The ocean carriers Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud have added an eighth vessel to their weekly Europe-to-Middle East and Indian Subcontinent IOS service and increased roundtrip voyage time from 49 days to 56 days. Although roundtrip voyage time on the IOS has increased by seven days, transit times between Europe and the Middle East […]
Truck leasing and supply chain service company Ryder System Inc. said Thursday it has made a small, tuck-in acquisition in the United Kingdom for its Fleet Management Solutions group. The Miami-based company said it bought Euroway Group Ltd., a commercial truck leasing, maintenance and fleet management firm in Bedfordshire, England. Terms of […]
The two U.S. senators from California, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, are urging clerical workers for shipping companies and their employers to work toward resolving their differences and reach a contract. Negotiators for International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Marine Clerks Association Local 63 Office Clerical Unit (OCU), and the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor […]
Columbus McKinnon Corp., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of material handling products, has appointed Kurt Wozniak as vice president and an officer of its board. Wozniak, a member of the CMCO Executive Committee, has been the company’s managing director of Latin America since July 2010. He joined Columbus McKinnon in 1999.
In Wednesday’s AS Daily, it was misreported that Nordana dropped its U.S. East Coast-West Africa service. According to Bob Chick, president of Nordana USA, the service remains in operation.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said it has with assistance from federal, international and industry partners successfully released 209 shipments of American products valued at more than $39 million in 2012. The goods had been detained at foreign ports of entry pending resolution of various animal and plant health questions. […]
Since fiscal year 2007 through July 26, 2012, the bank has authorized about $710 million to Minnesota businesses to support $1.4 billion in export sales.
The U.S.-Libya Business Association (USLBA) on Wednesday welcomed the “Cairo Declaration” announced by the foreign ministers of Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. The declaration strives for the three countries to create a free-travel zone, allowing citizens and tourists to move freely between the three countries. “If implemented, visa-free travel among citizens and tourists […]
The U.S. International Trade Commission said three years after its implementation, the Earned Import Allowance Program (EIAP) is not providing enough incentives to help boost the competitiveness of Dominican apparel exports in the U.S. market. The nonpartisan, fact-finding agency reached its conclusion in the recently released report (https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub4340.pdf) “Earned Import Allowance Program: Evaluation […]
EU ProSun said Europe’s solar industry is “being decimated by unfair competition from China leading to layoffs, and one major European solar bankruptcy every month,” furthering warning the domestic industry will disappear.
A coalition representing manufacturing, agricultural, retail, and transportation interests, jointly filed a friend of the court brief supporting the ATA’s challenge to the hours of service rules handed down last year by the FMCSA.
Lea Bogatch-Genossar has been appointed president of Zim American Integrated Shipping Services, effective Aug. 6. She will replace Shaul Ramon, who finishes a three-year tenure.
Liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it’s raising rates on cargo moving from Asia/Southeast Asia countries to the United States, including Puerto Rico. The general rate increases, effective Sept. 1, are as follows: To U.S. West Coast ports and Puerto Rico, $400 per 20-foot container, $500 per 40-foot container, and $550 per 40-foot high-cube […]
APM Terminals has signed a 32-year concession contract with the Port Authority of the Port of Lazaro Cardenas (APILAC) for the design, financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of a new container terminal at the port.
Intelligrated, a North American provider of automated material handling solutions, services and products, confirmed today it has been acquired by a holding company owned by Permira, a European private equity firm, in a transaction valued at more than $500 million. Intelligrated will continue to be led by founders Chris Cole and Jim McCarthy, […]
Con-way Inc. said it had 2012 second-quarter profit of $41.8 million, compared to $29.4 million in the same period last year. Revenue for the 2012 second quarter (after intersegment eliminations) was $1.45 billion, a 7.2 percent increase from last year’s second-quarter revenue of $1.35 billion. The company said Con-way Freight, its less-than-truckload […]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the ExpressRail system that serves its marine terminals handled 228,298 containers in the first six months of the year, 10 percent more than in the first half of 2011. Rail volume grew much more quickly than container volume at the port which was 1,583,709 containers […]
Swissport, a provider of ground services to the aviation sector, has chosen SysAid to deploy its IT Service Management (ITSM) helpdesk software to run Swissport’s IT operations in the United States. Swissport will use SysAid to manage its internal IT department, including the help desk and asset management. Swissport said it went with […]
Service Parts Logistics (SPL), one of Africa’s largest information technology parts distributors, has released a new reverse logistics and parts management software called iSuppli – not to be confused with the global market research firm of the same name. iSuppli will give service providers visibility into their returned parts moving through the supply chain. The company […]
Tropical Shipping, which primarily transports containerized freight to the Bahamas and the Caribbean, moved 40,000 TEUs in the second quarter ending June 30, up from 36,500 TEUs in the same period last year. Volumes were reported by AGL, an Atlanta-based natural gas utility which acquired Tropical in December as part of its purchase of the Illinois […]
