CEVA Logistics, a global supply chain management company, has launched its first mobile app, CEVA Mobile, which allows customers to track the exact location of every shipment using their iPhone or iPad. CEVA said this will work with the hundreds of millions of tons of cargo it delivers every year for more than 15,000 customers. […]
Paul Jaenichen was sworn in as deputy administrator for the U.S. Maritime Administration last Friday and began his new job on Monday, July 23. An Annapolis graduate, Jaenichen retired as a captain in the U.S. Navy earlier this year, having served the past two years as the Navy’s deputy chief of legislative affairs. […]
MOL releases performance data for eastbound transpacific intermodal shipments in the second quarter, with seven of 18 pairs examined surpassing the line’s internal goal of 90 percent on-time delivery.
Rand McNally has unveiled a new hardware design and upgrades for its TruckPC mobile communication fleet management system, with a focus on significantly reducing the size of the mounted units and dropping its price under $1,200. The new box, the TPC 7600, is about one-third of the size of the previous generation and […]
Container traffic at the Port of Guangzhou’s Nansha deepwater complex has continued to grow in a robust fashion in 2012, according to statistics released by the Guangzhou Port Group (GPG) Monday. Nansha, a set of terminals on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, saw total volume grow 20.1 percent year-on-year in […]
China Customs, IATA and one of Europe’s largest airfreight hubs combine to bring Asia’s major economy into the e-freight fold, with a Oct. 1 target to link China and Schipol Airport through a simultaneous electronic exchange.
The two largest owners of shortline railroads in North America have agreed to combine. Genesee & Wyoming Inc. said it will purchase RailAmerica for $27.50 per share, for a total of $1.4 billion, plus another $600 million G&W would assume as debt. Jack Hellmann, president and chief executive officer of G&W, said […]
The Danish container line reups with the Port of Seattle to bring its Asia-North America TP3/TP9 pendulum service, run jointly with CMA CGM, through the Pacific Northwest gateway’s Terminal 18.
Third party logistics services provider Wagner Industries has rebranded under the name Wagner Logistics and paired the change with a promotion of Brian Smith to the role of chief executive officer. The company was founded as Wagner Cartage Service 66 years ago. It previously changed its name to Wagner Industries in 1979. […]
“The extent of the damage to the cargo is still not known, and it is most likely that such an assessment can only be made once the vessel has reached a port of refuge,” the liner carrier said in a statement Friday.
Aspect Enterprise Solutions, which provides trading and risk management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, has unveiled a new tool for shipping oil and petroleum products as part of its AspectCTRM Physical Operations Module. With the Shipment Workbench, users can schedule and nominate shipments, and monitor their status as they progress through their lifecycle. The software […]
The White House said port projects in Jacksonville, Miami, Savannah, Charleston and New York/New Jersey will be expedited by executive order as part of a program to make the review process for infrastructure projects more efficient.
APT is asking a federal judge to order MarAd to make a decision on whether to grant it a loan guarantee for five 49,000-deadweight-ton petroleum tankers that were built at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego.
GreenRoad has launched a mobile app for fleet managers to help improve driver performance and provide safety information for fleet operations and safety managers. The app is a mobile companion to the company’s online GreenRoad Central dashboard and provides driver performance and safety management data and reports. It can work on Apple and […]
Two men have been charged with trying to illegally export nuclear-related components that can be used in gas centrifuges to enrich uranium, the Justice Department announced last week. A federal grand jury in Washington indicted Parviz Khaki of Iran and Zongcheng Yi, a resident of China, for conspiring to export U.S. goods to Iran […]
A handful of liner carriers has highlighted the problem in recent weeks, via customer advisories, with some of the lines levying surcharges to offset their impacted operations at Montreal.
The ocean carrier Maersk Line has extended its weekly Southeast Asia to Oceania double-loop NZ1 service further into New Zealand and added a 10th vessel, increasing the full butterfly roundtrip voyage time from 63 days to 70 days, while at the same time entering into a slot agreement with CMA CGM on the service. […]
The International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) said Thursday they had “reached an agreement in principle on issues involving the introduction of new technology and automation and maintenance and repair of…
ARI, a global fleet services provider specializing in car and truck fleets, has developed an implementation service around telematics solutions that offers various levels of support to help educate and provide insights to fleet managers. ARI is looking to provide a consolidated view of all fleet-related information in a single space and help its customers […]
The ocean carrier Maersk Line has trimmed its Mediterranean-to-West Africa services by terminating its WAF10 service while simultaneously slowing its WAF1 and speeding up its WAF3. Maersk has suspended its dedicated weekly WAF10 service between the carrier’s West-Mediterranean hubs in Tangiers and Algeciras and Conakry, Guinea. The WAF10 had been operating with […]
