Beverly Fedorko, a spokesperson for the New York Shipping Association, said longshoremen were eager to return to work and “anxious to get the port back and running and get that feeling of contributing to the well-being of the region.”
ECS Group, a general sales and services agent based in Paris, has acquired three companies in Italy founded by Glauco Martinelli, including Air Transport Consultants Spa (ATC), Airfreight and Data Processing Srl (ADP), and Airline Logistics Srl (AirLog).
A leader of the Virginia Maritime Association and Virginia’s transportation secretary have engaged in a very public debate about the financial health of the Hampton Roads ports. In an article published over the weekend, the Virginian Pilot newspaper said the exchange of letters between Arthur W. Moye Jr., executive vice president and secretary […]
PayCargo will provide ASCI clients with payment processing services integrated directly into ASCI’s accounting module to offer payment processing capabilities not currently available within ASCI’s suite.
Ti Business Development Director Mike Nordmann, a veteran of the African logistics market, said investors and logistics companies will have to adopt a more positive approach if they wish to exploit the region’s opportunities.
The bank has extended provisions to help exporters and financial institutions located in those portions of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast that have been declared federal disaster areas due to the impact of Hurricane Sandy.
The DOT agency on Monday said it’s leading an Interstate Petroleum Transport Team to ensure the quickest and most efficient movement of fuel to the region devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
The CKYH Green Alliance said Tuesday it will cancel seven Asia-Mediterranean sailings during the winter to better align supply with slowing demand during the period. The dropped sailings will come between November and mid-January.
Expeditors International of Washington said it had a profit attributable to shareholders of $88.5 million for the third quarter of 2012, compared with $106.6 million for the same quarter last year, a decrease of 17 percent. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2012 was $465 million, 6 percent less than the $494 […]
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that a state agency violated the law when it negotiated an agreement before issuing a key permit needed to deepen the Savannah River. The Supreme Court’s decision last Friday comes just one week after Jo-Ellen Darcy, head of the Army Corps of Engineers’ civil works programs, […]
Arc Terminals said it is working with Canadian National Railway to build a rail tank car unloading terminal in Mobile, Ala., to handle Western Canadian heavy and Bakken light crude oils destined to Gulf Coast refineries.
Intermodal volume rose 3.2 percent in the third quarter, the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) said Monday. Volume grew to nearly 3.8 million units year-on-year despite signs of an economic slowdown in the quarter, IANA said. “Trailer volume dropped 10.7 percent, as shippers continued to move away from 45-foot and 48-foot […]
The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday voted to purchase an office building in east Long Beach to serve as temporary headquarters for the Port of Long Beach administrative offices. The port’s administrative staff of about 350 people is expected to move to the building, near Long Beach Airport, sometime next […]
Associated British Ports (ABP) has named James Cooper its new chief executive officer, following the retirement of Peter Jones at the end of March 2013. Prior to this appointment, Cooper served as a non-executive director at ABP. He is currently a director of Infracapital, the European infrastructure fund of M & G Investments, […]
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security Office of Technology Evaluation has initiated a Website to show preliminary results from its ongoing U.S. Space Industry ‘Deep Dive’ assessment. Started in June 2012, the BIS study is based on a mandatory data collection from over 9,000 companies, universities, non-profits, and U.S. government agencies […]
The container line said Monday it made $87.1 million in liner operating profits in the third quarter, a major swing from the $144 million it lost during the same period in 2011. Liner revenue in the third quarter was $2.2 billion.
The American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) is supporting Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) and emergency management agencies across the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. ALAN has engaged numerous private industry and logistics services companies to help meet the needs of these disaster relief organizations. Currently, […]
John Lanigan, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for BNSF Railway, will retire on Jan. 15 and be succeeded by Steve Bobb, vice president of coal, the company announced Friday.
The federal government issued issued a temporary blanket waiver of the Jones Act to immediately allow additional oil tankers from the Gulf of Mexico to deliver product from the Gulf of Mexico to Northeastern ports.
Global logistics provider C.H. Robinson announced Friday it has finalized the acquisition of Chicago-based freight forwarder Phoenix International for $571.5 million in cash and about $63.5 million in newly-issued C.H. Robinson common stock. Eden Prarie, Minn.-based C.H. Robinson revealed in late September that it had made an offer to buy Phoenix, which is especially strong […]
