The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has created a new Website to provide importers with information about the commodity import approval process for plants and plant products and give them the opportunity to consult with the agency on risk assessments as they are being drafted. “We are doing this […]
Cargotec has purchased the automation technology of Australia’s Asciano, one of that nation’s largest rail freight and port operators. The company will also take on 23 employees from Asciano. Cargotec said the purchase was a strategic step for its existing automation services for ports and terminals. From the deal, Olli Isotalo, Cargotec’s […]
Fargo Systems, based in Exeter and Colchester, United Kingdom, will extend its systems to include bulk road haulage services around tankers and waste transport operations. Fargo added rail freight transportation to its TOPS multimodal shipment management software last month, and has just updated the software again to version 3.8, which now supports the tanker, […]
The order comes on top of an early FedEx annoumcement to buy 27 new B767s for delivery between fiscal 2014 and 2018. It also plans to purchase another 24 B777s to add to the 19 long-range B777 planes it operates today.
A judge in Longview, Wash., declared a mistrial Friday after six jurors could not reach a verdict in a trial involving Robert McEllrath, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. McEllrath was charged with a misdemeanor after 300 union members and their supporters blocked a train last September during protests over plans to […]
About 500 people work in the NOL building, with the company saying a decision to relocate them or keep them in the existing building as a tenant will wait until a buyer is identified. NOL has retained the commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
Matson, Inc. said its stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange today under the ticker symbol MATX, following the separation of Alexander & Baldwin Holdings, Inc. into two companies. Matson will carry on its shipping and logistics operations, while Alexander & Baldwin has taken over the company’s agriculture and real estate businesses. […]
Canadian Pacific Railway named Hunter Harrison president, chief executive officer, and a member of its board of directors. Until Dec. 31, 2009, he had served as head of competing railroad Canadian National.
DP World London Gateway and DB Schenker Rail said Monday they have signed an agreement to provide rail services from the new U.K. deep-sea port, which opens in the fourth quarter of 2013. The agreement will see DB Schenker Rail introduce at least four rail freight services a day (four in, four out), […]
The global terminal operator ICTSI Ltd., a subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), has named Hans-Ole Madsen as senior vice president for Europe and the Middle East (EME), based in Dubai. Prior to joining ICTSI, Madsen was APM Terminals’ vice president for business development in Africa, Middle East and Indian Subcontinent. […]
The CMA CGM Group, parent of Marseilles-based liner carrier CMA CGM, said Monday it has agreed to a deal with European private equity firm Bridgepoint for the sale of its small cruise ship brand, La Compagnie du Ponant. “The agreement will offer La Compagnie du Ponant the resources it needs to fulfill its ambitions, maintain […]
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), which represents steamship lines, stevedores, and terminal operators, said they made progress in meetings this week aimed at developing a new master…
Roundtrip voyage time on the TP5 has increased from 35 days to 42 days, and transit times have been increased by a few days in both directions, now taking 22 days between Kobe, Japan and Los Angeles, and 18 days on the return.
Following a successful trial by First Class Zollservice und Transportvermittlungs (FCZT), Implant Sciences Corp. (ICS) has sold a follow-up order of its Quantum Sniffer H150 handheld explosives trace detector for use in customs clearance and air freight management. ICS, a supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, made the sale […]
The World Shipping Council said the “commission’s establishment of a rate index for certain cargoes subject to the Shipping Act would violate the service contract confidentiality provisions of the Act and the commission’s own current regulations.”
The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. has started service between the Port of Jacksonville and two Central American ports, the Jacksonville Port Authority said Friday. The service will connect the Florida port’s Talleyrand Marine Terminal and the Central American ports of Santo Tomas de Castilla, Guatemala and Puerto Cortez, Honduras, as well as providing connections […]
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has added a fifth new IL-76TD-90VD cargo plane to its fleet. The plane, which has a 50-ton cargo-carrying capacity, was built at the Chkalov Aviation Factory in Tashkent under the terms of a contract signed by OAK-Transport Aircraft and Volga-Dnepr Leasing during the Moscow Air Show in 2007. The contract included an […]
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. has completed its new “hybrid” car carrier, Emerald Ace, which relies heavily on solar energy to generate zero emissions. The vessel is equipped with a hybrid electric power supply system that combines a 160 kilowatt solar system – jointly developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Panasonic Group, and MOL – with lithium-ion batteries […]
FedEx Express is expanding its eco-drive campaign around improving fuel efficiency and driving habits of its couriers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The expansion of the driving program and instructions aims to change the daily driving habits of thousands of FedEx Express couriers around issues like idling. The EMEA launch follows […]
United Technologies Corp. (UTC) has agreed to pay more than $75 million to settle U.S. arms export violations and false and for belated disclosures to the U.S. government about the illegal transactions. The Justice Department said UTC’s Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) subsidiary pleaded guilty to violating the Arms Export Control Act and making false […]
