U.S. producers ramped up biodiesel generation in February, finishing the month at 68 million gallons, a slight increase from January’s total of 66 million gallons, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Nearly 75 percent of the February production, which came from 110 plants that can generate up to 2.1 billion gallons per […]
DB Schenker Logistics has renewed its contract for supply chain visibility solutions with the cloud-based supply chain technology provider GT Nexus, the Oakland-based company said Tuesday. DB Schenker has used GT Nexus since 2008 to provide cargo management capabilities for its customers, including end-to-end inventory and shipment visibility, purchase order management and origin […]
Two members of Congress from Southern California are urging the City of Los Angeles and BNSF Railway to take further steps to mitigate the environmental effects of a planned intermodal container transfer facility to protect the health of Long Beach residents who live close by. The Southern California International Gateway is planned for […]
Due to the death of Chief Executive Officer Wayne Cederholm earlier this month, C.R. England has reorganized its senior leadership. Chad England, who formerly served as chief operating officer, will take over as CEO, and Dan England has been promoted from president to co-chairman. Chief Financial Officer Josh England will also serve as […]
Maersk Line has named Stephen Richard Schueler as chief commercial officer, effective May 27. He replaces Lucas Vos, who leaves the position at the liner carrier on May 1. Schueler, 46, is an American and will join Maersk from Microsoft Corp. where he was head of global retail sales and marketing. […]
OIA Global has opened a new office in Tokyo — the company’s first office in Japan — and has named Shigeru Kashihara as managing director of Japan. The new location will give OIA customers in the United States, Japan and throughout Asia-Pacific better control of their freight, according to a company release. […]
The cloud-based global freight rate management solution provider CargoSphere said Tuesday it has released a new feature aimed at allowing logistics service providers (LSPs) to quickly and efficiently refresh rate quotes. The feature, Floodgate Quote Refresh, is designed to give freight forwarders and non-vessel operating common carriers the ability to automate the rate […]
Dakota Granite Co., Zinifex Taylor Chemicals and 11 other shippers brought a suit against BNSF, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific in 2007. The plaintiffs alleged the carriers illegally imposed surcharges from 2003 to 2008.
The automotive supplier division of the U.S. conglomerate Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI) has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against its long-time freight payment and audit vendor, TransVantage Solutions.
It’s not clear how the company will deploy the ships. Maersk and most large shipping companies have deployed their largest ships in the Asia-Europe trade lane, but such strings generally require about 10 vessels.
For the first 16 weeks of the year, total railroad traffic in the United States has grown by nearly 1 percent over 2012’s figures, according to the Association of American Railroads. The organization measured total carloads and intermodal units of 8.2 million on April 20, showing a 0.7-perecent bump over last year. Total volume, […]
Massive changes to the U.S. export control regime are beginning to be made by the Obama administration, but the automatic budget cuts that kicked in March 1 are limiting the Bureau of Industry and Security’s ability to educate shippers about the new rules and how to follow them, Eric Hirschhorn, undersecretary for industry and security […]
Cargo interests worry the Army Corps of Engineers’ slow bureaucracy and the paucity of congressional appropriations for increasing the depth and width of entrances to key commercial ports is increasing the cost of shipping goods.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration suspended all employee furloughs and said air traffic control facilities returned to regular staffing levels by Sunday evening after Congress passed legislation Friday giving the agency flexibility.
TNT Express’ first-quarter results show a 4.5-percent drop in revenues to 1.7 billion euros ($2.2 billion) on weak performance in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In Europe and the Middle East, TNT saw increased price pressure leading to a revenue drop, but the decline could have been much worse had it not […]
China’s air cargo volume rose to 487,000 tons in March, a 4-percent year-over-year increase on the way to a three-month finish of 1.3 million tons, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Year to date, Chinese air freight is 4.7-percent ahead of 2012’s activity. The latest figures showed that new air cargo […]
The liner carrier MOL said last week its vessel on-time arrival rates rose on the Asia-U.S. West Coast lane from the last quarter of 2012 to the first quarter of 2013. However, on-time rates deteriorated on the other four lanes it measures. MOL’s Asia-U.S. West Coast on-time percentage rose during the quarter […]
Cargo theft in North America stayed flat, year over year, in 2012 as European theft rates rose by 24 percent, according to FreightWatch International. Cargo theft in Asia also increased. According to the company, however, the greatest theft threats still exist in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. Last year, about 6,800 thefts […]
Officials with the International Civil Aviation Organization are currently negotiating a new lease for their headquarters in Montreal, but another suitor has emerged. Qatar has proposed that ICAO make Doha the permanent seat of the organization, starting in 2016. Qatar’s offer, according to ICAO’s rules, must be considered by the organization’s 191 […]
The measure, which follows similar action taken by the Senate Thursday evening, would give the FAA leeway to move money from a grant program for airport improvements to cover personnel costs and leave air traffic controllers in their jobs full time.
