After adding American Airlines Cargo last week, the Global Logistics Network has kept expanding with the addition of Durban, South Africa-based Barloworld Logistics. Both new members will be given access to GLN’s network of close to 600 member offices in more than 120 countries. Access to the network will allow AA Cargo […]
Timothy Gormley told Commerce Department investigators he was “too busy” to obtain the necessary export licenses, and claimed he was overwhelmed at work. “That was his only excuse,” the department said.
In its latest Beige Book summing up current economic conditions in 12 key regions throughout the United States, the Federal Reserve outlined mixed transportation results in the closing months of 2012. Four of the districts reported on the transportation outlook of industry firms in their areas, with most of them seeing some positive […]
The Transunion acquisition fits in with Dachser’s Global 2.0 strategy, which has the end goal of expansion to 49 countries and 220 offices by 2017. This will be met via a mix of mergers, joint ventures and organic expansion.
Florida East Coast Railway CEO Jim Hertwig said the terminal will allow his railroad “to efficiently and effectively deliver superior transportation service between South Florida and the southeastern United States.”
Ocean Giant The U.S. Military Sealift Command-chartered containership Ocean Giant departed Port Hueneme, Calif., on Jan. 17 loaded with nearly 7 million pounds of supplies such as frozen and dry food stores, building supplies, vehicles and electronic equipment and parts. A command-chartered tanker Maersk Peary departed Europe in December with over 6 million […]
The U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously determined that imports of steel wire garment hangers from Vietnam are subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value. As a result of the ITC’s affirmative determination, the U.S. Commerce Department will move forward to issue antidumping and countervailing duty orders on imports […]
Naviera Master Line said the fortnightly service, starting March 8, will carry container and breakbulk cargoes between Port Manatee, Fla., and destinations in Colombia, Panama, Venezuela and Trinidad.
The liner carrier OOCL on Friday took delivery of the first two in a series of 10 13,208-TEUs ships, the largest such vessels in its history, at a ceremony at Samsung Heavy Industries’ shipyard in South Korea. The carrier will deploy one of the ships, OOCL Brussels, on the G6 Alliance’s Loop 5 service between […]
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.
