U.S. Customs and Border Protection has postponed its East Coast Trade Symposium until Oct. 29-30 to maximize participation. The event, to be held in Washington, was previously scheduled for Sept. 27-28.
The guitar maker on Monday entered into a criminal enforcement agreement to resolve a U.S. investigation into allegations that it illegally imported ebony wood from Madagascar and rosewood and ebony from India.
A group of business leaders led Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is in South Africa for three days to explore investment opportunities. The group, which includes senior executives from Boeing, Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. (the diesel-electric locomotive manufacturing subsidiary of Caterpillar), FedEx Express, Walmart and General Electric, participated Monday […]
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has appointed Jay B. Shelat to senior vice president of cargo terminal services in North America. He will be based in Dallas. Shelat was formerly vice president of cargo at Jet Airways, a company he joined in 2007. Prior to this, he spent 12 years with American Airlines […]
Software manufacturer Oracle has acquired network virtualization provider Xsigo Systems in an effort to boost its cloud capabilities. Xsigo, based in San Jose, Calif., provides a system that connects to almost any network and provides customers with a way to adjust and increase performance operations while reducing costs through virtualizing services. The company’s […]
The value of goods and services exported from the United States during the first five months of the year increased 5.6 percent from the same period in 2011. Overseas shipments of goods climbed 6.3 percent.
Tosca Ltd., a provider of reusable container pooling and logistics services to the food supply chain, has acquired the reusable plastic container division of Georgia-Pacific (GP RPC). “The acquisition of GP RPC allows Tosca to expand its available services to its customers, including food and beverage processors, produce growers, grocery retailers and foodservice […]
According to a recent survey of over-the-road carriers by the advisory firm Transport Capital Partners, three quarters of trucking companies believe their costs per driver to adhere to new CSA standards will be more than $500.
The German line will introduce and revise its low-sulfur fuel charge, effective Sept. 3, for its transatlantic services to account for an emissions control area (ECA) off the coast of North America that went into effect on Aug. 1.
Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE) said it will convert its two “Orca class” trailer ships to run on liquefied natural gas to make them “among the cleanest in the world.” TOTE says in an article in its company magazine that engineering, design and installation of new engine kits and construction of an LNG […]
Maersk Line is seeing the fruits of its long-range plans to invest heavily in emerging growth markets like West Africa, according to an article in this month’s issue of the company’s internal magazine, Maersk Post. “Generally speaking, everything is on the rise,” Maersk’s line manager for West Africa Sonny Dahl said the article. “Due […]
Fujitsu Frontech North America, a manufacturer of kiosks and self-checkout systems, has selected Cincom Systems’ Cincom Acquire to improve its configuration, quotes, and logistics processes for its kiosk operations. Kevin Judd, Fujitsu Frontech’s director of self-order technology, said the complexity of its offerings – both the devices themselves and what they can store […]
He replaces Neel Shah, who recently stepped down from the position. Charaf, a 16-year veteran of the airline including four years as head of Delta Cargo, will maintain his current role as president of the airline’s technical operations.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank has authorized a $32.1 million loan guarantee to Wind Power Energia S.A. of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to buy wind turbine blades manufactured by LM Wind Power Blades in Little Rock, Ark. Ex-Im Bank’s financing, which guarantees a Bank of America loan, will support about 250 U.S. jobs at the […]
Scandinavian freight forwarder Martin Bencher Group has opened an office in Long Beach, Calif. The office will be managed by Steve Jurica, former operations manager of the firm’s Houston office. Jurica joined the company in 2010 when the Houston office was opened.
This is the first phase of the Singapore-based container carrier’s plan to withdraw from chassis provisioning throughout the United States. In the future, it said motor carriers will provide chassis as part of their drayage services.
FEC is operating a single train to deliver aggregate from a quarry near Miami every morning on a dedicated rail spur specially built for the project and is expected to add a second train every evening by Aug. 13 or sooner.
The lawsuit, in which ABF claimed subsidiaries of YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters violated the National Master Freight Agreement, was dismissed by Judge Susan Webber Wright of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
The Jones Act container carrier Horizon Lines said it had a net loss of $46 million in the second quarter, compared to a loss of $5.4 million in the second quarter of 2011 period. About $16.1 million of the loss in the most recent quarter was from discontinued operations and $29.9 million from continuing […]
The express carrier hopes the wearable devices will speed up the time to load packages into vehicles. The technology is also aimed at getting package updates into the system faster.
