Collaboration between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Consumer Production Safety Commission has resulted in thousands of unsafe toys being kept from sale to the public. In November, CBP officers in Chicago seized a shipment of 47,700 FBI Action Play Sets from China after CPSC testing of samples determined they contained excessive amounts of […]
A coalition of pro-trade solar panel developers and installers want SolarWorld Industries of America to withdraw its petition to the ITC and Commerce Department against Chinese-made panels, citing potential detriment to the overall industry.
The U.S. Transportation Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) released its final “hours of service” rule for truckers on Thursday, reducing from 82 to 70 hours the maximum number of hours a truck driver can work within a seven-day period. The final rule, however, retains the current 11-hour daily driving limit. […]
The CKYH Alliance has formed a partnership with Evergreen Line on the Asia-Europe trade, running eight loops from Asia to North Europe and four from Asia to the Med, due to start from the second quarter of 2012.
Agency keeps comment period open to Jan. 9 as indsutry groups weigh in on inland containerized cargo moves through Canadian and Mexican ports.
The liner shipping company Maersk Line has extended its weekly Asia-Port Said shuttle AE5 beyond Port Said to Turkey and has added a call in Nansha, China. Calls at Izmir and Istanbul in Turkey are now added as a new spoke from Maersk’s Suez hub at Port Said. The AE5 now has a rotation […]
The transpacific trade faces a worrying period of overcapacity through 2015, according to the consultant SeaIntel Maritime Analysis. The results are quite parallel to a projection SeaIntel made on the Asia-Europe trade earlier this month, suggesting liner overcapacity on the key east-west trades is linked and endemic. “The capacity reductions seen in […]
Park Ridge, N.J.-based SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd. said it has filed a universal shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to provide the company flexibility to sell up to $75 million worth of securities after the registration statement is declared effective. SeaCube said it has no current plans to issue […]
The South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said it expects new orders to drop 23 percent next year as shipping lines struggle with an oversupply of vessels and falling rates, according to a Bloomberg report over the weekend. Daewoo, the second largest shipbuilder in the world, said it has […]
The Maryland governor’s office has produced a new mobile application that gives truckers in the state a list of nearby emergency parking locations to ride out coming winter storms. Maryland’s Transportation Secretary Beverley Swaim-Staley announced the pilot for this program alongside the Maryland Motor Truck Association (MMTA) and I-95 Corridor Coalition, saying […]
Thor Liberty Finland’s Transport Safety Agency has rescinded an impoundment order on the ship Thor Liberty, which was detained in Kotka Harbor after what authorities said were irregularities in the packing of its cargo that included 29 Patriot missiles and explosives. YLE, Finland’s national broadcast company, reported during an inspection carried out on Monday, […]
The U.S. Justice Department and Coast Guard said a Florida man had been charged with fraudulent certification of cargo ships. An indictment issued last week charges Alejandro Gonzalez, 60, of Miami-Dade County, with making false official statements and obstructing agency proceedings. If convicted, he faces a maximum statutory penalty of five years in jail. According […]
By Eric Kulisch The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Thursday issued its final anti-fatigue rule governing how much time commercial truck drivers can spend behind the wheel before getting rest. The hours-of-service rulemaking had been highly anticipated for months. Within the trucking industry and its customer base there was almost universal consensus that the […]
A new transportation management Website has popped up, promising to help shippers, distribution centers, manufacturers, and other companies get better rates from a list of more than 28,000 available carriers. The RateMyShipment.com site comes from TranZcenter, a logistics and supply chain management services provider, and its head of operations Milton Collier. The network of […]
Texas-based American Movers Group, which focuses both on domestic and international moves, has announced it will use Track What Matters’ GPS asset tracking system to improve its records and help settle customer disputes. The GPS units on trucks will be used not only to ensure delivery but also track employee’s driving habits […]
Alan Bersin will step down as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, effective Dec. 30, leaving behind an industry-approved record of trade facilitation reforms.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday named David Aguilar, deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as acting commissioner. Aguilar will take over Dec. 30, with Thomas Winkowski serving as acting deputy.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) released its final “hours of service” rule for truckers on Thursday, reducing from 82 to 70 hours the maximum number of hours a truck driver can work within a seven-day period.
The Port of Baltimore took another step towards becoming a bigger center for containerized imports with the news this week that German liner Hapag-Lloyd will begin serving the Seagirt Terminal operated by Ports America as its first port of call on its transatlantic Gulf of Mexico Express service.
The liner carriers Hamburg Süd and Mediterranean Shipping Co. are merging two separate Mediterranean-east coast South America services into one from mid-January.
