U.S. Customs and the Nigerian government have entered a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA), which allows for better cooperation between the two countries when investigating and preventing customs offenses.
Hong Kong’s Labor Secretary, Matthew Cheung, met with striking dock workers on Monday and urged them to return to the negotiating table. The workers are employed by subcontractors at Hong Kong International Terminal (HIT).
Kuryla Juan Kuryla, deputy director of Port of Miami since 2009 and a 17-year industry veteran, has been named the new director of the Jacksonville Port Authority by unanimous vote of the port’s seven-member board on Monday. The board’s audit committee will now develop and negotiate the contract and submit to full board approval […]
A key issue outlined by the Ti report is the limited access international logistics providers are permitted in domestic markets, if any at all. For example, UPS and FedEx were only granted limited licences to operate in China.
UPS CEO Scott Davis said LNG is a viable alternative-fuel solution for the company over the next decade. However, UPS officials have their eyes on other fuels and technologies that aren’t quite ready for commercial rollouts, he said.
Swiss WorldCargo’s top cargo executive, Oliver Evans, has been elected to serve as chairman of The International Air Cargo Association, replacing Michael Steen, chief commercial officer of Atlas Air Worldwide. Enno Osinga, the cargo head at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, will join Evans as his vice chairman. The appointments come with a two-year term. […]
Delta Air Lines generated an $85 million net profit during the first three months of the year — a year-over-year bump of $124 million — finishing the quarter with its best financial results in more than 10 years. Operating revenue grew by $87 million, year over year. Passenger numbers fueled Delta’s success, […]
Swift Transportation turned in operating revenue of $856.8 million during the first three months of the year, a result the company is touting as record first quarter revenue. Strong operational performance contributed to Swift’s successful quarter. In truckload, loaded miles per truck per week ramped up by 3.2 percent, year over year, and […]
Old Dominion Freight Line on Monday opened a new container drayage facility to serve rail heads, container yards and ports in the Birmingham, Ala. area. The Birmingham center is the third container drayage facility for Old Dominion in Alabama and offers pick-up and delivery to any point in the continental United States. […]
The International Monetary Fund last week lowered its estimate for world economic growth for 2013 to 3.25 percent from 3.45 percent in January, but did not change its growth projection of 4 percent for next year. The IMF said its World Economic Outlook that advanced economies are expected to gradually accelerate in the second […]
Over the course of 2013, American Shipper will bring you a view of six containerized import regions in the United States based on data supplied by the trade intelligence firm Zepol Corp. The regions to be profiled bimonthly are the Pacific Southwest, Bay Area, Pacific Northwest, Gulf Coast, South Atlantic, and North Atlantic. […]
Over the course of 2013, American Shipper will bring you a view of six containerized import regions in the United States based on data supplied by the trade intelligence firm Zepol Corp. The regions to be profiled bimonthly are: the Pacific Southwest, Bay Area, Pacific Northwest, Gulf Coast, South Atlantic, and North Atlantic. […]
“The lack of investigation and accident reports hinders the development of appropriate measures by IMO to address the cause of serious incidents in which seafarers may have lost their lives.” said ITF Acting General Secretary Stephen Cotton.
The U.S. State Department recently issued a presidential permit to the state of Michigan to build a new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. The State Department approves new international border crossings after reviewing whether they are in the national interest. Local and national officials in Canada and the United States for many […]
“Where the cargo to fill the extra capacity is going to come from has not yet been defined,” the London-based firm said, adding it appeared carriers expect to entice some cargo now moving through North America’s west coast ports.
The less-than-truckload carrier had been striving for cost reductions, and though the Teamsters recognized publicly the need to reduce costs, the union representatives have not accepted any of the carrier’s offers.
Lufthansa has cancelled nearly all its European flights today due to strike actions by ver.di, a German trade union. The airline will operate 20 of the 1,650 scheduled short-haul flights on Monday, and these flights will mostly be routed out of Berlin, where the strike actions are due to end by the middle of the […]
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has officially approved design modifications for the Boeing 787’s lithium battery system after giving the go-ahead for Boeing’s certification plan in early March.
Shippers should expect delays receiving air cargo moving through major airports in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York after the U.S. Department of Transportation and its Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday began to furlough air traffic controllers as promised to make good on forced budget cuts that hit the entire government in March. Critics said […]
Air freight rates out of Asia continue to be somewhat volatile, dropping from $3.32 per kilo in February to $3.15 per kilo last month, according to the latest Drewry East-West Air Freight Price Index. The March decline in rates comes after two months of steady increases. September was the last time the freight […]
