The Caribbean Shipowners Association said Thursday it is increasing the terminal handling charges its lines assess on shipment through Trinidad. The revised THC will be $169 per container from March 25. CSA members lines are Bernuth, CMA CGM, Crowley, Seaboard Marine, SeaFreight, and Zim. The CSA lines also said they will also […]
The U.S. Justice Department said seven people were arrested on charges of trafficking in endangered black rhinoceros horn over the past week in Los Angeles, New York, and Newark, N.J. Special agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made the arrests and have issued search warrants in […]
SAP will look at people as a new human social element going forward, thanks to its $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors, which focuses on cloud-based applications, and the integration of Yammer’s notification and messaging tools that show updates from business suite applications like HR, ERP and CRM. The SuccessFactors software will be […]
New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) said Thursday it will modify ballast water treatment rules that shipping executives said were unachievable with current technology. Had the standards gone into effect next year as originally scheduled, advocates for the industry said ships calling the Port of New York and New Jersey or using […]
The Canada Transpacific Stabilization Agreement member lines said Thursday they are amending their currency adjustment factor from April 1. The eastbound CAF will be 7 percent from all Asia origins, including China and Japan. CTSA members are APL, COSCO Container Lines, Evergreen Line, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, “K” Line, NYK Line, OOCL, Yang Ming, and […]
Maersk Line said Thursday it plans to increase rates on the Asia-Europe trade from April 1. The increase, $400 per TEU, applies to all Asian ports and all Northern Europe and Mediterranean destinations. “In order to continue offering our broad portfolio of services and high level of reliability it will be […]
CMA CGM said it plans to raise rates on several trades from Asia and the west Mediterranean in March. The proposed increases are: From Asia to the Middle East, $500 per TEU from March 1 From Asia to Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and western India, $150 per TEU from March 1 and another […]
The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Thursday it plans to hike ocean freight rates on the eastbound transatlantic trade from April 1. The increase is $150 per TEU from U.S. and Canadian ports to Northern Europe (including Scandinavia and the Baltic region) and the west Mediterranean. MSC said the increase is […]
A Grand Alliance/Hamburg Süd transatlantic service will begin using a new terminal in the Port of New York/New Jersey from mid-March, the German line said in a notice Thursday. The carriers’ ATX service will cease calling at the New York Container Terminal and move to the Global Marine Terminal in Jersey City. The […]
Waitrose Limited, a division of the British retailer and worker co-operative the John Lewis Partnership, has begun fining small delivery businesses in its supply chain £60 (US$95) for every late delivery to its chain of supermarkets in the UK. Waitrose has more than 240 branches across the United Kingdom and secures just above […]
Ellen McClain has been appointed deputy assistant secretary for transborder policy at the Department of Homeland Security, officials announced Tuesday. She previously was acting chief of staff in the Office of Policy Development. McClain brings to her new post years of experience dealing with trade issues as a customs lawyer in […]
Accellos’ load and route optimization software has been integrated with SBI Software’s agricultural ERP to minimalize routes, increase load capacity, and reduce costs for growers. Accellos, a provider of supply chain execution software, said the partnership has created a new integration that was specifically built to help growers and garden centers manage their […]
AgileShip SE is a web-based transportation management system (TMS) from the Agile Network, an organization of experienced transportation solution experts. The AgileShip app offers mail, parcel, and freight services in a unified setting which may be cost prohibitive for small businesses to develop on their own. The new app is a multi-modal shipping […]
IES, a provider of global transportation software solutions, has paired with freight forwarder and logistics provider Fracht to help that company continue its expansion. Fracht has become more global with the opening of Fracht Canada Freight, and the company said its growth in the area is due to customized services. Fracht said that […]
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 […]
