INSIGHT Inc., a provider of supply chain planning services, is pushing a new set of supply chain related prescriptive analytics and strategies around the “big data” that’s currently collected from integrated supply chain networks. INSIGHT said companies can use big data to better analyze their operations only if they have a way to […]
The new function, the carrier calls MyFinance, allows for faster processing of disputes, the ability for customers to re-dispute, as well as raise multiple disputes. Invoices can be paid in full online 24 hours a day.
The freight forwarding giant had a profit of 279 million Swiss francs ($283 million) in the first half of 2012, 11 percent less than the 314 million Swiss francs earned in the same 2011 period.
The liner carriers Hamburg Süd and Mediterranean Shipping Co. announced individual plans to hike rates on U.S. export cargo to Oceania ports. Both lines said the increase, effective Aug. 15, is $175 per 20-foot container and $350 per 40-foot container and is applicable to all U.S. origin ports and all destinations in Australia […]
MOL (Asia) said Friday it has opened two new branch offices in China. The offices, in Fuzhou and Zhongshan, are operated by MOL (China), the Japanese carrier’s owned subsidiary, and replace representative offices for MOL in those regions. Fuzhou and Zhongshan serve as logistics hubs for gateway ports Mawei and Jiangyin in Fujian […]
Weeks Marine said it plans to christen a new $41 million ocean-going hydraulic cutter suction dredge, CR McCaskill, today at its Houma Marine Yard in Houma, La. The vessel is named for the dredging division’s top technical and equipment executive, Charles R. McCaskill, and is the third of five dredges Weeks is building at a cost of $200 […]
C.H. Robinson Worldwide has promoted Bryan Foe to president of its European operations. Foe has worked at the company since 1990, most recently as vice president at C.H. Robinson and president of T-Chek Systems the past nine years. T-Chek was acquired by C.H. Robinson in 1983 and provides business-to-business spend management and payment processing services. […]
Alan Hill, a 19-year veteran of the Port Everglades port authority in Broward County, Fla., has been promoted to director of administration, the port said. It’s the second major position filled in the past week by new Chief Executive Steve Cernak, who named former Long Beach port official Michael Vanderbeek as director of business […]
B2BGateway and Camelot 3PL Software will partner to develop an integrated cloud-based electronic-data-interchange solution for Camelot’s clients. EDI has become a best practice for companies doing business internationally and need to file data between third party logistics companies, shippers, and customs agencies. Camelot 3PL Software said it sought an EDI solution that was […]
The FAA has issued a preliminary civil penalty against Boeing for failing to meet a deadline to submit service instructions that would enable airlines to further reduce the risk of fuel tank explosions.
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the International Maritime Organization Safety of Navigation Subcommittee has approved amendments proposed by the United States for the Santa Barbara Channel, Los Angeles/Long Beach, and San Francisco traffic separation schemes aimed at reducing ship strikes of whales along the West Coast. NOAA said the […]
A Mediterranean Shipping Co. containership caught fire Saturday morning 1,000 miles off the coast of the United Kingdom while on route from Charleston, S.C. to Antwerp, killing one crewman, injuring three others, and leaving another missing. The ship, the 6,732-TEU MSC Flaminia, was abandoned by its crew in the wake of an explosion in cargo […]
Third party logistic company Cimetra has added in a new electronic data interchange (EDI) service to improve the efficiency of its ability to send documentation between buyers and suppliers. The EDI system will allow Cimetra to send documentation and product information over a secured network, eliminating the need for paper documents altogether. […]
The liner carrier OOCL said Friday its first half container volumes rose 6.1 percent over the same period in 2011, to nearly 2.6 million TEUs. Revenue in that period rose 5 percent to $2.9 billion.
Ocean freight forwarders are finding themselves squeezed by stagnant or falling volumes and yet at the same time higher freight rates, something the analyst Transport Intelligence has described as a “lose-lose situation” in its latest report on the sector, Global Freight Forwarding 2012. Meanwhile air cargo forwarders have been hit by a “double whammy” […]
The carrier has consolidated its Middle East-to-East Africa services by terminating its Dar Express service while simultaneously extending its Masiika Express loop to include a call at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Industrial Destiny, an 8,000-deadweight-ton vessel, will sail for Paita on July 20. Other regular port calls on the service include Esmeraldas and Guayaquil in Ecuador, Peru’s Callao, and Puerto Angamos, Chile.
Bruce N. Scholnick, who led the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA) as its president and chief executive officer for 12 years, defended industry on state and federal regulatory matters.
OOCL Chief Executive Officer Andy Tung has been elected to the World Shipping Council (WSC) board to replace the seat left vacant by the retirement of his predecessor, Philip Chow. Other WSC board members include Thomas Crowley Jr., Crowley Maritime Corp.; Rafi Danieli, Zim Integrated Shipping Services; Morten Englestoft, Maersk Line; Ottmar Gast, Hamburg […]
Artist Rendition The Port of Redwood City in South San Francisco Bay said it expects construction to begin soon on a project to modernize two wharves. The port commission has awarded a $13.9 million contract for the job to Manson Construction Co. The commission approved and the city council ratified private placement […]
