COSCO Container Lines said Monday it will assess a port congestion surcharge on eastbound transpacific cargo from Oct. 1. The surcharge, $800 per 20-foot container and $1,000 per 40-foot container, could well be related to a possible port strike at U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports from Sept. 30. Union longshoremen at […]
The carriers will suspend their Loop 3 service, which has a rotation of Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, Singapore, Le Havre, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Gothenburg, Rotterdam, Jeddah, Singapore, Shekou, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
American Shipper through its AS Daily and Website offers you the latest and essential news on the ILA contract negotiations. The current master contract for the U.S. East and Gulf coast dockworkers’ union is set to expire Sept. 30. If you are not automatically redirected, please click here.
The U.S. Transportation Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered the Tennessee-based trucking company Terri’s Farm to immediately cease all interstate transportation services because of prior unsafe practices. The FMCSA said it ordered the shutdown because of evidence that Terri’s Farm was a chameleon operation of another unsafe company previously stopped by […]
EI Systems has been picked to supply, install, configure, and support a railway management system at the Port of Montreal. EI will use its Web-based Rail Manager and Rail Logger products to develop the unified platform that will track car inventory, yard and car status, and movements across the port’s 60 miles of track […]
Equinox Owner-Operator Solutions has developed a mailbox service for truck drivers and other carriers on the go to review and respond to their regular mail received at home. Equinox, which also offers bookkeeping, tax, and business services for owner-operators, said its Equinox Mailbox service takes mail received at home, scans it, and uploads it […]
The maritime analyst SeaIntel said the current pricing environment on the Asia-Europe and transpacific trade bears the hallmarks of the rate wars that broke out in the second half of 2011. The projections puts a potential dampener on solid, if unspectacular financial results from most lines in the second quarter this year. […]
Astea International will provide its services to streamline and strengthen the mobile and business operations of APi Group. APi, which serves the industrial, specialty construction and life safety markets, said it chose Astea to help with lifecycle management and mobility solutions for its customers. APi has about 200 locations and 40 subsidiaries each operating as independent […]
Since Aug. 1, liner carriers have been subject to new International Maritime Organization regulations that require cleaner fuel to be burned near U.S. and Canadian coasts to reduce vessel emissions.
The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will asses steep bunker surcharges on the eastbound transpacific and westbound Asia-Europe trades from early October. From Oct. 4, the line will asses a fee of $419 per 20-foot container and $523 per 40-foot container on shipments from Asia to the U.S. West Coast and $762 per […]
The ocean carrier Maersk Line has added a second (northbound) port call at Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, a new call at Conakry, Guinea and an additional vessel to its weekly WAF2 service between hub ports in the West Mediterranean and West Africa. Simultaneously, it has sped up its parallel WAF3 loop for a second […]
Vessel traffic on the Mississippi River is back to normal following Hurricane Isaac and activity at the Port of New Orleans has intensified in an effort to clear a backlog of cargo after a three-day shutdown. Power was restored Saturday evening to the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal, enabling Ports America to begin cargo-lifting operations […]
The liner carrier CSAV said Tuesday it had first-half operating losses of $265 million, 55.7 percent lower than in the same period in 2011. Revenue for the Chile-based carrier fell 32.5 percent to $1.8 billion. First half volume fell 52.7 percent to 820,200 TEUs. CSAV’s second quarter was much stronger than a year prior, with […]
When contract negotiations between U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast longshoremen and their employers abruptly broke down Aug. 22, the news didn’t catch the majority of shippers and carriers by surprise.
The subsidiary of NOL said moving automobiles in containers allows more frequent shipping of vehicles from origin to destination as well as reduces transload times and handling which can lead to damages.
DuPont said it will install a scrubber on a Maersk containership to remove sulfur dioxide from its emissions. The scrubber will be placed on the Maersk Taurus. The two companies said the technology could be an “economic alternative to using a more expensive low sulphur content fuel when operating in SOx restricted areas known […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton’s chief of staff resigned Saturday amid allegations of sexual harassment by three male ICE employees, according to multiple news reports. Suzanne Barr served as an aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano when she was governor of Arizona and came to Washington to take the ICE […]
A new container port in northern Vietnam opened last week with the call of a 2,020-TEU Mediterranean Shipping Co. vessel. The Cai Lan International Container Terminal (CICT) is around 60 miles from Hanoi, the largest city in northern Vietnam, and will have annual handling capacity of 520,000 TEUs when its four berths formally […]
The White House on Friday said the United States and Cambodia have agreed to start exploratory discussions on a potential bilateral investment treaty. The announcement follows a meeting in Siem Reap between U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Cambodian Economic Minister Cham Prasidh, who is also presiding over ministerial meetings of the Association […]
The Japanese container line is planning a $1,000 surcharge for North American bound shipments from Asia, India and Australia to compensate for disruptions if ILA dockworkers strike at the end of September.
