The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said it’s considering regulations to allow the import of fresh bananas from the Philippines. As a condition of entry, the bananas would have to be produced in accordance with a “systems approach” that would include requirements for commercial imports, monitoring of fruit […]
GT Nexus was picked by Phoenix International to provide cloud-based network services across the company’s global offices, agents, and customers. Phoenix is one of the larger privately owned international freight forwarders, non-vessel-operating common carriers, and customs brokers in North America, counting 2,000 employees across 72 global offices and with annual sales of about $1 billion. […]
Trincon Group, a U.S. transportation industry advisory firm, has created a new Website and program called TruCosting that can use activity-based costing methodology and business intelligence to help carriers manage their costs, profits, and increase truck productivity. The TruCosting analysis service is made to establish the profitability of a trucking company’s price for […]
The former executive director of the Port of Long Beach joined engineering firm Moffatt & Nichol as its ports practice leader. Steinke retired from the port in 2011 after a 22-year tenure there, including the last 14 as executive director.
The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. has rationalised its two Balbo-based feeder loops to the west coast of South America by combining them into one. It has discontinued its three-ship average 3,631-TEUs “Chile” loop which called Arica, Coronel and Valparaiso, and added calls at Arica and Coronel to its “Andean” feeder service instead. The weekly Andean loop has also […]
Four super-post-Panamax cranes capable of loading and unloading containers from the world’s largest vessels are en route to the Port of Baltimore from China and are scheduled to arrive by the middle of next month.
Member lines of the Canada Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said Wednesday they’re amending the fuel surcharges they assess on shipments from July 1. The new surcharges will be: Via east coast ports: $895 per 20-foot container, $1,119 per 40-foot container, $1,259 per 40-foot high-cube container, and $1,417 per 45-foot container. Via west coast ports: […]
U.K.-carrier Virgin Atlantic has begun operating four flights a week from Vancouver, Canada, to London’s Heathrow Airport. The A340-600 passenger flights also add capacity for Virgin’s cargo network. The airline currently serves 10 destinations in North America, having resumed weekly flights between Heathrow and Chicago in May and three flights per week from […]
Swisslog, a provider of automated warehousing and distribution services, has appointed Richard Kooistra to vice president of sales and consulting for North America. His duties will cover sales and business growth for inventory and automation tools in the retail, food, and beverage markets. The company’s North American headquarters is located in Virginia. […]
“By reauthorizing support for the Export-Import Bank, we’re helping thousands of businesses sell more of their products and services overseas and, in the process we’re helping them create jobs here at home,” the president said.
Michael Masserman, executive director for export policy, promotion and strategy for the U.S. Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration, will deliver the keynote speech at a half-day seminar sponsored by the Containerization & Intermodal Institute in Chicago June 25. The seminiar, “Doubling U.S. Exports – A Reality Check”, will discuss President Obama’s initiative to […]
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is seeking comments on whether it should develop freight rate indexes for agricultural exports. The FMC said it has received informal requests from large U.S. exporters, intermediaries, and derivative brokers to consider issuing container freight indexes for U.S. agricultural exports. “These large U.S. exporters, as well as the Agricultural […]
Florida-based third-party logistics company Saddle Creek Corp. has rebranded itself Saddle Creek Logistics Services, the company said Wednesday. The new name is intended to better represent the company’s capabilities, which include warehousing, transportation, packaging and order fulfillment.. “We believe this new name better reflects our ultimate focus – delivering integrated logistics solutions […]
The occurrence of a peak container shipping season on the transpacific happens annually, but the exact timing of the event is harder to gauge. External variables have a major effect on when shippers decide to reload on inventory ahead of the holiday season. And 2012 is no different in that regard. Shippers should […]
A survey it conducted of 1,000 adults about online, catalog, and television shopping found 75 percent of consumers have shopped at home in the last year, and nearly one-third of those make online purchases at least once a month.
More than 25,000 organizations across the world have joined a new supply chain initiative Sedex, one of the largest collaborative platforms around managing an ethical supply chain and its data. Sedex is an online supply chain management tool that companies can use to identify and mitigate ethical risks in their global operations. The […]
American Shipper and BPE Global designed this year’s study to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the trends and issues impacting U.S. import operations and compliance managers. In March 2012, 336 qualified respondents participated in a 35-question benchmarking survey covering organizational structure, training, responsibilities, operations processes, costs, technology and other key areas related to […]
A government-appointed arbitrator will work with the railroad and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents 4,800 striking employees to negotiate a new contract.
The Israeli liner carrier saw its first quarter losses widen from the same period in 2011, suffering a net loss of $163 million and more than the $151 million lost in the first three months of 2011.
The Port of Antwerp International will assist Essar with training, port planning, traffic flow, quality and productivity enhancements and is taking a 4 percent share of Essar with an investment of 175 million rupees ($3.1 million).
