Three days of bargaining on a new contract by the union and its employers wound up on Thursday, with the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George H. Cohen saying the two sides had “made progress” in their effort to negotiate a master contract.
Researchers at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Conrad Blucher Institute (CBI) have designed a new mobile application to provide ship captains and pilots with real-time predictions of ocean water levels and currents along the Houston Ship Channel, which services the second-largest port in the United States, the ports of Houston and Galveston. The app […]
After two and a half months on a 10-week rotation, ocean carrier Maersk Line, along with vessel partner CMA CGM, has slowed its weekly FEW3 service between Asia and West Africa to skip one sailing position from Asia in February. Roundtrip voyage time on the FEW3 has increased from 70 days to 77 […]
CargoWise, a developer of technology systems for logistics service providers, said Thursday it has entered a distribution partnership with enterprise resource planning (ERP) specialists RBC Group to target rapidly expanding markets in Eastern Europe and Russia. Formed in 2008, RBC Group operates in five countries across Eastern Europe, with more than 250 mid-market and […]
Tampa Cargo, a division of AviancaTaca, welcomed the first Airbus 330-200 freighter to be operated in the Americas. The plane is the first of four A330-200s to be added to its fleet. The freighters will be used on routes between Latin America and the United States and are part of the airline group’s updated focus […]
The agency-based freight forwarder ICAT Logistics on Thursday released a new, customized software product called CATS 2.0 for its network. Developed by CSA Software, CATS 2.0 is aimed at providing ICAT’s internal team and network of agency partners with a system that will enable ICAT’s growth, increase its use through remote access availability, […]
ABF Global Supply Chain Services has expanded to South America, offering single-contract full-containerload and expedited less-than-containerload services to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay. ABF also recently announced ocean coverage in Europe and Asia as part of its overall growth strategy. The company’s goal of reaching 96 percent of the total U.S. international shipping […]
Insurer TT Club is highlighting the dangers to dockworkers from accidents involving heavy equipment in a recent publication. For example, it said lift trucks were involved in 30 percent of the bodily injury claims analyzed, mainly the result of trucks reversing into people. The installation of anti-collision devices could potentially have saved $30 […]
Despite continued weak activity from the United States and Asia, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol experienced the best cargo activity in 2012 during the fourth quarter, measuring volume of 380,284 tons during the period. Exports rose on the whole in 2012 to 49.34 percent of all cargo handled at the airport, representing a slight increase over […]
Due to a safety risk involving lithium batteries installed in Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, the agency has grounded U.S.-registered planes. United is the only American carrier operating the plane.
The American Chemistry Council, Fertilizer Institute and five other chemical and transportation organizations have issued rebuttal comments to the U.S. Surface Transportation Board’s proposed changes outlined in Ex Parte 715, which governs whether or not a rail freight rate is reasonable. The council said the board is using flawed methods to calculate rates that […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank authorized a $155.4 million direct loan to Ghana to finance the design and construction of a hospital expansion in Accra. Miami-based Americaribe will export the goods and services required for the project. The loan will support about 700 U.S. jobs, according to Commerce and Labor department data. The Ridge […]
“The current supply and demand balance will continue and we will not be reinstating the Loop 3 Asia-Europe service,” the alliance carriers said. Loop 3 was suspended in October as part of the alliance’s “winter program.”
U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George H. Cohen said in a statement today that the U.S. Maritime Alliance and the International Longshoremen’s Association “made progress” during the past three days of contract negotiations held in Galloway Township, N.J. He said both sides “agreed that the negotiations will continue under our auspices.” […]
Cargo volumes in Southern California’s two major container ports were little changed in 2012 over 2011, but Long Beach benefited as a service used by the world’s three largest container carriers switched from a terminal in Los Angeles. Terminals in the Port of Long Beach moved a total of 6.05 million TEUs in […]
Drewry said its Hong Kong-to-Los Angeles container rate benchmark, published in the latest Container Freight Rate Insight report, jumped 14 percent to $2,524 per 40-foot container this week. The London-based firm said the $311 per 40-foot box increase in the benchmark rate shows that members of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement achieved around 50 percent of their $600 target […]
Piracy on the world’s seas has reached a five-year low, with 297 ships attacked in 2012, compared with 439 in 2011, the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said Wednesday. Worldwide figures were brought down by a huge reduction in Somali piracy, though East and West Africa remain the worst hit areas, […]
In December, truck freight volumes in the spot market rose 5 percent, year over year, according to the DAT North American Freight Index. Even though the result made for the busiest December since the index’s inception in 1996, it still came on a month-to-month decline of 18.4 percent. This follows a typical seasonal […]
“First and foremost, they still lack a global trade compliance capability, the third major pillar of GTM. Integration of existing capabilities within the two platforms will be key to achieving an effective system,” the Gartner analysts wrote.
Cathay Pacific and sister airline Dragonair saw their air freight volume increase 3.4 percent year-on-year in December to 146,897 tons. The airlines’ combined load factor fell by 0.4 percentage points to 67.4 percent, while capacity, measured in available cargo/mail ton kilometers, rose by 1 percent. For the whole of 2012, tonnage declined by […]
