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 […]
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 […]
