The ocean carrier Maersk Line has extended its weekly Southeast Asia to South and West Africa service FEW3 beyond Southeast Asia to China and added a 12th vessel, increasing roundtrip voyage time from 77 days to 84 days. Maersk has added calls at Qingdao, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Nansha, China as well as a […]
The carrier has switched from calling Mombasa in favor of a new call at Dar es Salaam and slowed down its Mombasa Express service between the Middle East and East Africa, increasing roundtrip voyage time from 28 days to 35 days.
You know you’re a legend when they start making cartoons about you. A brief animated cartoon about Malcom McLean and the invention of containerization has been posted on the Website of TED, a conference company owned by the non-profit Sapling Foundation. It’s the kind of thing you might want to share with […]
Press reports say executives from Vietnam’s shipping line have been detained Friday for alleged wrongdoing. Both Agence France-Presse and Associated Press are carrying reports about the arrests, citing Vietnamese press reports. AFP reported Vietnamese government inspectors saying Vinalines, which operates tankers, containerships and other vessels, defaulted on debts totaling more than $1.1 billion. It said the company […]
The International Maritime Organization said a working group in its Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) will develop interim guidance for private guards working on ships to protect them from pirate attacks. The working group has been asked to develop the guidance for security companies following an intense debate on arms on board ships during a […]
This marks the second year of double-digit growth for the SCM software market and was driven by an increasing number of supply chain investments.
The ocean carrier Zim Line continues to cut ties with the Grand Alliance partners in the Asia-Europe trade as the carriers have ended mutual slot agreements on two loops between Asia and the Mediterranean. Zim will no longer purchase slots on the joint Grand Alliance and New World Alliance Asia-to-West Mediterranean service EUM, while […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has condensed its recommendations for securing the federal IT supply chain, deciding to focus on core elements around secure and reliable information and the communication systems used to transmit it. The institute found that government, like many private businesses, increasingly relies on off-the-shelf hardware and […]
The ocean carrier APL has ended its slot charter agreement with Maersk Line on the latter’s weekly Canadian feeder service from North Europe, TA4. The last sailing departed Rotterdam April 23 on the Maersk Penang. The service operates with four Maersk vessels with an average capacity of 2,890 TEUs, and the rotation […]
Ocean carrier Maersk Line said it’s raising rates on some South America routes. From Houston and New Orleans as well as Veracruz and Altamira, Mexico to Santos and Sao Paulo, Brazil will be $100 for 20-foot, 40-foot and 45-foot containers. Maersk said from Brazil to the United States, Canada, Central America, and the West […]
Crowley Maritime on May 31 will start offering less-than-containerload (LCL) service by both ocean and air to St. Kitts and Nevis. Crowley said it will offer the service from several points in the United States to its Caribbean gateway and distribution center in Miami. The company said the service will enhance supply chain options for those […]
Source Consulting, which cut its teeth on in-house transportation cost management services, is now offering cloud-based transportation management systems, called Intelliship and HALO. Both will be deployed as software-as-a-service (SaaS) models designed to streamline different transportation processes with a focus on reduced costs and improved efficiency. Luke Kupersmith, president of Source Consulting, […]
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is set to open a new air cargo handling operation at the Stockholm Arlanda Airport on June 1, the company announced this week. WFS, one of the world’s largest air cargo handling businesses, has signed a long-term agreement with airport operator Swedavia for a 3,000-square-meter airside warehouse described as […]
The U.S. Commerce Department announced an affirmative preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of solar panel imports from China.
PrestaShop, an open-source e-commerce solution, has partnered with Shipwire, a company that helps online businesses expand into new markets through shipping and storage services, on a new inventory management service. Shipwire will provide its cloud-based logistics software and outsourced order fulfillment services to PrestaShop’s 300,000 users. The goal of the service, according to PrestaShop […]
The U.S. House Agriculture Committee’s general farm commodities and risk management subcommittee finished two days of Farm Bill hearings Thursday with no mention of the U.S. sugar trade program. The National Confectioners Association (NCA) and its members said they’re concerned the House will follow the Senate Agriculture Committee and pass the bill out […]
In 2015, global e-commerce is projected to reach $1.4 trillion and as much as $380 billion of that will be generated in China, said Tompkins International in a recently published a podcast. The firm called it “an explosion of e-commerce in China as well as the explosion across retail.” Jim Serstad, from the Tompkins’ Asia office, added China will continue to see […]
New Zealand software and technology developer Jade Software Corp. has opened an office in Dubai on the back of recent successes of its port management software, Master Terminal, in the Middle East. The company said it has seen modest success in the region over the past 18 months and will use the new […]
Agentrics NeoGrid, which develops supply chain optimization and management tools, has started a new cloud-based collaboration portal, the NeoGrid Portal. The portal integrates all the company’s existing tools and services, as well as a customer’s supply chain partners, to establish a single point of access for managing an entire network and collaborating with partners. Collaboration […]
Evergreen, Hanjin and United Arab Shipping Co. will launch a new West Africa service at the end of May. The service will provide a transhipment link to the Far East and Europe via Algeciras.
