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 […]
New Orleans Cold Storage (NOCS) opened a new 142,000 square-foot terminal in Port of New Orleans on Thursday. The company, which said it’s the oldest cold storage company in North America, supplies storage to exporters of products such as poultry, beef, and pork. On hand to dedicate the new $40.3 million facility were […]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has figured out a way to shave six months off the timetable for the $1 billion bridge reconstruction, which involves raising the road deck of the bridge for bigger ships.
No objections were filed to Hainan’s application, which sought rights available under the U.S.-China aviation agreement. Hainan proposes initially to operate four-times-weekly service, using Boeing 787 aircraft, beginning in the second quarter of 2013.
A Texas A&M University-Galveston professor called on Houston-Galveston leaders to better prepare the region for the opening of a wider set of Panama Canal locks in early 2015. “Everyone needs to be on the same page because it’s a case of ready or not – the ships are coming,” said William Merrell, a […]
DHL said Thursday it has started a new twice weekly air freighter service between Cincinnati and Sydney. “The addition of the twice-weekly U.S.-Australia flight increases capacity and connections on a fast-growing trade lane that is expected to grow 20 percent in 2012,” said Jerry Hsu, chief executive officer for DHL Express Asia Pacific. “It provides […]
The liner carrier MOL said Thursday it has improved most of its regional key performance indicator goals in June for North America operations, customer service, and electronic data interchange. Out of 11 metrics the company is tracking and releasing publicly, it improved or equalled its May performance on nine. The only two categories […]
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee marked up and passed a bill on Wednesday that strengthens Customs and Border Protection’s efforts to combat antidumping and countervailing duty evasion.
The Port of Virginia saw container volume rise 11.2 percent year-on-year in June to 168,430 TEUs, the best month in the history of the port, Virginia Port Authority Executive Director Jerry Bridges said. Year-to-date, the port has handled 994,727 TEUs, an increase of 5.4 percent over the first half of 2011. Total […]
C.H. Robinson Europe has opened a new office in Rotterdam that’s dedicated to providing temperature-controlled logistics services to the region. The logistics services provider said temperature-controlled transport is one of the fastest growing industry segments in Europe. C.H. Robinson has 34 other offices in Europe. In its initial operations, the Rotterdam office will take aim at agricultural truckload […]
Union Pacific said its second quarter ending June 30 was its most profitable ever. The Class I railroad had a profit of $1 billion, 28 percent more than the $785 million it earned in the same 2011 period. Revenue for the quarter was $4.9 billion, 7 percent more than the $4.6 billion recorded in […]
Demand for fresh blueberries is high in South Korea, with growers potentially shipping up to 1 million pounds this season. “The first shipment arrived in South Korea on July 2 and the blueberries are now on store shelves,” USDA said.
The Obama administration expressed disappointment in an arbitration tribunal’s decision this week involving a trade dispute over timber harvested in British Columbia. “Despite this result, we remain concerned that British Columbia provided publicly-owned timber harvested in its interior to softwood lumber producers for prices far below market value,” said Nkenge Harmon, deputy assistant to […]
The drought in the Midwest is one for the record books. In addition to taking a toll on crops, livestock and municipal water supplies, it is constraining freight traffic on inland waterways. The Mississippi River, a major thoroughfare for grain, coal, petroleum, crushed rock and other commodities, is 17 feet lower today than it […]
