American Shipper

   SynchroNet Intermodal Services (SIS) has expanded its North American street-turn service to include shippers and non-vessel-operating common carriers to increase customer visibility.    The service, which gives access to a larger container supply at preferred locations, is operated through SIS’ Web-based street-turn interface.    Street turns, according to SIS, allow companies to decrease container yard and terminal handling […]

James A. Capo, chairman and chief executive officer for the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), said he’s still hopeful the two sides will “get back together and get a deal worked out.” 

   The French port of Marseilles Fos has appointed Arnaud Ranjard to director of development.    He replaces Dirk Becquart.    Since 2008 Ranjard was strategy and development director for the container division of stevedoring company Euroports, which employs 2,500 personnel. In this role he developed several inland multimodal platforms, including Trilogiport at Liege and […]

   The value of goods traded between the United States and its North American neighbors that moved by surface transportation increased 6.6 percent to $82.6 billion in June compared to 12 months earlier, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics said.    Adjusted for inflation and exchange rates, the June trade total was $61 billion in […]

   The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing, a group of seven U.S. solar cell and panel manufacturers who fought to impose trade protections against Chinese-made imports, said a new market report “debunks” arguments from Chinese manufacturers who opposed the U.S. tariffs.    “First, preliminary tariffs did not slow growth of the U.S. solar market in the […]

   The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.7 percent in the second quarter, according to a revised estimate released Wednesday by the U.S. Commerce Department.    A preliminary estimate last month showed gross domestic product increased 1.5 percent from the first quarter.    The decrease in productivity from the 2 percent rate in […]

Local 1804-1 yesterday evening gave “the authority to recommend and call for a strike if that action becomes necessary when the current Master Contract expires on September 30, 2012.” Its members do maintenance and repair work.

The line said the skipped sailings will not impact its Daily Maersk product from Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, and Tanjung Pelepas to three main European destination ports. The product guarantees delivery time in Europe.

Miller    Scott Miller, who retired earlier this year as director of global trade policy at Procter & Gamble, has joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington as a senior advisor on international business.     He succeeds Meredith Broadbent, who has been appointed to the International Trade Commission and held the William […]

   The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has published an updated list of “controlled carriers” in the Federal Register to reflect the changes it has made since the list was last published in 2005.    Controlled carriers are ocean common carriers operating in the U.S./foreign oceanborne trades that are owned or controlled by governments. They are subject […]

The Israeli liner carrier said Tuesday it benefited from an industry-wide turnaround in the second quarter, with operating profit of $1 million in the period, compared to a loss of $79 million in the same quarter of 2011.

   Inspectors finally got a look at the stricken containership MSC Flaminia Tuesday after adverse weather Monday pushed back a scheduled inspection off the coast of England.    A team of international inspectors was joined by one from the German Central Command for Maritime Emergencies, with results of the inspection due in the coming days, the […]

Contract talks between the ILWU Marine Clerks Association Local 63 Office Clerical Unit (OCU), and the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Employers Association, are reportedly in danger of breaking down, worrying West Coast shippers.

   INSIGHT Inc. is preparing its operations to tackle the cap-and-trade restrictions being put in place in the United States as it believes California’s adoption of regulations foreshadow things to come.    INSIGHT, a provider of supply chain planning software, is adding cap-and-trade plans to its C-Suite after the California Air Resources Board (ARB) established a new […]

   RedPrairie has announced that its warehouse management system (WMS) increased in total market share by growing at a faster pace than the overall WMS market in 2011, coinciding with news of the availability of its RedPrairie WMS 2012.1.    The company’s latest release features better integration with RedPrairie Workforce Management (WFM) and offers a hosted […]

   Maersk Line said it plans to hike rates from the Far East to Asia, starting Sept. 19.    The increases are $400 per 20-foot container, $500 per 40-foot container, $565 per 40-foot high-cube container and $635 per 45-foot high-cube container for local and store-door Vancouver shipments.    For mini-landbridge, intermodal and all-water shipments, the increases […]

   Rickmers-Linie said Wednesday it will add Nagoya to the rotation of its Round-The-World (RTW) Pearl String service from September.    The Japanese port will be served on a monthly basis, linking to the service’s other calls in Houston, New Orleans, Savannah, Philadelphia, Antwerp and Hamburg. The service also offers additional relay opportunities over Rickmers’ […]

   North American 3PL Wheels Group Inc. has signed a definitive purchase and sale agreement for the acquisition of MSM Group of Cos.    Wheels, a non-asset provider of supply chain logistics services, said it expects the MSM purchase to close before the end of September. MSM provides less than truckload (LTL) freight brokerage, LTL […]

   The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) said its members will apply a low-sulfur fuel charge beginning on Oct. 1.    The discussion agreement of 15 of the leading container carriers said the charge will be based on the price differential between low-sulfur and standard marine bunker fuel and how much time a ship spends within […]

   Transplace, a non-asset-based third party logistics provider, said Great Lakes Brewing Co. has selected it to manage outbound transportation from its warehouse to distributors throughout the Midwest.    The Ohio-based microbrewery produces more than 100,000 barrels of beer each year and sells it in 13 states and Washington, D.C.    Transplace, headquartered outside Dallas, will […]