Joe Rodriguez has been named vice president of sales and marketing for Horizon Line LLC’s eastern region. Rodriguez will oversee all sales activity, pricing and marketing in the eastern half of the United States and Puerto Rico, reporting to Brian Taylor, executive vice president, chief operating officer and chief commercial officer of Horizon […]
Thome Ship Management has appointed Carsten Brix Ostenfeldt to managing director. He replaces Bjorn Hojgaard who has resigned from the group to pursue other interests, the Singapore-based third-party ship management company said. Ostenfeldt spent the past two years as Thome’s technical director. The company said its other directors and senior managers remain […]
Non-asset based logistics provider Transplace on Thursday announced it has acquired Chicago-based intermodal marketing company Celtic International to increase its capabilities in the growing intermodal market. Privately held Transplace said the combined revenue of the two companies exceeds $1 billion, but officials have previously stated that gross revenue at the Dallas firm as […]
Cleveland-based ContainerPort Group said last week that Daniel Corcoran has joined the company as regional vice president for the West, where he will be responsible for the Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Kansas City operations. Corcoran was most recently president of TTS Terminals, and previously held vice president positions with Pacer Cartage and […]
Zonar, a Seattle-based firm specializing in compliance and fleet efficiency information technology applications for the trucking industry, has appointed Chris Hines to executive vice president. Prior to this appointment, he was president and chief operating officer of the Celadon Group. Hines was also formerly president and chief executive officer of Tripmaster Corp. (now […]
The Russian Railways and the Railways of the Slovak Republic signed an agreement to work together on the development and modernization of Slovakia’s transport infrastructure. The agreement is part of a plan to integrate the railway networks of Russia and Slovakia into the European and Eurasian transport systems, the companies said. The […]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, in an unguarded moment, said he will only serve one term, regardless of how President Obama does in next year’s election.
Yusen Logistics’ operation in the Benelux region has opened a new facility for the storage and regional distribution of solar panels for Chinese manufacturer Shandong Linuo Solar Power Holdings (Shandong Linuo). The operation is based in one of the logistics services provider’s bonded warehouses in the Rotterdam area. As part of the service, […]
Kuehne + Nagel said it had a profit of 143 million Swiss francs ($159 million) in the third quarter ending Sept. 30, 15 percent less than in the same 2010 period.
Crowley Maritime Corp. has named Nelly Yunta vice president of U.S. imports, customs brokerage and consulting, for Customized Brokers. Customized Brokers is Crowley’s customs brokerage company in Miami, where Yunta is based. She reports to Crowley’s Steve Collar, senior vice president and general manager of logistics. Yunta joined Crowley in 1988 as […]
A story about the Port of Charleston, “Giving transship the slip,” in the October issue of American Shipper said construction on the nearby Boeing factory has been stalled by regulatory action in Washington. The plant has actually started operation.
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The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday approved on a voice vote a bill that would set a single nationwide performance standard for vessel ballast water treatment in line with the International Maritime Organization.
The New York Stock Exchange said Thursday that the common stock of Horizon Lines would be suspended prior to the market opening on Thursday, Oct. 20. Over-the-counter trading set to start he same day.
An army of volunteers are helping clear the oil spill from the container vessel Rena which went aground on Astrolabe Reef near Tauranga, New Zealand last week. The government agency Maritime New Zealand said 17 of the 88 containers that have fallen off the ship have been recovered. It said salvage teams on […]
An item in Wednesday’s AS Daily incorrectly stated that China Shipping provided a vessel on a TS Lines-operated service linking China and the Middle East. The vessel that has been dropped is from TS Lines, which will deploy the ship on a new trade linking India and the Middle East. China Shipping, meanwhile, has […]
In preliminary fiscal year 2011 figures, the U.S. Export-Import Bank exceeded $32 billion in export financing, supporting about $40.6 billion in exports at more than 3,600 U.S. companies.
Freight forwarder Consolidators International (CII) has opened a new facility in the Chicago suburb of Wood Dale. The facility is located near O’Hare airport, and is convenient to Chicago’s trucking network and rail depots. It will act as a key distribution and processing center for shippers throughout the upper Midwest for their air […]
Toll Global Forwarding has appointed Gerd-Wolfgang Kux as regional director of marketing and sales for its Europe-Middle East region. Based in Zurich, he takes up his position on Jan. 1. Kux, 38-year forwarding veteran, previously held senior management positions at Kuehne + Nagel, Hellmann Worldwide, Calberson, TNT and Panalpina. At Toll, […]
A report in the Thursday Atlanta Journal-Constitution said the governors of Georgia and South Carolina “appear to have calmed an interstate rivalry over dredging the Port of Savannah.” Last month the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control said it planned to deny a permit to the Army Corps of Engineers to […]
