The liner carrier Emirates Shipping Line said Tuesday it’s joining a Hyundai Merchant Marine-operated service between South Korea, China, and the Middle East. Emirates will join Hyundai’s KMS service as a slot buyer from April 24. KMS has a rotation of Gwangyang, Busan, Ningbo, Keelung, Yantian, Hong Kong, Singapore, Port Kelang, Jebel Ali, […]
Crowley Maritime Corp. promoted Julia Shemesh to vice president and deputy general counsel. Shemesh will remain in Seattle and continue reporting to Michael Roberts, senior vice president and general counsel who works out of Crowley’s headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla. In her new role, Shemesh will primarily be responsible for providing advice and […]
In March, the U.S. Navy put two recreated faces of sailors whose remains were found on the USS Monitor, a Civil War-era ironclad warship that was sunk about 150 years ago in a severe storm, in specially designed UPS packaging for transport. An official from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) this weekend said […]
GHX, a health care supply chain consulting service based in Louisville, Colo., has named Steve Cochran as its new chief technology officer. Cochran will lead development of the company’s exchange service that connects providers with suppliers. Cochran comes from GXS where he served as vice president of global product management. Cochran was the technology […]
In this week’s Washington Notebook, Associate Editor Eric Kulisch looks at the the U.S. Transportation Department’s closure of several unsafe trucking companies, FDA Commissioner Hamburg’s Monday visit to the Port of Savannah, and DOT’s clarification of a rule involving corrosion tests, a victory claimed by PETA.
CDC Software Corp., an enterprise software provider of on-site and cloud services such as supply chain management, has released a version of its Pivotal customer relationship management (CRM) software for the iPad, allowing users to access their CRM information on the go. Based in Atlanta, CDC said the service will allow its customers to […]
Oracle has called SAP its biggest rival, but it’s now taking something of a new approach to step up that rivalry: new products designed to help SAP customers with their systems.
Federal agents searched a Walgreens distribution center in Jupiter, Fla., and six of its drug stores in central Florida to see if the company or its employees had sold or distributed an excessive numbers of pain pills, authorities said Friday.
BDP International, a large Philadelphia-based logistics services company, is seeking additional funds for expansion, but said it is not looking to sell itself as one source quoted in a Reuters report alleged last week. “Let me state formally that BDP is not for sale,” said Arnie Bornstein, a BDP spokesman. “Our ownership and management team believe in the […]
U.S. railroads moved 5.8 percent fewer new carloads in March compared to a year ago, but intermodal volume increased 3.5 percent to 928,350 containers and trailers, the Association of American Railroads reported.
A review of Area Maritime Security (AMS) plans for some of the nation’s largest ports by the Government Accountability Office found they have incorporated key recovery and salvage response planning elements as called for by legislation and the Coast Guard.
The Singapore Armed Forces has agreed to a deal to allow the Dutch military to store small arms and ammunition at its outpost, according to a report in Singapore’s Straits Times. “The arms will be used by Dutch military teams who sail on board Dutch-flagged merchant vessels, which pass through the piracy-infested waters off the […]
Greenbrier Cos., the Lake Oswego, Ore.-based railcar and barge manufacturer, said it had a profit of $17.7 million in its second fiscal quarter ending Feb. 29, compared to a $550,000 loss in the same period a year earlier. Revenue was $458.2 million, compared to $284.3 million in the second quarter last year. William A. […]
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.
