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     INTTRA, a global provider of e-commerce applications for the ocean freight industry, said it plans to streamline the development and quality assurance testing efforts for its applications to a single partner, Cognizant.    Cognizant, a New Jersey-based technology consulting and business processing service, will help INTTRA develop efficient ocean freight management and e-commerce solutions […]

     The Ports of Indiana handled 8.1 million tons of cargo in 2011, the largest annual tonnage since 2006.    “Despite continued economic uncertainties, this was the fourth consecutive year our ports experienced growth,” said Ports of Indiana Chief Executive Officer Rich Cooper. “Our 2011 shipments were nearly a million tons higher than the five […]

   In the past several weeks, agricultural specialists in San Juan, Puerto Rico, have intercepted more Thrips on shipments of cut flowers from Colombia than usual, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.     Common names for thrips include thunderflies, thunderbugs, storm flies, thunderblights and corn lice. Thrips species feed on plants and vegetables by puncturing them and […]

   Pilots are recommending the maximum draft of ships on the Mississippi River be reduced to 42 feet Wednesday morning following the grounding of a vessel at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at Cubits Gap.    The Rondeau went aground with an outbound draft of 44 feet. The vessel was refloated at about noon. Normally the channel is maintained […]

     Maersk Line said this week it will be adding two calls to its ME3 service between the Indian Subcontinent, Middle East and Mediterranean.    The service will add stops in Izmit, Turkey and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from Jan. 26. The revised rotation will be Mersin, Istanbul, Izmit, Port Said, Jeddah, Jebel Ali, Pipavav, […]

The Tampa Port Authority said it will spend $9.2 million to purchase 110 acres for cargo and other maritime purposes near its Port Redwing facilities, in south Hillsborough County. 

The Fish and Wildlife Service will ban, effective in late March, the import and interstate transport of four non-native python snakes because of the threat they pose to wildlife in the Everglades and other ecosystems. 

     Liner shipping company Mediterranean Shipping Co. said on March 1 it will implement a general rate increase for cargo from the United States bound for the Far East.    For all commodities, including exempt commodities, but excluding reefer the increase is: $50 per 20-foot container and $100 per 40-foot container for cargo originating at West Coast […]

JDA Software has ended the 2011 fiscal year with numbers mostly in line with its original guidance for full-year 2011, which is good news as software sales declined and as the firm wrapped up legal disputes. 

     CombineNet, an e-sourcing technology provider, has announced it ended 2011 with strong revenue growth, software usage, and customers.    The company said it had a 71 percent growth in customers in 2011 compared to 2010, which is the company’s best growth rate to date. CombineNet said it now has its largest-ever customer base.   […]

   The Coca-Cola Co. has awarded DB Schenker Logistics two businesses for its warehousing and transportation operations in Poland.    The Atlanta-based soft drinks giant will integrate previously owned and operated satellite distribution centers for its finished goods into existing DB Schenker warehouses.    Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, nor was the length […]

     International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has placed orders with Cargotec, the Finnish maker of cargo-handling equipment, for expandin its terminals in Mexico and the Philippines.    In Mexico, ICTSI has started the construction of the Specialized Container Terminal-2 in the Port of Manzanillo.    As part of the expansion it will receive four super […]

     The Port of Los Angeles handled 7,940,511 TEUs in 2011, 1.4 percent more than the 7,831,902 TEUs handled in 2010, including empties.    Containerized port exports were 2,109,394 TEUs in 2011, a 14.5 percent increase over the 1,841,273 TEUs handled in 2010. It was a second record-breaking year for containerized exports through the port.    2011 […]

     The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) said the Port of Charleston handled 109,472 TEUs last month, 2.4 percent more than the 106,866 TEUs handled in December 2010.    Container volume for calendar year 2011 was 1.38 million TEUs, up 1.2 percent from 2010.    “We are continuing to experience a flat economic environment here in […]

     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 […]