Trade Technologies, a global provider of international trade document solutions, has opened a new sales office in Vancouver to further its relationships with Canadian exporters. The new center will be managed by Winney Chow, who has more than 15 years in trade finance and exports. From its 12 offices in Asia, Europe and North […]
The agency is expected to announce rules on Aug. 22. The provisions are part of the sweeping Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation.
The liner carrier held a naming ceremony Friday for its largest ever vessel, the 13,200-TEU Hamburg Express, the first of a series of 10 vessels ordered in December 2010 to be deployed on the Asia-Europe trade.
The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Friday in a customer notice that it’s stopping all service to and from Iran with immediate effect. “This restriction also applies to cargo which is booked to Iran via ports in other countries,” the line said. “All bookings of cargo to and from Iran which is […]
The Swiss logistics company Panalpina is introducing new technology to better monitor temperature-controlled air freight. Panalpina says one-fifth of the air cargo moved on some routes within its own controlled air freight network, for example its Luxembourg-Huntsville, Ala. route, is temperature-sensitive. Most of that cargo is health care-related, though the company said temperature-controlled cargo can include […]
The carrier’s cargo division on Friday launched its first scheduled freighter service to South America, connecting Singapore, Hong Kong, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The law firm Holland & Knight is cautioning shipping companies that the U.S. government has “significantly ratcheted-up sanctions against Iran with a new presidential executive order and new legislation.” In an alert to clients, the frim said “together, these new sanctions substantially restrict the types of trade that the international shipping community can continue […]
An Italian shipowner and its chief engineer on one of its ships were sentenced Wenesday in federal court in Mobile, Ala., for deliberately falsifying records to conceal discharges of oily wastewater into the sea. Giusseppe Bottiglieri Shipping Company S.P.A. was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Ginny Granade in the Southern District of […]
More than 100 people at the FedEx Express air cargo hub in Memphis, Tenn., were treated at the scene, and two others hospitalized as a precaution, after an ingredient used to make hot sauce spilled, according to the Associated Press and Memphis Commercial Appeal. Local fire officials said a forklift punctured a 5-gallon container […]
Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Thursday it plans to hike U.S. export rates to Georgia in two stages over the coming weeks. The line will raise rates by $150 per TEU on both Sept. 1 and Oct. 1 “in order to maintain the high level of service.” The ports in Georgia affected by […]
Air Canada has selected CHEP Aerospace Solutions to supply and manage its fleet of cargo equipment, known in the airline industry as unit load devices (ULDs). CHEP will acquire Air Canada’s existing fleet of more than 8,000 containers and pallets and integrate them into its shared ULD fleet over time, taking CHEP’s total […]
FedEx Trade Networks, the freight forwarding arm of FedEx Corp., has started operations in Glasgow, Scotland, as part of its ongoing expansion initiative. This is the third FedEx Trade Networks office to open in the United Kingdom and will offer customers increased access to major global markets and the company’s range of forwarding […]
U.S. Customs officers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach seized within the past three weeks five shipments containing 20,457 pairs of counterfeit ladies shoes intended to mimic those made by French designer Christian Louboutin. The manufacturer’s suggested retail price of the shoes is $18 million, but the fakes were only worth $57,490, […]
The Singapore site will follow the model of an IBM living lab, allowing the company to develop and test new analytics tools. The work will also cover risk management, alert systems, and responses to supply or location volatility.
Cindy Allen is leaving her role as executive director of CBP’s ACE Business Office on Sept. 15, and has accepted a position as head of DHL Global Forwarding’s customs brokerage division in the United States.
Transplace, a provider of transportation management and logistics services, has entered a partnership with LLamasoft, a supply chain solutions designer. Through the partnership, Transplace will provide LLamasoft with benchmarking data and services based on its access to inbound and outbound rates. LLamasoft will provide Transplace with network optimization software. Customers will benefit from the […]
Getloaded, an Internet-based logistics freight matching site, is now integrating its software with McLeod Software and Infinity Software Solutions, two large transportation technology players. “We want to make using Getloaded easier than ever for our members, and integration partnerships such as these will do that,” said Fergus Caldicott, general manager at Getloaded, in […]
The shipowner of a stricken Mediterranean Shipping Co.-operated container vessel said Wednesday the ship has yet to enter a safe port in Europe to allow salvors to begin trying to save the vessel.
Al Stanley, president and CEO of Intermarine, said the company had chosen to merge with Scan-Trans because it had a similar focus and little overlap in operations, leaving the combined companies with “a pristine balance sheet.”
