Teletrac, a GPS fleet tracking and telematics provider, has updated its main software platform Fleet Director with a focus on new and established technology. Fleet Director allows operations managers to run fleets more efficiently while improving driver safety. The updates focus on including new business intelligence, in-cab color touchscreen tablets with two-way messaging, […]
States, local governments and non-profit organizations can apply for up to $20 million worth of grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help programs aimed at replacing older diesel engines with cleaner alternatives. The EPA on Friday opened the fiscal year 2012 application process for the Diesel Emission Reduction Program (DERA). Another $9 […]
Ocean freight levels have remained “soft” through April, though they’re stronger than in March, according to the latest Stifel Nicolaus Logistics Confidence Index, which is based on a monthly survey of shippers and forwarders in several European trades.
Canadian National Railway said it had a profit of $775 million in the first quarter, 16 percent more than the $668 million in the first quarter of 2011. Revenue in the first quarter was $2.35 billion, up 13 percent from $2.08 billion in the same 2011 period. Claude Mongeau, president and chief executive officer, said the company […]
Emirates Shipping Line said this week it plans to hike rates on the trade from the Far East and Southeast Asia to East Africa. The increase, effective May 1, is $250 per TEU. Emirates said it is “in line with market conditions.”
foodcareplus, an Antwerp-based logistics services provider specializing in food products, has joined with Nova Fresh Logistics to deliver an all-in-one logistics offering for the seafood industry.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed another 90-day extension of the surface transportation bill last week, which would provide funding for road building and transportation programs through the end of the fiscal year. The current three-month extension lasts through June. So why move on another extension before the existing one nears expiration? Well, […]
RailAmerica has appointed Gary Lewis to senior vice president and chief commercial officer. Lewis, who joined the company in 2009, was previously vice president of industrial development. Before coming to RailAmerica, he was director of sales and marketing at Kinder Morgan Terminals, and prior to that, he served in various management roles during […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank approved $360 million in supply chain financing to benefit suppliers – many of them small businesses – of Navistar International Corp. Lisle, Ill.-based Navistar is a manufacturer and marketer of medium and heavy trucks and mid-range diesel engines. “Ex-Im Bank’s supply chain financing benefits Navistar’s small business suppliers […]
Significant theft of metals in the United States has increased by 254 percent, from 13 thefts in the fourth quarter of 2011 to 46 incidents in the first quarter of 2012, according to a report from FreightWatch International, a logistics security company. Freightwatch says there were more metal thefts in the first quarter than all […]
Dynamex, which provides same-day transportation services in North America, has introduced a truckload service. Jason Bergman, the company’s vice president of North American sales, called it an ideal time to enter this market, citing increasing fuel costs and a thinning driver pool. Initially the service will focus on the continental United States. Dynamex said it will […]
For the past two decades, American shippers have been mostly content to allow nearly all their international logistics functions to be managed by freight forwarders, non-vessel-operating common carriers and customs brokers. While these intermediaries undoubtedly continue to perform invaluable transportation and trade compliance services for shippers, there is an increasing cadre of large […]
By Julie Gibbs director, BPE Global Training on trade compliance is often not as effective as it should be. We’ve all attended the mandatory trainings where policies and regulations are regurgitated and attendees go away with nothing more than a handout. Occasionally though, a training course will really add value…
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court decision in a cargo case having to do with customary freight units (Edso Exporting v. Atlantic Container Line. 2nd Circuit. No. 11-1467. March 20). Edso owned a crane made by Grove and hired Atlantic Container Line (ACL) to ship it from […]
Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller turned father’s company into the world’s biggest container line. By Eric Johnson When people not keenly acquainted with the container shipping business find out that its largest company is based in Denmark, they are usually surprised. But the fact that the epicenter of the global liner business is Copenhagen […]
Support in Congress for better maintenance of U.S. harbors has been steadily gaining strength in recent years, but a countercurrent of opposition to the Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) and designs on alternate uses for the money it collects is also quickening.
U.S. logistics jobs could be outsourced to Caribbean, Central America as new shipping patterns evolve. By Eric Kulisch The expected rise of container terminals in, and around, the Caribbean associated with the expansion of the Panama Canal and the deployment of ultra-large vessels could lead to lost business for U.S. ports in the […]
Why the expansion of this waterway may not influence where maritime cargo enters the U.S. By Eric Kulisch The addition of a third set of locks in the Panama Canal capable of handling container vessels more than twice as large as those able to transit today is widely characterized as game changer for the […]
New IT collaboration eases container repositioning costs by reducing empty miles. By Geoff Whiting Companies have long known the key to a successful match-back system, or automated way to reducing empty equipment miles, is through collaboration and data-sharing with as many parties involved as possible, but this ability is still relatively new to […]
Foreign trade zone operators obtain efficiencies through automation. By Geoff Whiting The availability of easy-to-deploy information technologies are driving more American shippers to take advantage of the trade benefits associated with foreign trade zones, despite upcoming Customs and Border Protection rule changes and increased requirements. The FTZ program was authorized by Congress […]
