The regulations will require that any brokers, freight forwarders, shippers, and receivers to hire, or contract with, only carriers compliant with CARB’s regulations on emissions from reefer boxes.
The U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) said labor negotiations between the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association, which represents employers, and International Longshore and Warehouse Union Locals 4, 8, 19 and 23 are continuing. In a brief statement issued Friday, FMCS said at its request the parties have agreed to continue negotiations under […]
Container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey are reopening in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The Maher and APM Terminals in Elizabeth, N.J., received ships on Sunday and the Port Newark Container Terminal (PNCT) and Global Terminal in Jersey City were scheduled to open for business on Monday morning. […]
Third party logistics services firm DSV, together with real estate developer Habacker, will build a 60 million euro ($76.7 million) logistics facility in Krefeld-Fichtenhain, Germany. The 80,000-square-meter facility will consolidate a number of DSV facilities of the Road, Air & Sea and Solutions divisions in North Rhine-Westphalia, the company said. Habacker will start […]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will receive on Sunday the first ships to call at container terminals in the port since it was hit by Hurricane Sandy. On Sunday, four cargo vessels will go to Maher Terminal…
by Cheryl Garcia, regional vice president, Global Transportation Relationship Management, U.S. Bank Freight Payment Supply chain practitioners have a simple goal: to create as much certainty as possible out of situations rife with uncertainty. And there’s a great deal of uncertainty at the moment, with the ongoing contract negotiations between East and Gulf Coast […]
Former senior global logistics leader at GE Electric Power and Water, Vikash Patel, has formed a third-party logistics firm specializing in the transportation management of project cargoes, such as wind turbine components. Patel, who is credited with overseeing the largest transportation move in North American history to date, which included more than 20,000 […]
Some container shipping companies indicated they were changing ship rotations, diverting cargo to other ports, or setting up special phone numbers or offices in the wake of the Northeast storm.
“The Corps’ decision is a crucial step for a project more than a decade in the making,” said Curtis Foltz, Georgia Ports Authority’s executive director. “It is a leap forward for America’s global competitiveness.”
The global container terminal operator DP World has won a bid from the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust to build a single-berth terminal at India’s biggest port complex. The $200 million terminal will be built alongside DP World’s existing terminal in the port, also known as Nhava Sheva, on a 17-year concession. The terminal […]
Paul Devine replaces former president Erxin Yao, who is relocating back to Hong Kong to become OOCL’s director of corporate planning, regions management and corporate administration.
The Switzerland-based company’s forwarding revenue in the third quarter rose 9.6 percent to $1.8 billion, but operating profits fell 84.3 percent to $7.5 million. Year-to-date, revenue is up 1.6 percent to $5.2 billion.
OOCL said starting Jan. 1 it will no longer provide chassis for import and export shipments to and from Norfolk and Front Royal, Va., as well as for Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. All truckers, either working as suppliers for OOCL or its customers, must provide chassis for these shipments. Chassis […]
The Canadian supply chain software technology provider TECSYS Inc. said Thursday it has completed a financing agreement of up to CAD$10 million with the National Bank of Canada to support the company’s growth. The financing agreement also includes a five-year CAD$5 million term loan and CAD$5 million operating line of credit. “Over the […]
Drewry said Asia-Europe spot container rates have soared ahead of annual contract talks. It said the Shanghai-Rotterdam container freight rate index increased by 38 percent, or $788 per 40-foot container today, to $2,865 per 40-foot container, “marking the latest of several huge price swings in the Asia-Europe container shipping market.” The weekly […]
Singapore Airlines Cargo will park one of its 13 freighters, citing “continuing weakness in demand for air freight shipments and high fuel prices.” The plane will be removed from service in January and under current plans it will remain parked until May 2014. A storage location is in the process of being selected, the […]
Dole Ocean Cargo Express said Thursday it will raise rates on northbound and southbound shipments between the U.S. East and Gulf coasts and Central America from Dec. 19. Northbound, the increases are: • $50 per 20-foot container and $100 per 40-foot high cube container from Guatemala and Honduras to Wilmington, Gulfport, Freeport, and […]
The liner carrier MOL said Thursday its on-time performance in the third quarter of 2012 improved marginally on the eastbound transpacific, but dipped on the Asia-Europe and transatlantic lanes. In the July-September period, 87 percent of ships from Asia to the U.S. West Coast were on time, the same as in the second […]
Armando Duarte-Peláez, a longtime board member of Colombia’s Sociedad Portuaria de Santa Marta, has been installed as theAmerican Association of Port Authorities’ (AAPA) chairman 2012-13. Duarte-Peláez accepted the new appointment’s duties at a membership meeting in Mobile, Ala., in late October. Kurt Nagle, AAPA’s president and chief executive officer, called Durate-Peláez “a strong […]
Interim Director Deborah Ale Flint on Thursday assured citizens, employees, public officials and industry partners that the Port of Oakland would get to the bottom of the of the fraud scandal swirling around the port administration, shore up its financial controls and ensure uninterrupted service at the maritime port and Oakland International Airport. Two […]
