Lloyd’s List reported China Shipping Group Chairman Li Shaode has confirmed the five 18,400-TEU ships his company has ordered will be deployed in a 10-year joint service with United Arab Shipping Co. American Shipper was not able to confirm the report with UASC that it will order ships similar in size to those that China […]
The Port of Seattle promoted Kurt Beckett to deputy chief executive officer with primary responsibility for port infrastructure development and internal operations. The move will allow Tay Yoshitani, the port’s CEO, to focus on business development, attracting new shipping lines and air services to Seattle, and advancing policy issues central to the port’s […]
Transportation Worker Identification Credentials, or TWIC cards, were described as a “joke” during hearings before the U.S. House of Representative’s Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee last week. The hearings came as the Government Accountability Office issued a report that said 11 years after initiation of the program the Department of Homeland Security “has not demonstrated how, […]
Non-vessel-operating common carrier CaroTrans said Monday it is expanding its network into the Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) markets, including services into Russia. The first of what CaroTrans said will be “many future services” is a direct, weekly less-than container load (LCL) and full container load (FCL) export service from New York […]
Legislation gives agency flexibility to move money from its Airport Improvement Program to the personnel account to cover $637 million in planned cuts that would have required controllers to take a day of unpaid leave every two weeks.
Airbus, Air Canada and BioFuelNet Canada have formed a partnership to look into the long-term production of biofuels for Air Canada, with the first assessment due by the end of the year. The group is tasked with studying the different biofuels materials and processes, measuring the overall success of each method, and exploring […]
Charles “Wick” Moorman will give up his duties as president of Norfolk Southern Corp. to James Squires, who has been promoted from vice president administration, effective June 1, the company announced Friday along with a series of changes at the vice presidential level. Moorman will remain chairman and chief executive officer of the Norfolk, […]
The port has lay-down space for wind towers, blades, cable and other hardware and equipment at its 285-acre Portsmouth Marine Terminal, which recently was converted to a breakbulk and roll-on/roll-off cargo facility.
Three-fourths of global logistics companies are unable to get the prices they deserve for their services, according to the findings of the Global Pricing Study 2012, conducted by strategy and marketing consultancy Simon-Kucher & Partners. The causes, managers say, are a price-aggressive competitive environment and a prevalence of standardized products. The study incorporated […]
All Nippon Airlines will resume regular, nonstop Boeing 777-300ER flights from Tokyo Narita to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on June 1. The carrier will reintroduce Boeing 787s to the route starting in September. ANA had been flying the Tokyo-Seattle route using 787s since October, but took the 787 out of service when the […]
Agility has signed a five-year, $24.4 million contract with Kuwait National Petroleum Co. for transportation services. In addition to moving oversized and traditional petroleum shipments over Agility’s air, land and sea networks, the company will provide origin logistics, customs clearance, freight forwarding and procurement services. “The contract plays to many of our […]
The VPA Board of Commissioners expects to announce how it will reorganize the VPA and Virginia International Terminals (VIT), the state’s in-house terminal management company, at its next meeting on May 28.
The liner said its petroleum services group is entering the liquefied natural gas market by acquiring Carib Energy, a Florida-based company that was founded in 2011 to export LNG to industrial facilities in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Officials blamed weak market conditions on IAG’s sluggish North American trade lane and industrial action at Iberia earlier in the year for the poor load factors. “We have a huge amount of our capacity on the transatlantic,” IAG’s Steve Gunning said.
The move will save each plane 4 percent of its current fuel expenditure by reducing drag during flight. The winglets also reduce noise emissions and improve performance during take off, according to the integrator.
Earlier this year, YRC approach Arkansas Best about the possibility of a acquiring ABF Freight System, according to a recently released U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, but was turned down by the smaller less-than-containerload carrier. After receiving the proposal, details of which have not been disclosed, ABF officials told the other carrier “that considering a […]
Logistics information technology solutions provider Descartes Systems has extended its relationship with IAG Cargo to include air cargo booking through Descartes’ cloud-based Global Freight Exchange (GF-X) Private Label solution. Descartes’ solution will support iagcargo.com, the carrier’s free electronic booking portal for freight forwarders. Descartes’ GF-X allows air carriers to distribute real-time product, routing, capacity and rate […]
IAS Logistics will expand its Texas hub-and-spoke trucking operation to Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. No timeline for the expansion has been released. The carrier’s services currently operate from Texas’ biggest airports, and in each new city, IAS will focus on building out from major airports. From the new city offerings, the IAS team […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank approved a final commitment for a $45.5 million loan guarantee to VRG Linhas Aereas S.A. (GOL), a Brazilian airline. The financing will support the export of engine maintenance services by Delta TechOps (Delta), a subsidiary of Delta Airlines. This transaction will support about 400 jobs, according to Ex-Im Bank. […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has proposed to amend its rules to allow the import of fresh jackfruit, pineapple, and starfruit from Malaysia into the continental United States. As a condition of entry, all three commodities would have to be irradiated for insect pests, inspected, and imported […]
