The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has completed a study which highlights the potential for alternative energy production at airports, including biofuels, solar and wind power.
Swiss WorldCargo on Saturday will start offering increased capacity on daily passenger flights operated between Zurich and Newark, N.J. The carrier’s parent Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. has replaced its leased Boeing 737s with wide-body Airbus A340-300s on the route. “Newark Liberty International Airport is an important cargo gateway in the greater […]
Port Logistics Group, a provider of gateway logistics services, and Coastal Logistics Group, with operations in the Southeast, will partner to extend their geographic reach. The partnership allows the pair to offer logistics services at all major U.S. import and export gateways, the companies said in a statement. Before the partnership, Port Logistics […]
The reforms follow the release of a report that was critical of management, compensation and benefits packages at the agency, as well as oversight of the redevelopment of the World Trade Center following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation has announced that its subsidiaries have recently secured new joint venture agreements. The first agreement is between Keppel Jilin Logistics Park (Keppel Jilin) and the Jilin City government’s Jilin Sino-Singapore Food Zone Development Co. The pair will jointly develop and operate the Sino-Singapore Jilin Food Zone International Logistics Park […]
enVista, a supply chain consulting firm, will expand its headquarters in Carmel, Ind., by investing $1.2 million to add 10,000 square feet to its offices. The expansion is expected to create up to 96 new jobs by 2016, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), a board headed by Gov. Mitch Daniels. […]
The U.S. domestic shipping industry says a recent government report severely underestimates the size of the Jones Act’s tank vessel fleet and its ability to transport petroleum products from the U.S. Gulf to the East Coast.
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s liner services group said Thursday it has reached an agreement with Puerto Rico Teamsters Union Local 901 on a new five-year labor contract covering union employees working at Crowley’s San Juan terminal. The new contract is effective from March 27 through March 26, 2017. Crowley also employs Teamster dockworkers at its […]
PSA International, the Singapore-based global terminal operator, said Friday it secured $1.3 billion in operating profits in 2011, 0.4 percent less than in 2010. The company’s revenue grew 5.8 percent year-on-year to $3.3 billion. PSA’s throughput in 2011 was 57.1 million TEUs, a 5.6 percent increase from 2010. PSA is the world’s […]
COSCO Container Lines slumped to a massive $1 billion operating loss in 2011, the lion’s share of a $1.6 billion group loss for China’s biggest ocean carrier. That was a major swing from the $544 million operating profit for the container lines in 2010.
China Shipping Container Lines suffered a $397.9 million operating loss in 2011, a huge downward swing from the $676.5 million the line made in 2010. China Shipping’s revenue fell 18.9 percent year-on-year to $4.5 billion, while container volume rose 3.2 percent to 7.4 million TEUs. The line, the second biggest in China […]
Both the House and Senate passed 90-day extensions of the nation’s major surface transportation bill on Thursday after the House failed to agree on longer term legislation. The House approved H.R. 4281, the ninth extension of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, by a vote of 266 […]
ChemLogix, a provider of chemical industry transportation management, technology, and supply chain consulting services, has launched a new module for its transportation management service (TMS) geared to rail fleet oversight. To do this, ChemLogix has partnered with GeoMetrix and adding that company’s rail logistics guidance technology to its TMS. GeoMetrix’s software adds intra-plant management, […]
The World Shipping Council said Thursday that Tadaaki Naito, representative director and senior managing corporate officer of NYK, has been elected to the council’s board of directors to fill the seat previously held by Kenji Mizushima of NYK. Other WSC board members are Philip Chow, OOCL; Thomas Crowley Jr., Crowley Maritime Corp.; Rafi […]
TradeCard, Inc., which operates a supply chain and global trade platform, announced a new partnership with Technia to extend its services to more trading partners in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Technia supplies the Nordic region with a product lifecycle management system. The partnership will extend TradeCard’s growing presence in Europe and […]
Microsoft and partners help resource-strapped customs agencies leapfrog IT. By Geoff Whiting When it comes to monitoring inbound trade, many developing countries’ customs administrations still rely on inefficient paper-based processes, often resulting in significant cargo clearance delays at the border and worse — a potential for corruption. Microsoft, whose software engineers’ goal […]
International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett recently made it crystal clear to the shipping industry that his purpose is to protect the interest of his union workers, even if that means shutting down the East and Gulf coast docks. One of the big sticking points in the upcoming contract negotiations this year between […]
By Alan F. Spear TAPA Americas chairman, and U.S. director of cargo security loss control for Chartis Fortuitous events such as fire, flood, accidents and cargo theft may all result in cargo loss, but the underlying cause of loss may, in fact, be miscommunication…
Rather than buying insurance for each shipment, shippers often rely on marine “open cargo” or “open cover” policies to insure the goods they move. This is an arrangement where an insurer undertakes to issue policies for shipments when required by the assured, and is popular due to its flexibility. Marine open cover […]
The 10-year anniversary of the crippling lockout of International Longshore and Warehouse Union workers at U.S. West Coast ports in 2002 is looming, and International Longshoremen’s Association members look to be commemorating the anniversary with their own threatened work action this year at U.S. East Coast ports. Ignoring for the moment the potential […]
