American Shipper

Top global container lines have varying strategies for terminal activity. The Chilean liner carrier CSAV has had a difficult few years financially. 

   For all the hype surrounding the forthcoming Panama Canal expansion and its effect on U.S. Gulf and East coast ports, the lack of current direct connections from Asia to the Port of Houston is quite stark.    As of mid-March, only one service directly connected Houston with the Far East: CMA CGM’s PEX3 all-water […]

Forwarders heavily fined in EU price-fixing investigation. In September 2010, half a dozen major global air freight forwarders agreed to a collective $50 million in settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice over price-fixing allegations between 2002 and 2007. 

Next-flight service providers are increasingly taking aim at life sciences shippers.    By Chris Dupin       Keen interest in providing logistics services to life science companies, especially by firms specializing in rapid delivery, was highlighted earlier this year by two acquisitions.    In February, Los Angeles-based MNX, an expedited transportation and logistics services company, said […]

   CHEP Aerospace Solutions has acquired an air cargo equipment manufacturing site in Copenhagen from Nordisk Aviation Products.     This follows the acquisition of Driessen Services by CHEP’s parent company Brambles in November last year.

   A German federal court dealt Lufthansa Cargo a serious blow April 4 when it upheld a state ban on night flights at Frankfurt International Airport, the airline’s cargo hub.    The decision jeopardizes Frankfurt’s role as an international aviation center and Germany’s strong position as an exporter and provider of logistics services, Deutsche Lufthansa […]

   Evan Armstrong, president of consulting firm Armstrong & Associates, said it is fairly unusual for 3PLs to grow out of shipper operations, but not unprecedented.    He noted Dunavant was different in that it was growing out of a trading company and trading companies do a lot of logistics work as part of their […]

Memphis-based Dunavant undergoes a radical transformation.    By Chris Dupin       Dunavant is one of the storied names of the cotton business, but a few years ago the Memphis-based company made a bold decision to exit the cotton trading business to concentrate on logistics.    To get a sense of the magnitude of that decision, […]

“Recalculating” — That’s a familiar phrase to drivers who use global positioning units to get from place to place. If a traffic jam or detour causes a change in plans, the unit can help drivers still find their way efficiently to their destination. 

   Radio-frequency identification, better known by its acronym RFID, has seen varied uses in ports, trucks, and outside the four walls of warehouses, but it’s now expanding to new areas as other technologies muscle in on its original turf.    One of RFID’s earliest uses at the ports was to track the location of large […]

After SAP released its Transportation Management (TM) 8.0 in June 2011, it made good on a lot of promises and requested improvements for its existing system. 

The U.S. Department of State on Thursday announced $2.6 million in funding to help train foreign governments on investigating and prosecuting intellectual property rights crimes in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

Cultural change brings shipping industry technology company back from the brink.    By Geoff Whiting       There’s no escaping it: supply chain software developer Descartes was in a bad place in 2004.    The company was staring into an abyss as its share price dropped from more than $100 to just 95 cents that year. […]

   Accellos Inc., a provider of supply chain software based in Colorado Springs, Colo., has launched a cloud-managed service for its existing AccellosOne Enterprise 3PL product.    The service will be offered to both existing and new customers running Accellos’ third-party logistics management software. It will include the provisioning of the computing infrastructure required to run […]

   The liner carriers “K” Line and Wan Hai will cooperate on a new transpacific service, Wan Hai said last week.    The service, expected to start in early May, will have a rotation of Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Long Beach, and Qingdao. It will be run with five 4,000-TEU vessels (three from “K” Line and two […]

“Our new brand reflects the nature of our organization – we are adaptive. The business landscape is changing at a tumultuous pace and requires nothing short of reinventing ourselves to be agile and responsive,” said CEO Saleh Al Jasser.

   The ocean carrier Maersk Line has suspended its weekly IOI service between the Middle East and the Indian Ocean.     The last sailing was by the Maersk Warsaw, which departed Salalah on April 6.    The four-ship average 1,713-TEUs IOI loop had a port rotation of Salalah, Reunion Island, Port Louis, Toamasina, Victoria, and Salalah. Maersk […]

   CMA CGM said Thursday it will partner with Emirates Shipping Line on the trade between India, the Middle East and east Africa from mid-May.    The French container line will drop its existing SWAX service and form two new services with the same moniker, SWAX 2 and SWAX 3.    The SWAX 2 service […]

   Ocean carrier Maersk Line has added an 11th vessel to its weekly North Europe-Asia AE1 service and increased round-trip voyage time from 70 days to 77 days.    Maersk advised March 28 it would add an extra vessel to five of its six Asia-Europe loops and “super-slow-steam” them by adding one more week to their […]

   The liner shipping company Evergreen Line joins the China to the Southeast Asia portion of “K” Line’s JABCO 1 service beginning with the April 30 sailing of Guayaquil Bridge from Shanghai.    Hanjin Shipping is already a slot charterer and dubs the loop JTS. The service, which Evergreen Line calls B1, has increased from 21 to 28 […]