Canadian National Railway said it’s fueling two mainline diesel-electric locomotives between Edmonton and Fort McMurray in northern Alberta with natural gas. Keith Creel, executive vice president and chief operating officer, said “CN launched this locomotive test to explore the use of natural gas as a potential alternative to conventional diesel fuel. This reflects […]
Crowley Maritime Corp. christened the 16,000-horsepower tugboat Legend and 330,000-barrel tank barge 750-2 in Tampa, Fla. on Thursday. The articulated-tug-barge (ATB) will be used to transport petroleum products between the U.S. Gulf and East coasts. The ATB is the second in a series of three similar size ATBs being built for Crowley. The […]
Earlier this month the Halifax Port Authority became the first Canadian port to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Panama Canal Authority. The document spells out how the two parties will cooperate to identify common business opportunities, exchange information and undertake joint marketing initiatives. The Panama Canal Authority has similar arrangements with […]
Coalition wants legislation that “would allow more balanced commercial relationships between railways and shippers. This would include the right to a service agreement between a rail company and a customer,” backed by a dispute settlement mechanism.
The American Institute of Marine Insurance will offer presentations on a wide variety of topics at its annual Marine Insurance Day seminar next month, and is offering the ability for the first time to view the presentations remotely. The Oct. 5 event will be held in New York and will include a half […]
Regulatory agencies of the two countries signed an antitrust memorandum of understanding on Thursday to promote increased cooperation and communication. The MOU does not change existing law in either country.
The United States and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Thursday signed a Framework Agreement for Trade, Economic, Investment and Technical Cooperation. The agreement will establish a Joint Committee to discuss areas where both the GCC and United States share mutual interests, including opportunities for enhancing economic, commercial, investment and technical cooperation, increasing the […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank has approved a $4.975 billion direct loan to Sadara Chemical Co. for the export of American goods and services required to build a petrochemical complex at Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Industrial City II. According to estimates calculated from U.S. Census Bureau statistics, the financing will support about 18,400 American jobs, […]
In late August, CEVA Logistics secured a massive contract with H.J. Heinz Co. to manage the food company’s global ocean freight transportation for five years. The deal is noteworthy because of the contract’s length, compared to typical freight forwarding contracts of one to three years, or less, and the volume — 60,000 TEUs […]
The July purchase of logistics service provider Kewill by a private equity firm is allowing the company to get back to basics and invest in its core compliance operations by removing the pressures of Wall Street. “This was an acquisition and a take-private program. We see a huge upside benefit in that now we […]
By Walter Kemmsies, chief economist, Moffatt & Nichol Recent actions by central banks around the world indicate the near-term global economic outlook is improving, but even assuming that the United States delays the “fiscal cliff, ” it is difficult to expect high growth and therefore the intensity of competition that such an environment spawns […]
Hewlett-Packard’s decision four years ago to move a chunk of its personal computer manufacturing operations to central China from the Shanghai region, on the coast, was made possible by the adoption of innovative transport routes and a greater focus on social and environmental responsibility, according to a top company executive.
Agency takes global approach to food and pharma supply chain protection. By Eric Kulisch The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, faced with an expanded mandate to ensure the public safety of food and pharmaceuticals, is developing a new strategy to deal with huge growth in consumption of foreign and domestically produced products without any […]
This month’s cover story addresses the idea that the top global liner carriers must adjust to a new era of reduced demand growth from North America and Europe. So it came as a welcome bit of justification when two of the world’s top liner executives acknowledged in mid-September that demand for liner carrier […]
Nothing comes for free these days. Even clean air. On Aug. 1, a new regulation requiring ocean carriers to burn low-sulfur fuel within a 200-mile coastal corridor of North America came into effect. So it was little surprise that carrier members of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement announced in late August they had […]
Shifting demand patterns will change the way the Top 20 liner carriers serve shippers. By Eric Johnson The depth of the eurozone crisis has peeled back the layers of a looming threat within the container shipping industry, one that could potentially reshape alliances and liner carrier networks in the coming decade. Like a […]
With new intermodal yard in Decatur, ADM can move containers efficiently in the U.S. and Canada. By Chris Dupin Archer Daniels Midland Co., the agriculture giant that advertises itself as “supermarket to the world,” also places a high value on maintaining a reliable supply chain for its customers. The need for transportation alternatives has been […]
The United States is undergoing the biggest fundamental change to its export control regime in a generation, but risks stalling and losing out on the much needed reform benefits for American shippers. Many of the country’s export controls were formulated more than 30 years ago when the United States and its allies were […]
By Alan Spear, TAPA Americas’ chairman and U.S. director of cargo security loss control for Chartis Some years ago I had occasion to travel through Japan and was awaiting a flight to Chicago at Tokyo’s Narita airport. It was a lovely sunny day, and a brand new Japan Airlines Boeing 777 was parked…
In this lawsuit (Channel Fabrics, Inc. v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company. U.S. District Court, S.D. New York. No. 11 Civ. 3483. Aug. 13.), Channel Fabrics alleged Hartford had improperly denied its insurance claim. On or about April 15, 2010, Channel shipped a number of bales of woven fabric from Shanghai to a buyer […]
