“We are standing by to provide assistance for transportation services, staging areas, storage, expert advice, and other vital resources,” said ALAN President Jock Menzies.
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has won the contract to provide cargo handling for British Airways World Cargo (BAWC) at London’s Gatwick Airport. The new contract, effective Dec. 1, will see about half of the airline’s cargo team at Gatwick transfer to WFS, the world’s largest air cargo handler. The company handles more than […]
Swissport International, a provider of ground services to the aviation sector, has won cargo handling contracts with Lufthansa and Finnair at Copenhagen Airport. Services for Lufthansa will begin Dec. 1, and will include cargo handling for the German carrier’s multiple daily flights to and from the airport and road feeder services between Copenhagen […]
The wind turbine is Walmart’s first onsite industrial-sized wind turbine and will generate about 2.2 million kilowatt hours of power, providing up to 20 percent of the Red Bluff, Calif. distribution center’s annual electricity use.
The liner carrier’s increases, effective from Dec. 1, are $320 per 20-foot container, $400 per 40-foot container, $450 per 40-foot high-cube and $506 per 45-foot high cube container to U.S. West Coast ports.
Gulfport Director Don Allee will resign from his post, effective Nov. 2, in the wake of scrutiny over how the Mississippi port has used $570 million in federal funds after Hurricane Katrina, according to local reports.
A 168-foot tanker washed ashore on Staten Island in New York Monday night during Hurricane Sandy. A WABC report featured striking footage of the John B. Caddell aground near Front Street. It described the ship as a “water tanker.” The ship is described as being built in 1941 and having a deadweight […]
Maersk Line said this week it will omit some port calls on its Asia-Europe network to account for potential port closures during the winter season. The omitted calls, which will occur from mid-November through the end of the year, will be covered by other calls at the same ports on different Maersk services, […]
Belgian postal operator bpost is in talks to acquire a majority share of Ontario, Calif.-based Landmark Distribution, a cross-border parcel logistics specialist, and sister company Landmark Trade Services in Canada.
The Panama Canal Authority said it has awarded a contract to Vinci Construction Grands Projets of France to build a new bridge on the Atlantic side of the canal. Vinci’s bid of about $366 million was the lowest of three submitted. The authority said the bridge design is inspired by similar ones in Spain, Korea, […]
The portal-based ocean transportation technology provider INTTRA said Tuesday it has expanded an existing partnership with Chinese logistics services provider Sinotrans Ltd. The new agreement will see Sinotrans and its shipping agents throughout north and central China reduce manual processing by automating ocean freight transactions for their customers through the INTTRA network. “INTTRA […]
A new logistics center is slated to open in Lansing, Mich., Tuesday. The Website M Live reports that Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, will join officials from the Capital Region International Airport in officially opening the $6 million Port Lansing Global Logistics Center today. It will include a […]
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and extensive flooding in the New York area, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey issued a press release at 6 a.m. Tuesday morning notifying users that all the port authority’s maritime facilities are closed until further notice. The Maryland Port Administration said its public marine […]
Welcome to the 10th installment of American Shipper’s yearlong countdown of the top 12 non-vessel-operating common carriers for U.S. inbound containerized cargo. Using data provided to American Shipper by the trade intelligence firm Zepol Corp., we’ll take a closer look at each of these companies in terms of where their cargo originates, where […]
Ship classification society ABS has opened a technology center in Busan, South Korea. Researchers at the ABS Korea Energy Technology Center (KETC) will work independently and in partnership with local industry, universities and government to develop technology for the offshore and energy industries in Korea. Research areas will include offshore surface and […]
Kapsch TrafficCom IVHS Inc., a subsidiary of Kapsch TrafficCom AG, has appointed John Freund to senior vice president for sales and business development in North America. He joins Kapsch as a 12-year veteran in the intelligent transportation business and electronic tolling industries. Freund has held senior management positions at Sirit, Federal Signal and 3M.
A new report from the National Research Council says that due to insufficient funding, many portions of the Army Corps of Engineers’ water infrastructure program are not being maintained at acceptable levels of performance and efficiency.
Ports from Virginia to New York have closed facilities Monday in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy’s landfall. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey closed its facilities at midnight Sunday. The agency said the decision was made because of the “expected gravity of potential flooding in and around the port” and “anticipation […]
“Warehouse robberies typically are the largest value incidents due to the high volume of product stored in a single location. Brazil has recorded several multi-million dollar losses this year due to warehouse invasions,” the security firm said.
