American Shipper

   Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Kenco, a provider of distribution, warehousing, transportation and information technology, is offering new international retail and logistics services with Germany’s Hermes Fulfilment.    The companies said the goal is to serve shippers on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, Kenco will provide warehouseing and distribution of online orders through more than […]

    Diana Containerships, which owns containerships and charters them to liner operators, said it had a profit of $1.9 million for the first quarter of 2012, compared to a net income of $300,000 for the same period of 2011.     Time charter revenues were $12.4 million for the first quarter of 2012, compared to $3.2 […]

   Air Pacific, the national carrier of Fiji, has picked CHEP Aerospace Solutions to supply and manage its fleet of Unit Load Devices (ULDs) under a new three-year contract.    CHEP will provide Air Pacific with containers and pallets from its global pool of more than 45,000 ULDs, eliminating administration and reducing costs for the airline to […]

   Swissport International, a provider of ground services to the aviation sector, will start offering cargo handling in Denmark from July 1 after reaching agreements with several airlines, including launch customer Swiss WorldCargo, the air cargo division of Swiss International Air Lines.    Swissport’s cargo handling facility at Copenhagen Airport, Scandinavia’s busiest airport, will offer […]

   RCS Logistics, a Secaucus, N.J.-based air freight forwarder, has promoted Evan Rosen to senior vice president of sales and marketing and Bill Wilkening to vice president of business development and emerging markets.    Rosen joined RCS in 2006. He began his logistics career in 1994 as an account executive at OOCL. In 1996, Rosen […]

   BNSF Railway has launched a new interactive map highlighting events and activities along its 32,000-mile rail network.    Visitors to the Website can click on markers containing links to news updates, community projects, photos and videos of BNSF trains in action, along with historical information.    The map, found at https://map.friendsofbnsf.com/railways, is powered by the […]

Evergreen Line and Crowley Latin America Services have filed a slot charter agreement with the FMC that will allow Evergreen to charter space on Crowley’s northbound and southbound services between Florida and Central America.

   Seattle-based EquaShip plans to re-launch itself in early 2013 as the nation’s “fourth parcel carrier,” with a focus on small and medium-sized online sellers, touting shipper services that will cost between 10 percent and 50 percent less than UPS and FedEx.    EquaShip announced a temporarily suspension of operations in February, after an initial launch last […]

   The carrier members of the G6 Alliance on the Asia-Northern Europe trade said Wednesday they will not operate a seventh service on the trade as previously planned.    “This loop was originally developed as one of the seven loops between Asia and North Europe jointly provided by the six members,” the lines said. “It […]

   CargoWise, a provider technology applications for logistics service providers and an established Microsoft partner in logistics, has announced its participation in the launch of the latest version of Microsoft’s SQL database server (SQL2012).    The pair has had a business relationship for more than 10 years and CargoWise has become one of Microsoft’s largest independent […]

   Blue Tree Systems, a provider of trailer tracking, refrigerated monitoring and fleet management applications, has expanded its R:Com fleet management software to support any Windows CE and Windows Mobile device.    “This new capability means carriers already using any device operating on the Windows CE & Mobile platform can seamlessly install our R:COM fleet […]

OTS Logistics, operator of multiple neutral NVO brands, said Chief Executive Officer Charles Brennan will retire from the group. He will be succeeded by Biju Kewalram, currently COO, and Haydn O’Brien, head of East Asia, as co-CEOs.

   Swiss freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel will use its Shanghai gateway to further strengthen its less-than-containerload offerings in the Asia Pacific region.    The new gateway complements K+N’s existing direct services in Shanghai and serves as an alternative to the company’s other two gateways in Singapore and Sri Lanka. Since May 1, 28 new […]

China Shipping Container Lines and United Arab Shipping Co. are offering container service for the first time to the Port of Jacksonville by taking space on CMA-CGM’s Pacific Express 3 (PEX 3) service, according to the Jacksonville Port Authority.

Soren Sjostrand Jakobsen, APMT’s head of project implementation, said as carriers build bigger ships “it is imperative that we are able to increase our delivered productivity at minimum the same pace as the ships grow – but preferably much more.”

   Members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Apparel Coalition on Tuesday lauded a group of 15 U.S. senators who sent a letter to President Obama urging him to push for modern and flexible rules in the TPP, a multilateral trade agreement being negotiated among a cadre of Pacific nations.    The senators asked the administration to […]

   The ocean carriers Maersk Line and CMA CGM have raised capacity on their weekly West Mediterranean-East Coast of North America (WestMed) loop, called Amerigo Express by CMA CGM, by increasing the size of the vessels.    The carriers also dropped a last call outbound at Malaga, replacing it instead with an outbound call at Tangiers, […]

   Zepol Corp., a trade intelligence company based in Edina, Minn., has released its newest trade data tool, ComplianceIQ, to help U.S. importers comply with government import regulations.    The tool bridges multiple import-compliance datasets in a unified interface in hopes of bringing as much information to the customer as possible for specific Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes.   […]

   Maersk Line said this week it will raise rates on the trade between Latin America and the Middle East and Black Sea regions from June 1.    The increases are $100 per TEU from the Middle East to Latin America, and $300 per refrigerated container from the east coast of South America to the […]

   The ocean carrier Maersk Line has switched from calling Dar es Salaam in favor of a new call at Mombasa and speeded up its Masiika Express service between the Middle East and East Africa, decreasing roundtrip voyage time from 35 days to 28 days.     This move could have been motivated in part by Maersk’s temporary suspension of its […]