The Jacksonville, Fla.-based carrier made several changes to the senior management in its shipping and logistics businesses and consolidated its commercial marketing, sales, customer care and pricing activities.
The National Foreign Trade Council and the U.S.-Middle East Free Trade (MEFTA) Coalition welcomed the announcement of three new U.S.-Morocco initiatives aimed at advancing bilateral trade and investment ties between the two countries. The initiatives, announced Tuesday by Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Miriam Sapiro at the U.S.-Morocco Business Development Conference, include a trade […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank on Wednesday approved its fourth supply chain finance transaction and will guarantee up to 90 percent of $450 million in liquidity offered by a JPMorgan Chase loan to suppliers of Caterpillar. In specific, the bank’s guarantee will support small business suppliers by improving their liquidity, thereby allowing them to […]
Menlo Worldwide Logistics has agreed to provide JF Hillebrand Singapore with warehousing and inventory management services for its client, whisky distiller William Grant & Sons. Menlo, which has six locations in Singapore, will carry out the duties from a 320,000-square-foot warehouse. Menlo’s services will include customs permit declaration, container trucking, storage, bond-to-bond […]
Air Menzies International has helped complete a multimodal logistical maneuver, working with its customer Forwarding Direct to transport AUS$4.3 million ($4.5 million) of food machinery weighing 24,700 kilograms on an Ilyushin 76. London-based Air Charter Service chartered the plane, which was operated by Jordan International Air Cargo. Shipped from Courville-sur-Eure, France, to South Dandenong, […]
The European Parliament is to vote Wednesday on the Better Airports package, a group of reforms meant to increase European airport capacity and reduce delays. The package includes legislation on ground-handling, noise and EU’s complicated slot rules, which are takeoff and landing vouchers granted to airlines that allow them to use runways and […]
National Interstate Corp. has appointed Tony Mercurio to executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1. He joined National Interstate in 1997 and currently serves as chief executive officer of Vanliner Insurance Co., one of National Interstate’s insurance subsidiaries. National Interstate provides insurance to the freight transportation and storage industries.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday announced the dates for its annual Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism conference. The event will be held in Washington, D.C., Jan. 8-10, at a location to be determined. Registration for the C-TPAT conference is now open and individuals interested in attending are encouraged to register as soon as […]
Many American shippers are disturbed that the administration, if not President Obama himself, failed to issue even a statement about the importance of ending the now-concluded strike in the Southern California ports.
A World Trade Organization arbitrator on Tuesday ruled that the United States has until May 23, 2013 to bring its country of origin labeling (COOL) measure on livestock imports from Canada and Mexico into compliance with its WTO obligations. The WTO ruled June 29 that the United States’ COOL unfairly discriminated against Canada […]
The parent company of Sea Star Line and Totem Ocean Trailer Express said Tuesday that it will build two new 3,100-TEU containerships for the Puerto Rico trade that will be powered by liquefied natural gas.
The deadline to create nine functional airline blocks over European airspace, a regional goal in the progress toward the Single European Sky program, has passed, and the European Commission will launch infringement procedures against states that don’t have their blocks up and running. Next spring, the government will present new accelerated measures to […]
The planes are suitable for the short, high-cycle intra-Middle East flights that Kalitta does for the military, contractors and the U.S. government, Bryan Perraud of Kalitta’s global sales agent Wallace Air Cargo Group explained.
The global integrated carrier has opened a $21 million, 140,000-square-foot expansion to its hub at Miami International Airport, and recently launched its first mechanized delivery site in Bonn, Germany.
Privately-held third party logistics provider Transplace said Thursday it has acquired Torus Freight Systems, a Canadian 3PL specializing in cross-border and intra-Canada freight management. Ontario-based Torus is the third small acquisition for Transplace in the past two years. Backed by money from its owner, private investment group CI Capital Partners, Transplace last year bought […]
CMA CGM said it was implementing general rate increases Jan. 1 on several routes out of Asia. The French carrier said it will raise rates $500 per TEU on containers moving from Asia to the east or west coast of South America, the west coast of Central America, and Mexico. It also […]
R+L Carriers has unveiled Business Critical Solutions, a suite of expedited, guaranteed shipping services encompassing same-day, next-day and 1-2 day transit services. The service includes less-than-trailerload guaranteed service, LTL expediting, a new domestic service called Weekend Express, and traditional and international expediting. According to a press release, R+L’s on-service time performance stands at 99.87 percent. […]
APL and Hanjin Shipping said Wednesday they will start a new joint intra-Asia service linking Thailand and Japan from Dec. 21. The new service will be operated with three 1,700-TEU ships with a rotation of Osaka, Kobe, Hibiki, Hakata, Kaohsiung, Chiwan, Laem Chabang, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, and Osaka. It wasn’t specified how […]
The third party logistics services provider Total Service Logistics recently tripled its footprint at Depot Park, a 300-acre industrial and office complex in Sacramento, Calif., that includes 3 million square feet of flexible workspace, growing from 42,000 square feet to 120,000 square feet in the past 60 days. The company is planning to take over another 30,000 square feet […]
Representatives from European-American Business Council (EABC) and TransAtlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) said Wednesday that the two organizations will merge to form the Transatlantic Business Council (TBC), effective Jan. 1. “TBC creates a stronger business voice for its 90-plus member companies,” the two organizations said in a statement. “It will advocate for the timely […]
