CryoPort, a provider of cold-chain logistics services, said its board accepted Larry Stambaugh’s resignation as the company’s chairman, director and chief executive officer, effective immediately. The company’s newly appointed director Stephen E. Wasserman has been named chairman and the board has formed a chief executive office made up of various directors to assume the day-to-day […]
Vietnamese police have arrested more suspects as part of a widening scandal in the country’s shipping industry, according to a report Sunday by Agence France Presse. The deputy director general of state-owned shipping giant Vinalines, 53-year-old Bui Quoc Anh, was detained on Friday for embezzlement, along with two others, including a state auditor, a company […]
Baltimore’s Domino Sugar refinery said it planned to make history Monday by receiving the largest single raw sugar shipment to be delivered to any port east of the Mississippi. The company said it will set a record by receiving more than 95 million pounds of raw sugar from Guatemala, just six weeks short of the […]
Henry P. Gonzalez has opened a new law firm, Gonzalez del Valle Law. Prior to forming the firm, Gonzalez was a partner with Washington-based Rodriguez O’Donnell Gonzalez & Williams. Last week his former partner Carlos Rodriguez said he and three other employees joined the firm Husch Blackwell. Gonzalez, who worked earlier in his career […]
South Korean firm Pantos Logistics said it has won a contract to provide warehousing at its logistics center in Cibitung, Jakarta, for Coca-Cola in Indonesia. Pantos will handle distribution of Coca-Cola products to wholesalers around the country. Pantos said it’s also expanding its warehousing arrangement with Coca-Cola to Medan, Sumatra Island.
A report released this week by a committee of the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its overseas counterparts from the top industrialized nations to work together to help developing countries improve their regulatory systems for food and drug oversight. The discovery of a counterfeit version of the cancer drug Avastin […]
Applications for the TIGER grants totaled $10.2 billion, far exceeding the $500 million set aside for the program. DOT received 703 applications from all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has launched a redesigned Website in an effort to improve the quality, clarity, and accessibility of information it provides to the shipping public. The agency is also posting news on Twitter. It said the upgrade supports the goals of the 2010 Plain Writing Act and President Obama’s directive that government […]
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has posted an online tool this week to help exporters determine if they are eligible and in compliance with the License Exception Strategic Trade Authorization (STA).
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade is starting work on the modernization of the European Union’s trade defense operations and seeks input from importers, producers, and other companies that deal with cross-border trade.
The significant increase comes one month after previous large rate increases implemented by carriers and shows that shippers are coming under increasing rate pressure as carriers hold the line on rate levels.
Four employees of the transportation and trade law firm Rodriguez O’Donnell Gonzalez & Williams are joining the Washington office of Husch Blackwell. Attorney Carlos Rodriguez, who entered private practice in 1977, is a well known expert in the field of ocean freight transportation. He successfully gave his boutique law firm a national presence. Rodriguez said being part […]
Hapag-Lloyd said Thursday it is starting two new regional services in Europe in May. The first, dubbed ADX, will link the Adriatic Sea with two Egyptian ports, including a rotation of Damietta, Port Said, Koper, Rijeka, Venice, Ancona, and Damietta. The second service, called REX, will connect Germany with Russia, Finland, and Poland, and […]
Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Thursday it plans to hike rates from Australia and New Zealand to several destination regions from May 1. The increases are: $150 per 20-foot container and $300 per 40-foot container to Europe and the Middle East. $500 per 20-foot container and $1,000 per 40-foot to the Indian Subcontinent. $200 per […]
American Airlines Cargo is restarting its daily non-stop service from Dublin, Ireland to Chicago from April 4. The flight will be operated on one of the carrier’s Boeing 767-300 wide-bodied passenger planes and will depart the Irish capital at 10 a.m. (local time) every day, arriving in Chicago at 12:20 p.m. “The morning departure is […]
ECS Group, a general sales and service agency based in Paris, has taken a controlling interest in Niger Air Cargo, a new cargo airline in West Africa. The airline, started in association with a private investor in Niger, will operate a weekly MD-11 or DC-10 freighter service from Liège to Niamey, the capital and largest […]
The U.S. Postal Service wants more warehouse business and it’s turning to technology service partners, such as DYMO Endicia, to help broaden its base. DYMO Endicia, a technology partner to USPS since 2000, is expanding its existing services for printing postage from a shipping station in tandem with the Postal Service’s effort to cover more smaller markets. […]
The French container line CMA CGM Group has appointed Jacques Delort to vice president of information systems and deputy general manager of CMA Systems, a new entity set up under a partnership with IBM. Delort was previously at Crédit Agricole where he served as managing director of GIE EXA information systems and then the […]
FORTE, a consulting firm for supply chain and distribution, has hired Eric E. Clark as its new chief information officer. Clark will be responsible for technology strategy, services, and sales support of FORTE’s Smart Warehouse Suite of warehouse management software. He will also play a role in the development of new products and […]
Customs and Border Protection has agreed to continue inspections at the Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn through Jan. 8, 2017. Customs has recently consolidated its examinations in the Port of New York and New Jersey. Yesterday’s announcement means cargo will not have to be trucked to sites in New Jersey or […]
