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 […]
John Nardi was appointed president of the New York Shipping Association (NYSA) on Tuesday by its board of directors. Nardi, who has been executive vice president of NYSA since 2011, succeeds Joseph C. Curto. Nardi played a key role on the NYSA bargaining committee as it engaged in year-long negotiations with the […]
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday named 47 professionals from industry, academia, labor, safety advocacy and government to its inaugural Freight Advisory Committee, which will provide advice and recommendations for improving the national freight transportation system. Its first order of business will be to help the department create a national freight transportation strategy, […]
Four, 50,000 DWT Jones Act product tankers being built by General Dynamic’s NASSCO shipyard in San Diego for American Petroleum Tankers will be “LNG-conversion-ready. Construction of the first tanker is scheduled to begin in 2014.
Maersk Line said it will implement rate hikes on several trades: A general rate increase (GRI) for dry cargo moving from the Middle East, India and Pakistan to the United States and Canada will take effect on July 3. The increase will be $300 for 20-foot containers, $400 for 40-foot standard containers, $450 for […]
Maersk announces rate hikes
The NVOCC CaroTrans said it has entered into a strategic alliance with Multifreight Consolidator System, Inc. (MFCSI), an NVOCC in the Philippines market. CaroTrans said the two companies “will offer fast, reliable, less-than-containerload (LCL) and full containerload (FCL) import and export cargo services between North America and the Philippines. A direct, weekly service […]
Customers have said they will start shipping more during the second half of the year, and analysts think Expeditors International will pick up on some of the business that left their company when they were getting undercut on pricing.
The $107 million, 89-acre terminal, which is expected to open in 2015, will connect the Montreal area and greater Quebec with CSX’s U.S. rail network. The Quebec Ministry of Transportation provided $6 million for the project.
The logistics solutions provider Descartes Systems Group said Tuesday that WAXIE Sanitary Supply, America’s largest, family-owned distributor of sanitary maintenance supplies, has selected Descartes’ cloud-based solution for route planning, dispatch, tracking and mobile proof of delivery to enhance its delivery operations. “We believe Descartes’ leading routing and mobile solution can help us meet […]
Germanishcher Lloyd has designed a ship called “C-Dragon” that has design layout features considered to have an effect on container movement times. The ship is designed to have capacity of 3,736 TEU.
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) last week published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rule regarding Ocean Transportation Intermediaries (OTI) in the Federal Register, potentially changing the way OTIs are licensed and financially regulated. The proposed rule, first put forward in mid-May, also requires foreign non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOs) to establish U.S. offices. The […]
Cargolux has launched weekly freighter service between Atlanta and Munich, routed through Luxembourg, on a Boeing 747-400 freighter. It serves as the carrier’s first regular airfreight service to and from Munich. International freight forwarding company Senator International Spedition will serve as Cargolux’s main import customer. According to officials, most of these imports will […]
