To further strengthen its air cargo presence in Africa, Chapman Freeborn has introduced scheduled DC8-73 freighter services from Johannesburg to the Congo cities of Lubumbashi and Kinshasa. The flights have a payload of 40 tons. Chapman’s additional cargo services in Africa include weekly MD-11 flights between Johannesburg and Entebbe that offer a […]
DHL Freight has unveiled GreenLink, a new global lead logistics provider service that will consolidate all current and future LLP accounts worldwide. With the new service, the roughly 60 customers in Europe, the United States and Asia for which DHL manages logistics processes and provides optimized solutions will be grouped together. “DHL Freight […]
Last month, global air cargo capacity rose 2.1 percent, year over year, outpacing a 0.8 percent rise in traffic and causing load factors to decline to 44.9 percent, a lowpoint since the recovery.
A combination of new grade separations, such as road or rail overpasses or underpasses, and highway-rail grade crossing closures and enhancements, will allow trains on the Piedmont Corridor to travel faster and more reliably.
The International Trade Administration, which works to strengthen the competitiveness of U.S. industry around the world and is the lead agency driving President Obama’s National Export Initiative, is moving forward with consolidation after receiving approval, from congressional appropriators in early May, Francisco Sánchez, the under secretary of Commerce for international trade, recently told reporters. […]
The U.S. Surface Transportation Board is looking to fill two vacancies in its Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council that came open due to the unanticipated resignations of two members. Nominations will be taken through July 31 for a large shipper member and an at-large representative. Once elected, the new members will serve three-year terms […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank has authorized nearly $130 million in financing to support the export of Boeing long-range aircraft and installed GE-90 engines to Ethiopian Airlines. Ex-Im Bank Chairman Fred P. Hochberg announced the transaction July 1 in Addis Ababa. Hochberg is in Ethiopia conducting meetings with government and business leaders as part […]
DHL Global Forwarding has won European Chemical Industry Council certification to transport chemicals in Germany, and the integrator’s facilities in Bremen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart have met the council’s safety requirements. “The chemical industry is an important sector for our air and ocean freight business. We are continuously analyzing this industry’s needs […]
A brief announcement said Li Yunpeng has been named director of the board and the president of COSCO Group and Wei Jiafu has retired and no longer holds any position in the company. Wei, 63, became president of COSCO in 2000.
Oracle acquired Endeca in December 2011. The extensions include several areas that touch Oracle’s supply chain-based applications, including order management, warehousing, and landed cost management.
In a letter to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board has recommended safeguards to ensure proper aircraft clearance between departing and arriving planes at the nation’s airports. This request to rethink air traffic control stems from five incidents in which jetliners “came within hazardous proximity” of each other, according […]
The GT Nexus Shipper Council, a community of supply chain executives from large enterprises across all industry verticals, cited the liner carrier CMA CGM for its outstanding data quality performance over the past 12 months. The carrier was deemed to have provided the best overall data quality to the network of companies that […]
The 15 container shipping lines that belong to the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) on Monday announced a “guideline” peak season surcharge of $400 per 40-foot container from Asia to all U.S. destinations, effective Aug. 1. They also indicated recommendations for further rate increases may be forthcoming. The carriers announced the peak season surcharge […]
Harrington MOL (America) Inc. has appointed Tim Harrington to vice president of Canada and head of MOL (Canada). Harrington will be responsible for sales, customer service, and operations to serve the Canadian market. He will be located in Toronto, and report to Richard Craig, senior vice president of operations for MOL (America). Harrington […]
TOTE Logistics, a subsidiary of Saltchuk, has appointed Linda Leary to vice president of commercial development of TOTE Logistics, Carlile’s parent company. Based in Anchorage, her new role will be overseeing the sales and marketing department of Carlile, TOTE Logistics, and Spectrum. Carlile, one of Alaska’s largest trucking companies, was acquired by Saltchuk […]
The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new hours-of-service rules, which regulate the amount of break time truckers need to take during a shift, among other things, have gone into full effect as of July 1.
The Japanese liner carrier said Saturday evening that it’s continuing to tow the fore portion of MOL Comfort, which broke in half on June 17 in the Indian Ocean. The aft part of the ship sank with most of its boxes.
After 17 years bogged down in Washington bureaucracy, the Florida port has passed a major milestone in its effort to excavate mud and sand from its channel to enable passage by much larger cargo vessels.
The European Commission has proposed creating an EU-wide legal framework that would require shipowners using EU ports to monitor and report carbon dioxide emissions starting in 2018. The European Parliament and the European Council must approve the proposal before it becomes law. Monitoring would include voyages between, to and from all ports […]
FSI’s intent to invest in CMA CGM was first announced in February, when the carrier unveiled a financial restructuring designed to inject roughly $625 million into CMA CGM’s coffers through investment and debt refinancing.
