OceanSaver, a provider of ballast water treatment systems, has appointed Houtan Houshangi as interim chief executive officer. Houshangi replaces Stein Foss who developed and commercialized OceanSaver BWT system technology. OceanSaver was started in 2003. “Until a permanent successor to Foss is found, Houshangi will manage OceanSaver’s next stage of growth and further […]
Tideworks Technology, a provider of terminal management and planning software, will implement a terminal operating system at Halterm Container Terminal in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The new system is scheduled to go live in 2012. “We were particularly impressed with Tideworks’ rail planning solutions and excellent reputation, not only in Canada but around the globe,” […]
CRST International is offering expedited transcontinental temperature controlled truck service using team drivers. A more secure 60-hour service will be cost-competitive with single drivers who take about five and a half days.
A new report by the Texas Transportation Institute identifies 328 stretches of highway across the nation that are seriously congested on a regular basis over a variety of times during the week. The least reliable corridor is the southbound section of Georgia Route 400 in Atlanta between the toll plaza and I-85. According […]
Boeing has forecast that that the Middle East’s fleet of passenger airplanes will grow from a current fleet of 1,040 planes to a projected 2,710 planes by 2030, an increase of 160 percent, the aircraft manufacturer said Monday from the Dubai Air Show. On the same day, it tied up a deal with […]
Container volume at the Port of Hamburg grew 15.3 percent in the first three quarters of 2011, to 6.8 million TEUs, the port said Monday. Import volume was up 15.6 percent, to 3.5 million TEUs, while export volume grew 14.9 percent, to 3.3 million TEUs. The port said “all trades involved in […]
DHL on Tuesday announced a shakeup of its forwarding and freight divisions in its Asia and Africa regions. The company said its global forwarding division will combine its north and south Pacific regional operations into one, with Kelvin Leung, formerly chief executive officer for the north Asia Pacific region, heading the joint unit. […]
The NITL, though disappointed with STB decision to postpone rule review for captive rail shippers, says it will press the issue. NITL will also attend the new Global Shippers Forum first annual meeting.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Randy Babbit will convene a forum on Nov. 30 at DOT headquarters to discuss ways to better deal with aircraft that have to be diverted to alternate airports due to bad weather. The announcement comes in the wake of the surprise snow storm […]
The nine-nation TPP received a boost at last week’s APEC summit when Canada, Japan, and Mexico indicated they planned to join the negotiations, with TPP potentially dwarfing even the European Union as a free trade zone.
The United States and Philippines on Sunday signed a customs administration and trade facilitation agreement to further improve the countries’ trade relations.
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has aligned its licensing requirements and policies under the Export Administration Regulations for Liechtenstein with those of Switzerland. Liechtenstein will now be treated the same as Switzerland in the EAR. “By virtue of a Customs Union Treaty with Switzerland, Liechtenstein has adopted the […]
Container line members of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said Monday they plan to raise all-in freight rates and charges on the eastbound transpacific trade by a minimum of $400 per 40-foot container from Jan. 1. The planned increases are “an interim step prior to rolling out the agreement’s customary annual service contracting guidelines” […]
A new study released Friday by DHL indicates that globalization is still not as advanced as most people believe and that continued economic integration could spur global gross domestic product gains of five percent or more. The first DHL Global Connectedness Index (GCI), a detailed country-by-country analysis of trade flows, was unveiled last […]
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Asia-Pacific Economic Forum ministers meeting in Honolulu committed to concrete actions to strengthen economic integration and expand trade, promote green growth and advance regulatory convergence to achieve economic growth in the region. The APEC region accounts for 55 percent of global Gross Domestic Product and represents 58 percent of U.S. export purchases. Ministers […]
The CKYH Alliance will suspend a service connecting Asia to the U.S. East Coast for the winter season, according to a note from the maritime consultant Dynamar and confirmed by American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data. The alliance’s AWE-5 service has a rotation of Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Cai Mep, Singapore, Boston, New York/New Jesery, […]
CSAV, CMA CGM, and China Shipping have suspended a loop connecting Asia with Central America and the east coast of South America, and will add two calls from the pulled loop to another service they jointly operate. The lines have suspended a loop dubbed PEX2 (loop 2) by CMA CGM, ACP by CSAV, […]
Mediterranean Shipping Co.’s Belgian branch has set up a new system to encourage inland matchbacks of its containers allowing importers, exporters and truckers to round-trip into Antwerp.
