President Obama has named Alan Bersin assistant secretary for international affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, keeping him in the fold to continue pursuing initiatives on cross-border trade and travel in a different position.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission will allow Consolidated Chassis Management (CCM), which manages about 125,000 chassis for about 20 liner companies, to amend an agreement that allows it to work collectively when operating chassis pools. FMC Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. said he agreed to vote in favor of the changes in the CCM agreement […]
A new terminal that APM Terminals (APMT) is planning to build in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico will have an initial capacity to handle 1.2 million TEUs per year and be able to process as many as 4.2 million TEUs annually when fully completed. APMT announced Thursday that it had been awarded a 32-year concession […]
Evergreen Line has brought back its weekly UAM transpacific and Asia-Mediterranean pendulum service barely two months after it was split in two.
In January, the Grand Alliance of liner shipping companies will resume calling Sendai, Japan eastbound on its weekly transpacific loop SCX. The port call was put on hold after the May earthquake and tsunami.
The liner shipping company Maersk Line has added a single eastbound call at Tangiers to its weekly Asia-Europe loop AE9, dropping the previous eastbound call at Malaga, but leaving the westbound Malaga call intact. The service has a revised rotation of Bremerhaven, Felixstowe, Zeebrugge, Tangiers, Ningbo, Shanghai, Xiamen, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Malaga, […]
The shipping company Maersk Line has more than doubled the capacity on its Mombasa Express service from its Salalah hub to Mombasa, Kenya, while improving its frequency to around five days from nine days previously. Subsidiary Safmarine already provides two vessels and Maersk has added three more, increasing the number of ships on the shuttle to five, with […]
Tampa Port Authority said Atlantic Ro-Ro Carriers will launch a new multipurpose general cargo service between the Port of Tampa and Russia’s St. Petersburg next month.
Only a quarter of small and medium-sized businesses export even though growth prospects overseas are better than strictly through domestic sales, according to a UPS-sponsored survey of more than 1,000 companies.
Based on its annual review of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the White House determined only one product – certain non-down sleeping bags – should be removed from eligibility for duty-free treatment in the trade program. However, a petition to remove GSP duty-free treatment for two types of self-adhesive plastic tape was […]
The White House has determined all 40 sub-Saharan African countries currently eligible for trade preferences and other benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) will remain the same and no new countries will be added at this time. The Obama administration’s determination is based on the annual review of whether the […]
The Bureau of Industry and Security, which is tasked with overseeing the nation’s commercial export control rules, seeks additional industry comments on a regulatory review.
APM Terminals has won a 32-year concession to build and operate a new terminal in the port of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, which when completed will have a total area of about 250 acres, 1,485 meters of quay, and four berths.
Global Logistic Properties (GLP) of Singapore and China Investment Corp. have entered into a joint venture to acquire 15 distribution centers in Japan from LaSalle Investment Management for 122.6 billion yen ($1.6 billion). The portfolio of 15 properties to be acquired will have a floor area of 770,989 square meters with more than 90 percent located […]
The American Trucking Associations wants the Supreme Court to review its case against the Port of Los Angeles, which has increased requirements for truckers serving its container terminals.
PAR Technology is selling its PAR Logistics Management Systems (PAR LMS) subsidiary to ORBCOMM Inc., a N.J.-based global satellite data communications company. PAR LMS is a service provider focused on monitoring transport assets and cargo in the transportation and distribution industries. When PAR announced the sale, it said ORBCOMM will pay […]
Compatriot liner carriers COSCO Container Lines and China Shipping will start a slot-sharing deal in 2012 that will see China Shipping join three CKYH Alliance services as a slot buyer, COSCO said Wednesday. In the other direction, COSCO will take space on three services in which China Shipping is the predominant vessel […]
Chatham, N.J.-based Preferred Freezer Services (PFS) is expanding in China. The company in November opened a 25,000-square-meter temperature-controlled warehouse at Lingang Park near Yangshan port in Shanghai. A second facility is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2012 in Waigaoqiao, while a third facility is under construction in Tianjin. […]
Progress Software, an operations software provider, has appointed Henry Hicks to vice president of supply chain. Hicks will head the marketing and development of Progress Software’s global supply chain practice. He was formerly vice president of worldwide services in sales and marketing at Lenovo Computers and held management positions at Deloitte, Dell, Frito Lay, and UPS.
Israeli flag carrier El Al became the 16th airline to settle a class-action suit on behalf of freight forwarders who claim they were harmed by paying inflated prices for transportation because of collusion by carriers on surcharges, the elimination or prevention of discounts and commissions. El Al agreed to pay $15.8 million to the […]
