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   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.

IAG, a business unit formed after the merger of British Airways World Cargo and Iberia Cargo, has begun testing a freight collection service in New York and Chicago supporting shipments of up to 200 kilos.

The postal operator has been given approval by the Swedish Competition Authority to proceed with the acquisition of state-owned Green Cargo Logistics, which will include property and buildings.

The southern California port said Wednesday its terminals handled 461,911 TEUs in April, 13 percent fewer than the 531,090 TEUs in April 2011. But three new liner services promise boost in volume.

   Canadian Pacific Railway said Thursday morning that Fred Green, its president and chief executive officer, and five other directors have resigned.    The resignations were announced hours before CP shareholders meet at 8 a.m. in Calgary, Alberta for their annual meeting, culminating a proxy fight in which the U.S. hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management […]

   Massoud Habibion and Mohsen Motamedian, both U.S. citizens, and their Costa Mesa, Calif.-based company Online Micro LLC, were sentenced Wednesday in the District of Columbia in connection with a scheme to illegally export millions of dollars worth of computer-related goods from the United States to Iran through the United Arab Emirates.    U.S. District […]

   The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered Alabama-based BM&L Trucking LLC and affiliated company IDM Transportation to stay off the road because they pose an imminent hazard to public safety.     It’s the fourth small carrier the agency, part of the Department of Transportation, has shut down in the past month.    The […]

   LeanLogistics, a Michigan-based provider of transportation management system (TMS) applications and supply chain services, has partnered with cloud-based ERP and financial software provider NetSuite to build a new on-demand offering that integrates both of their existing services.    The on-demand TMS SuiteApp will be integrated with NetSuite’s existing SuiteCloud computing platform and will provide […]