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 […]
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. […]
