German national railroad DB Schenker announced plans to operate a “Bospherous Shuttle” linking Germany and Turkey with up to five pairs of freight trains per week. The service is scheduled to begin in September with three trains. The railroad said it will take five days to cover the 2,000 kilometer route […]
The agreement with the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay, signed last week, is to run the 134-mile railroad. CBR has been running revenue freight trains on the line since October 12, 2011, under an interim agreement.
The Japanese online retailer Rakuten is set to acquire Las Vegas-based online fulfillment firm Webgistix for an undisclosed amount. Rakuten Chief Executive Officer Hiroshi Mikitani unveiled the deal at an e-commerce event in Chicago. Webgistix’s five facilities located throughout the U.S. will give the Japanese retailer a large footprint in the country. […]
“FOB has been the default shipping choice for years, primarily because companies didn’t have offices in Asia or boots on the ground to arrange and track trucking and shipping,” said an executive with Ryder.
Masamichi Morooka, the chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), said this week that new legislation to protect the environment could potentially cost the shipping industry $500 billion between 2015 and 2025. “As many companies struggle to survive during the difficult years ahead, we must persuade governments to avoid placing yet more […]
The amendment to the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act would maintain funding for the Port Security Grant program. Last year, Congress appropriated $97.5 million for the program, a quarter of 2009’s amount.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood named seven people to the board of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, which has been rocked by a series of controversies in recent years.
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has signed an agreement with Paris-Vatry Airport, located to the east of Paris, to base up to three IL-76TD-90VD freighters at the airport. The carrier recently invested more than $100 million on its fleet of five IL-76TD-90VD freighters. The craft are more fuel efficient and less noisy than than the older […]
The Michigan Department of Transportation has awarded a Wayne State University professor with a one-year, $175,000 grant to study differential speed limits on highways. In Michigan, Indiana and other states, differential speed limits have long been thought to reduce crashes. Trucks need a lower speed limit than cars, officials reasoned, because it takes […]
To combat the estimated $5 billion yearly cost of cargo crime in Canada, the Insurance Bureau of Canada and the Provincial Auto Theft Network have banded together to offer annual training sessions. Red Flags at the Roadside II, held Wednesday, focused on cargo theft prevention and investigation. Officials hope to deter criminals from […]
The composer Alan Hovhaness incorporated recordings of whale songs into one of his symphonies, but a new group of composers are working another sound from the sea into their tune: foghorns. A musical performance featuring on-shore bands and what the creators of the event promise to be “an armada of vessels positioned off […]
North American freight volumes rose by 2.9 percent last month when compared to April, while expenditures stayed relatively flat at .04-percent growth. Year-over-year, May’s shipment volume declined by 0.3 percent; expenditures dropped 2.6 percent.
As the new chairman of the Global Air Cargo Advisory Group (GACAG), Oliver Evans wants to build on the momentum created over the past two years and pave a clear path forward toward conquering new challenges. Evans, chief cargo officer of Swissport International Air Lines, assumed his new role when he recently took […]
Air New Zealand has dropped its challenge against the New Zealand Commerce Commission and will plead guilty to price-fixing charges. The carrier had kept up its case while, over time, 10 carriers involved in the commerce commission’s investigation, which began in December 2008, pleaded guilty to fixing prices and surcharges on cargo shipments […]
Drewry cautions that shippers may see a deterioration in service if the current price war in the ocean container industry continues. “The carrier financials that have so far been published for the first quarter of 2013 present the same mixed bag of results that typified 2012. Some carriers made a little money but […]
FedEx said it will move up the retirement date by several years for the planes, which include 47 MD10-10s, 13 MD-10-30s and 16 Airbus A310-200s. Two Airbus A310-200, three A310-300 and five MD10-10 aircraft will be immediately retired.
Cargo is moved by sea from the ports of Jakarta, Port Kelang, Bangkok, Haiphong, Keelung and Singapore. Shipments are then routed by rail through the China corridor to the Kazakhstan border crossings of Dostyk and then on to Almaty.
The portal-based ocean shipping e-commerce network INTTRA this week hosted the liner carrier industry’s first Ocean Shipping CIO Leadership Council in Paris. Participants included chief information officers from the world’s top ocean carriers, shippers and recognized industry experts, including CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg Süd, Maersk Line, MSC, UASC, CSAV, Kuehne + Nagel, Boston […]
Carlile’s 700 employees will join Saltchuk’s national team of 5,500 workers. Carlile will remain a standalone company headquartered in Anchorage. Other Saltchuk Alaskan firms include Totem Ocean Trailer Express and Delta Western.
On the 35th anniversary of of CMA CGM’s founding by Jacques Saadé, French President François Hollande officially inaugurated the shipping line’s latest 16,000-TEU vessel, the Jules Verne, in Marseille. Named after the famous French author of the 1800s, the French-flagged Jules Verne is deployed on the weekly FAL 1 (French Asia Line) route […]
