Consolidators International, Inc. has appointed Ronen Donde to president. “In his 10 years at CII, Ronen has played a key role in the growth and development of our company. His appointment to the presidency is richly deserved,” said CII Chief Executive Officer Julian Keeling, in a statement. Donde worked briefly at Pilot Air Freight […]
InterChez Logistics Systems, a global logistics, translation, and consulting company, has appointed Carlos Fuentes to vice president of corporate and governmental affairs. Prior to joining InterChez, Fuentes was a consultant for finance and procurement strategies at the U.S. Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development group. He also services as chairman of the Northeast Ohio […]
Axida, multi-channel sales order and fulfillment service provider that operates in the United Kingdom and United States, has launched a new version of its HDi application that manages complex home deliveries where the products or services require customers to be present at the time of delivery. The new version, called HDi SME, aims to […]
Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Carrier Logistics Inc. (CLI) has launched an improved version of its dock management system (DMS) and is leveraging the service as a series of cost-effective modules covering services like reweigh integration, misload prevention, dimension capture, item-level tracking, and automated document generation. Ken Weinberg, CLI co-founder and vice president, said customers have […]
A panel of shippers at the annual Agriculture Transportation Coalition meeting in San Francisco Thursday described the issues facing their businesses in a session intended to broach subjects outside of rates.
The U.S. Congress on Thursday agreed to advance legislation making updates and improvements to the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), America’s trade preference program for sub-Saharan Africa, and a U.S. free trade agreement with a handful of Central America countries and the Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR). “If our trade partnerships with Africa and Central […]
SC Johnson will begin construction on two wind turbines, which will put renewable electric power into the manufacturing of its popular cleaning products, such as Windex, Glade, Pledge, and Scrubbing Bubbles.
Two giant shipments of project cargo are moving through the state of Maryland during the last two weeks of June. On Thursday, the Chinese vessel Zhen Hua delivered four super post-Panamax container cranes to the Seagirt Terminal in the Port of Baltimore. The highly choreographed trip up the Chesapeake Bay required the temporary closure […]
Yildirim Group plans to acquire an additional 10 percent interest in CMA CGM this year by investing another $250 million in the French container shipping company. Yildirim, which is based in Istanbul, purchased a 20 percent interest in CMA CGM in 2010 for $500 million and had an option to acquire an additional 10 percent for […]
Bryson President Obama has accepted the resignation of Commerce Secretary John Bryson after 10 days on medical leave for a seizure suffered in the Los Angeles area, the White House said in a statement Thursday. Bryson said the seizure could distract from his ability to perform his job, according to a letter to Commerce […]
The Corps of Engineers highlighted a “lack of post-Panamax capacity at U.S. Gulf and South Atlantic ports – the very regions geographically positioned to potentially be most impacted by the expected changes in the world fleet.”
The U.S. stevedoring company will acquire a 10 percent stake in Yang Ming’s Kao Mong Container Terminal (KMCT) in Kaohsiung. The deal marks the firm’s first foray outside North America.
The ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd has added a fourth vessel to its weekly U.S. Gulf and Mexico to Central America, north coast South America, and the Caribbean GCS service and increased roundtrip voyage time from 21 days to 28 days. Transit times southbound from the United States and Mexico to Central America on the […]
DSV Air & Sea Ltd. has appointed Michael Hansen as its new managing director. Hansen, a 34-year industry veteran, has worked for DSV Air & Sea since 1984. In his new role, he replaces Graham Riches, who is retiring. Hansen began his career at KE Freight Forwarding in Denmark. At DSV Air […]
Members of the Supply Chain Council, a global management organization whose goals revolve around creating improvements in supply chain processes, have elected an eight-member board to serve for three years. The council said its new board reflects its practitioner-driven leadership model. New board members are: Matt Davis, principal research analyst at Gartner’s AMR Supply […]
The Senate on Wednesday rejected an amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill that would have offered some reform to the U.S. sugar program. “While we are disappointed the Senate voted to maintain the status quo — which costs consumers and businesses billions of dollars each year and the U.S. economy thousands of jobs — […]
A group of agriculture industry associations are credited with persuading a majority of senators from including in the pending Farm Bill a 20 percent cut in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Market Access Program (MAP). The amendment was defeated by a vote of 69 to 30. The amendment would have meant a […]
A TIGER grant will complete a funding package for local projects in the Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency (CREATE) program to ease congestion on freight, Amtrak, and Metra commuter railroads.
The European Shippers Council (ESC) said a proposal by several countries and large trade groups to more strictly regulate container weights is “the wrong remedy for the container transport safety issues the sector is dealing with.”
A meeting to discuss compliance with new international treaty requirements for large ship operators to significantly reduce emissions from their vessels is scheduled for June 28 in Tacoma, Wash. The event, being held by the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, Chamber of Shipping of British Columbia, and Sustainable Shipping, will focus on the new rule […]
