The ocean carrier NYK Line said Tuesday it intends to raise transatlantic rates in both directions from October. The increases are: Westbound from Northern Europe to all U.S. and Canadian destinations, $400 per 20-foot container and $500 per 40-foot container. Eastbound from the U.S. and Canadian East and Gulf coasts to Northern Europe, […]
NYK raising transatlantic rates
AmeriQuest Transportation Services is offering a free limited trial of its “AmeriQuest Road Rescue” fleet breakdown service. Users sign up for the trial and then are added to AmeriQuest’s customer base, which the company hopes will get users to sign up for full service as well as look into its other available fleet management, […]
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Import Administration has released the second phase of its electronic document filing system for antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings. The AD/CVD Centralized Electronic Service System (IA ACCESS) Release 2 gives interested parties and the general public online access to all public versions of documents submitted to the proceeding record […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank on Tuesday opened a new office in Seattle to benefit the Pacific Northwest region’s small and midsized exporters. This is the third opening of four new regional export finance centers this year by Ex-Im Bank in its effort to assist local businesses in improving their export sales. The center […]
Unionized longshore workers from Atlantic Coast ports protested at the U.S. Marine Barracks in Washington Monday against what they consider the loss of handling military cargo at the Port of Charleston…
This week’s BlueWater Reporting ServiceTracker, to be published Friday, will contain an an analysis of port calls made by carriers in West Coast North American ports. The analysis is a sequel to a similar one published in BlueWater Reporting ranking carriers by port calls made in East and Gulf Coast ports, answering the question of which ports […]
Australian furniture manufacturer and retailer Fantastic Holdings Ltd. (FHL) has attributed its continued growth in the current soft economy to supply chain optimization services provided by Manhattan Associates. Fantastic has implemented Manhattan’s SCALE (Supply Chain Architected for Logistics Execution) product suite at its main distribution center as well as two secondary facilities, covering roughly 750,000 […]
Despite the benefits, only four of the world’s largest food producers – Danone, Heinz, PepsiCo, and Unilever – have developed and implemented plans that regulate their suppliers’ environmental performance, according to a new report from analysts at Verdantix. Verdantix benchmarked the supply chains of the 12 largest global food firms. The 12 firms had collective […]
Nearly one in three TEUs on a global basis is now handled at a Chinese port, compared to 19 percent in 2002. Meanwhile, global container volume rose to 588.8 million TEUs in 2011, compared to 279.3 million in 2002.
Emirates Shipping Line is joining the Asia-Middle East legs of a Grand Alliance/Hanjin Shipping service. Emirates will take slots from Busan and China to Dammam and Jebel Ali, and back, on the Grand Alliance’s SCX service, which Hanjin calls PSG. Emirates will dub the service FGX, and will take slots with the […]
The Army Corps of Engineers is trying to dredge the river channel in areas to keep commodities flowing, but many shippers complain they have to ship lighter loads to ensure vessels don’t hit bottom.
More than five weeks after a fire ravaged a Mediterranean Shipping Co.-operated containership in the Atlantic Ocean, the stricken vessel appears to have found a safe haven. The vessel’s German owner Reederei NSB, said Monday it is hopeful of being granted permission for the ship to enter German waters by the country’s ministry […]
Cadec Global will now provide deeper performance management scorecards to help fleet managers track and report on driver and vehicle performance in real time. As part of its PowerVue system, these scorecards will provide fleet managers with an intuitive report on driver behavior based on certain key performance indicators (KPIs) that are developed […]
The container line Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Tuesday it intends to hike rates from the west Mediterranean to the United States in October. The increases, $320 per 20-foot container and $400 per 40-foot container, are applicable to origins in Italy, the south of France, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Serbia, and Macedonia. […]
The ILO Maritime Labor Convention (MLC) was recently ratified by Russia and the Philippines, meaning the required 30 ILO member states had approved the international regulation. It goes into effect from August 2013.
A CSX freight train carrying coal derailed around midnight in Ellicott City, Md., west of Baltimore, killing two people and crushing several cars that were parked nearby in a public lot, according to a press release from the Howard County Police Department. The police said 21 of the train’s 80 cars jumped the track, […]
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s petroleum and chemical transportation group has bought two new Jones Act tankers from Aker Philadelphia Shipyard. The tankers, scheduled for delivery in September and March 2013, mark Crowley’s re-entry into the Jones Act tanker market since its last tanker was retired in 2011. The Jones Act, which governs transport in […]
The U.S. Commerce Department and the city of Los Angeles will develop a new online resource to highlight domestic suppliers of apparel, textiles and footwear. “There is incredible demand for products stamped with the label: ‘Made in the USA’ globally, but it’s sometimes difficult to identify domestic resources for these products. We are […]
