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.
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, […]
