The liner shipping company X-Press Feeders has ended its slot charter agreement with Mitsui O.S.K. Line on the latter’s weekly NCX service between Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The service operates with five vessels, three from MOL and one each from partners Orient Overseas Container Line and Samudera Shipping Line, averaging 3,407 […]
There will be no letup in the rapid pace of reforms underway at U.S. Customs and Border Protection to reduce red tape associated with trade enforcement so that legitimate cargo can be cleared and processed as efficiently as possible, Acting Commissioner David Aguilar said 10 days into his new job. In an invitation-only meeting with three […]
Kerry Logistics said this week it will build a new logistics facility at Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan Province. Construction is due to begin in the second quarter of 2012 with a scheduled completion date in the first quarter of 2013. The logistics center will be built on 70,000 square meters of land, and will […]
Florida’s Global eProcure (GEP) has announced its acquisition of Enporion, a Tampa-based supply chain management firm. GEP has been a provider of sourcing and procurement services since 1999 and has expanded its business to include a SaaS (software as a service)-based source-to-pay platform. Enporion’s operations cover sourcing and e-procurement applications with many customers […]
India’s financially-stricken national carrier Air India has put its fleet of six Boeing 737-200 freighters up for sale in a bid to cut its losses on a dedicated cargo unit.
Non-vessel-operating common carrier CaroTrans said Monday it will start a new Los Angeles-Ho Chi Minh City export and import less-than-containerload service from Jan. 13. The service will provide 18-day transit port to port via CaroTrans’ Vietnam-based NVO partner, Seahorse Shipping. “Vietnam is a key trade market for the global shipping industry,” said […]
DHL Global Forwarding said Monday it has started a new less-than-containerload service from Italy to Kuwait. The weekly direct service will improve transit time from 32 to 27 days by avoiding transshipment in Dubai, DHL said. Kuwait’s economy grew an estimated 5.2 percent in 2011, and is experiencing an increased demand for […]
Investor William Ackman, who bought a 14 percent stake in the Canadian Pacific, plans to wage a proxy fight to take control of the railroad and replace its current CEO with Hunter Harrison, former chief of Canadian National.
U.S. Xpress Enterprises said Monday it has appointed Todd Smith as president of Arnold Transportation Services, the company’s regional truckload carrier. Smith most recently was president for five years at LinkAmerica Corp., a holding company for several regional truckload carriers that operate mainly in the south central and southeastern United States. “Having […]
Southern California’s Port of Long Beach will hold a public hearing Wednesday to receive comments on a draft environmental impact report for a proposed grain export facility at its Pier T. Total Terminals International, the operator of the terminal, has proposed to build a facility that would transfer grain from railcars into ocean shipping […]
B/E Aerospace, a Wellington, Fla.-based aircraft interior products manufacturer, has agreed to buy supply chain management and inventory logistics service provider UFC Aerospace for $400 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to close before the end of the first quarter. A B/E spokesperson said that the deal will not affect […]
The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command said Monday it will make an organization re-alignment “designed to increase efficiency while maintaining effectiveness.” “We are proactively streamlining and improving our organization so that we will be ready for anything that comes our way in this challenging fiscal environment,” said Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, […]
Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association held a rally outside Global Terminals in Jersey City, N.J. on Friday to express their concerns about the use of automation at the terminal, which is being expanded. Stephen Knott, ILA’s general vice president, said the union wants to make sure if the terminal is automated […]
By Eric Kulisch I noted in this space a couple weeks ago that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s pre-Christmas update of the anti-fatigue rules governing drivers was not as burdensome to the trucking industry as most experts and officials feared. The new hours-of-service rules do further limit the maximum amount of driving time available to truckers each week, […]
In a bid to extend its coverage, Berlin-based DB Schenker’s China arm has established a new office in Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. Hohhot is the first Schenker China location opened in the Inner Mongolia province. Hohhot’s main industry products are medicine, wind power, coal, machine tools, and […]
John F. Dailey, the former owner of the New York-based freight forwarder and customs broker Karr, Ellis & Co., died Jan. 2 at the age of 94. After serving in the Army during World War II, Daily joined Karr, Ellis as an employee and eventually bought out the original owner with two partners. Over time […]
Liner carriers who sought to raise revenue levels on the Asia-Europe and transpacific trades at the end of 2011 were largely successful in doing so, according to research from maritime analyst SeaIntel.
Maersk Line has converted its Safari 2 Southeast Asia to the Indian Ocean and Mozambique service into a feeder based on its Indian Ocean hub at Port Louis.
The liner shipping company Cheng Lie Navigation (CNC) has begun a slot charter agreement with Mitsui O.S.K. Line on the latter’s weekly Japan to Thailand and the Philippines service CBE. The first sailing left Tokyo Jan. 7 on the MOL Seabreeze. CNC is the Taiwan-based intra-asia specialist subsidiary of CMA CGM. The rotation of […]
A new report from the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows that U.S. containerized trade with top partner China is more than four times that of its trade with Japan, the second largest partner. The report, The Changing Tide of U.S.-International Container Trade, said containerized trade with China spiked by […]
