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 […]
Arkansas Best Corp. had a fourth quarter profit of $1.4 million in 2011, compared to a loss of $3.1 million for the same 2010 period. Operating revenue was $463 million in the quarter, compared to $441 million in the same 2010 quarter. The less-than-truckload company had a profit of $6.2 million for the full […]
Hub Group said it had a profit of $17 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, 36 percent more than the $12.5 million earned in the same 2010 period. Revenue for the quarter was $763 million, compared to $480 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. Hub, which provides intermodal, truck brokerage and […]
Maersk Line, the world’s largest operator of container vessels, will become the first ocean carrier to take advantage of a new incentive program at the Port of Virginia designed to encourage transport companies to reduce air pollution from commercial vessels while at berth.
The National Football League makes a lot of money from licensing merchandise with team logos and players names, but fans looking to save money can find plenty of counterfeit apparel. Officers at U.S. Customs and Border Protection have been working during the football season to quell the trade of illegal merchandise. The […]
The Foss vessel Delta Mariner struck the Eggner Ferry Bridge, which services both U.S. Highway 68 and Kentucky Highway 80, resulting in its collapse, according to the Kentucky Department of Transportation.
South America’s largest airline, AviancaTaca, on Thursday signed an agreement to buy 33 Airbus A320neo planes, as well as 18 other A320 aircraft. The plane order, the largest from a single airline in the region in terms of number, follows a memorandum of understanding signed during the Le Bourget Air Show in Paris in […]
Budapest Airport in Hungary said it achieved a record cargo throughput in 2011, handling more than 100,000 tons for the first time. Flown cargo volumes grew by 6.4 percent to almost 70,000 tons, despite the flat volumes worldwide last year, while trucked volumes more than doubled to nearly 37,000 tons, taking total throughput to 106,595 tons. […]
