SAP on Wednesday 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. SAP said the benefits of the new release include improved ocean and new air freight management, manual and automated transportation planning, […]
Two wind turbines were installed this week at the Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) bottling plant in Cabazon, Calif., which will provide 30 percent of the facility’s electricity. “Hosting wind turbines at our bottling plants is a critical step for Nestlé Waters to support the increased use of renewable energy,” said Michael Washburn, […]
The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) said CMA CGM is adding the Port of Charleston to its Pacific Express 3 (PEX 3) weekly service, providing an additional connection for the region’s shippers to ports across Asia. It said the first ship in the service to call Charleston, the 5,095-TEU CMA CGM Florida, is […]
APM Terminals said a push to improve efficiency at its marine terminals was successful last year with crane lifts per hour – a key indicator – improving “no less than 8 percent” across all its facilities in 2012. The company, part of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, has an objective to improve efficiency 15 percent within two years […]
New Jersey-based logistics software provider Aljex Software on Wednesday said it has released a new product for rail intermodal management. The new solution, Vision Intermodal, operates within Aljex Vision-hosted software. Aljex provides hosted management applications for customs brokers, third-party logistics providers and carriers. Vision Intermodal tracks each step in the door-to-door sequence […]
Rickmers Maritime, the Singapore-based ship-owning subsidiary of Germany’s Rickmers Group, saw its 2012 operating profits drop 32 percent year-on-year to $27.6 million. Revenue dropped 3 percent to $144.3 million. Rickmers is a business trust that owns and operates containerships under long-term, fixed-rate charters to global container liner companies. It owns 16 ships […]
Jim Barber will become the next president of UPS International when Dan Brutto, a 38-year industry veteran, retires in April. Barber currently serves as the president of UPS Europe. He will also join the integrator’s 10-person management committee. Barber has worked at UPS for the past 28 years and in various Europe-based positions. […]
The Pacific Northwest grain terminal operator said its decision was based on evidence that shows two significant attempts to sabotage export equipment were carried out by a member of ILWU Local 4.
DHL Supply Chain will invest 40 million euros ($52 million) in Indonesia during the next few years, more than doubling its vehicle fleet, increasing its employment base by nearly two thirds, and expanding its warehouse space by more than half. The additions are all meant to tap into an estimated double-digit growth in the […]
Today’s non-vessel-operating common carrier faces a tricky task: how to avoid being a jack of all trades but master of none. Any successful NVO – whether large or small, neutral or not – will have a book of business that varies widely in its basic characteristics. Those differences include its customers’ volumes, lanes, origins, […]
IAG Cargo will add an additional 42 tons of cargo capacity on routes between London Heathrow and Shanghai Pudong International Airport, starting March 31. A new weekly passenger service on Boeing 777 aircraft will increase the number of flights between the new airport to seven. “Our aim as a cargo carrier is […]
On Jan. 25, the American Trucking Associations requested the Transportation Department agency delay the start of the rules by three months to ensure enough separation between the judgment of the group’s court challenge.
What this past year has taught the shipping industry is just how powerful unionized dock labor on both coasts has become in the United States and how much of the country’s economy it holds in a tight grip. These unions — namely the International Longshoremen’s Association on the East and Gulf coasts and […]
Suez routings to U.S. East Coast increase with bigger, more efficient ships. By Chris Dupin As work continues on the expansion of the Panama Canal, fuel has gotten extremely expensive and big containerships very common. One of the results is a growing amount of cargo moving between East Asia and North America’s east coast […]
Switching product from one form of transportation to another is seen by many as a solution to the equipment shortage in parts of the country. American grain is one of those exports that increasingly fills containers which would otherwise leave the country empty.
The Port of Savannah soared into prominence in the container shipping business back in 1984, when Malcom McLean, then head of United States Lines, made the Georgia seaport, along with New York, one of the two “load centers” for his new “round the world” service operated with a dozen 4,246-TEU “Econships,” vessels designed with […]
If the act of swiping photos left and right or instantly maximizing Web pages with your fingertips feels blasé, it’s probably important to point out that all these features on your mobile devices were really only brought into the public consciousness a decade ago. Call it the Minority Report effect.
In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a homeowner who said his floating home was not a vessel and therefore not subject to arrest under maritime law. (Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Fla. No. 11-625. Jan. 15.) The majority opinion authored by Justice Stephen Breyer concluded a structure does […]
In a summary order, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a 2011 decision by the District Court for the Southern District of New York confirming an arbitration award issued by a panel of the Society of Maritime Arbitrators. (NYKCool A.B. v. Pacific Fruit Inc. 2nd Cir. 11-4246-cv. Jan. 16.) The arbitration panel […]
President Obama announced in his State of the Union address that his administration would soon launch talks with the European Union on a transatlantic free trade pact. U.S. and EU tariffs are low – 5.2 percent for the goods entering the European Union, 3.5 percent in the United States – but the sheer volume […]
