Express carrier DHL opened its biggest hub in Asia on July 12 at the Shanghai Airport. The $175 million facility covers 16 football fields of space, has extensive energy-saving features and can process up to 20,000 documents and 20,000 parcels per hour. DHL said it will invest another $132 million for eight […]
An International Civil Aviation Organization committee in July agreed on a common metric for measuring and comparing carbon dioxide emissions that takes into account aircraft types and different technologies, paving the way for formal adoption of a worldwide carbon standard that drives further improvement in fuel efficiency. The system accounts for factors such […]
The race between Boeing and Airbus to capture orders and produce commercial aircraft continues unabated, raising questions about whether their respective supply bases can keep up with demand, according to a new report from Forecast International. The situation will only get worse with the introduction of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350 […]
The 44-year old insurer TT Club is now offering coverage for a new group of customers—shippers.
Rick Campbell, chief executive officer of ICAT Logistics, said franchising is one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. business, and he also believes it’s an effective way to organize a logistics company.
The major benefit of current technology trends like cloud computing and heavily integrated systems is that companies have more data at their fingertips than ever before, but that comes with the pitfall of figuring out how to manage it all.
Nearly every innovation JDA Software is planning for its future relies on cloud technology, and so it was with boldness that Hamish Brewer, the company’s president and chief executive officer, recently announced plans for a major shift to the JDA Cloud Strategy.
Over the last 12 months the dollar has appreciated due to stronger economic trends in the United States compared to other countries. However, this may be coming to an end. The U.S. economy is growing, albeit at a slow pace of 2 percent, compared to an average rate of 3.1 percent during the […]
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration recently cemented a partnership with Cintermex, a trade show organizer in Mexico that hosts more than 600 events per year, to cross-promote exports in each country. Related Magazine Content Boosting U.S. competitiveness The ITA’s Commercial Service will train Cintermex staff in Mexico on the benefits […]
White House makes exports priority, but will fall short of ambitious target, expert says. By Eric Kulisch The United States may have been on track during the first two years of President Obama’s five-year plan to double exports from $1.6 trillion to $3.2 trillion by the end of 2014, but has no realistic chance […]
The decision to draw down 30 million barrels of crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is still making news a year later. That’s not much oil in a world that consumes 88 million barrels a day, but hauling it would have been a nice piece of work for the U.S. tug […]
Sometimes things just fall into place for shippers who thought they were at the end of the world. Such may be the case for agricultural exporters in North Dakota and the upper Midwest, possibly the most landlocked region in the United States. North Dakota has gotten a massive — if that’s a […]
By Peter Schauer President, Orion Marine Corp., Chicago In early July, the International Longshoremen’s Association and U.S. Maritime Alliance made progress on negotiating a new contract to replace the one expiring on Sept. 30, easing some concerns that shippers will face a dock labor confrontation on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts. If the parties […]
Data2Logistics, a freight bill processor and advisor, has launched a new freight shipping information site that aims to provide customers and partners with information around global finance, economics, and manufacturing as they relate to shipping, logistics and freight payment systems. One of the first issues discussed on the site was around Myanmar, formerly […]
Beth Peterson president, BPE While attending the 91st American Association of Exporters and Importers’ Conference & Expo in early June, we took the opportunity to do an informal survey of attendees and thought you would be interested in what people had to say…
Proteus Software, warehouse management software (WMS) provider said it has launched a cloud-based warehouse management system (WMS) platform that it says will allow companies to avoid infrastructure expenditure, while increasing warehouse efficiency by up to 50 percent. The Proteus Cloud WMS allows companies to manage and control their put-away, storing, picking, and shipping […]
By Francis Phillips and Stephen Wynn ComPair Data’s BlueWater Reporting database has been developed over the past 12 years to identify and continuously track all published regular liner schedule services operating between ports in numerous regions and sub-regions all over the world. The carriers operating ships or chartering slots on each service are identified, […]
A group of 10 legislators push to restore requirement that 75 percent of U.S. food aid be carried on U.S.-flag ships after provision in proposed federal highway bill threatened to reduce threshold to 50 percent.
A drop in coal demand, spurred by cheap natural gas, is signaling a shift in U.S. energy markets, with railroads offsetting a loss in revenue by focusing on fracking, petroleum, automotive, and intermodal markets
Universal Truckload Services, said it will acquire LINC Logistics Co, an asset-light third-party logistics provider, in a stock-for-stock transaction that is worth roughly $335 million and includes the assumption of debt. Warren, Mich-based Universal said the purchase and combination of the two services will create one of the largest asset-light, full-service logistics offerings in […]
