Tideworks Technology, a developer of full-service terminal management and planning software, has announced that Vale New Caledonia (Vale NC), at Prony Port in New Caledonia, and GIE Nouméa Port, also in New Caledonia, have gone live with the company’s terminal operating system (TOS). Tideworks said it has successfully implemented the TOS at both […]
“If an index on container rates might prove useful to exporters of agricultural products, such an index should be created by private interests and not an agency of the federal government, especially a regulatory agency like the FMC,” NIT League said.
Virginia Transportation Secretary Connaughton said “we are now in the process of reviewing the proposals to determine whether the documents satisfy the minimum submission criteria set out in the request for alternative proposals.”
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 6.3 percent in August, compared with the same month in 2011, according to the latest monthly Global Port Tracker report released Monday by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. The report forecasts container volume growth for 2012 of […]
In its updated release of the Kewill Flagship version 5.2, global trade and shipping logistics service provider Kewill has launched a new module that will enable shippers of all sizes and geographies to onboard new carriers and services with increased flexibility and speed. Kewill’s new Universal Carrier Module (UCM) is designed to provide […]
The trade intelligence firm Zepol Corp. said Monday it has developed a new database that allows users to see companies that export from the United States, along with the products they send and countries of the world where the shipments are headed. The database, which Zepol calls TradeIQ Export, houses U.S. export bills […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that it’s indefinitely postponing its C-TPAT conference that had been scheduled for the fourth week of September because of scheduling and logistics challenges. The agency previously moved its popular Trade Symposium from late September to Oct. 29-30. Registration for the East Coast version of the Trade Symposium is […]
Unions are backing President Obama in the November election. The AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department put out the following statement regarding Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan, a deficit hawk who has proposed drastic cuts to government spending to deal with the nation’s debt problem, as his vice presidential running mate: […]
Global supply chain and retail technology provider RedPrairie has acquired Toronto-based Vortex Connect, a leader in best-of-breed mobile workforce management solutions focused on real-time business-to-employee communications and operations. RedPrairie said it will combine its existing Enterprise Workforce Management with the newly acquired Vortex mobility platform to create a single source of mobile-enabled solutions […]
FORTE, a design-build company for supply chain distribution, has hired Larry Boroff to be its director of automation systems engineering. In this position, Boroff is responsible for leading FORTE’s automation implementation projects, as well as overseeing technical support for the company’s consulting practice. Boroff joins FORTE from Amazon Fulfillment Services where he served as the […]
The first half loss represents a major swing from the nearly $42 million in profits the carrier secured in the same period in 2011. But the second quarter profit is 18 percent higher than that in second quarter of 2011.
BDP revealed earlier this year that it was speaking to private equity investors to help it grow and diversify capital sources, but decided after a seven month review that the Bolte family will retain full control of the company.
The commander of Egypt’s navy has retired from his post to take up the top spot at the Suez Canal Authority, news outlets in the country reported this week. Mohab Mamish, head of the navy since 2007, made the move on the order of new President Mohamed Morsy. Mamish takes over from […]
Agility, the Kuwait-based logistics company provider, said it had a profit of 7.8 million Kuwait dinar ($27.6 million) in the second quarter 2012, about equal to what it earned in the same period in 2011. Revenue in the quarter was 348.8 million dinar, 6 percent more than the 330.6 dinar recorded in the […]
CEVA Logistics on Monday said it has expanded the ancillary services to its less-than-containerload (LCL) ocean freight network in the U.S. Midwest. CEVA augmented its LCL services in the U.S. Midwest by bringing all inbound consolidation containers into its own container freight station in Elk Grove Village, Ill., with onward distribution within the […]
Germany’s Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper reported that Erck Rickmers will step down from his job in the Hamburg parliament at the end of August to focus his attention on the shipping business. He is chairman and founder of the shipping investment company Nordcapital and founder of the shipping company ER Schiffahrt. Rickmers told […]
The container carrier Maersk Line had $306 million in operating losses in the first half of 2012 but turned a $265 million operating profit in the second quarter after losing $571 million in the first quarter of 2012, parent company A.P. Moller-Maersk said Tuesday. The container line had first half profits of $402 […]
Shipments of coal on the Great Lakes totaled 2.7 million tons in July, a slight increase – 63,000 tons – compared to June, but a drop of 12.4 percent compared to a year ago, according to the Lake Carriers’ Association. Loadings fell 30.5 percent more when compared to the month’s five-year average, the […]
Seattle-based Jensen Maritime Consultants, a Crowley Maritime Corp. company, has expanded its presence to the U.S. Gulf with the opening of a third office in New Orleans. The new location places Jensen in close proximity to many of its customers and shipyards in the Gulf region, as well as to Crowley’s Houston-based project […]
The FAA alleges that between Aug. 2 and Aug. 12, 2010, FedEx employees in numerous locations around the country improperly accepted several dozen shipments containing hazardous materials for air transport.
