The pending dissolution of Maersk Line’s joint big-ship Asia-Europe service with partner CMA CGM has led Maersk to include three new ports in Northern Europe to its Daily Maersk product.
Containerized cargo exports from the U.S. will continue to grow more quickly in the next four years than imports, bringing the nation’s trade more into balance, said Mathijs Slangen, maritime advisor for the investment banking firm Seabury Group.
The Europe-Great Lakes specialist liner carrier Federal Atlantic Lakes Lines (Falline) is shifting to its winter schedule when the St Lawrence Seaway closes beyond Montreal from Dec 29. The closure usually last around three months while the jointly managed U.S./Canada river and lakes inland waterway system is prone to ice, and while routine maintenance is […]
Recent data showing a substantial increase in the number of fatal crashes involving large trucks during 2010 probably eliminates the remote chance that the White House might rollback a Department of Transportation proposal that seeks to reduce the daily hours commercial drivers can work, John Larkin, managing director of transportation market research for Stifel Nicolas, said Thursday. […]
Simon Hegele, a German third party logistics (3PL) services company, has picked TGW Systems to set up a material handling and storage system for Hegel’s new distribution center in Raunheim, Germany, about 25 miles outside Frankfurt. The system will consist of a five-aisle automatic storage and retrieval system (AS/RS), 10 stations for receiving goods, and […]
Kale Logistics announced two new information technology offerings for warehousing and distribution, and an end-to-end fleet management system. PYXIS, the warehouse system, monitors each stage in the process, including the arrival and dispatch of cargo. The service monitors location, package information, shipping and packing procedures, and can be expanded to other aspects. HELIOS is […]
Komyo Logistics will use RedPrairie’s On-Demand Warehouse software to facilitate work with small and mid-sized shippers. The platform will allow Komyo to offer logistics services to all customers using a dedicated or shared facility, as well as supporting its material handling and management services. The On-Demand Warehouse service enables Komyo to track all its […]
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has added an individual and a company in the U.A.E. to its Entity List.
During the 8th Ministerial Conference Thursday, the World Trade Organization finalized the revision to its Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). The United States praised the revision stating it will provide new opportunities for U.S. goods and services suppliers to secure government procurement contracts in numerous additional markets in WTO member economies. “Government procurement […]
By Eric Kulisch U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say that the simplified entry project is helping them come up with necessary requirements for the cargo release functionality scheduled to be programmed in the Automated Commercial Environment. ACE is the agency’s next-generation system being built to process imports more efficiently, communicate with the trade community, […]
Caterpillar is still in talks with interested groups over a possible sale of its third-party logistics (3PL) business, but has pushed back the date on any deal due to concerns over the global economy.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has held that the Port of Oakland is not entitled to sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Now, just about anyone can track basic movements in the Port of Amsterdam thanks to a new smartphone application, iamPort. The service provides information on expected, arriving and departing ships. The app, which currently works with Apple’s iPhones and iPads, tracks both seagoing vessels and river cruises. Users can get information […]
U.S. and Canada have outlined priorities for coordinating customs and cargo security processes, enhancing border infrastructure and harmonizing regulations to increase the efficiency of trade across the border and boost their respective economies.
Dye In remarks last week to a metals trade conference, U.S. Federal Maritime Commissioner Rebecca F. Dye said she believes the FMC “should eliminate all unnecessary regulatory requirements, including tariff publication, for all non-vessel-operating common carriers and ocean carriers, alike.” In an interview with American Shipper, Dye confirmed it was the first time she publicly called […]
The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. has increased the round voyage time of two South America services – Europe/ECSA String 1 and ECNA/WSCA.
Maersk Line said this week Hanjin Shipping and COSCO Container Lines have agreed to purchase slots on its Samba service between Europe and the east coast of South America. The slot buying deal starts in March, Maersk said, though it didn’t specify the allocations to the two carriers, which are partners on the […]
Maersk Line said this week it is altering a call in Spain on its WestMed service between the U.S. East Coast and Mediterranean ports, a loop it runs jointly with CMA CGM. From the Jan. 2 sailing, the service will call Malaga westbound instead of Algeciras. The revised rotation will be Newark, […]
Liner carrier on-time reliability fell marginally from October to November, according to the latest data from SeaIntel Maritime Analysis. SeaIntel’s monthly schedule reliability report showed reliability declined from 64 percent in October to 63 percent in November. Among the world’s top 20 carriers, Maersk Line regained the No. 1 spot as the […]
This winter the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will begin a year-long survey of the sea floor in the port of Houston and Galveston Bay navigational areas to aid efforts to bring more maritime trade to the Houston area. NOAA’s navigation survey team arrived in Galveston this week to begin pre-survey preparations […]
