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   Precision Software has added a new data warehousing, reporting, and analytics service that will be integrated across its Precision Transportation Management (TMS) and Precision Exception Management (PEM) software.    Precision, which focuses on transportation and trade management solutions, said its new service will help its single-platform approach to TMS by streamlining day-to-day activities around […]

   Spireon has launched the next generation of its FleetLocate Trailer Asset and Intelligence Solution to give companies better tools to track and monitor their fleets and assets.    The FleetLocate Trailer Tracking solution now includes new hardware, software, services, and an easy-to-use Web-portal.    Spireon’s service gains some of its new capabilities through integrations […]

   UPS said its annual “Change in the (Supply) Chain” survey of executives in the U.S. high-tech and electronics industry are more confident about the future of global trade and U.S. exports than two years ago.    “Citing legislative changes and rising labor rates abroad as factors, 85 percent of U.S. high-tech executives believe the Obama […]

   Menlo Worldwide Logistics, the global logistics subsidiary of Con-way, has launched its new CarbonNet carbon management service.    CarbonNet gives Menlo’s systems the ability to capture, calculate, and manage emissions activity across a supply chain. The company is employing the service first through its own supply chain before rolling it out to others.    […]

   Mediterranean Shipping Co.’s MSC Beatrice became the largest container vessel ever to berth at a North American port when it arrived at the Port of Long Beach with a load of cargo on Sunday.    Early this year vessels in the 12,500-TEU range began calling Long Beach, but the MSC Beatrice has a capacity of […]

Peregrine Storrs-Fox, TT Club’s risk management director, said “further delay in this modest legal change is frustrating, particularly since there was substantial consensus concerning acceptable ways to ensure that weight declarations are accurate.”

   California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association said will enhance pilot safety in San Francisco Bay and its river system as well as Monterey Bay.    PMSA said Senate Bill 1408 “requires enhanced safety and accountability in the state’s oversight of its licensed bar pilots…. Among other basic […]

Researchers warn unexploded bombs and other military ordnance in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as off the coasts of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, could now pose serious threats to shipping and oil and gas rigs in the Gulf.

   U.S. Federal Maritime Commission Reports, final decisions or orders made by the commission and its predecessor agencies between 1919 and 1987 are now available to the public through the FMC’s online Electronic Reading Room.   Originally compiled in 28 volumes, these decisions are no longer in publication or widely available. With the addition of these […]

   Freight broker Total Quality Logistics (TQL) is hiring for its new Cleveland office, expected to open in early November.    The addition of Cleveland will give TQL 16 satellite offices across North America. The company is privately held and based in Cincinnati. TQL is the third largest freight brokerage in the country with more […]

   Toll Global Forwarding has appointed Steve Buckerfield as its U.K. managing director.    Buckerfield has spent 28 years in the freight industry, working for Emery Worldwide, American Airlines, Walker Freight and most recently as senior vice president for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region at OHL.    In his new post at TGF, […]

A dispute among harbor commissioners has broken out at the Port of Long Beach in recent weeks, with one commissioner firing accusations of favoritism at two of his colleagues over the port’s future relocation of its headquarters.

CargoWise, which focuses on services for logistics service providers, will sell its ediEnterprise platform through ATMS in the region. ATMS has a regional office in Dubai as well as experience in many local markets.

   The Georgia Ports Authority said investment of $14.7 million at the Port of Brunswick’s Colonel’s Island terminal has helped increase roll-on/roll-off and bulk cargo volumes.    At his 2012 Brunswick State of the Port address, GPA Executive Director Curtis Foltz said in the fiscal year that ended June 30 Brunswick handled 553,543 units, 46 […]

   The liner carrier Zim said earlier this week that it has joined a Mediterranean Shipping Co.-operated service between the east coast of South America and the U.S. East Coast.    The move dovetails with a decision by Zim and MSC to shelve their jointly-operated east coast South America/U.S. Gulf service, which Zim calls SAX. […]

   The location for next Thursday’s public hearing in Norfolk to gather input from stakeholders on private sector proposals to manage the Port of Virginia has changed.    The new location is the theater inside Nauticus, at 1 Waterside Drive in downtown Norfolk. The hearing is from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.    This summer three private […]

   The Port of Los Angeles has revised its draft Environmental Impact Report for the planned construction of a near-dock intermodal container-truck transfer facility to be operated by the BNSF Railway.    The new document for the Southern California International Gateway (SCIG) is being recirculated for public comment.     The 153-acre industrial site is located about […]

   TransCore DAT has announced a new service to help freight brokers and other third-party logistics companies to hire and qualify carriers more quickly and efficiently.    The DAT Carrier Onboarding service will allow companies and freight providers to exchange and store documents online and attach them to specific moves or companies to streamline overall […]

   Joining Technologies Inc., which specializes in industrial laser applications and precision fusion processes, has expanded its supply chain management services for product manufacturing and assembly.    Joining’s supply chain management services will focus on coordinating assembly process functions, such as raw material requisition and parts creation.    Joining said expanding its supply chain management […]

   Celadon Trucking Services has agreed to buy a portion of the operating equipment of Robinson Transport, based in Columbus, Ohio.    Terms and conditions of the transaction were not disclosed.    Celadon said the deal will increase its density in traffic lanes in and out of the Midwest and reinforce its driver pool. It said Robinson is […]