American Shipper

     North Carolina’s Longistics has selected Amy Henderson as its manager of international foreign trade zones (FTZ).    In this role, she will oversee international shipments and receipts, inventory control, record keeping for customs compliance, and supervision of Longistics’ customers and service team. Longistics operates two FTZs, one in Research Triangle Park, N.C., and the other […]

     The Japanese government has recently approved Hawaiian-grown Rainbow papaya for commercial shipment to Japan.     In the 1990s, an outbreak of the papaya ringspot virus decimated Hawaii’s papaya crop. Scientists from Cornell University, the University of Hawaii, The Upjohn Co. and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service used biotechnology to develop the […]

   The shipping company Maersk Line has added a single eastbound-only call at Tangiers to its weekly Asia-Europe loop AE10, operated with its 11 largest vessels (averaging 14,848 TEUs).    The AE10 loop is continuing to call first at nearby Algeciras, in addition to Tangiers.    This new call represents one of only two direct calls to Tangiers offered by […]

A study on the impact of reduced dredging of channels on the Mississippi River finds that exports could be reduced by 12.4 percent and imports 5.5 percent if channel depths were reduced from 45 to 38 feet. 

Alan Bersin, former CBP commissioner, is likely try to replicate across multiple DHS agencies the types of management, policy and structural reforms that became the hallmark of his 21-month term in CBP, his successor said Monday. 

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said FedEx Express has agreed to pay civil penalty to settle allegations that it committed six violations of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). 

   Blue Skies has chosen a time and temperature management system from TempTRIP to preserve its fresh fruit shipments from Africa to the United Kingdom in as little as 48 hours.    Blue Skies, also based in the United Kingdom, has more than 2,000 employees in Ghana, Egypt, South Africa and Brazil and sources and supplies fruit from fields, […]

The liner shipping company Mediterranean Shipping Co. has initiated a slot chartering agreement with six more carriers taking slots on its Mediterranean-ECSA service.

   November container volume from Asia to Europe declined by 5.3 percent year-on-year, according to the latest figures from Container Trade Statistics.    Volume reached 1 million TEUs on the westbound Asia-Europe lane in November, the latest month for which statistics are available.    For the year, European volume from Asia was 12.7 million TEUs, a […]

      Maersk Line, Ltd., the U.S.-flag vessel operator for A.P. Moller-Maersk, said it has completed the reflagging under U.S. registry of the Maersk Illinois, its newest multipurpose heavy-lift vessel.     The ship is one of two sister vessels that MLL acquired in September 2011 and which will sail for Maersk-Rickmers U.S. Flag Project Carrier, providing […]

     The liner shipping company CSAV has joined CMA CGM’s WAX 3 service which covers the Mediterranean to West Africa.    CSAV will begin operating on this service, which it calls New Discovery 3, with the Jan. 17 sailing of Celina Star from Valencia.    WAX 3/New Discovery 3 operates with five vessels averaging 3,414 […]

     The shipping company Maersk Line has added a new Japan call and a 10th vessel to its weekly TP7 service between Asia and East Coast North America.    The carrier has added a westbound call at Osaka, while increasing the number of vessels deployed on the service from nine to 10 and increasing round voyage time from 63 days […]

c     The liner shipping company Crowley Maritime Corp. is now offering an additional weekly sailing between Port Everglades and Central America on Mondays.    Like the existing Friday departure, the additional loop will call Port Everglades, Santo Tomas de Castilla, Puerto Cortes, and Port Everglades. Each loop is operated by a single 972-TEU vessel.       The Monday loop began […]

     The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) said this week it has published its latest annual Shipping Industry Flag State Performance Table, which helps shipowners examine the substance of flag states before registering vessels there.    The table collates various data available in the public domain, with the ICS encouraging shipowners to pressure their […]

     GAC Group has expanded its Nordic ship agency, liner agency and project logistics network through the purchase of Lehmann Nordic Group’s shipping subsidiaries.    The acquisition will give GAC more than 45 new staff and five additional offices in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.    LN, established in Copenhagen in 1900, grew from its origins […]

     London-based private equity Man Capital LLP has acquired OTS Logistics Group, parent of non-vessel-operating common carrier Vanguard Logistics Services, from founder and chairman Owen Glenn.    Terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Man Capital said it will support and maintain the existing management team, led by Charlie Brennan, chief executive officer, […]

   The liner carrier NYK Line is now taking slots on Emirates Shipping Line’s Hyper Galex service between China and India.    The service has a rotation of Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Dachan Bay, Singapore, Port Kelang, Nhava Sheva, Pipavav, Karachi, Singapore, and Qingdao, the Japanese line said. According to American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data, […]

   The liner carrier Zim said Tuesday it plans to increase rates on the trade from the Indian Subcontinent to Europe.    The increase, $200 per TEU, is applicable to shipments to destination ports in Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and Black Sea. The increase is effective from Feb. 1.

   The liner carrier Safmarine has appointed Grant Daly as its new chief executive officer, effective Feb. 1.    Daly is currently head of Safmarine’s multi-purpose vessel unit, a role he has held since October 2010, and will replace outgoing CEO Tomas Dyrbye. Daly has been with Safmarine since 1994, having held a number of […]

The stern of Rena has mostly submerged after the containership broke in half on Astrolabe Reef, off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand during a storm over the weekend. Floating oil and containers are a concern.