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   Sterling Aviation, a division of Quick International Courier, has expanded its services in the Chinese market for critical aircraft-on-the-ground (AOG) shipping and logistics.     The company specializes in anytime-anywhere shipping of urgent aircraft parts, rapid returns, heavy weight or oversized freight, and dangerous goods. It said there’s ongoing growth of the aviation industry in China, due […]

   Consolidators International, Inc. has appointed Malcolm Bermingham to the new position of vice president of sales and operations.    Bermingham, who has more than 20 years of industry experience, has worked at both customs brokerage and freight forwarding firms. Moving from Ireland to Southern California, he started his transportation career as an employee at […]

   Crowley Maritime Corp. has promoted Mike Golonka to vice president of the company’s ship management team.    Golonka, who previously served as general manager for ship management, will continue reporting to Todd Busch, senior vice president and general manager of technical services, and will remain domiciled in the company’s headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla.    […]

   MavenWire, an Oracle Gold Partner that specializes in work around Oracle-based and other transportation management systems (TMS), has announced a new cloud-based service that will allow the company to rapidly deploy Oracle Transportation Management for its customers.    Calling the service LogisticsWired, the company said that its offering combines Oracle’s TMS offering with the […]

   The portal-based ocean transportation technology provider INTTRA and liner shipping analyst SeaIntel have released their first report comparing ocean carrier schedule reliability against actual container delivery.    The report, available at www.seaintel.com, is part of a larger analysis that marries SeaIntel’s schedule reliability database with a host of aggregated information compiled by INTTRA from […]

In a lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, the state seeks an injunction keeping the EPA and Coast Guard from their plans to begin enforcing the North American Emissions Control Area (ECA) on Aug. 1.

Authorities have reopened the Ambassador Bridge after the busiest international commercial truck crossing in North America was shut down Monday evening for five hours because of a bomb scare.

   U.S. Customs officers stationed at the UPS hub in Louisville, Ky., continue to intercept an increasing number of imported “bath salts” designer drugs, the agency said.    Field personnel are working closely with chemists at Customs and Border Protection labs to test samples and detect emerging trends related to the synthetic drugs.    Bath salts can contain the […]

The number of attacks by Somali pirates on vessels from the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean declined in the first half of the year to 69 from 163 during the same period in 2011, the IMB said.

The National Retail Federation asked the the ILA and dockworker employer representative to commit themselves to continuing talks and normal port operations on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts even if they do not reach agreement by Sept. 30.

   Railroads have filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia seeking to file a lower court’s decision to certify a class action against them for fixing surcharges, reports the National Industrial Transportation League in its latest Notice newsletter.    NIT League said the railroads argued in the petition that […]

   Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser, which is currently providing logistical support for U.S. Pacific Fleet’s biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise off Hawaii, will deliver 900,000 gallons of a 50-50 blend of advanced biofuels and traditional petroleum-based fuel today to the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Nimitz strike group. […]

The filing with the SEC shows the company expecting its 4.7 million-share IPO to garner between $15 and $17 per share. This would, at its midpoint, give the company a valuation of roughly $437 million.

   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. […]