By Eric Kulisch TRB steps on State of the Union The Transportation Research Board held its week-long annual conference in Washington the last full week of January. I found it odd that several committee meetings and panels were scheduled to run in the evening until 9:30 or later on the same day that President […]
The number of eastbound transpacific shippers whose cargo was rolled has increased markedly since November, according to American Shipper’s latest survey of shippers, intermediaries and carriers in the trade. In November, American Shipper found that 31 percent of shippers had experienced recent cargo rolls, but that number spiked to 60 percent, according to […]
The liner shipping companies COSCO, Hanjin Shipping, United Arab Shipping Company and CCNI have ended their joint ESE/SAM 1 service between North Europe and the East Coast South America which was launched in March 2011. COSCO and Hanjin have begun taking slots on Maersk Line’s weekly Samba service from Europe and the Mediterranean […]
On Saturday, the Coast Guard reopened a portion of the Tennessee River around the Eggner Ferry Bridge which was partially destroyed after being hit by the Foss ship Delta Mariner last week.
TNT Express has started a service that will simplify and secure the international movements of pharmaceutical products requiring strict temperature control, such as such as vaccines and insulin.
Savi, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has launched a mobile tracking system that identifies and tracks in real-time the location, movement, and condition of high-value assets. Savi said its new system is aimed at governments, heavy industry, large organizations, and manufacturers that have complex logistics requirements. The Savi Mobile Tracking System includes software […]
RedPrairie, a supply chain and retail technology company, has appointed Joe Juliano to president. He replaces Martin Hiscox, who will continue to serve as a board member and chairman of international operations. Juliano joined RedPrairie in 2010 as president of the Americas. When Hiscox changes roles in May, Juliano will assume responsibility for global sales, services, […]
Chemical logistics services provider RichLand-LSP has appointed Graham Wall to managing director with an aim to expand its bulk liquid chemical transport operations in Southeast Asia. Wall, a 25-year industry veteran, previously worked for Interflow, Trencor, Syrius Group and PD Ports & Logistics and has specific expertise in the development of ISO-tank fleets. […]
DB Schenker Logistics has appointed 38-year rail industry veteran Patrick Zilles to head its intermodal activities. Zilles, who is based in Essen, Germany, will be responsible for linking different transport modes, in particular DB SCHENKERhangartner. This offering provides shippers a combination of trucking and rail from a single source. Trucks handle pre- and […]
A court in Mexico has put on hold a concession recently granted to APM Terminals’ to develop a new $900 million 4.2 million-TEU container terminal in the Port of Lazaro Cardenas.
The Port of Houston Authority Commission will hold a special session Monday to vote on hiring Leonard Waterworth as interim chief executive officer after Alec Dreyer, the current CEO last month indicated his intention to step down. Dreyer, a former energy industry executive, announced Dec. 13 that he planned to leave office once […]
The ocean carrier Hanjin Shipping said Monday its liner business sustained $474.8 million in operating losses in 2011, a huge reverse on the $612.1 million the line made in 2010. Hanjin’s liner revenue fell 2.6 percent year-on-year in 2011, to $6.6 billion, despite container volume rising 12.4 percent to 4.2 million TEUs. […]
Horizon Lines said it will pay $1.5 million in penalties as part of an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department, under which the ocean cargo carrier will plead guilty to two counts of providing federal authorities with false vessel oil record-keeping entries on a containership in the U.S. West Coast-Hawaii service. In a […]
Delta Air Lines has entered a marketing agreement with OnAsset Intelligence, a provider of wireless asset tracking, that will allow its cargo customers to view location information on deltacargo.com. The agreement offers customers the ability to track and trace cargo in transit on a customized Web page. The service will be offered on all […]
Mediterranean Shipping Co. will make a double call in Norfolk with its Golden Gate service between Asia and the U.S. East Coast, beginning the first week of February, according to Virginia Port Authority spokesman Joe Harris and American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data. The service, which transits the Suez Canal in both directions, […]
The Port of Virginia is still looking for a tenant for its vacant Portsmouth Marine Terminal after Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., the world’s largest fertilizer maker in terms of production capacity, eliminated the site as a possible location for a new sulfur melting plant.
Tideworks Technology, a provider of terminal management and planning software, said SSA Mexico (SSAM) has deployed the new Forecast customer service Web portal at its container terminal at Manzanillo, Mexico. Both Tideworks and SSA Mexico are subsidiaries of Carrix, one of the largest privately held marine and rail terminal operators. The Forecast Website provides […]
The newest container terminal in Busan’s New Port deepwater container complex has received its first vessel call, the port said Monday. The ship, operated by the South Korean liner carrier KMTC on its service between Incheon and Hong Kong, arrived over the weekend at the Busan New Container Terminal (BNCT). The terminal, […]
Cleveland-based ContainerPort Group said this spring it plans to open a “mega” multipurpose terminal at Columbus, Ohio. The new facility will allow CPG to consolidate its trucking, container yard, maintenance (chassis and containers), and cargo transfer services into a single location. The site will have access to both CSX and Norfolk Southern railroads. CPG said it secured […]
By Trevor Heaver professor emeritus, Centre for Transportation Studies Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada In 2001, Flemming Jacobs, then president of NOL, pointed to the need to find opportunities to change the old way of working in liner shipping, to replace the simple reliance on rate negotiations. […]
