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 […]
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 […]
