Dockworkers in Hong Kong have decided to end a 40-day strike after securing a promise of a 9.8 percent wage increase and improved working conditions. The Union of Hong Kong Dockers (UHKD) said it had received on Monday a written confirmation jointly signed by the four contractors at Hongkong International Terminal – Everbest, […]
Trade finance association to support NEI. The Finance, Credit and International Business Association (FCIB) and the U.S. Commercial Service of the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) have signed a memorandum of understanding to increase awareness in the U.S. business community, particularly among small and midsized businesses, about exporting and the tools and resources […]
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) said five ships it will build for China Shipping Container Lines will be capable of carrying 18,400 TEUs. The vessels are scheduled to be handed over from the second half of 2014.
Toyota exported its first shipment of Venzas through the Port of Brunswick, Ga., last week. The cars departed on a “K” Line vessel for Russia and Ukraine, according to the Georgia Port Authority. The move underscores the growth of exports by U.S. auto manufacturers as the industry rebounds from the 2008 global […]
Speaking during a reception for customers held in Elizabeth, N.J., Lea Bogatch-Genossar, president of Zim America, said the company’s Zim Container Service Pacific (ZCP) is adding the Virginia port with the first call on June 15.
Atlantic Cartier, one of the combination container-roll-on/roll-off ships operated by Atlantic Container Line in its transatlantic liner service, was damaged last week during a fire in Hamburg. Two hundred firefighters helped extinquish the blaze.
Juan Kuryla has rejected the Port of Jacksonville’s offer to serve as its executive director, opting to remain at the Port of Miami where he has been deputy director since 2009. The sudden development was disclosed during a special meeting this morning of the Jacksonville Port Authority. Kuryla Details about his change of […]
ABF and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have reached a tentative, five-year contract agreement. Details of the contract have not been released because local unions have not decided whether to endorse it. Word of a potential agreement reached local unions last week, and they were subsequently directed to not take a strike […]
North Carolina’s Port of Wilmington will now offer shippers direct access to Manzanillo, Panama, and Puerto Moin, Costa Rica, in addition to Puerto Cortes, Honduras, and Santo Tomas, Guatemala, in northern Central America, via vessel calls added by Maersk Line to its weekly South Atlantic Express (SAE) service. New trade lanes to South […]
Interlake Steamship Co., an operator of bulk vessels on the Great Lakes, has reached an agreement in principle with Shell to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to support the carrier’s vessel engine conversion to LNG as the main propulsion fuel. When converted, these ships are expected to be the first LNG-powered ships on […]
COSCO, Hanjin, and Yang Ming said they will launch a new service connecting Germany, Russia and Finland later this month. The RFS (Russia–Finland Service) service will use three 1,300-TEU class vessels – with one deployed by each partner – to provide twice-per-week service. The port rotation will be Hamburg, St. Petersburg, Kotka, and Hamburg. […]
“The only reason we’re doing it is because right now we’ve got folks (in Congress) who are unwilling to make some simple changes to our tax code,” said the president during the signing of the legislation.
Members voted in favor of a new six-year contract by a vote of 632-18, according to Dennis A. Daggett, president of Local 1804-1 and the chief negotiator for the maintenance locals. The ratification vote was held on April 30.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has been selected as a bidder for the redevelopment of the Webb Dock West automotive terminal by Australia’s Port of Melbourne Corp. WWL currently operates 11 terminals throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia. The company said the Webb Dock West’s proximity to Melbourne’s Central Business District provides a “unique […]
The Port of Pittsburgh Commission is building a wireless broadband network along the rivers in Pittsburgh and is seeking partners to explore new applications for transportation, safety, security and environmental monitoring. The Wireless Waterways project consists of both the network system infrastructure (NSI), which will be scalable and expandable, and an interoperability test […]
Rickmers-Linie has added a 10th vessel on its eastbound Round-the-World Pearl String Service by taking delivery of the Rickmers Savannah on long-term charter. The 30,000-deadweight-ton Savannah, which was delivered by Jinling Shipyard in November 2010, is identical to the nine vessels of the Rickmers Hamburg class that the carrier already deploys on the […]
With dimensions that might have stunned even France’s greatest writer of science fiction, CMA CGM said the third in a series of 16,000-TEU containerships, CMA CGM Jules Verne, will enter service today. Sister ship to the CMA CGM Marco Polo and CMA CGM Alexander Von Humbodt, the new ship will be 396 meters […]
Uncertainty reigns supreme in the Ontario trucking market despite a recent uptick in volumes, according to the Ontario Trucking Association’s second-quarter business conditions survey. According to carriers who filled out the April survey, freight volumes in lane segments covering traffic inside Ontario, between the provinces, and northbound from the United States all increased. The […]
Thirty-four national trade associations representing port authorities, water carriers, retailers and other shippers, the construction industry and unions, along with dozens of state-level business groups, signed a letter this week urging members of the U.S. Senate to support quick passage of the Water Resources Development Act. The Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee unanimously […]
In the latest development, the Union of Hong Kong Dockers (UHKD) said that employees of Comcheung Ltd. at another of Hong Kong’s terminals have joined the strike, according to reports from local media. About 530 workers are now on strike.
