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   Management and investment firm S2S Group’s new supply chain operation has selected Martin Lyon to be its development director.    S2S’s fourth-party logistics division offers supply chain services in the Middle East. Lyon will be based at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.    Lyon will also set up a new third-party logistics operation called the Universal Logistics Group (ULG) in Saudi Arabia on behalf of a […]

     Phoenix-based Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas has developed a set of apps to manage supply chain activity for use on Apple’s iOS devices.    The new POURS app, whose name comes from Avent’s replenishment system, allows for Web-based inventory management including monitoring and taking action on notifications. Customers can use the app to monitor, […]

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The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday reported that U.S. exports of goods and services in November 2011 fell 0.9 percent from the previous month to $177.8 billion. 

     Agility and Transport Intelligence said ithey will launch the second edition of the Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, a measure of how change and instability in the last year have affected more than 40 of the world’s emerging markets.    The index will address issues like: Which market became China’s biggest trading partner? Did […]

Singapore-based shipping company NOL said Friday it has secured financing worth $1.1 billion to fund the building of 10 14,000-TEU and two 9,200-TEU containerships for its liner division APL. 

     Liners carriers saw their on-time performance decline month-on-month for the third straight month in December, according to SeaIntel Maritime Analysis.    Reliability fell from 63 percent in November to 59 percent in December.    For the top 20 container lines, Maersk Line maintained its spot as the most reliable carrier, at 74 percent, […]

     The liner shipping company Meditrranean Shipping Co. has now dropped all calls to the United Kingdom on both its services to the east coast of South America from North Europe.    Its Europe-ECSA1 loop has withdrawn a direct call at Tilbury, subsituting it with a dedicated feeder link to Bremerhaven. At the same time this average 5,784-TEU weekly loop has […]

     The liner carrier CMA CGM has withdrawn from taking slots on the Malaysia-Bangladesh leg of an intra-Asia service operated by MCC Transport, according to American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data.    The service, dubbed SH1 by MCC, has a rotation of Shanghai, Tanjung Pelepas, Chittagong, Port Kelang, Singapore, and Shanghai. CMA CGM took slots […]

Schneider     Don Schneider, who built Schneider National into the largest privately held truckload carrier in the United States, died Friday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 76.    Schneider led the trucking company for more than 25 years, taking advantage of the motor carrier industry’s deregulation of the early 1980s to […]

The NIT League filed comments last week with the STB as part of the agency’s review of existing regulations to evaluate their viability and determine whether they are effective in addressing problems faced by railroads and shippers.

     AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) said last week it has started scheduled all-cargo services to Chengdu International Airport.    The service, operated with a Boeing 747-400 freighter, adds Chengdu – the capital of Sichuan province in Western China – to ABC’s existing route between Zhengzhou, Moscow, and Amsterdam.    Chengdu is not a new destination […]

     Grand China Shipping has suspended a Shanghai-Japan shuttle service, according to American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data.    The line’s SNS service, which had a rotation of Shanghai, Nagoya, and Shanghai, is no longer being offered. Intra-Asia lines MCC Transport and TS Lines took slots on the one-ship service.    TS Line departed another […]

Canadian National Railway Co. is alleging that private investor William Ackman’s plan to have former CN chief executive officer Hunter Harrison run its competitior, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., may violate a non-compete agreement. 

     Import cargo volume at the United States’ major retail container ports should be nearly flat during January, compared with the same month in 2011, but significant year-over-year increases are expected this spring, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released last week by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.    “We’re […]

   California-based Navis, part of the Cargotec Corp., announced that its Real Time Locating System (RTLS) will be used at the Sociedad Portuaria de Cartagena (SPRC) terminal in the Port of Cartagena, Columbia.    The RTLS is part of Navis’ Star Technology Alliance that blends its terminal operations with tracking and data platforms from its […]

   The non-vessel-operating common carrier ECU Line said Thursday its India-based parent company has relaunched under a new group brand name, Avashya.    ECU Line was acquired by the Indian logistics company Allcargo Logistics in 2006, and has functioned as a subsidiary since then.    Allcargo, started in 1993 by Chairman and Managing Director Shashi […]

   Air Canada said it will stop transporting monkeys destined to laboratories.     The airline filed an amended tariff with the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) that would enable it to discontinue the transportation of primates bound for research. CTA announced this week that it was suspending Air Canada’s amended tariff pending a hearing on this proposed new […]

Agency said it’s testing of orange juice for the presence of the fungicide carbendazim, and will deny imports of the commodity if the chemical residues exceed regulated levels.

     New Penn, a Pennsylvania-based less-than-truckload carrier, has launched a service alert process that will inform its shippers about situations that could impact their supply chains.    Aimed largely at addressing the seasonal effects of winter weather, the new email-based alert and its corresponding Web page will provide detailed information about weather, natural disasters, and other […]