“I am very disappointed that you chose to engage in personal attacks against me, the ILA’s Chief Labor Negotiator,” wrote ILA President Harold Daggett in a letter to James Capo, CEO of the U.S. Maritime Alliance…
The ocean carrier NYK has raised capacity on its weekly Japan to Southeast Asia TWX loop by increasing the size of the vessels by almost 50 percent, from 1,091 TEUs to 1,613 TEUs.
Jacksonville Port Authority’s board of directors has reportedly scheduled a special meeting for Thursday to discuss a proposal by Gulftainer Co. Ltd., based in the United Arab Emirates, to lease port acreage.
The rotation of an NYK and Hapag-Lloyd service connecting Los Angeles to ports in Mexico and Central America will be amended this week, the German line said in a notice. The service, which Hapag-Lloyd calls CCE, will have a rotation of Manzanillo (Mexico), Puerto Quetzal, Acajutla, Puerto Caldera, Corinto, Puerto Quetzal, Manzanillo (Mexico), […]
Maersk Line said this week it’s raising rates from Brazilian ports to destinations in the United States, Central America and the Caribbean. The increases are: From Brazil to Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and Cuba, $300 per 20-foot […]
Non-vessel-operating common carriers have borne a higher degree of ocean freight rate hikes in the past month than beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) who booked directly with ocean carriers, according to research from American Shipper. According to the results of American Shipper’s latest Transpacific Pulse survey, released Monday, 76 percent of the shippers who […]
Roadrunner Transportation Systems said Monday it had acquired the outstanding capital stock of CTW Transport, a truckload carrier based in Massachusetts and focused primarily on refrigerated food products, for about $7.5 million plus an earnout, a payment based on CTW’s performance after the acquisition. CTW’s former owner will remain in place. The […]
The U.S. Energy Department will invest up to $120 million during the next five years to establish a new Energy Innovation Hub that will focus on developing an effective supply chain for rare earth materials.
Lowry Crook, counsel and chief of staff for Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard Lidinsky Jr., has departed the agency for a new job at the White House. Crook left his job at the FMC on Friday to become deputy chief of staff for the Council on Environmental Quality, which coordinates federal environmental efforts and […]
There’s a growing unease among eastbound transpacific shippers that simmering tensions between U.S. East Coast longshoremen and their employers could affect their supply chains. Unionized dockworkers are in contentious negotiations with the representative organization for East Coast terminal operators and carriers as they try to hammer out a new contract before the current […]
The president of the International Longshoremen’s Association has accused employers of trying to turn his fellow union members against him. “I am very disappointed that you chose to engage in personal attacks against me…
The recommended rate increases are $50 per 40-foot container from California ports and $100 per FEU for all other intermodal and all-water shipments, with proportionate increases for other equipment sizes and cargo otherwise rated.
The Hackett Group said rising wage inflation in China and continued productivity improvements in the United States will converge within two to three years, creating more pressure on companies to make and source goods at home.
The Port of Wilmington in Delaware is reviewing proposals for public-private partnership to expand the port. Gene Bailey, executive director of Diamond State Port Corp. (DSPC), the state entity that owns and operates the port, said it’s seeking investors who can help the port expand its facilities on the Delaware River. The port is […]
Two of the loops, its ECUBEX and AC2 services, are connected to the line’s mega-regional hub in Balboa. The third is Maersk’s joint average 4,472-TEU weekly SAECS loop between north Europe and South Africa.
Leading Edge Logistics (LEL), a third-party logistics company, has acquired non-vessel-operating common carrier Horizon International Shipping of Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The NVO will join LEL’s Puerto Rico division LEL Caribe. This is the company’s second acquisition of the year (LEL bought C&F Logistics of San Juan in March). The company […]
Springfield, Mo.-based O&S Trucking has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection according to local reports, but in its reorganizing the company is seeking to partner with Prime Inc., a refrigerated, flatbed, and tanker carrier company serving North America, also based in Springfield. Chapter 11 allows the company to restructure under the court’s guidance, […]
Edward Ryan, executive at Descartes, said the purchase gives it more European functionality in its transportation suite as well as expanding support to more European and Asia-Pacific carriers.
The U.S. Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that Chinese manufacturers of utility-scale wind turbine towers receive government subsidies ranging from 13.74 percent to 26 percent, and will move forward with assessing countervailing duties on these imports. As a result of the preliminary affirmative determination, Commerce will instruct Customs and Border Protection to collect […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the country’s agricultural exports in the third quarter of fiscal 2012 will reach $134.5 billion, the second-highest level on record and $3.5 billion greater than the previous forecast. “Since 2009, USDA has aggressively worked to expand export opportunities and reduce barriers to trade, helping to push agricultural […]
