ECS Group, a global air cargo general sales and service agency (GSSA) has opened its first offices in India in Mumbai and Delhi, the company said Monday. “The South Asia market represents some 5 percent of the global air cargo market in tonnage terms and India represents its most thriving market,” ECS said. […]
A China Cargo scheduled flight from Shanghai to St. Louis was postponed this week for the third week running, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The report said soft airfreight volumes out of China were the reason for the cancelled flights, with airlines pulling service on unproven routes, such as […]
Hub Group said that its Comtrak Logistics subsidiary had acquired assets of Challenge Transportation, an intermodal drayage carrier headquartered in Newark, NJ. Challenge has 41 drivers and covers the Tri-State and Northeast region.
U.S. domestic container volume grew 9 percent in the third quarter, its best year-on-year growth of 2011, according to the Intermodal Association of North America’s Intermodal Market Trends & Statistics report released Monday. The report showed that total intermodal volume, including domestic trailers and international containers, grew 1.4 percent in the quarter, the […]
Mediterranean Shipping Co. said this week it plans to charge for cargo moving from Asia to North America by way of the LA/Long Beach Alameda Corridor connecting to downtown LA rail yards.
CargoSmart has launched a Schedule Reliability product that will allow users to compare actual vessel arrival times with those shown on schedules on about 900 trade lanes, covering all major ports. Saves selecting carriers by trial and error.
The United States has started exploratory discussions with the East African Community on the development of a potential new trade and investment partnership. EAC includes Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Los Angeles-based freight forwarder Consolidators International, Inc. has selected Gibson Freight as its new partner in Australia. Thirty-year-old Gibson Freight operates terminals in three of Australia’s largest ports to handle both air and sea containers as well as breakbulk freight. The company owns a fleet of 150 trucks to move cargo throughout the country. […]
The six primary container ports on the U.S. West Coast thanked the Federal Maritime Commission for opening an investigation into why an increasing amount of cargo is being routed through the Canadian ports of Prince Rupert and Vancouver. In a letter last Friday, the ports singled out U.S. regulations – namely the Harbor […]
The Senate on Nov. 1 confirmed Eric L. Hirschhorn’s nomination to be undersecretary of the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, a position he has held through a recess appointment by President Obama since April 2, 2010. Hirschhorn is highly regarded among U.S. export interests for the work that he and […]
Kuehne + Nagel said it will pay a $9.9 million fine to resolve allegations that international freight forwarders coordinated their activities with respect to establishing certain surcharges. The Swiss forwarder said the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia approved a plea agreement that K+N entered into with the U.S. Department of […]
Refrigeration experts believe they have discovered with “near certainty” the cause of several explosions in the cooling systems of refrigerated containers, explosions that have killed three workers worldwide.
The two major carrier discussion agreements in the transpacific were called on the carpet last week by the chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. Transcripts “shockingly tardy”.
Raven John Raven, a long-time unabashed spokesman and commentator on global customs modernization and trade facilitation, died on Sunday afternoon. He was 91 years old. The cause of death was not disclosed, but he had been in declining health in recent months. Raven, a graduate of Cambridge University, sharpened his penmanship while […]
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The liner carrier Yang Ming Marine Transport is reported to be considering an order for 16,000-TEU containerships. According to reports from Taiwan, where the line is based, Chairman Frank Lu said he is pushing the carrier’s board to go ahead with the order for the vessels, which would be double the size of […]
The Federal Maritime Commission has posted on its website a plan and timetable for a review of its rules running through 2016. Like other federal agencies, the FMC is reviewing rules in response to an executive order issued by President Obama in January. FMC said it is asking for the shipping public’s […]
It’s been a long time since wind and commercial shipping had much to do with each other, but the U.S. fleet looks to get some additional ships as a result of a provision contained in the America’s Cup Act of 2011, a bill that sailed through Congress last week–approved by the House in a […]
The Surface Transportation Board said Friday that it is putting off consideration of a request by the country’s largest shipper organization to revise its rules having to do with competitive railroad switching. The National Industrial Transportation League asked the STB in July to adopt new rules so captive shippers served by a single […]
A system tested over eight years allows containers to be released by the vertical pull of cranes, eliminating time-consuming unlocking done by stevedores. Discharge begins as ships berth.
