Contentious contract negotiations this summer between union longshoremen on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts and their employers have taught shippers an abject lesson: shipping goods internationally is not the same as buying a product at a store.
AirNet Cargo Charter Services has gone through a dramatic transformation over the past several years.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Sept. 5 recommended the Federal Aviation Administration require large airplanes to be equipped with an anti-ground collision device, such as an on-board external-mounted camera system, to provide pilots a clear view of the plane’s wingtips while taxiing and avoid clipping other planes or objects. Pilots of […]
3PLs switch perspective on IT integration and data sharing with shippers. By Geoff Whiting As systems expand and information moves across companies at lightning speeds, third party logistics service providers are changing their mindset from data hoarders to profound information sharers to secure customers. To keep services cheap and easy, 3PLs […]
C.H. Robinson paid a premium to win a bidding war for Chicago-based freight forwarder Phoenix International. Company officials say Phoenix’s growth potential as a high-quality operator easily justified the price and analysts said Robinson likely would realize a healthy return on investment in the long term. The Minneapolis-based company is one of the […]
Chief Financial Officer Rodney Oliver will become the port’s interim executive director, taking over for Jerry Bridges who is scheduled to step down as head of the state agency at the end of October.
The Indonesia Port Corp. II has chosen a service from SOGET and Microsoft to implement what it calls the largest port community system in the world, beginning with Jakarta before expanding to other Indonesian ports.
The liner carrier Hapag-Lloyd said this week Hanjin Shipping, its partner on a service between the Mediterranean and Montreal, will drop off the service at the end of November. Hapag-Lloyd will then operate the five-ship MCA service on a standalone basis. Currently, Hanjin provides one of the five ships. The service has a […]
A new round of rates increases on the Asia-Europe trade could be in store for shippers. On Wednesday, OOCL said it plans to increase rates by $525 per TEU on shipments from Asia (including the Indian Subcontinent and Middle East) to Northern Europe, the Mediterranean and Black Sea from Nov. 1. On […]
Accounting and shipping consulting firm Moore Stephens said crew costs were the main reason for the overall increase in 2011, while the cost of insurance fell for the second year in a row.
“A number of our customers use GT Nexus as their core supply chain operating platform and we are able to support them by being a certified carrier on that network,” said Danny Danford, head of e-Business Integration Solutions at Maersk.
INTTRA, one of the world’s largest networks for ocean shipping, has announced a series of enhancements to its OceanSchedules product, including integration with existing applications and more data formats. OceanSchedules, a comprehensive multi-carrier scheduling service, now gives customers access to more than 7 million global vessel schedules from 31 carriers and provides support […]
Matson Logistics is expanding its Port of Savannah distribution operations and recently signed a lease to increase its presence at Black Creek in Bryan County, Georgia. The expansion is expected to create over 40 new jobs in the next five years and add 237,600 square feet to its current 135,000-square-foot facility at Interstate Centre. It is located […]
Transportation management software provider TMW Systems has continued on its integration trek by adding support with the implementation of StarTrak’s ReeferTrak application with its TMWSuite. StarTrak Information Technologies, a subsidiary of ORBCOMM, said its ReeferTrak application can be integrated with the TMWSuite to provide for-hire carriers and private fleets with the ability to […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s resident humorist, Assistant Commissioner for International Trade Al Gina, for the second year in a row was the keynote lunch speaker at the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America’s Government Affairs Conference on Sept. 10 in Washington. Once again he had the delegates laughing and whistling […]
The liner carrier Zim said Thursday that Guy Eldar will become the company’s new chief financial officer in December. Eldar will replace current CFO Alon Raveh, who the company said in August would leave under a planned restructuring. Eldar was formerly CFO of Danya Cebus Ltd., a public company listed on the […]
Non-vessel-operating common carrier Vanguard Logistics Services has opened a new office in Danang, Vietnam. Vanguard Danang was set up with partner, KMG, and will provide freight forwarders with both less-than-containerload and full-containerload services. Danang is located in the center of Vietnam. “Establishing an office here was the next logical step in expanding […]
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s new tanker, Pennsylvania, called the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, for the first time on Wednesday. The port said the U.S.-flag ship ship will “move products related to Eagle Ford Shale,” the large shale oil formation in South Texas. The 45,800-deadweight-ton Pennsylvania is one of two tankers purchased by Crowley Maritime […]
Jensen Maritime, a naval architecture and marine engineering firm owned by Crowley Maritime Corp., said former president and part-owner Sue Williams will retire. Williams joined Jensen in 1980, under founder and majority owner Ben Jensen, with initial responsibilities for managing the front desk. That year the firm was a partnership, with Ben Jensen […]
