The International Longshore and Warehouse Union last week filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Port of Portland, contending the port wrongly stepped into a dispute between the union and the container terminal operator in Portland. The lawsuit is related to a $4.7 million payment the port paid to the terminal operator, […]
Confidence among European freight forwarders has deteriorated for the third consecutive month, according to the latest Stifel Nicolaus Logistics Confidence Index. The investment bank’s transportation and logistics research group has partnered with U.K.-based research firm Transport Intelligence to develop the index, which measures freight activity across several European-based trade lanes. “Results for […]
TransCore Link Logistics has completed the integration of its Canadian freight matching system with its dispatching application. With the latest release of its Linkdispatch, customers can manage their business end-to-end through integration with the Loadlink freight matching system. Entries in Linkdispatch can be set to automatically transfer into Loadlink, as well as allow […]
The liner carrier Zim said Wednesday it plans to raise rates on the westbound Asia-Europe trade in September. The carrier’s increases will be $300 per TEU to the Mediterranean and Black Sea ports and $350 per TEU to Northern Europe from Sept. 10. On Sept. 15, Zim will increase rates from Asia to […]
The U.S. government on Tuesday has requested consultations with the Argentine government under the dispute settlement provisions of the WTO concerning restrictive trade measures applied to all goods imported into Argentina.
Russia, the world’s ninth largest economy, will join the World Trade Organization today, plugging a major gap in the organization’s membership and concluding a nearly two-decade long process. The impacts of Russia’s admission, which was initially approved last year, will likely be more muted in the United States than in other regions, due […]
The freight forwarder and logistics company Damco has set up a partnership with Panamanian logistics company Exclusive Brands Logistics Corp. (EBL) to develop a hub in Panama’s Colon Free Zone (CFZ). The deal is aimed at promoting imports and re-exports of apparel and fashion between Asia, the free zone, and Latin American destinations. […]
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 […]
