The container carrier Maersk Line has started a new Website aimed at its refrigerated container customers. The site, www.maersklinereefer.com, includes a customer guide to reefer shipping, case studies, and suggestions from Maersk’s panel of experts in the field. In recent times, Maersk has set up several micro-sites to target specific sets of customers. […]
To North American railroads, sand is sand. However, to Halliburton and other firms involved in the oil and gas industry’s new wave of hydraulic fracturing, there’s no such thing
Halliburton turns freight transport, compliance into “selling point” in company. By Chris Gillis In the highly competitive world of oil and gas, brand recognition and the ability to deliver goods and services quickly and reliably are sacred. Not to mention, there are the tens of billions of dollars in shipments moving internationally at […]
OnRamp Transportation Services, a nationwide equipment leasing, sales, and contractor services company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has promoted Spencer Angerbauer to president. Angerbauer is a 14-year industry veteran. He previously served as president of EQUINOX Owner-Operator Solutions, a subsidiary of OnRamp that markets technology-driven business services to independent contractors and owner-operators […]
W elcome to our fourth annual transportation procurement benchmark report. American Shipper, in partnership with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), surveyed roughly 275 transportation buyers and sellers on procurement practices, processes, technologies and results. Winners. Each American Shipper benchmarking study seeks to highlight best […]
In 1862 the eyes of the nation were focused on Hampton Roads when the Civil War ironclads Monitor and Merrimac battled. One hundred and fifty years later we are waiting to see if the harbor becomes a battleground over port privatization or labor-management relations. APM Terminals, sister company to Maersk Line, made […]
On Deck with Bob Sappio We have recently witnessed one of the most rapidly changing earnings cycles in the history of the container shipping industry, and it’s not over yet. Carriers in the container trade piled up record losses in 2009 of over $20 billion. That was followed by a very profitable turnaround in […]
The Dremel is a pretty useful hand-held rotary tool available typically at your local hardware store. It turns out it’s also pretty useful for describing just how ridiculously global supply chains have become. Dremel is a company founded in Racine, Wis., and now part of Germany’s Bosch Tool Corp. Looking at […]
Wheels Group Inc. has announced that Doug Tozer, Phil Tabbiner, Gordon Feeney, J.R. Kingsley Ward, John Stevens, and Greg Cochrane were elected as directors of the company at its annual and special meeting of shareholders held on June 21. Feeney will serve as the group’s lead director. He is a corporate director of the Davis […]
MavenWire, a provider of consulting, hosting, training, and application development in the global trade management (GTM) and Oracle systems space, has made two acqusitions to boost its Oracle-based offerings. The acquisitions include Singapore-based Integration Pte Ltd. and Enterprise Integration Pty Ltd. of Australia, collectively known as EII APAC. MavenWire said the companies will boost its […]
AgTC Executive Director Peter Friedmann said in the letter that additional time is needed to survey his membership. The comment period is due to expire July 8, but the AgTC is requesting a postponement until Aug. 8.
The United States on Wednesday asked the World Trade Organization to establish a dispute settlement panel to decide U.S. claims regarding China’s export restraints on rare earths, tungsten and molybdenum. The European Union and Japan have also requested similar WTO panels. “These materials are key inputs in a multitude of U.S. manufacturing […]
For big importers, customs experts are often the “go-to” staff for international trade answers. By Eric Kulisch Large companies differ in how they structure their trade compliance functions, but the best ones at leveraging regulations to their advantage tend to maintain in-house expertise for customs issues, invest in global trade management systems and have […]
Congressional conferees are close to a deal on a two-year highway transportation bill that maintains current spending levels and institutes policy changes to speed up delivery of construction projects and consolidate transportation programs.
Government officials found no stowaways on a containership docked in Newark, N.J. The search was ordered after a Coast Guard boarding crew thought they heard a knocking sound from within a container during a routine inspection.
Congress passed the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act this week, but did not include a provision aimed at improving supply chain safety. Among other things, the legislation will “for the first time, enable the FDA to: regularly inspect foreign drug manufacturing facilities, which supply 80 percent of the ingredients in […]
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has revised plans for raising tolls following an outcry by shipping companies over the increases. The ACP board of directors said it will defer increases from July 1 to October 2012, with a second increase in October 2013. “At the request of the industry, implementation of the new […]
A broad range of European transport organizations this week urged the European parliament to safeguard a 32 billion euro budget allocated to transport infrastructure between 2014 and 2020. “Achieving a complete and integrated resource-efficient and sustainable transport network, covering and interconnecting all modes, member states and regions must be seen as an essential investment […]
The outlook for most of the deep water U.S. Merchant Marine may not be rosy, but John Thackrah, executive director of the Military Sealift Command, said his organization is “growing.”
