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.
C-TPAT Portal 2.0 almost ready for prime time. The next version of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism’s online portal will be launched in the next 60 to 90 days, U.S. Customs said in a communique to the trade community. The enhanced version of the C-TPAT Portal was originally introduced at the C-TPAT Supply Chain […]
MOL said Tuesday morning that a fire continues to burn on its wrecked containership MOL Comfort. The company said “due to adverse weather, the work has not been progressing smoothly and the fire is not yet under control. Observations show that many containers on the deck have been burnt out.” MOL Comfort […]
Hapag-Lloyd said in August the Gulf Atlantic Express (GAX) service between North Europe and the United States will switch its Miami call to Port Everglades, Fla. The last vessel calling at Miami will be the St. Louis Express, expected to arrive Aug. 17. The first vessel calling Port Everglades will be the Philadelphia Express […]
The Website OneMorePallet.com boasts a “name-your-price” payment option that then matches shippers with truckers who have available capacity and are looking for cargo, saving shippers time and money with their searches.
Container carriers “need to rely less on the chronic use of general rate increases (GRIs) and pay more attention to minimizing surplus capacity at the trade route level to stabilize the shipping market,” said the London-based consultants and research firm Drewry. “We are stuck in a vicious rut of GRI, followed by rapid […]
Russia’s chief sanitary inspector complained to the Moscow Times newspaper that the United States was trying to use political and administrative pressure to overturn the ban instead of going to an international court.
Maersk Line said it will implement a general rate increase on dry cargo shipments moving from Miami to Panama on Aug. 8. The increase is $150 for 20-foot containers and $300 for 40- and 45-foot boxes.
Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 6 million tons in June, a decrease of 6 percent compared to May, and a drop of 7 percent compared to a year ago, according to the Lake Carriers’ Association. Loadings also trailed the month’s long-term average by 4.4 percent. Iron ore shipments […]
In preparation for its new, 115,000-square-foot cargo facility, Aloha Air Cargo is boosting its staff by as many as 50 employees. Construction of the facility, which will open at the Honolulu International Airport during the first quarter of next year, began in May. The new cargo area will consolidate Aloha’s existing cargo operations […]
