In early July Maersk Line will change the westbound hub on its Westmed transatlantic service from Malaga to Port Tangier. Maersk operates the Westmed with CMA CGM, which dubs the service Amerigo Express.
The German liner and its VSA partners on four services will move terminal operations from the International Transportation Service, Inc. marine terminal in Long Beach, Calif., to the TraPac terminal in Los Angeles beginning in late July.
The Jacksonville Port Authority has named James Butcher as its business and marketing consultant in the Northeast. He will be based in the New York/New Jersey area and will maintain regular contact with current and prospective Jaxport customers in the region where most liner carrers and major shippers operating in the United States […]
An item in Monday’s AS Daily about container freight derivative tools for U.S. export markets failed to note that the World Container Index, developed by London-based Drewry and Singapore-based Cleartrade Exchange, does provide insight into U.S. export trades. WCI tracks the trades from Los Angeles to Shanghai, Los Angeles to Rotterdam, and New York […]
A federal court last week granted class certification to a group of direct purchasers of rail freight who are seeking damages for what they say was a price-fixing conspiracy by the four largest U.S. railroads—Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX and Norfolk Southern.
RDZ Logistics, a subsidiary of the Russian Railways, has helped start a joint venture to organize freight rail transit between China and Europe. The venture was first announced last week by Vladimir Yakunin, Russian Railways president, during an address to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The venture, YuXinOu (Chongqing) Logistics, is registered […]
PS Technology (PST), a subsidiary of Union Pacific, has acquired the Yard Control Systems division of Ansaldo STS USA to boost its enterprise management capabilities with the addition of rail yard process control and automation offerings. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Norristown, Pa.-based Yard Control Systems is a significant player in […]
The free white paper examines the causes of recent container freight rate volatility and how index-linked contracts can help mitigate the impacts of such instability. It also explains how these new contracting arrangements work.
The Port of Long Beach said Monday it has launched a nationwide search to fill its deputy executive director post, which has been vacant since its former occupant, Christopher Lytle was promoted to executive director in January. The Southern California port said it’s seeking “a strong and experienced senior-level executive” to support the […]
The liner carrier Hamburg Süd said Tuesday it has set an objective to reduce its CO2 emissions from owned and chartered container vessels by 26 percent. The line is targeting the reduction by 2020, and said it would seek to reach the goal by investing in more energy-efficient ships, chartering in cleaner vessels, […]
DB Schenker Rail has stepped up its transport of Scottish whisky from the United Kingdom to its rail depot in Wroclaw, Poland. The whisky is transport from central Scotland to Barking in London. There intermodal containers are transshipped to the weekly London-Wroclaw service, which travels to mainland Europe via the High Speed 1 rail route […]
The U.S. Grains Council has named Thomas N. Sleight as president and chief executive officer. He replaces Thomas C. Dorr, who is retiring. Sleight initially joined the council in 1983 and has served in various roles both in Washington and overseas. After leaving for stints with other agricultural groups, he returned to the council […]
Contingency planning for a potential work stoppage at U.S. East and Gulf coast ports in the event of failed labor talks is extremely difficult for shippers because the cost of routing cargo to other parts of the country may be prohibitively…
James Helis has been named superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. Helis, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, will take the top job at the school next month. A 30-year Army veteran, he has been chairman of the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War […]
Baltimore-based customs broker and freight forwarder Samuel Shapiro & Co. has promoted Kathy McKoy to regional manager of the Mid-Atlantic region. McKoy, who joined Shapiro in 1998, most recently served as Baltimore branch manager. In addition to Baltimore, Shapiro has branch offices in Charleston, S.C.; Dulles, Va.; Philadelphia; Atlanta; and Rosedale, N.Y.
Metalcraft, a Mason City, Iowa-based company that specializes in nameplates and labels including those with barcodes and radio frequency identification device tags, has expanded its sales organization and device support to meet customer demands around ID services. Starting in July, Julia Deets will serve as the company’s vice president of sales and marketing, while Marianne […]
An industry group wants Sen. Susan Collins to postpone filing legislation that would codify an air cargo security program being tested by CBP for pre-screening shipments before loading on an aircraft at a foreign airport.
IBM has announced new software that automatically correlates and analyzes large amounts of data, generating analysis on internal data in a matter of seconds, and also measures the impact of social networking channels and factors this into its decision-making and analysis suggestions. IBM said this represents a new class of decision management software […]
The international shipping organization BIMCO said Monday it has named Ret. Vice Adm. Brian Salerno as its new U.S. liaison officer. Salerno recently retired from the U.S. Coast Guard as its deputy commandant for operations in headquarters. He will join BIMCO on Aug. 1. Salerno took up his final Coast Guard appointment in May […]
Quick Transport Solutions, Inc. (QuickTSI) has announced a load board service that allows users to post loads and find both loads and trucks, as well as looking up carrier profiles. The company said the goal is to facilitate matching trucks and loads around minimizing load times. QuickTSI’s Preet Kahlon said, “One of […]
