Are low air cargo rates affecting this mixed transport mode opportunity? By Jon Ross The rise of just-in-time shipping and the fleeting taste of the fashion industry have led many high-end clothing shippers to embrace a multimodal sea-air solution for shipping garments from Asia to the United States. Shipping clothes by ocean vessel to a […]
In the third quarter of 2012, adjusted U.S. retail e-commerce activity hit $57 billion, a 3.7 percent increase from the second quarter, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The classification society Germanischer Lloyd said it is developing guidelines for route-specific container stowage, which will be introduced early this year. “In times when the market is especially tight, added flexibility in container stowage can help operators stay competitive and run vessels more economically. Throughout the maritime industry there is an increasing recognition […]
In late December, the European Union implemented new sanctions against Iran that increase the complexity of transactions for companies that still do business in that nation. International traders should realize that Iran is a political lightning rod because of its continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and that Western law enforcement agencies will be […]
Full disclosure: I did 99 percent of my most recent holiday shopping from the comfort of my couch. It’s hard to overestimate the extent to which I have converted to e-tailing. Having virtually the entire range of products from every store at your fingertips is a powerful thing. And a major part […]
The Seamen’s Church Institute of New York and New Jersey (SCI) has launched a new mobile app aimed at providing seafarers a way to brief themselves on U.S. environmental laws. The app, available at enviroguides.us, was developed in conjunction with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and is accessible via […]
By Walter Kemmsies, chief economist, Moffatt & Nichol It is glaringly obvious that the United States needs to invest heavily in its transportation infrastructure; however, the policy debate over government spending in the second half of the artificial “Fiscal Cliff” crisis resolution is preempting this, creating a risk that the capital-starved freight movement industry […]
Supply chain technology vendors GT Nexus, TradeCard merge to form unique end-to-end offering. Back before the dot-com bubble burst, the global private equity firm Warburg Pincus invested in two start-up technology companies that a decade later would come to shape the way global trade is managed and financed.
Report says multinationals, worldwide supply chains benefit U.S. economy. By Eric Kulisch American companies that make, buy and sell, goods and services around the world tend to invest more, create additional jobs and experience increasingly rapid growth at home as opposed to firms that are purely domestic, according to a new report commissioned by the […]
Transportation is key ingredient for Fornazor International, an exporter of food products. Close attention to transportation and logistics has been one of the keys to the success of Fornazor International’s agricultural export business whether it is for animal feed bound for dairy farms in Saudi Arabia and fish farms in Chile, feed ingredients like corn […]
Part 1 of 2: Midsized shippers could drive growth of import consolidation strategy in SoCal. By Eric Kulisch More freight imported through the Los Angeles basin is being transloaded into 53-foot domestic containers for trans-continental delivery as shippers seek to gain greater control of their inventory, according to industry analysts and logistics executives. TTX Co., […]
Will social media tools and EMS transform transportation and logistics communications? By Eric Johnson Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are all household names at this point, public vehicles of informed connectedness under the broad, but opaque moniker of “social media.” But at their heart, these tools are about one thing: a different way of […]
The European Commission has spoken, and a blockbuster merger between two of the world’s biggest integrators, which would have created a monolithic logistics firm in Europe, is no more. Though the commission has until February to officially decide, it has privately told both parties that the more than $6 billion deal is dead. […]
To hand over a major container port to a private operator, whose sole focus is on profit and not to be a business and job-creating entity for that region, would create a very dangerous precedent for America’s ports. The result would undoubtedly increase costs to shippers if they were to fall from favor […]
Of this amount, about $2.3 billion will be spent on upgrades of network assets, such as tracks, ties and signals, and another $1 billion on locomotives, freight cars and other equipment acquisitions, the Fort Worth-based railroad said.
Hapag-Lloyd said it would postpone to March 1 a general rate increase on exports of dry commodities from North America to East Asia, Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East. The German liner carrier said it originally planned to hike rates on Jan. 15, then postponed the increase to Feb. 15, and now plans the […]
Nordana has reportedly signed contracts for four heavylift ships with Sanfu Shipyard in China. The Website Maritime Denmark reports the 12,100-deadweight-ton multipurpose ships will have heavylift capacity for up to 500 metric tons and be delivered beginning in November 2014.
Qantas Freight and Australian air Express have officially become one, adding more destinations and service levels for cargo customers. While the merged carrier has already set up a central point to manage all freight capacity on domestic and international flights, officials are still working on intermingling services on a single air waybill and […]
The U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday determined that domestic wind turbine tower manufacturers are “materially injured” by similar imports from China and Vietnam. The Commerce Department previously determined that these large utility-scale towers are subsidized by the Chinese government. It was also determined that both Chinese- and Vietnamese-made towers are sold in […]
The penalty grows out of alleged discharges of contaminated bilge waters and failure to keep an accurate oil record book on its ship Southern Lily 2 when it was operating within navigable waters of American Samoa in 2011.
