The owners of a Mediterranean Shipping Co.-operated vessel rocked by an explosion while on course in the Atlantic a month ago have yet to find a safe haven port in Europe. The German ship owner, Reederei NSB, also said efforts to fully extinguish the blaze aboard the vessel has again been hampered by […]
COSCO Container Lines on Friday said it will hike its eastbound transpacific rates from Sept. 10. The increases, which apply to origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia, and Indian Subcontinent, are: $400 per 20-foot container, $500 per 40-foot container, $563 per 40-foot high-cube container, and $633 per 45-foot container to the U.S. West Coast […]
Limestone shipments on the Great Lakes increased 11.9 percent in July compared to 2011 while iron ore volume decreased 2.2 percent, the Lake Carriers’ Association said. The 57-vessel U.S.-flag fleet that plies the Lakes hauled 4.1 million tons of limestone from U.S. and Canadian ports. Loadings were also more than 8 percent ahead of […]
Zim said it will impose a $20-per-TEU low-sulfur fuel charge, effective Sept. 15, on cargo moving between North Europe/Mediterranean and North America (all coasts) in both directions. Zim said the charge is applied to cover the increased cost of low-sulfur fuel used to comply with regulations in the North America Emissions Control Area […]
The U-Freight Group (UFL) has apointed Steven Wong to vice president of sales and marketing for its main subsidiaries, U-Freight Ltd. and U-Ocean Ltd. in Hong Kong. Wong, a 30-year industry veteran, joined UFL in 2009 as general manager from Rijin International Freight Co., one of the group’s forwarding brands.
In the coming weeks FW Warehousing, a third party logistics service provider, is updating its business management software to Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision) version 6.2. “For our customers, the biggest and most noticeable change resulting from this upgrade will be a new and improved web portal,” said Randy Monroe, FW’s director of information technology. […]
Panalpina, a provider of supply chain solutions, has appointed Rod Angwin as its Chief Information Officer (CIO). Angwin has over 30 years of IT experience with major retail and consumer brands, and will focus his work at Panalpina on defining IT services and rolling out industry-specific customer facing solutions. Angwin will begin his […]
The Montreal-based stevedoring and transportation company Logistec has acquired CrossGlobe Transport, a firm which provides port logistics services for forest products, auto parts and other cargo at three terminals in Hampton Roads and also operates an off-dock facility. Among the services provided by CrossGlobe are container stuffing and destuffing, warehousing and distribution, and […]
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is evaluating WTO proposals to expand the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) on tariff-free digital goods and related products.
SPS Commerce, a provider of on-demand, Web-based supply chain management systems for retailers, has acquired Edifice, a company that builds supply chain collaboration technology designed to share store point-of-sale (POS) analytics data within a retailer’s system and to their partners. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. “Supply chain collaboration, powered by […]
The Port of San Diego received more than 1,000 Volkswagon Beetles and Jettas at its National City Marine Terminal on Aug. 1 as part of a new regular roll on/roll off service between Mexico, the United States and transpacific markets operated by Siem Car Carriers. Pasha Automotive Services, which is processing the vehicles […]
The ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. has added a new westbound call at Singapore to its weekly Asia-Europe Lion Service. It’s Asia-North Europe partner CMA CGM takes slots on this loop, calling it FAL7. Previously the Lion Service ran non-stop from Chiwan via Suez to Sines, Portugal with a transit time of 19 days. […]
Hapag-Lloyd said it would increase transatlantic freight rates on October 1. Rates on eastbound cargo moving through ports on U.S. Gulf coast and the east coasts of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada (including U.S. cargo moving via Canadian ports) to North Europe and the Mediterranean will increase $200 for 20-foot containers and $300 […]
The ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. has temporarily suspended the implementation of an ‘SKR’ strike surcharge on shipments between the U.S.A. and New Zealand from Aug. 15 to Sep. 1, subject to ongoing review of the industrial dispute in New Zealand’s ports. The surcharge, appliccable to U.S. exports, is for $110 per 20-foot and $220 per 40-foot […]
The transatlantic liner carrier Atlantic Container Line said today that it has ordered five new combination container/roll-on, roll-off ships from a Chinese shipyard that will be delivered in 2015. The ships, while having similar dimensions to its existing five vessels will have the ability to carry 3,800 TEU of containerized cargo, a 105 […]
Trailer Bridge said it had completed a $9 million investment in state-of-the-art high cube 53-foot steel containers. The Company will take delivery of 800 containers this month and another 325 will be delivered in October and November of this year. As a result, the average age of Trailer Bridge’s container fleet will […]
Alliance with NVO-focused CargoSphere is based on integrating ocean schedule and rate information and continues INTTRA’s path towards partnership with software vendors in the ocean supply chain sphere
PeopleNet has developed a new iPad app that provides fleet managers access to critical event alerts, the onboard computing and carrier fleet communications software provider said this week at its user conference in Boca Raton, Fla. The company said the app is targered at safety and maintenance managers. Randy Boyles, PeopleNet vice president, […]
An item in Wednesday’s AS Daily incorrectly described the operators of an Asia-Mediterranean service that has begun slowing its eastbound leg. The EUM service is operated by the G6 Alliance, a grouping of the New World and Grand alliances, whose members are APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, NYK Line, MOL, and OOCL.
