The less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line has released a new mobile app designed to allow customers to more easily follow their shipments and connect with the company. The new app, launched Tuesday for Apple mobile devices, allows customers to log into their online accounts, view bills of lading and shipment details, schedule pickups, […]
LATAM Airlines saw passenger traffic rise on declining capacity in May, but cargo load factor remained flat for the month. Cargo traffic increased 1.5 percent, year over year, but capacity also ticked up 1.5 percent. The carrier’s cargo load factor stayed stagnant at 58.2 percent. So far this year, LATAM cargo traffic has […]
“This project can be built away from where people live and children go to school, but the City of Los Angeles wants to put it in a low-income minority neighborhood,” said David Pettit, attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The largest amount of demand will come in the single-aisle aircraft category, with 24,670 planes at a cost of $2.29 trillion. The manufacturer predicts the least amount of orders will be for large, wide-body planes.
Construction crews, working around the clock, put the finishing touches Monday on the first of two temporary bridge spans over the Skagit River in Washington and have started work on the second one.
China Merchants Holdings (International) Co. Ltd. today completed its purchase of a 49-percent equity stake in the French liner carrier’s terminals business, which includes 15 facilities in eight countries, for 400 million euros.
The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Monday unanimously approved the nominations of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to be secretary of transportation and Penny Pritzker to be secretary of commerce. Meanwhile, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., was announced as the new chairman of the Commerce subcommittee on surface transportation and merchant marine infrastructure, […]
Of the 20 nations in the G20, a group that has pledged to roll back protectionist trade measures, only Canada ranks among the top 20 trade markets in the world, according to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2013 Open Markets Index. The biennial index, which was created to follow up on open-trade pledges […]
If you have wondered what Maersk Line’s new “Triple E” ships will look like when they’re underway, the Website gCaptain has posted photographs of the first of these vessels undergoing sea trials. gCaptain said it obtained some of the photos from the Website shipspotting.com Maersk Line said it will take delivery of the ship […]
A long-planned barge service between the Ports of Stockton and Oakland, Calif., began operation on Sunday evening. A barge loaded with 32 40-foot containers filled with animal feed set off from Stockton and arrived at the Ports America terminal on Monday morning where they were to be loaded onto a Yang Ming ship, […]
The Transport Council of the European Commission has adopted a general approach to rail interoperability throughout the European Union, removing administrative and technical barriers to the “Fourth Railway Package.” The European Parliament will vote on the proposal in November. The entire railway package, adopted Jan. 30, calls for measures to open up […]
Shipments of coal on the Great Lakes totaled 2.6 million tons in May, a decrease of 11.3 percent compared to a year ago, according to the Lake Carriers’ Association. Coal loads from Lake Superior ports totaled 1.6 million tons, just slightly below the level of a year ago. Included in that total were […]
The ocean freight division of the forwarding company Panalpina said Tuesday it plans to begin offering customers an order management system based on the latest version of the customer-facing application, LOG-NET. Panalpina said the offering, called MyPanalpina+, is designed to give customers enhanced order processing capabilities, better freight management services and improved visibility […]
Cargo volumes moving from North America to North Europe picked up in the first quarter, but are “unsustainable due to the austerity measures being taken by most European governments,” according to an article in the current edition of Drewry’s Container Insight Weekly. Drewry said exports from North America to North Europe improved significantly […]
An effort by container shipping companies to deal with surplus tonnage by cascading 8,000-TEU vessels into the trade lane between Asia and South America’s east coast “appears to have seriously backfired,” Drewry said.
Toronto-based Vitran has switched from direct to interline service, signing an agreement with an undisclosed West Coast carrier to offer service to California, Arizona and Nevada. Vitran has also contracted with a second carrier to service Colorado. The changes, which go into effect Aug. 5, will force the closure of seven terminals […]
Domestic and Canadian FedEx Freight shipping rates will rise an average of 4.5 percent on July 1, the company recently announced. The increases apply to shipments associated with the FXF 1000, FXF 501 base rates. Absolute minimum charges and accessorial rates will also change. The fuel surcharge will remain the same. The […]
TNT Express plans to layoff 850 workers in Italy and combine its smaller operations in the country into larger outposts at strategic locations. The moves, which are part of the company’s “Deliver!” reorganization program, will affect 20 Italian facilities. Service levels and network connectivity will not be affected by the downsizing, company […]
Operators of 60 U.S.-flag ships in the Maritime Security Program will only get about 75 percent of their normal monthly stipend in August and none in September due to sequestration of the federal budget.
The Express Association of America, representing the four largest integrated express carriers, DHL, FedEx, TNT and UPS, said it is forming an Export Committee to manage policy issues that effect shipping from the United States.
