The Obama administration has launched a new online platform, BusinessUSA, to provide small exporters with a single source of pertitent information about federal programs available to them.
The new Boeing 747-400 freighter, which will fly twice weekly between Guangzhou, China, and Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria, has a capacity of 120 metric tons and 876 cubic meters of space.
Freight bill advisor and processor Data2Logistics has hired a several managers to increase its market share in Europe. Jos van der Meulen and Johan Kool were named business development managers in the Benelux region, while Reinhold Säckl was appointed to country manager in Germany, and Peter Hodgson was selected as country manager in the United Kingdom. […]
GT Nexus said it had been selected by SEKO Logistics to provide a cloud-based platform to better automate processes between SEKO and its global carrier network. SEKO is a third-party logistics services provider with 150 offices in 40 countries. Bill Wascher, the company’s chief executive officer, said “We believe cloud represents the future of business-to-business technology and […]
Con-way Freight has been transitioning its sales process from paper to an electronic system, and when iPads came out, the carrier soon became hooked on the devices. The Salesforce apps that the company uses have been customized for LTL.
Shippers on the Asia-Europe trade lane should be ready for some sizable changes on their trade from March, as a new set of service alliances commences. Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM, the world’s second and third larges container lines, have joined forces on the Asia-Northern Europe trade, as have members of the […]
The Port of Tacoma said it experienced a 4 percent increase in container volume, to 109,597 TEUs, in January compared to a year earlier on the strength of inbound box shipments, which were up 12.4 percent to 39,386 TEUs. Popular import shipments were industrial equipment, toys and electronics, the port authority said. […]
Shippers react to the FMC report about the impacts from the 2008 repeal of an exemption for liner companies from EU competition law.
Maersk Line said this week it plans to increase rates between Asia and several Americas regions from March 15. The increases are: From the Far East to the east coast of South America, $600 per TEU. From the Far East to the Caribbean (including Colombia and Venezuela, but excluding Cuba and the […]
An MOL containership has collided with a COSCO Container Lines vessel, according to a notice from the Japanese line. The collision occurred between the 6,724-TEU MOL Maneuver and the COSCO Zhen He while southeast of Hong Kong at 5:45 p.m. on Feb. 22. “None of the crew was injured and no oil […]
Maersk Line will start a new transatlantic service next month by taking space on a New World Alliance string announced last month. Maersk’s TA5 will have a rotation of Manzanillo (Panama), Charleston, New York, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Felixstowe, New York, Charleston, and Manzanillo. Maersk said the service will offer an attractive eight-day transit time both eastbound […]
The liner carrier OOCL said Wednesday it is starting a new China-Vietnam-Thailand service to be jointly operated by intra-Asia carrier Regional Container Lines (RCL). The service, which OOCL will call CBS, will have a rotation of Bangkok, Laem Chabang, Ho Chi Minh City, Ningbo, Shanghai, Laem Chabang, and Bangkok. It will be […]
The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Wednesday it will add a call in Rotterdam in March on a transatlantic loop it offers. The line’s North Atlantic service will have a revised rotation of Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, New York, Bremerhaven, Felixstowe, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Le Havre, New York, and Boston from March 21. […]
Rockford Solar Partners, a renewable energy development joint venture between Elgin, Ill.-based Wanxiang America and New Generation Power in Chicago, received both U.S. Energy Department and Federal Aviation Administration environmental approval to start building the country’s largest commercial airport-based solar farm to be located at the Chicago Rockford International Airport. Rockford airport was […]
The U.S. Transportation Department has awarded a $54.6 million loan to Kansas City Southern Railway Co. to buy 30 new General Electric ES44AC locomotives. These diesel-electric locomotives, built in Erie, Pa., will help KCS meet increasing economic demand, and are more energy-efficient and produce significantly less carbon emissions than the locomotives they […]
Teletrac, a provider of fleet management services for the trucking sector, has integrated its Fleet Director GPS and vehicle tracking system TruckMate with an enterprise transportation service from TMW Systems. The interface will provide customers using both systems with a seamless integration for two-way communications between dispatchers and drivers, along with real-time […]
Check Freight Broker (CFB), a free freight matching site, has integrated its funding technology platform, Freight Payable Systems, to allow users to request fuel advances and prompt freight bill payment direct from the site. With the integration of Freight Payable Systems, CFB has become one of the few completely free load boards, […]
A third port in southern Georgia could help diversify the state’s marine business by concentrating on bulk cargo such as grains, sands, aggregates and wood pellets, according to a Feb. 16 press release by the Camden County Joint Development Authority, which is promoting the concept. David Keating, the JDA’s executive director, recently briefed […]
Echo Global Logistics said it had a profit of $3.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 33.4 percent increase over the $2.6 million earned in the same 2010 period. Revenue in the quarter was $162.9 million, 43.1 percent higher than in the same 2010 period. The Chicago-based company said that for […]
The international transport and logistics company cargo-partner has appointed Rakesh Suri as its new managing director India. Suri was most recently chief operating officer at Hellmann Worldwide Logistics India, and prior to that, director and COO of HTL Logistics India. Germany-based cargo-partner specializes in forwarding (including transportation and warehousing) for complex cargo […]
