Canada and Israel have signed a Customs Mutual Assistance agreement, the Canada Border Services Agency said. The agreement provides the legal framework for Canada and Israel to share customs data to prevent, investigate and prosecute customs violations. The signing in Ottawa followed a visit by Doron Arbely, director general of the Israel Tax […]
The container leasing company Seaco on Wednesday appointed Jeremy Matthew to group chief executive officer and Paul Merritt as group chief operating officer. The appointments follow the retirement of former CEO Dave Amble. Matthew, the group’s current chief financial officer, will take over as CEO with immediate effect and will be supported by Merritt, […]
Craig Perciavalle was promoted to president of Austal USA, the subsidiary of Australian shipbuilding company, Austal Ltd. He most recently served as senior vice president of operations. Perciavalle joined Austal USA in 2007, serving in a number of senior management positions while overseeing the company’s transition from a small commercial shipyard to a […]
The influx of trucking assets to meet demand will exacerbate a tight market and lead to a national shortage of trucks, especially for flatbed, dry van and refuse haulers, warned Noël Perry, senior consultant for FTR Associates.
According to a Transportation Department docket published today in the Federal Register, cargo-only operations aren’t required to abide by the new flight, duty and rest requirements for pilots, but may choose to opt in if desired.
Two barge industry groups said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has named two contractors to remove rock pinacles in the Mississippi at Thebes, Ill., and that the agency could begin blasting next week. But the American Waterways Operators and Waterways Council, Inc. warned in a joint statement that water releases from the Missouri […]
DHL Global Forwarding has expanded its sea-air product to eight new destinations in Africa, further strengthening the Asia-Africa trade lane. DHL now boasts 26 air-sea destinations in Africa that can link up with more than 40 Asian destinations. These Asia-Africa shipments will be sent by ocean to Dubai and flown on pre-booked air […]
Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines are the latest casualties in cargo price-fixing scandal, settling their cases and agreeing to pay fines levied by the Federal Court of Australia of $11.25 million and $11.75 million, respectively. These stand as two of the largest fines ever ordered in Australia. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, […]
“The industry is now comprehensively united in our objectives and timelines for e-freight and e-AWB. This sends a huge message to all industry participants,” said Bill Gottlieb, past president of FIATA and a GACAG member.
A senior Commerce Department official helping to oversee the overhaul of the country’s antiquated export control regulations said the Obama administration is committed to following through on concluding these reforms in its second term. “Given last month’s election results, we have time to finish the largest part of the reform effort—the transfer to the […]
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday reported that the country’s exports in goods and services for October were down 3.6 percent from the previous month to $180.5 billion. Similarly, U.S. imports during that month fell 2.1 percent to $222.8 billion. As a result, the October international trade deficit increased to $42.2 billion […]
The CKYH or Green Alliance of container shipping companies (COSCO, “K” Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin Shipping) said it will cancel seven voyages on loops between Asia and North Europe and Asia and the Mediterranean “in order to cope with the seasonal market demand.” According to a press release, CKYH members will cancel the voyages from […]
The center, which will support 40 programmers and engineers, will serve as a software engineering and research and development hub for the railroad’s technology group.
The Port of Hamburg said the world’s largest containership, the 16,020-TEU CMA CGM Marco Polo, berthed at the HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB). But Reinhard Peschel, managing director of CMA CGM Deutschland, said “delay in the dredging of the river Elbe makes it more difficult for us to enable dependable handling, because even […]
Transportation Solutions Enterprises (TSE) has appointed Richard G. Piontek as president of 3PLogic, the company’s transportation management and technology services subsidiary. Piontek takes over from 3PLogic’s current president and co-founder, Eric Rempel, who will focus on continued innovation and development of the company’s technology platform as its chief information officer. “We’re excited […]
The freight rate technology vendor Catapult International said Wednesday it has released a new software product called Spring Board that allows liner carriers and non-vessel-operating common carriers to accept shipper rate request bids of any Excel format and map them to a master template. Spring Board also allows carriers and NVOs to manage […]
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 3.9 percent in December despite a strike that closed the nation’s largest port complex for the first few days of the month, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released Monday by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. […]
The Port of Virginia handled 198,720 TEUs of containerized cargo in November, the second best month ever for the port. Several carriers rerouted container cargo through Norfolk after Hurricane Sandy closed the Port of New York and New Jersey. But the uptick in cargo in Virginia is part of a longer term […]
