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   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 […]

   The liner carrier Zim said Tuesday that Chief Financial Officer Allon Raveh will leave at the end of 2012 in a planned move that’s part of structural and managerial changes in the company.    Raveh has been Zim’s CFO for four years. His replacement will be announced in a couple days, the company said. […]

   The liner carrier CMA CGM said Monday it has named three new members to its board.    The new members are Dominique Bussereau, former French secretary of state for transport; Pierre Mongin, president of Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP); and Jihad Azour, Lebanon’s former minister of finance between 2005 and 2008.    The […]

The proposal from German bank’s RREEF unit is one of three Virginia has received from outside entities to take over port operations in the wake of an unsolicited bid by APM Terminals in May to run the terminals.

The USS Porter, a guided-missile destroyer on Sunday collided with the Japanese-owned bulk oil tanker Otowasan, a Panamanian-flagged vessel, but both were able to operate under their own power after the collision.

Huigen Yang, head of the Polar Research Institute of China, told Reuters he expected more ice along the route than the vessel encountered. He said most of the Northern Sea Route is open.

   Caribbean liner carrier Tropical Shipping said it plans to hike rates from Sept. 16.    The increases are $125 per 20-foot container, $250 per 40-foot container and $281 for containers larger than 40 feet. Tropical will also assess increases on vehicle and breakbulk cargo.    The increases apply to dry and refrigerated shipments between […]

   The liner carrier CMA CGM said Friday it will raise rates on the Asia-Europe trade in both directions over the coming weeks.    The line will first seek to hike westbound headhaul rates to Europe by $300 per TEU from Sept. 1. The increase is applicable from all origins, including Japan, Southeast Asia and […]