Swiss freight forwarding giant Panalpina has opened a 10,000-square-meter logistics center at Tianjin in North China to cater to Bosch Automotive Diesel Systems, and has plans to set up more facilities across China for other shippers in the next three years.
Global trade and logistics management services provider TridentGLOBAL has entered an alliance with Bolero International to develop and market a range of integrated export documentation services for shippers. The two companies will work together globally, incorporating Trident’s export documentation with a Bolero ePresentation and allowing the content to be managed through Bolero’s […]
Diana Containerships said Monday it has signed an agreement to purchase two containerships with capacities of 3,750 TEUs each from Reederei Santa Containerschiffe GmbH & Co. KG. Diana said it paid $33 million each for the 2001-built Cap San Marco and 2002-built Cap San Raphael. The ships are being chartered back to the […]
Global enterprise application provider IFS has signed an agreement to purchase 100 percent of the shares of LatinIFS Tecnologia da Informação S.A. in cash. The acquisition is geared to strengthen IFS in the Latin American market. The move follows other acquisitions by IFS in the Brazil, Russia, India and China economies. IFS specializes in […]
Øivind Lorentzen III, chief executive officer of Seacor Holdings Inc., has been named the Connecticut Maritime Association’s Commodore for the year 2012. The award will be presented on March 21 at a dinner marking the conclusion of the association’s annual conference and trade exposition at the Hilton Hotel in Stamford, Conn. It […]
By Eric Kulisch If you don’t watch Fareed Zakharia’s “GPS” program Sunday mornings on CNN, you should. The journalist and foreign affairs analyst gets past the surface noise to provide provocative analysis about what’s really going on at the intersection of global economics and politics. GPS stands for Global Public Square. It’s a […]
Trimble has appointed PeopleNet Chief Executive Officer Ron Konezny as the new general manager of Trimble’s worldwide Transportation and Logistics (T&L) division. Konezny had been with PeopleNet, which specializes in integrated onboard computing and mobile fleet communication systems in North America, since its founding in 1994 and was appointed CEO in July 2007. […]
Maersk Line Chief Executive Officer Eivind Kolding will step down from his post in January to become executive board chairman at Danske Bank. Kolding, who took over the top spot at the world’s biggest container line in 2006, will be replaced Jan. 16 by Søren Skou, currently CEO of Maersk Tankers. ”Under Eivind […]
European Shippers Council members are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact on supply chains from European Commission regulation 185/2010 which will amend the air cargo security regime after April 29, 2013.
Freight forwarder Dachser said it has been accredited by Envirotainer to handle pharmaceuticals via air freight in compliance with good distribution practice (GDP) guidelines. The accreditation initially applies to Dachser’s facilities in Germany, including Frankfurt, Munich, Münster-Osnabrück and Stuttgart. The company intends to expand its partnership with Envirotainer on a global level, […]
A consortium of carriers running a transatlantic express loop, known as the Grand Alliance’s Atlantic Express, will increase the size of their vessels deployed on the service from March.
A Hapag-Lloyd vessel deployed on a transpacific service leg that was due to call at Seattle and Oakland last week was diverted to Manzanillo, Mexico, the carrier said in a notice. The line’s Kobe Express is deployed on the Grand Alliance PAX service connecting China and Japan, with the U.S. West and […]
YRC Worldwide said Friday that it has sold a significant portion of the truckload assets of its Glen Moore subsidiary to Celadon, another truckload carrier. James Welch, YRC’s chief executive officer, said his company will focus on its less-than-truckload business. “(Glen Moore’s) national, regional and dedicated fleet services augment our existing expertise, adding to our scale […]
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has thrown his support behind the L.A. port authority’s plan to build a new container terminal for Hyundai Merchant Marine’s California United Terminals, which is expected to handle an expanding flow of goods between the United States and South Korea.
TÜV Rheinland’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) group has joined the quality control team for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Connected Vehicle Safety Pilot project. The pilot is a program that tests the reliability and safety of new technologies to allow vehicles to communicate with each other, traffic lights, work zones, and other pieces […]
Shippers on the Asia-Europe trade lane can expect to see “perpetual overcapacity” out to 2015 unless liner carriers make “significant changes,” according to the Copenhagen-based maritime consultant SeaIntel. SeaIntel analyzed supply and demand data to forecast three years out and said the outlook is very clear: “Something has got to give.” […]
The Port of Los Angeles and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have prepared a draft environmental impact statement and report to improve and expand APL’s container terminal, Berths 302-306.
U.K.-based freight forwarder SBS Worldwide has appointed Christian Marz as U.S. operations director. He will be based at SBS’s Chicago office and will report to Lars Kloch, U.S. managing director. Marz started his forwarding career in South Africa in 1989. From 2000 to 2002, he operated Comapp GmbH, a mobile applications company, […]
Four U.S. ports garnered $62 million, or 12 percent, in infrastructure grants out of $511 million awarded to 46 recipients through the Department of Transportation’s TIGER program.
Cargo volume at the Southern California Port of Long Beach plummeted in November by more than 17 percent year-on-year, including a 15.6 percent drop in loaded imports, according to port statistics released this week. Meanwhile, the Port of Los Angeles saw import volume climb 6.2 percent in November year-on-year, to 354,313 TEUs, and […]
