The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to revise its process for designating a U.S. agent.
Refrigerated containers that either passed through or originated in any Vietnamese port are being identified upon arrival at U.S. West Coast ports. Those that were worked on at Kat Lai will be isolated for special handling.
The Maritime Administration has released a study on the higher cost of U.S.-flag ships versus those registered in other countries; roughly 2.7 times the average for similar foreign-flag vessels.
Vessel operating costs are expected to rise by 3.8 percent in 2011 and by another 3.7 percent in 2012, according to a new survey by international accountant and shipping consultant Moore Stephens. The survey, based on responses from key players in the international shipping industry, predominantly shipowners and managers in Europe and Asia, […]
The Grand Alliance carriers will this month pull one of their four services connecting Asia and Europe, according to a note from member Hapag-Lloyd on Monday. GA lines, which also include NYK Line and OOCL, will pull their Loop D/EUD service from the Nov. 6 sailing. The service, according to American Shipper affiliate […]
Low ocean freight rate levels on the major east-west trades this year are fundamentally different from those seen in 2009, the maritime analyst SeaIntel said this week. In its SeaIntel Sunday Spotlight report, the analyst argued certain major container lines have a vested interest in keeping rates low to drive down the number […]
Evergreen Line said this week it is splitting into two legs an intra-Asia service linking Japan, Taiwan, South China, and Southeast Asia that it introduced in March. The move is being made to tap into faster-growing trade between China and Southeast Asian nations, specifically Vietnam and Indonesia. The line will pull its […]
MCC Transport, the intra-Asia subsidiary line of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, has started a new Malaysia feeder, the carrier said Tuesday. The service, dubbed MA-2, has a rotation of Tanjung Pelepas, Singapore, Kuching, Muara, Kota Kinabalu, and Tanjung Pelepas.
The liner carrier MOL has significantly increased the size of its vessel deployed on a service linking Japan and Southeast Asia, according to research from American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data. On the line’s CBE service, MOL has switched out all three vessels, more than doubling the average vessel size from 1,076 TEUs to […]
Maersk Line said this week it will raise rates on shipments from the Ecuadorian port of Guayaquil to the U.S. East Coast from Nov. 27. The proposed increase, which covers shipments to Miami, Newark, Savannah, and Philadelphia, will be $100 per 20-foot container and $200 per 40-foot or 40-foot high-cube container.
Maersk Line this week will start assessing a congestion surcharge on cargo moving in and out of Sydney. The surcharge, $100 per 20-foot container and $200 per 40-foot container, will be assessed from Nov. 3 to all destinations except the United States and Puerto Rico. To those destinations, the surcharge takes effect from […]
“K” Line said Tuesday it is joining an intra-Asia service linking South Korea with Southeast Asia operated by Korean lines Hanjin Shipping and Heung-A Shipping. The service, dubbed KPI by Hanjin and Heung-A, has a rotation of Incheon, Xingang, Pyeongtaek, Busan, Manila, Singapore, Jakarta, Manila, Busan, and Incheon. It’s operated with four vessels […]
Celadon Group’s recent acquisition of Frozen Food Express Industries’ dry van fleet and interest in fellow truckload carrier USA Truck are examples of how new economic pressures could lead to greater consolidation of the fragmented U.S. trucking industry. In early October, FFE announced it was exiting the dry van transportation business to focus […]
C.H. Robinson Worldwide has launched its CHRWtrucks.com mobile application to allow motor carriers to enter pick up information, check calls, and delivery information within a couple clicks. Information is populated by location services on the smartphone which reduces guesswork and typing, the Eden Prairie, Minn.-based company said. Additionally, carriers can post empty equipment […]
UPS Freight said Tuesday it has launched a new service for less-than-truckload (LTL) shippers that will provide visibility of the pickup process by confirming when a pickup is scheduled, informing them when the UPS Freight driver is en-route to the pickup location and notifying them when the pickup is made. UPS Freight said […]
Freight Exchange of North America has named Chris Frei as vice president of sales and marketing. Prior to this appointment, Frei spent more than 20 years at Kintetsu World Express where he was most recently director of sales and border logistics. Frei will operate from his El Paso office and travel often to […]
Southern Air Holdings has started operating a Boeing 747-200 freighter for Centurion Air Cargo under a multiyear ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance) agreement. From Miami International Airport, Centurion, together with its related party SkyLease Cargo, operates a fleet of four MD-11 freighters; leases an additional six MD-11 freighters from SkyLease Cargo; provides […]
Manufacturing activity slowed down 0.8 points in October from the previous month. The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) had a weak reading of 50.8 percent, based on scale where anything above 50 indicates economic expansion.
The Senate on Tuesday 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 Hirschhorn is highly regarded among U.S. export interests for the work that he and […]
The owner of an export company in Miami was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Export-Import Bank of about $24 million, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Guillermo O. Mondino, 48, was sentenced by Judge Ricardo M. Urbina in U.S. District […]
