Wal-Mart exec urges liner carriers, shippers to focus on costs of ocean freight transport. The global retailing giant Wal-Mart Stores has an idea for down-in-the-dumps liner carriers: take a page from our book.
Belgium’s Port of Antwerp will step up efforts to prevent importers from using second-hand cars to bring illicit wastes into the country. The Antwerp Port Authority board on Tuesday approved the new measures, effective Jan. 1. Sharper checks will be carried out not only on the vehicles themselves but also on accompanying freight. With […]
Groups join to lobby the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa (COP 17) to get the International Maritime Organization clear guidance in area of shipping emissions.
The National Association of Manufacturers sent letters to all 435 members of the House supporting a bill to block the National Labor Relations Board from implementing rules making it easier for unions to organize.
Carrier Transicold said it debuted a refrigerated container that uses carbon dioxide as a refrigerant gas on Tuesday at the Intermodal Europe Show in Hamburg, Germany. The company said the new “NaturaLINE” container is engineered to deliver efficiencies equal to its existing “best-in-class” refrigerated container PrimeLINE. It also noted that if the gas leaks, […]
Duquesne University’s Small Business Development Center has entered an agreement with the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s City-State Partners program to assist small exporters in western Pennsylvania. Duquesne’s SBDC is one of only three in the state to partner with the Ex-Im Bank. The SBDC offers no-cost, confidential consulting services and training workshops for […]
The global shipping software as a service (SaaS) company CargoSmart said Wednesday it has tied up a deal with neutral non-vessel operating common carrier (NVO) Vanguard Logistics Services. The deal sees Vanguard integrate CargoSmart’s new Sailing Schedules function with its worldwide in-house transportation management system. “The multiple-carrier sailing schedule integration allows […]
TNT Express said Wednesday it has appointed a new agent in eight sub-Saharan African countries as part of a plan to improve its network capabilities, service and market share in the region. Getma, a subsidiary of the French transport and logistics group NCT Necotrans, will handle the collection and delivery of imports and […]
Damco, the freight forwarding arm of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, has appointed Flemming Frost as its new chief executive officer, Europe, effective Jan. 1. He replaces Kim Hedegaard Sorensen. Frost has been with the A.P. Moller-Maersk group for 27 years, and comes from a position in Damco North Asia overseeing the branch operations in China, Hong […]
Interested parties have until Dec. 2 to file comments associated with the environmental impact of the proposed $650 million development of a modern container terminal on Terminal Island in the Port of Long Beach. The Pier S is planned for construction on a vacant, 160-acre section of the man-made island. The port authority […]
Crowley Maritime said it is discontinuing one of its services to the Caribbean and Central America. The service, which was operated with the 1985-built, 725 TEU roll-on, roll-off ship Crowley Americas, will end Thursday, Dec. 1. A spokesman said “this particular rotation was not profitable.” But he noted Crowley continues to serve those same markets […]
Hanjin Shipping said Wednesday it plans to raise rates from Asia to Europe and West Africa from Dec. 23. The increases are $200 per 20-foot container and $400 per 40-foot container from Asia to Northern Europe and West Africa; and $175 per 20-foot container and $350 per 40-foot container from Asia to […]
U.S. Xpress Enterprises, a privately owned trucking company based in Chattanooga, Tenn., has expanded its Xpress Direct Demand Critical fleet by adding smaller capacity cargo vans and straight trucks. The company presently has 30 of these vehicles and plans to have 150 to 200 in use by mid-year 2012. U.S. Xpress decided […]
The U.S. business community has vociferously complained about the burden it faces dealing with a rising tide of regulations from Washington. Regulations are a political punching bag in the Republican primaries because they supposedly represent know-nothing bureaucrats trying to hinder hard-working Americans. “What really would help if you’re not going to do the […]
The Malaysian shipping company MISC Berhad said it’s quiting the container shipping buisness. MISC said “the radical change in the operating dynamics of the liner industry which is driven by high operating cost and rapid changes in global trade patterns is challenging the validity of today’s operating models. With the pursuit of size […]
AMR Corp. the parent of American Airlines, said it filed on Tuesday voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The company said its board of directors determined “a Chapter 11 reorganization is in the best interest of the company and its stakeholders.” American […]
Horizon Lines announced Tuesday it had reached a $13.75 million settlement with the remainining shippers who opted out of a class action settlement it and other liner companies to Puerto Rico had entered into in 2009.
DHL is starting three new direct less-than-containerload (LCL) services from Hong Kong, the company said Monday. The new services will connect Hong Kong with San Jose, Costa Rico; Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia; and Constanta, Romania. LCL shipments are handled by DHL’s in-house non-vessel operating common carrier Danmar Lines.
COSCO Container Lines said this week it plans to raise rates from Asia to Europe and the east coast of South America in December. The proposed rate hike from Asia (including the Indian Subcontinent) to Europe (including northern Europe, the Mediterranean and Black Sea) is $225 per TEU, effective Dec. 26. The […]
The U.S. government has seized 150 domain names of commercial Websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works.
