The Busan Port Authority (BPA) and global container terminal operator PSA International signed a memorandum of understanding Friday designed to stoke cooperation towards a long-term strategic partnership between the two organizations. BPA and PSA said they’ll seek to find opportunities to work more closely to realize mutual benefits in South Korea’s Port of […]
American Trucking Associations applauded Reps. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin and Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee for calling for a pilot program to require drug testing of hair samples for truck drivers in the United States. The proposed bill would require the Transportation Department to develop a pilot program to test the viability of hair testing on […]
“Puerto Rico’s economy remains in a prolonged multi-year recession, during which time domestic container volumes to the island have contracted sharply,” said Richard Rodriguez, head of the liner’s Puerto Rico service.
The line next month will offer two new services from Manzanillo, Mexico, to the west coast of Central America as part of a restructuring of its service to the region.
The U.S. Justice Department said Markos Baghdasarian, manager of Delfin Group USA LLC, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the District of South Carolina to charges of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by making illegal exports to Iran. In addition, he made false statements and failed to obtain the […]
An L.A. port official said the huge size of the two ports – their terminals, workforce, railroad infrastructure and large number of truckers – give them a great deal of “cargo bandwidth,” which should help quickly end the backlog.
APL Logistics said Thursday it has released a version of its SeeChange shipment tracking tool for mobile devices. SeeChange Lite allows customers to secure tracking capability from Apple, Android and Blackberry mobile and handheld devices in a free, downloadable app version. “SeeChange Lite is a step towards enhancing our suite of value-added […]
A Bahamian-flagged car carrier has sunk off the coast of Rotterdam after an overnight collision with a small containership, with at least four crew members reportedly dead and seven more missing. The Baltic Ace was en route from Zeebrugge to Kotka, Finland, when it collided with the Cyprus-registered Corvus J in the North […]
Hyundai said it will increase all refrigerated cargo rates by $1500 per unit on Jan. 1. The rate increase will apply across the board to all commodities from the U.S. and Canada to Asia including the Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and Far Eastern Russia. The South Korean carrier said it “must increase […]
Pegasus TransTech, a developer of data management software for the transportation industry, said Thursday it has released a cloud-based version of its TRANSFLO document management and workflow product for trucking companies TRANSFLO DMS is designed to allow carriers to automate time-critical business processes such as accounts payable and receivable, vehicle maintenance, and recruiting. […]
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 […]
