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 […]
The South Carolina Ports Authority said the Port of Charleston handled 123,439 TEUs in April, 7.7 percent more than in April 2011. The agency also said breakbulk tonnage at the port was up 57 percent. At a meeting of the SCPA board, President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Newsome said he was pleased with […]
The Port of Long Beach Harbor Commission on Monday approved a staff recommendation to begin contract talks with a joint venture team for the replacement of the obsolete Gerald Desmond Bridge. The board voted the design-build proposal from Shimmick Construction Co. Inc. of Oakland, Spain’s FCC Construction S.A. and Italian firm Impregilo S.p.A. as […]
Amerijet International, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on May 20 will start once-weekly direct all-cargo freighter service linking the United States and southern Caribbean to southern Brazil. The service ultimately arrives at Cabo Frio International Airport (CFB) in Brazil, and its agent Cargoworks operates a facility at the airport daily. “We believe […]
Chris Davies has been appointed chief financial officer of GCT Global Container Terminals. Global is a subsidiary of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, which operates two container terminals in the Port of Vancouver, Canada, and two in the Port of New York and New Jersey. Davies was most recently CFO of Ainsworth Lumber […]
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency has awarded a $628,000 grant to Premier Mercantile Services (PMS), a private sector port and freight logistics operator in Pakistan, to help facilitate the acquisition and operation of a fleet of locomotives on the existing Karachi-Lahore Railway. This initiative is central to improving the capacity of one of […]
Drewry reported Wednesday that global schedule reliability improved 2.9 percent to 72.3 percent during the month. But SeaIntel said global reliability fell from 79 percent to 78 percent in the month.
