The audit of the port authority was ordered last year by the governors of New York and New Jersey after sharp increases in tolls on the port’s bridges and tunnels were announced.
Member lines in the Grand and New World alliances said Wednesday they have moved up the start date of their joint alliance on the Asia-Europe trade. The so-called G6 Alliance was due to start April 1, but instead the six member lines (APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, MOL, NYK Line, and OOCL) will […]
The ocean carrier Maersk Line said this week it is adjusting its service network on the Europe-Middle East trade from the end of February. Maersk said it will start a new service on the Middle East-Mediterranean trade, dubbed ME2, from Feb. 26. The rotation will be Jebel Ali, Salalah, Jeddah, Tangiers, Algeciras, Valencia, […]
The American Shipping Group unit of Saltchuk Resources said it is rebranding itself using the name TOTE Inc. TOTE will also organize its five businesses into three groups: TOTE Maritime consists of Totem Ocean Trailer Express, which operates a liner service between Washington and Alaska, and Sea Star Line which operates between […]
The ocean carrier Maersk Line has added a new South African port call at Port Elizabeth and a seventh vessel to its weekly SAF/WAF 225 service between Algeciras and South Africa.
The head of international logistics for toy manufacturing giant Mattel said his company looks for long-term partnerships with ocean carriers and places a premium on efficiency during the Christmas season. “We have industry-specific needs,” said Curt White, Mattel’s senior vice president of worldwide logistics and international operations, in the CMA CGM company magazine’s winter […]
K. Denise Rucker Krepp, chief counsel of the Maritime Administration, is moving to another job within the U.S. Department of Transportation. A MarAd spokesman said “we do not comment on personnel moves.” But a source said Krepp has been assigned to the Office of the Secretary as special counsel to the DOT general counsel. She […]
The liner carrier OOCL said Tuesday it plans to raise rates on shipments from north and east Asia to Australia from March 15. The rate increase is $300 per TEU.
Located 100 miles east of Minneapolis/St. Paul, the Canadian National Railway said the new intermodal terminal offers Wisconsin and Minnesota customers new options to ship and receive goods in containers.
Ohio-based Owens-Illinois (O-I), a glass container manufacturer, has announced plans to create a supply chain operation with a new technology group to leverage its research and development. Al Stroucken, chairman and chief executive officer, said the move should give O-I better visibility in its supply chain and in turn give it greater flexibility when shipping goods […]
Transact International, a New York-based logistics services provider also known as Transact Intermediaries, has begun its first non-military cargo charter service into the Shindand Air Base in Afghanistan. The service is part of Transact’s overall Middle East focus and follows similar operations into Afghanistan at the Bagram and Kandahar air bases. Transact’s President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Anderson said the […]
Tompkins Associates, a supply chain and business solutions provider, said it will begin operating under the new trade name of Tompkins International. Jim Tompkins, president and chief executive officer, said the company already uses the Tompkins International brand in Europe and Asia and felt the name better highlighted the company’s work at improving global supply chains.
Evergreen Line has launched a mobile app version of its e-commerce system, ShipmentLink Mobile, for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and mobile devices based on the Android operating system. The ocean carrier said the launch was to provide customers with a better way to reach the growing number of workers that rely […]
The United States in Geneva on Monday signed agreements with the European Union and Japan that will bring an end to longstanding trade disputes over “zeroing.” Zeroing is a label sometimes used to describe a methodology used in antidumping calculations for aggregating unfairly-traded (“dumped”) transactions with other transactions. The disputes started nearly nine […]
Fred P. Hochberg, chairman and president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, is meeting with Vietnamese government officials this week in Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi to boost U.S. commercial ties and business opportunities with the Southeast Asian country. In 2011, Ex-Im Bank authorized only about $1 million in financing to Vietnam. However, […]
Third-party logistics services provider Agility has appointed Grant Wattman as president and chief executive officer of its project logistics business. Wattman, a 40-year industry veteran, has previously worked at CH2M Hill, Panalpina, ABB Lummus Global, GeoLogistics and Fritz Cos. He has overseen large projects in infrastructure, mining, and oil and gas. […]
ACL said the service combines its transatlantic vessels and Finnlines’ ice-class Baltic vessels with shipments transshipped via Antwerp, Belgium. Both ACL and Finnlines are owned by the Grimaldi Group.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection declined to reduce a penalty assessed against a company that moved an oil rig part of the way on its voyage from the Gulf of Mexico to Cook’s Inlet in Alaska on a Chinese ship instead of on a U.S.-flagged Jones Act vessel.
After only a one-month slow-down, the shipping company Maersk Line has resumed a five-week round voyage time with its CHX service between Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. American Shipper reported Jan 12 that the loop had slowed to six weeks, with transit times eastbound to Asia from the Indian Subcontinent increasing by about […]
The first ship will call at the EGT grain terminal in Longview, Wash., today in the wake of an agreement between the owners of the facility and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union that will result in the union loading vessels at the facility.
