Florida-based Sylectus, a unit of Qualcomm Enterprise Services, has reached agreement with MacroPoint to offer an “intuitive” fleet tracking application for trucking companies. Sylectus said the offering will allow 3PLs, fleet owners and managers, freight brokers, and carriers to track loads and drivers without requiring any new hardware or long-term contracts. The […]
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to drop 6.8 percent in February from the same month a year ago, but should show year-over-year increases through most of the remaining first half of 2012, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released Wednesday by the National Retail Federation and […]
CargoWise, a technology provider for logistics service companies, has announced a new deal with Lasso Logistics to implement its hosted ediEnterprise service. Lasso, which operates supply chain and product services across Australia and China, said it chose CargoWise to improve efficiency in its international operations. Lasso’s move away from legacy systems and to a […]
The liner carrier Hamburg Süd said Wednesday it plans to raise U.S. export rates to Australia and New Zealand in April. The increase, $150 per 20-foot container and $300 per 40-foot container, becomes effective April 1.
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of Michael Coppola who was found guilty by a jury of racketeering and sentenced to 16 years in jail in 2009. The court said Coppola was found guilty after a jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York “of […]
Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) said it plans to grow its aircraft and aviation services company ASL Aviation Group. Antwerp-based CMB entered the passenger and cargo aviation business in 1998, and it’s been one of the fastest emerging operations in the company’s transport assets portfolio. CMB is known in the maritime industry for […]
The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that there is a “reasonable indication” domestic manufacturers of large residential washers imported from South Korea are allegedly subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value. The ITC also determined similar washers imported from Mexico, while not subsidized, are also sold at less than […]
The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined there is a “reasonable indication” that domestic manufacturers of utility-scale wind turbine towers are injured by imports allegedly subsidized by China and from both China and Vietnam sold in the United States at less than fair value. The commission made its determination in a 5-0 vote […]
Former head of liner carrier APL Ron Widdows has been named chief executive officer of Rickmers Holding and of Rickmers-Linie, effective April 1, the German carrier said Wednesday. Widdows retired last year from APL parent NOL, where he left as chief executive officer and chairman. He’ll replace Jan Steffens, who helmed Rickmers […]
The German liner carrier Hapag-Lloyd said Wednesday it garnered operating profits of $130.7 million in 2011, a year in which most global carriers are expected to report a loss.
Leavitt Partners and Park City Group have paired to create a joint solution to improve supply chain visibility for food and drug safety. The partnership will leverage Park City’s product “synchronization” technology that maintains inventories, tracks product movement, and is used to settle financial transactions among buyers. Leavitt Partners, a health care and food […]
The American Trucking Associations filed a petition asking a federal court to review the FMSCA’s recently published final rule changing the hours-of-service rules for truck drivers.
Kewill, a provider of global trade and logistics services and a Gold-level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced it has achieved Oracle Validated Integration of Kewill Flagship with the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1. Kewill Flagship provides an enterprise parcel shipping service for Oracle’s E-Business Suite users and the validated integration allows for […]
CSAV said its big loss in 2011 was the result of “strong competition which forced tariffs down; then slack demand, particularly in the second half of 2011, and finally the high fuel price where oil… increased by more than 35% in 2011.”
The companies said the joint venture, called CMA Systems, will have governance from both companies but that employees will ultimately report to Jacques R. Saadé, chairman and chief executive officer of CMA CGM.
APL Logistics on Wednesday unveiled a new shipment planning platform aimed at changing the way large freight buyers coordinate their transportation activities. The company’s ShipmentOptimizer will allow shippers to generate the best shipment plan according to three variables: Cargo arriving at final destination on the preferred date. Maximization of space and load utilization. […]
Union Pacific plans to invest $200 million in South Louisiana to meet current and expected shipper demand from the petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and UP Chairman James R. Young announced the investment Tuesday. Jindal said “rail lines are the backbone of the chemical and manufacturing industries […]
Global liner carrier reliability declined marginally from December to January, according to the latest figures from SeaIntel Maritime Analysis. SeaIntel recorded liner on-time performance at 58 percent in January from 59 percent in December in its latest monthly schedule reliability report. It’s the fourth straight month of decline, the analyst noted. Out of […]
Maersk Line said it will add a call in Barcelona to the transatlantic Mediterranean service it jointly runs with CMA CGM. The line’s WestMed service, which CMA CGM calls Amerigo Express, will include the Spanish port call from April 3. The revised rotation is Malta, Leghorn, Genoa, Marseilles-Fos, Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga, Newark, Norfolk, […]
Direct liner carrier service competition has a significant impact on the spread between high and low rate levels, according to research from SeaIntel Maritime Analysis. “We have investigated the difference in freight rates across 130 individual port-port trades from Asia to the U.S. East and West coasts,” the Copenhagen-based analyst said in […]
