Maersk Container Industry (MCI), the container manufacturing business unit of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, said Friday it has started construction on a new factory in San Antonio, Chile, to produce refrigerator containers for Latin America’s export boom. The $170 million factory is scheduled to begin operating by the end of 2013, with an […]
David Noe, vice president of sales, marketing and customer support in the Americas for APL, died Thursday following a protracted illness. He was receiving care in Texas at the time of his death. His age was not available at press time. Noe spent 26 years with APL. He worked in a variety of roles […]
Swissport International, a provider of ground services to the aviation sector, has started cargo handling at Tokyo’s Narita Airport, securing its first contract there with Virgin Atlantic Cargo. The Zurich-based provider has been operating passenger ground handling and ramp services at Narita for several years. Swissport’s handling warehouse in Narita South has ramp access […]
The International Transport Workers Federations said it was concerned that an accident similar to the refrigerated container explosions that have killed three workers ashore could occur on a ship. “Whilst, of course, the explosion of a container ashore is a tragic event, we think that a similar explosion on board a vessel could […]
DB Schenker made European rail freight history Friday with the first arrival of a regular new weekly container train from Poland to the United Kingdom. The train is the first regular rail freight service to use the High Speed 1 rail route, the only European sized railway in the United Kingdom. As a […]
Containership operators are ordering ever larger vessels in the face of a weak freight and time charter market due to a desire to control the effect of rising bunker costs, said U.K. ship broker Braemar Seascope. The ship ordering activity “may appear to be counter-intuitive,” Braemar said in a release Thursday. In fact, […]
MCC Transport, the intra-Asia specialist carrier of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, said this week it has revised the rotations of several of its services calling at Philippine ports. MCC’s IA7 service will expand its rotation to a three-week round trip covering Sihanoukville, Laem Chabang, Tanjung Pelepas, Singapore, Batangas, Manila, Kaohsiung, Yantian, Hong Kong, […]
Rising costs in China are prompting high-tech companies in Asia to explore alternative sourcing locations within the region as well as in North America, according to a new UPS survey.
The city and port of Oakland have applied to the U.S. Department of Transportation for a $40 million grant as part of a negotiated plan with an industrial developer to transform the former Oakland Army Base adjacent to the port into an international logistics center. Under the third round of the TIGER discretionary […]
The Working Party on the Accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization Thursday approved the terms and conditions for Russia’s accession to the WTO. The decision marks the final step in the process before WTO ministers decide to formally invite Russia to become a WTO member, which is due to take […]
The Commerce Department reported Thursday that U.S. exports of goods and services in September increased 1.4 percent from August to a record $180.4 billion. September’s exports of goods ($129.3 billion) were the highest on record, with record exports in both industrial supplies and materials ($44.4 billion) and consumer goods ($15.4 billion). U.S. imports […]
U.S. import volume declined 1 percent in October, according to figures released this week by the trade intelligence firm Zepol Corp. Volume in October, as measured in TEUs, grew 0.3 percent against that in September. Year to date, U.S. inbound volume is up 1.1 percent over 2010. Zepol said shipments from Europe […]
Champ Cargosystems, a provider of integrated air cargo applications, has acquired Traxon Europe, a developer of electronic communications services to the air cargo industry. The deal was agreed to by Champ, and Lufthansa Cargo and Air France, the majority shareholders of Traxon Europe. Financial terms were not disclosed. “By selling our stake in […]
The liner carrier Hainan PO Shipping will in December start a new transpacific service connecting northern China and South Korea with California ports, the line said this week. That bucks the recent trend of lines pulling transpacific capacity, both to rationalize supply for the winter and to more broadly align supply with static […]
Four U.S. maritime unions say the Maritime Administration and its leader David Matsuda should be “ashamed of itself” for issuing a report comparing U.S. and foreign-flag ship operating costs without seeking their input.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill authorizing surface transportation programs for two-years at existing funding levels of $85 billion.
The latest volume figures from Container Trade Statistics show that trade slowed significantly in September on the westbound Asia-Europe trade. Volume reached 1.1 million TEUs during the month, a 0.2 percent increase on September 2010. For the third quarter, westbound Asia-Europe volume grew 4.1 percent, to 3.7 million TEUs, the lowest growth of […]
Container service reliability improved for the second quarter in a row during the third quarter of 2011, according to Drewry Maritime Research’s latest Schedule Reliability Insight report. The proportion of 3,281 ships arriving on time (defined as either arriving at port on the advertised ETA or a day earlier) at selected ports in […]
The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) supports the antidumping cases initiated by SolarWorld Industries Americas, while The Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE), formed last week, warns against them.
Donjon Marine, a New Jersey-based marine services provider, has named Paul Hankins to vice president of operations for its salvage and engineering division. Hankins, formerly president of Donjon-SMIT, will work with the company’s U.S. Navy salvage services contract, as well as its Coast Guard basic ordering agreement. Hankins has more than 22 […]
