Amber Road, formerly Management Dynamics, is building on its global trade management (GTM) offerings with the launch of TradeWizards.com, a free cloud-based portal for global trade operations. The Website is a combination of nine research tools built around obtaining data related to cost and compliance risks around importing and exporting goods. […]
The port of Tianjin in northern China saw container volumes climb 13.9 percent in 2011 to a record 11.5 million TEUs, according to reports in China. Tianjin is the nearest port to China’s capital, Beijing. The port reportedly saw intermodal volume rise 15 percent in 2011, compared to 2010, and added 13 new […]
The Associated Press said Tuesday that about 6,000 workers involved in the expansion of the Panama Canal have gone on strike for higher wages. The news agency quoted a representative for the workers as saying they want the base wage raised from $2.90 per hour to $4.90, and the wage for the most skilled workers raised […]
Bentley Helen Delich Bentley, a former Maryland congresswoman and past chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, has proposed changing the Harbor Maintenance Tax so that it’s collected not only on ocean-borne cargo, but on all freight from foreign sources entering the United States. The tax is not paid by freight entering the United States from […]
The document, created by North American Produce Transportation Working Group, integrates multiple existing transportation guidelines into a single set of best practices which can be used throughout North America by the carrier industry.
The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday said two Kentuckians and their caviar companies pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to trafficking in and falsely labeling illegally harvested paddlefish. Steve Kinder and his wife, Cornelia Joyce Kinder, both of Owenton, Ky., owned and operated Kinder Caviar […]
Non-vessel-operating common carrier Troy Container Line will begin a new direct consolidation service to Liverpool and Manchester in the United Kingdom. The service will begin on Feb. 11 with a sailing from New York to Liverpool aboard the vessel Atlantic Cartier. It is a 10-day direct call to Liverpool. In addition to […]
U.S. Ambassador Ertharin Cousin has been named executive director of the United Nations World Food Program. She has served as the U.S. representative to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome for more than two years, helping to carry out President Obama’s global food security policy and other matters related to […]
By Eric Kulisch The Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration on Tuesday awarded $77 million in grants to 22 University Transportation Centers to research issues such as shared rail corridors for passengers and freight, multimodal freight and infrastructure innovations, distracted driving and reducing roadway fatalities and injuries. Each center will receive $3.5 million […]
Container shipping companies “are expected to face another difficult year in 2012 with weak demand growth in both the Europe and U.S. markets,” according to the shipping information service Alphaliner. In the latest edition of its weekly newsletter, Alphaliner said trade on the Far East to Europe headhaul lane “reached an estimated […]
The shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Line has ended its slot charter agreement with Orient Overseas Container Line on the latter’s weekly Philippine feeder service from Hong Kong and Shekou, PHF2. The service operates with one OOCL vessel with a capacity of 2,700 TEUs, but will skip one sailing position from Hong Kong […]
NEO Air Charter – the recently formed cargo charter broker which said it will only deal with freight forwarders – has appointed Stefan Kohlmann to joint managing partner. Kohlmann now jointly heads the company alongside Adnan Duran, who launched NEO in October 2011. Kohlmann has spent 23 years in air freight, initially […]
Liner shipping company Safmarine announced three appointments to its commercial team, which will be headed by Grant Daly, the A.P. Moller-Maersk subsidiary’s new chief executive officer. They include: Nick Gough, currently Safmarine’s strategic sales and accounts director in Antwerp, will become global key account director based in Copenhagen. Stephen Knight takes on […]
Southern California’s Port of Long Beach said its terminals handled 6.1 million TEUs in 2011, or 3.2 percent fewer than it handled in record year 2010. The port said the decline reflected the decision by California United Terminals to vacate one of the port’s seven container terminals in late 2010 and relocate to […]
CSAV said that it moved fewer containers in December than it did a year earlier, but at improved freight rates. The Chilean carrier said preliminary figures showed it moved 201,000 TEUs in December, compared to 294,500 TEUs in December 2010. But the carrier said the freight rates, based on an index that pegged average 2008 rates […]
Descartes Systems Group’s new Logistics Flow Control application gives retailers better means to coordinate with supplier-managed shipments and commercial and logistics documentation for import duty filings.
Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has launched its StellarTrak, a cloud-based service providing cargo security, monitoring and asset tracking to its LoadStar customers. John Meredith, HPH’s group managing director, said “Cargo theft, spoilage, and smuggling continue to be major concerns for our customers and all supply chain participants.” StellarTrak provides LoadStar (HPH’s cargo security […]
Menlo Worldwide Logistics, a subsidiary of Con-way Inc., named Sheila K. Taylor as senior vice president of finance, in which she will be responsible for financial reporitng, systems and processes, as well as regulatory financial compliance.
Third-party logistics provider Kane Is Able has appointed Scott Moran to executive vice president of business development and marketing. Moran has experience in the consumer packaged goods sector through warehousing and distribution, ground transportation and international transportation across multiple continents. He joins Kane from Hellman Worldwide Logistics, where he was vice president of sales.
AEW Europe will merge its three existing logistics funds to create a 1 billion euro pan-European logistics platform. AEW said the new fund will be one of the largest logistics investment portfolios in Europe. The firm also noted the logistics market has been undergoing a large consolidation in recent years and believes companies will try to minimize […]
