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   Hillwood Properties is adding on to its 17,000-acre master-planned complex AllianceTexas, building the 1.2-million-square-foot industrial speculation property Alliance Center North 1 as part of the Fort Worth development’s 650-acre industrial development.    At full buildout, Alliance Center North will span 9 million square feet of industrial space.    Project design is currently underway, and […]

   Etihad Cargo has named Swissport its first preferred handling partner under a two-year certification contract focusing on stations in Athens, Geneva, Larnaca, Nairobi, Seoul and Toronto.    According to a press release, the two parties will expand their agreement to other stations in the future.    To obtain the certification, Swissport passed benchmarks in […]

   The Baltic Air Charter Association (BACA) has elected Tony Coe, owner of Aviation Complete Ltd., as its new chairman.    The association, based at the Baltic Exchange in London, represents the interests of air charter brokers, aircraft operators, airports, aviation lawyers and others in the global air charter industry.    Coe has been in […]

   The consolidated cases — Asamarbunker v. U.S. 5th Cir. Nos. 12-40246 & 12-40248. Feb.1 — center on the arrest of two ships and their subsequent sale to satisfy outstanding debts. The United States successfully intervened in the in rem proceedings on the basis of preferred mortgage liens on the two vessels.    Two bunker […]

   Trucking industry claims that most companies are not exploiting their drivers rings hollow to workers’ rights advocates. They say the evidence is clear that workers are not true businessmen with the freedom to pursue customers and set rates in the open market.    The Seacon Logix case is more the rule than the exception, […]

Port trucking companies wrestle with productivity, labor compliance challenges. By Eric Kulisch    Trucking companies that service the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are trying to overcome impediments at marine terminal gates and intense government scrutiny of their employment practices that they say hurt business.    The top concerns for local motor carriers that […]

Airlines bring Asia-to-U.S. cargo capacity in line with dwindling shipper demand. By Jon Ross    Two years ago, Asia seemed to be the shining star in the air cargo world.    According to the International Air Transport Association, Asian carriers moved a similar amount of cargo in November 2010 than during cargo’s pre-recession peak in […]

   Last year, a high-volume shipper with strong exports out of the United States saw an opportunity to bring stability to his air cargo business. Instead of using the volatile spot market to secure air freight rates, he signed a two-year contract with a freight forwarder for the 70 percent of his total business that […]

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Related Magazine Content Lawmakers seek to raise de minimis Refining U.S.-Colombia FTA Mexican tomatoes    The U.S. International Trade Commission, which is in charge of enforcing safeguards in trade laws, has initiated an investigation of integrated circuit devices and products containing the devices made in Finland, Taiwan and South Korea for companies such as Motorola, […]

   The U.S. Trade Representative recently solicited proposals from the public for ways to accelerate the elimination of tariffs on various products and modify the rules of origin under the free trade agreement with Colombia.    Both countries are required to give preferential duty treatment to goods that meet the agreement’s rules of origin.    […]

   Verisk Crime Analytics has linked up with the Transportation Intermediaries Association to help collect and analyze cases of cargo and identity theft, offering its CargoNet program to members.    The program uses a national database to share information among crime analysts. The company also offers recovery and deterrence measures, while promoting communication between victims […]

   Individuals and companies would be spared from filing customs documents and paying import duties and fees for more of their shipments under House and Senate proposals that would raise the threshold for such requirements from $200 to $800.    The Low Value Shipment Regulatory Modernization Act of 2013, sponsored by Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., […]

   The cloud-based global ocean and air rate management provider CargoSphere has released version 4.0 of its CargoSphere Rate Network (CRN).    The new release is intended to provide a more intuitive, clearly defined and easy-to-use rate network for non-vessel-operating common carriers and freight forwarders seeking to collaborate with global agents.    The network now […]

   SAP in late February released version 9.0 version of its SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) application.    The release came more than a month earlier than first planned, the global software company said.

   The transportation management systems (TMS) providers 3Gtms and Transite Technology said they have merged to focus on providing “highly specialized” TMS applications to mid-market companies.    “Transite’s product suite is the ideal platform to develop a very broad suite of transportation software, while 3Gtms’s initial suite includes a brokerage system, a standalone rating utility, […]

The port’s board unanimously voted Tuesday to restructure the state-owned operating company, Virginia International Terminals, instead of outsourcing cargo and vessel-handling operations at the Port of Virginia.

HKIA took the reins from Memphis International Airport, 2012’s second-place finisher, in 2010, ACI said. Both airports experienced an increase in cargo activity of more than 2 percent when compared to 2011’s numbers.

APMT said the Maasvlakte II facility, scheduled to open in November 2014 with an initial annual throughput capacity of 2.7 million TEUs, will be the most technologically advanced container terminal in the world.

   The containerized shipping industry has become comfortable with a pattern of U.S. imports consistently exceeding exports. However, this is now changing and, as it does, equipment management will have to adjust.    The gap between loaded import and export container volumes has steadily narrowed in the first quarter of the calendar year, which suggests […]