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     INTTRA and Kewill have announced the formation of a strategic alliance to give Kewill’s customer base access to INTTRA’s multi-carrier network.    INTTRA, which focuses on providing e-commerce solutions for the ocean freight industry, provides a network of more than 30 ocean carriers on a single connection and bills this as the largest […]

The ILA and NIT League are both expressing concern to the FMC about plans by around 20 liner companies to alter their chassis pool agreement on file with the commission, expanding their antitrust immunity to other companies.

Four major trade organizations representing both ports and carriers are calling on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to require, before loading,  that the ship and the port verify all container weights.

   Transmart India has sold its warehousing business to Future Supply Chain Solutions, the logistics and supply chain arm of Future Group. Included in the sale are more than 12 clients and a 2,000,000-square-foot distribution center outside Mumbai.    Future Supply Chain Solutions said that the deal will give it a readymade infrastructure able to […]

Francis, I’ve updated this with some of the issues we discussed. Let me know what you think.

MSC has added a call at Savannah to its Golden Gate service between Asia and the U.S. East Coast via Suez. Beginning November it now calls, New York, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, Freeport (Bahamas), and Savannah.

   The liner carrier OOCL said Friday it is joining a CMA CGM service connecting China with New Zealand from Dec. 24.    OOCL will join the French line’s ANZEX service (OOCL will name it NZS), which has a rotation of Hong Kong, Chiwan, Ningbo, Shanghai, Pusan, Auckland, Port Chalmers, Lyttelton, Tauranga, Nouméa, and Hong […]

     “K” Line said Friday it has joined as a slot buyer a CNC Line/TS Lines service between China and Vietnam.    The Japanese container line will join CNC’s NCX service, which has a rotation of Xingang, Dalian, Qingdao, Lianyungang, Hong Kong, Shekou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, and Xingang. The service is […]

   Protesters in the “Occupy Wall Street” movement have begun a long-planned effort to blockade West Coast ports Monday.    Reports were trickling in that protests had begun actions in various ports, but it was not clear demonstrators would actually succeed at their goal of shutting ports down.    “All port shipping terminals are open as the Long […]

   The liner carriers MOL, Hapag-Lloyd and Zim will add a call at Amsterdam on their jointly-operated service between West Africa and Europe, according to a notice Friday from Hapag-Lloyd.    The Dutch port will be called from December through April during the peak cocoa season, the German line said. The service (called ARN by […]

   COSCO Container Lines said last week it will attempt to raise rates on the eastbound transpacific from Jan. 1 in line with guidelines issued by the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement.    The China-based line will seek increases of $320 per 20-foot container, $400 per 40-foot container, $450 per 40-foot high-cube container, and $506 per 45-foot […]

   Kevin Harriger has been promoted to executive director of agriculture inspection programs at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, with responsibility for keeping foreign plant pests and animal disease out of the country.    He previously was deputy executive director of Agricultural Operational Oversight. In that position he coordinated implementation of agricultural policies and procedures […]

   COSCO Container Lines said last week it is adjusting the bunker surcharges it assesses on shipments from Asia to Europe from Jan. 1.    The new surcharge levels are: From the Far East to Northern Europe, $822 per TEU From the Far East to the Mediterranean, $782 per TEU From the Indian Subcontinent to […]

Tilden    Toronto, Canada-based Brookfield Asset Management said Friday that it has named former Marine Terminals Corp. chief executive officer Doug Tilden as a senior consultant to its Brookfield Infrastructure Group.    Brookfield Infrastructure Group has been active in the ports sector since 2006 and has acquired a significant portfolio of assets in Europe and […]

   Former A.P. Moller – Maersk executive Kim Gadegaard has joined Noatum Terminals, a marine terminal operator in Spain, as its new commercial director.    For the past two years Gadegaard was a senior consultant for Mercator, advising on terminal acquisitions and shipping line restructuring. He spent more than 30 years prior to that with […]

   October containerized imports from Asia to Europe grew 3.5 percent against the same month in 2010, according to the latest figures from Container Trade Statistics (CTS).    CTS tracks container volumes on trades to and from Europe, using information direct from carriers.    Asia-to-Europe volume reached 1.1 million TEUs in October, the latest month […]

   The Swiss forwarding and logistics company Panalpina Group said it is embarking on a new strategy that will shift more power to regional offices.    “Our ambitious growth targets that we have defined for 2014 demand that we adapt the way in which we manage the markets. We need to shift power of decision from […]

   Douglas Browning, a former deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, is leaving Sandler Travis Trade Advisory Services after six years to become global customs counsel for General Motors, he announced in an e-mail to friends and colleagues.    Browning was senior vice president and general counsel for STTAS and on call as an advisor […]

    The Federal Maritime Commission is reviving a long dormant proposal that unaffiliated NVOCCs be able to jointly offer NVO Service Arrangements (NSAs) to shippers.     Currently NSAs allow cargo to be moved under contracts between one or more shippers and one NVOCC or a group of affiliated NVOCCs.     In 2005, the FMC began […]