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. […]
Many large liner carriers still prefer to develop software. Softship, a Hamburg-based software company focused on the shipping industry, believes ocean carriers should rely less on custom-designed software and use more packaged software.
Shippers take collaborative logistics to the next level by partnering on truck capacity. By Eric Kulisch Collaboration among suppliers and customers has long been an aspiration for logistics professionals that is easily talked about, but not always acted upon. One of the latest trends in supply chain management involves competitors in […]
The shipping company Maersk Line has added a call at Germany’s Bremerhaven and a seventh vessel to its weekly ECUBEX service between St. Petersburg, Russia, and the west coast of South America. Round voyage time on the average 2,582-TEU capacity loop has increased from 42 days to 49 days. The revised rotation of […]
National trucking company J.B. Hunt said it had profit of $72.6 million in the fourth quarter, compared to $57.9 million in the same 2010 period. Revenue for the quarter was $1.2 billion, compared to $1.02 billion recorded in the fourth quarter of 2010. For the full year, Hunt had a profit of $257 […]
The shipping companies Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Co. have added a call at Jakarta, Indonesia, and an 11th vessel to their weekly “Boomerang” loop running from Japan and North Asia to Australia, continuing to Southeast Asia and back to Australia and North Asia. Round voyage time was increased from 70 to 77 days. The Boomerang rotation now includes Yokohama, […]
Boeing said it has delivered the first of five new 747-8 freighters to AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), part of Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group. The 747-8 freighter is about 250 feet long, or 18 feet longer than its predecessor, the 747-400 all-cargo plane. The stretch provides customers with 16 percent more revenue cargo volume, which translates to four […]
