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.
Freight index growth
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 […]
Washington Notebook By Eric Kulisch The U.S. Congress will eventually be forced to follow the European model and raise highway fuel taxes to tackle the debt rather than dedicating revenue to transportation programs, Noël Perry, an economist who focuses on the freight sector, said during an industry conference this month. Transportation advocates have […]
The FMC has published a proposed rulemaking to amend its rules to provide certainty and flexibility for long-term contracts that adjust based on a freight rate index.
Erxin Yao, president of OOCL (USA), says the shipping industry must pay more attention to pricing services profitably and fostering innovation rather than trying to hold onto market share.
Big step for U.S. trade
GT Nexus has launched “G2,” a social networking tool. As an example, information technology applications developer said members of its GT Nexus Shipper Council – a group of shippers – are using G2 to collaborate on key initiatives. “The shipper council has become a very active group,” said Patrick Halloran, director of […]
Panalpina has opened a branch office in Ludhiana in northwestern India. It’s the second India office the Swiss freight forwarder has launched recently, with a new office in Jaipur opening two weeks ago. “Ludhiana in north India is home to thousands of large and medium-sized companies and is one of India’s fastest […]
NDO America has leased 26,853 square feet of industrial space in Rancho Dominguez, Calif., for its new headquarters. Following building improvements, NDO plans to move to the location on Dec. 1. About 30 people will be employed at the site. Freight forwarder NDO America is part of the Norbert Dentressangle Group.
September volume at Los Angeles fell by 0.8 percent compared to the same month in 2010, due entirely to a massive 21.4 percent drop in empty containers.
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