Test transmissions and processing of electronic sea and rail manifests for the new Automated Commercial Environment are going well, putting U.S. Customs and Border Protection on track to soon transition transportation providers to the new system, the agency announced Friday. A sea/rail manifest pilot program involving one rail carrier and one ocean […]
Finnish police and customs officials have reportedly seized a cargo of 69 Patriot missiles and explosives on the ship Thor Liberty bound for China. Patriot missile systems are made by Raytheon, the Waltham, Mass. arms maker.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have removed thousands of unsafe Christmas lights from the distribution pipeline to stores after a central squad of analysts dedicated to import safety zeroed in on several questionable shipments.
The World Trade Organization Appellate Body agreed with the United States that Philippine excise taxes on imported distilled spirits were discriminatory and inconsistent with the Philippines’ WTO obligations. The appellate body affirmed similar findings made by a WTO panel earlier this year. The Philippines imposes taxes on imported distilled spirits, such as whiskey […]
Newly minted U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson will lead his first trade mission on March 25-30 to India, focusing on infrastructure opportunities. India plans to invest about $1 trillion in infrastructure during the next five years. “Selling more made-in-USA infrastructure products to India will help U.S. companies grow and hire more […]
CargoWise, which provides logistics technology platforms, has signed an agreement with Senator International to implement its ediEnterprise application across Senator’s operations. The implementation will cover more than 1,000 individual users across the Hamburg-based logistics services provider’s global operations. According to CargoWise, ediEnterprise is a modular supply chain platform designed to automate the operations “of international […]
Dupré Logistics, a Lafayette, La.-based third party logistics services provider, has named Jeff Colonna as vice president of operations. Colonna will oversee the operations of Dupré’s three business groups: site and private fleet services, strategic capacity services, and energy distribution services. He joined Dupré in 2009 as the director of operations for […]
Wared Logistics, a unit of the Saudi-based Construction Products Holding Co., is nearing completion of the first temperature-controlled warehouse in a series planned for operation in Saudi Arabia by mid-2012. This first warehouse is a 5,000-square-meter facility in Riyadh and is expected to be fully functional by Jan. 1. This operation will be followed by […]
The CKYH alliance of liner shipping carriers has dropped the Jeddah call on its weekly NE2 Asia-North Europe service. The last voyage to call Jeddah will be the Dec. 13 sailing of YM Uniform. The NE2’s new port rotation is Shanghai, Xiamen, Kaohsiung, Yantian, Singapore, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Felixstowe, Antwerp, Singapore, Shekou, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. The […]
Growers Express, a large U.S. supplier of fresh vegetables, has picked Junction Solutions to increase its warehouse efficiency and visibility. Specifically, Growers will use Junction’s Wireless Warehouse platform. The system allows companies to manage their inventory and order management with automatic data collection and wireless connections between the platform and handheld devices. […]
Mediterranean Shipping Co. said this week it is raising rates from the Far East to the Caribbean, Central America and Colombia. The increases to all three regions are $560 per 20-foot container and $800 per 40-foot or 40-foot high-cube container from Jan. 5. On cargo from Taiwan or to Colombia and Puerto Rico, […]
Rising production costs could change dynamics of eastbound cargo volumes. Analysis by Eric Johnson The container shipping industry that’s built a large part of its empire on the Asia-to-North America goods pipeline is facing a troubling question: Is the cost of producing goods going to stay high? Here’s the issue: Sales figures and revenues for retailers and other beneficial cargo […]
IBM will acquire Massachusetts-based Emptoris, a cloud and on-premise analytics software provider with a focus on supply chain management. The buy is the latest in a series of additions to IBM’s “Smarter Commerce” initiative.
CMA CGM is joining a Mediterranean Shipping Co. service between the U.S. East Coast and west coast of South America from mid-January, a move which is part of an alliance formed by the lines on several trades.
The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) board voted Tuesday to suspend funding on a proposed new container terminal in Jasper County, S.C., on the north bank of the Savannah River and downstream from the Port of Savannah. The proposed Jasper Ocean Terminal is a joint project of South Carolina and Georgia, but […]
The omnibus appropriations bill, according to the American Association of Port Authorities, could provide upwards of $820 million for deep-draft navigation maintenance for U.S. ports.
A Chinese perfume importer on Monday was sentenced in Brooklyn, N.Y., to 12 months in prison for trafficking in counterfeit perfume, the U.S. Justice Department said. Shaoxiong Zhou, 42, of Shantou, Guangdong, China, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sandra L. Townes in the Eastern District of New York. Townes also ordered […]
The Treasury Department has identified 10 companies and an executive in Malta for their affiliation with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and will now subject them to U.S. sanctions. The companies connected with IRISL and Irano Hind, a joint venture between IRISL and Shipping Corporation of India, include BIIS Maritime Ltd., ISIM Amin Ltd., ISIM Atr Ltd., ISIM Olive Ltd., […]
Only a quarter of the nearly $1.7 billion awarded from fiscal year 2006 through 2010 under the U.S. Port Security Grant Program has been drawn down by grantees.
Austin, Texas-based Newgistics, a provider of third-party logistics services for retailers, has cancelled plans for its initial public offering (IPO). In its filing, the company said the reason behind withdrawing its IPO filing was “unfavorable market conditions.” In March, Newgistics had filed for an IPO of up to $86.25 million, while also […]
