Port executives asked for passage of the Realize America’s Maritime Promise or RAMP Act (H.R. 104) during a joint hearing of the House’s Ways and Means oversight and select revenue measures subcommittees.
RMI, a GE Transportation company and provider of transport management software, has released a new information technology application aimed at helping railroads better analyze revenue management, improve rating accuracy and automation, and decrease rating cycle times. The new service, RMI said, came about because of customer requests for help with revenue management performance. RMI is […]
The pharmaceutical company Roche has awarded logistics contracts in Greece to Swiss freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel. K+N transports temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products for Roche, and usually these products are transported by air freight even over relatively short distances. For its business in Greece, however, the drug company sought a more environmentally-friendly alternative that would reduce carbon […]
Tropical Shipping and its affiliate Thompson Line have increased bunker surcharges for cargo moving on 20-foot equipment between the United States and Canada and several destinations, including: $25 to $220 to and from the Bahamas. $35 to $265 to and from the Cayman Islands or Turks and Caicos. $50 to $440 to and from […]
RedPrairie, an Atlanta-based supply chain and retail technology provider, announced that its Merchandise Management and Direct Commerce applications are now available as on-demand through the cloud. RedPrairie is adding cloud versions of these applications as part of an overall cloud platform strategy, touting its ability to save money and provide more efficient […]
Portland has begun to export Ford vehicles made in Detroit to South Korea, marking the first time the auto maker has utilized the Pacific Northwest to deliver finished vehicles abroad.
Last week American Shipper surveyed shippers on the transpacific eastbound trade and the results were, as expected, quite enlightening. But perhaps the most intriguing number to emerge from the latest Transpacific Pulse survey was this: shippers who don’t lock in their rates on the trade for the year were five times more likely […]
C.H. Robinson said it had a profit $109.2 million in the fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, 5.9 percent more than the $103.2 million earned in the same 2010 period. Revenue was $2.6 for the quarter, 10.4 percent more than the $2.3 billion recorded in the fourth quarter of 2010. For the […]
The Dutch logistics company IJS Global has appointed Sven Boekhorst as its head of global ocean freight and executive vice president. Boekhorst comes to IJS Global from Panalpina, where he served as senior vice president of corporate ocean freight. In this newly established role, Boekhorst will be responsible for ocean freight procurement and operations, […]
Tegma Gestão Logística, a large logistics management provider in Brazil that focuses on transportation for the auto industry, has concluded its purchase of LTD Transportes LTDA’s operations. Tegma said it made the decision to acquire LTD because of its existing logistics operations in e-commerce and customer relationships. The business bought by Tegma consists of […]
Steven Cernak has been named port director of Port Everglades. The Broward County Board also approved a 30-year lease operating agreement with the Florida East Coast Railway to develop a 42.5-acre intermodal container transfer facility.
A new program announced Tuesday will allow truckers serving the port to receive up to $20,000 towards disposal of their old, polluting rigs and purchase of newer model trucks.
Joining the executive manager ranks are Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer Jakob Stausholm, Chief Product and Yield Officer Vincent Clerc, and Bill Allen, head of group human resources.
A new transportation bill was introduced in the U.S. House by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John L. Mica, R-Fla., and other members of his committee on Tuesday. They said the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R. 7) would authorize approximately $260 billion over five years to fund federal highway, transit and […]
One of the world’s top shipping financiers said this week it plans to scale back its ship financing operations, according to a Reuters report Tuesday. UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank by assets, told the news agency it plans to sell some of its shipping portfolio and reduce its exposure to the industry by […]
The liner shipping company TS Lines has joined three of Goto Shipping’s Japan-China services in January. TS Lines has started taking slots on Goto Shipping’s LKTS, XKTN and SKU services. The partnership between Goto Shipping and TS Lines comes after TS Lines ended a similar Japan-China slot-share agreement with Grand China Shipping on the latter’s Shanghai-Osaka/Kobe EKX service. […]
The Port of Oakland said a study by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley found a 50 percent decline in diesel particulate matter emissions from drayage trucks and a 40 percent decline in nitrogen oxide emissions in the port area following implementation of the clean trucks component of […]
The shipping company Maersk Line is suspending its distinctive Middle East to Algeciras, West Africa and South Afrrica MEW1 “round-Africa” one-way service. The last sailing will be by JPO Gemini, departing Dubai on Feb 19. The 9-ship, average 2,515-TEU, MEW1 connects Dubai weekly with Algeciras, Dakar, Lagos, Douala, and Cape Town with 63-day round-trip voyages that traverse […]
Liquefied natural gas “continues to make progress as a credible fuel alternative” for international transport carriers, Federal Maritime Commissioner Mario Cordero told a conference in Houston last week. Speaking at the World LNG Fuels Conference, Cordero referenced an annoucement from the classification society Det Norke Veritas last month that it had approved in principle […]
The liner carrier OOCL said Tuesday it plans to hike rates from Northern Europe to Asia from Feb. 15. The increase is $200 per container for all types of cargo. “Ocean freight rates continue to be below the required level to cover basic operating costs or transportation costs on our North […]
