The Los Angeles Harbor Commission on Thursday approved $7.5 million for the final phase of the Port of Los Angeles’ main channel deepening project to take the navigational channels and basins to a 53-foot depth.
Colombian President Santos’ “objective is to leapfrog our competitiveness by increasing investment in highways, railways, ports and airports to three percent of GDP, from historically low levels of only 1 percent,” the ambassador said.
The International Longshoremen’s Association and U.S. Maritime Alliance have agreed to extend their collective bargaining agreement, which was due to expire at the end of this month by 90 days, until Dec. 29.
“If you’re talking about China as a factory to the world, wage increases are a factor,” said Ted Dean, chairman of Beijing-based AmCham China. “But if you’re an American company looking at the second biggest economy in the world, it’s not.”
The site will provide companies doing business with Tauranga and Auckland terminal operators a series of tools for container management and data from a single, comprehensive source around containerized cargo.
Germany’s first deepwater container port kicked off operations Thursday with the arrival of a Maersk containership. JadeWeserPort-Gesellschaften (JWP) in Wilhelmshaven is owned and operated by the terminal operator EUROGATE, with APM Terminals holding a 30 percent share. The terminal is designed to lure the largest container vessels in operation today, most of […]
The board of directors of the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) on Thursday confirmed Thomas Glynn to serve as the chief executive officer and executive director of the Massachusetts Port Authority. Massport oversees Boston Logan International Airport, the public container and cruise terminals in the Port of Boston, Hanscom Field, Worcester Regional Airport and […]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it will review Atlantic City International Airport and possible assumption of the airport as a way to expand the region’s flight capacity. The authority’s board of commissioners on Thursday authorized spending up to $3 million to review the financial, legal, environmental and business […]
CLX Logistics, parent company of ChemLogix, has acquried LHC Consulting in the Netherlands. LHC focuses on supply chain management and logistics services. CLX said the LHC buy will give it the ability to expand in Europe while enhancing services to existing international customers. “Through the acquisition of LHC Consulting, we can provide both transportation […]
Supply chain waste is a common topic in conversations with supply chain professionals, but the logistics behind that waste and those end-of-life materials often gets overlooked and disregarded even in the context of sustainability in manufacturing. Garbage is significant because there are environmental and financial benefits to be had in converting these materials […]
Friday is the last day on the job for Con-way Truckload President Herb Schmidt, who is retiring after a long career in trucking. Schmidt was the president and chief executive officer of Contract Freighters Inc., a Joplin, Mo.-based truckload carrier, who managed the sale of the company to Con-way Inc. in 2007 and stayed on to […]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is implementing changes to “rid itself of years of inefficiency,” and faces “enormous” challenges and opportunities over the next decade, according to a report by Navigant Consulting.
Earlier this week, officials at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority officially threw out a winning bid from PSA International and domestic partner ABG Ports for a 30-year concession to build and operate the terminal.
OCZ Technology Group has reshuffled its top management in an attempt to regain investor confidence, but the struggling solid-state hard-drive maker is still feeling an immense pressure to fix its supply chain. In the past month the company lost both its chief executive officer and chief financial officer, who received much of the blame for its […]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has appealed an order by a New York State judge to provide a New York state assemblywoman with a study of how bridge toll increases will affect the New York Container Terminal on Staten Island. Fares on the Goethals, Outerbridge and Bayonne bridges, which connect Staten […]
The Japanese line confirmed to American Shipper that it recommended staff “forgo business trips for the time being,” but said “there is an option for staff to take a business trip to China depending on the need.”
NYK said ROLF’s current managers will lead the new joint venture divisions and work in cooperation with NYK representatives. Alexander Larin, who is now chief executive officer of ROLF’s logistics business, will remain CEO of the joint company.
On-demand supply chain management service provider SPS Commerce has paired up with Wicresoft to develop a supply chain solution specifically geared to China, Hong Kong, and Japan. Wicresoft, an IT service developer that focuses on information technology infrastructure and business process outsourcing, will provide a baseline infrastructure for the service, including virtualized hardware […]
The Stifel Nicolaus Logistics Confidence Index, a measure of European freight forwarder confidence, fell for the fifth straight month in September. “Survey respondents indicated that the current forwarding and logistics environment continues to track below normal expectations for this time of year, registering 40.6 vs. 41.5 last month, and compared with a benchmark […]
Two bellwethers of the freight transportation sector are showing relative weakness in their volume, signaling that the uneven U.S. economic recovery could be heading for another dip. In a preview of its Oct. 23 quarterly earnings report, Norfolk Southern Corp., a Class I railroad operating in 22 eastern states, said it expected diluted earnings […]
