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. […]
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. […]
