’s been able to […]
Third party logistics services provider Norbert Dentressangle has entered into a joint venture with dairy producer Danone Group to transport temperature-sensitive cargo in Russia. The 50-50 joint venture company is anticipated to have an annual turnover of 60 million euros ($76.95 million), and will employ 300 people. In addition to dairy distribution, the […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will publish an interim rule establishing the definitions of “common cultivar” and “common food crop” and seeks public comment on the definitions of “commercial scale” and “tree,” terms used in the Lacey Act, a federal law that combats trafficking in illegal wildlife, fish, […]
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s board voted unanimously Monday to place a levy renewal on the November countywide ballot. “The port plays a unique and essential role in our region,” said Port Chairman Marc Krantz in a statement. “We are the only local government agency whose sole responsibility is to spur job creation […]
Liner carrier MOL has announced the following organizational changes for the transpacific trade, which will take effect in August: Calvin Duffaut, assistant vice president for yield management and corporate communications for MOL (America), has been promoted to vice president of yield management of MOL Liner and will relocate to Hong Kong. Toshihiko Sato, senior manager of transpacific trade, will […]
China Navigation has held a 13 percent interest in PLL since 1979, and now has acquired the remaining 87 percent. Swire said management of PLL will remain in San Francisco and Interocean Steamship Corp. will continue.
