James A. Capo, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which serves as the employer group negotiating a new contract with members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, is concerned about a lack of “meaningful bargaining.”
Vessels with engines made to the highest emissions standards will be eligible for rewards of up to $6,000 per visit at the Port of Long Beach as part of an ongoing effort to reduce air pollution. L.A. implemented its program in May.
Legislation ordering 4,800 workers back to work was passed on Friday by Canada’s Senate and CP told shippers that their cargo will begin moving and intermodal terminals are resuming normal hours.
The job cuts, which come four years after Maersk last shed jobs, will occur in mid-June at its various central global offices, including 250 at its Copenhagen headquarters. Other cuts will happen in London, Singapore, Mumbai, Pune, and Manila.
Quiet Logistics, an e-commerce fulfillment provider specializing in fashion and apparel brands and e-tailers, has reaffirmed its commitment to the Kiva Systems robotic materials handling platform. Kiva, a provider of robotic warehousing picking services, was recently purchased by Amazon, which caused some initial concerns over the future of its handling robots and service […]
Negotiations between employers and a longshore local which represents hundreds of clerical workers for terminals and shipping companies in Southern California and has been working without a contract for nearly two years have broken off again. Stephen Berry, an attorney for the Harbor Employers Association that represents 14 employers, said talks broke off on Thursday after a […]
INTRAL Corp. has updated its existing global trade management system (GTM) to expand the decision-making process and customized information reporting around key performance indicators (KPIs) through the addition of a new BI Dashboard. The company said its existing system already offered a series of flexible reports, and the Dashboard is around developing KPI summaries […]
The liner carrier CMA CGM said Friday it plans to raise rates on a number of trades on July 1. The increases are: $300 per 20-foot container and $400 per 40-foot container from Northern Europe to the U.S. East Coast and Canada. $250 per 20-foot container and $350 per 40-foot container from the […]
CMA CGM Logistics, a subsidiary of CMA CGM Group, said Friday it has opened its first U.S. office to respond to growing demand from its customers. The opening of the office, located in East Rutherford, N.J., follows recent expansion to Germany, Jordan, Vietnam and Malaysia for CCLog. The company has staff of […]
U.S. Department of Agriculture botanists have confirmed that a weed seed identified by Customs agriculture specialists at the Port of Baltimore last week is the highly invasive species known as Mission Grass, Customs and Border Protection said Thursday. Inspectors discovered the Mission Grass seed in a container of steel coils from Vietnam. It […]
James A. Capo, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) which serves as the employer group negotiating a new contract with members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, said today he is concerned about a lack of “meaningful bargaining” and that shippers may reroute cargo away from East and Gulf coast ports where ILA members work. In […]
In a significant development, ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. has announced on its German Website it is joining Maersk Line’s ECUMED loop between ports in Ecuador, Panama and the Black Sea.
Descartes Systems Group has announced its financial results for its first 2013 fiscal quarter, ending April 30, with a record quarterly revenue of $29.9 million, a 10 percent increase over the same period fiscal year 2012. The company said service revenues reached $27.7 million, a 7 percent increase from the year before, and […]
The U.S. Transportation Department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has released the 2012 version of its Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) for first responders to help deal with hazmat accidents during the “critical first 30 minutes.” PHMSA will distribute more than 2 million copies of the guidebook to firefighters, emergency medical technicians […]
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.
