Richard M. Ertel of Spotsylvania, Va. pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va. on Monday to the illegal import and trafficking of sperm whale teeth, the U.S. Justice Department said. In specific, Ertel pleaded guilty to two felony violations of the Lacey Act for trading in endangered marine mammal parts. […]
The Port of Baltimore has seen laden import volumes rise 10 percent so far in 2011, while the Port of Seattle has suffered a 13 percent drop in imports, according to a new report from the trade intelligence firm Zepol Corp. The report summarizes U.S. imports in 2011, with detailed information on the […]
Maersk Line will integrate the internal support and management functions of its subsidiary line Safmarine, including closing offices.
Liberty Maritime Corp. has entered into a new collective bargaining agreement with the American Maritime Officers (AMO) union to operate its five U.S.-flag bulk ships.
Trade association USA Maritime issued a statement calling for strong support of cargo preference laws reserving government subsidized and guaranteed cargo for U.S.-flag ships.
Maersk Line is adding two calls to a service connecting its Southeast Asia hub of Tanjung Pelepas with southeastern Africa. The line’s Safari 2 service, which it jointly runs with subsidiary line Safmarine, will add a call at Beira and a second call at Toamasina in mid-October. The revised rotation will be Tanjung […]
The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Friday it will raise U.S. export rates to the Far East beginning Nov. 1. The increases are $100 per 20-foot and $200 per 40-foot dry container, port-to-port, and $150 per 20-foot and $250 per 40-foot dry container for intermodal movements. For reefer cargo, the increases […]
India’s shipping ministry is concerned the country’s state-owned shipping line is treading on dangerous financial territory, according to an internal ministry document obtained by the Economic Times of India. According to the document, the Shipping Corp. of India (SCI) “is on the brink of financial collapse” and its plans to acquire 33 vessels […]
Japanese freight forwarder MOL Logistics (Japan) Co. Ltd. on Friday agreed to plead guilty and pay a $1.84 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix certain fees in connection with the provision of forwarding services for air cargo shipments from Japan to the United States, the Justice Department said. […]
The Paris-based consulting and outsourcing company Capgemini has partnered with Oakland-based supply chain software-as-a-service developer GT Nexus, the companies said last week. The agreement calls on the companies to jointly market what they call “supply chain orchestration.” Essentially, the two companies will collaboratively sell supply chain applications across North America and Europe, enabled […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank’s board on Friday, the last day of the federal government’s fiscal year 2011, approved $3.4 billion in financing to support U.S. exports from a wide variety of companies in the aerospace, oil and gas, locomotives, solar-energy and other industries. The bank estimates that this financing will support more than […]
The U.S. government on Friday signed an Export Trade Certificate of Review for the Latin American Multichannel Advertising Council (LAMAC), which will set the framework for an export joint venture of seven American entertainment firms to boost their exports to Latin America. “This is an important step toward realizing the tremendous export potential […]
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Thursday announced the allocations for the increased fiscal year 2011 in-quota quantity of the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for imported refined sugar. TRQs allow countries to export specified quantities of a product to the United States at a relatively low tariff, but subject all imports of […]
A Chantilly, Va. woman, Chun-yu Zhao, has received a 60-month prison sentence and heavy financial penalties for masterminding a conspiracy to import counterfeit computer networking equipment, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said over the weekend. CBP officers intercepted computer networking products that were believed to be counterfeit, with the agency’s National Targeting and […]
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Member lines of the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (WTSA) said they plan to implement rate increases from Nov. 1 based on specific commodity types “as freight rates for many major commodity categories have approached unsustainable levels”.
The NOL Group, parent company of APL and APL Logistics, said Friday it has completed the transition to a new chief executive officer three months early, with Ng Yat Chung taking the helm of the company from Oct. 1. Ng has served as an NOL executive director since May, when the succession plan […]
Evergreen Line has joined an Asia-Oceania service currently operated by Japan’s Big 3 lines, and has left a multi-operator service on the same trade, according to the Taiwan-based line’s forward schedules. Evergreen will join as a vessel operator a service called AU2 by MOL, ANA2 by NYK Line and NAE by “K” Line. […]
Member lines within the CKYH Alliance are due to suspend two transpacific services over the next quarter, one of the lines confirmed to American Shipper this week. The two services, the multi-operator CLX service and the CKYH-operated SJX service, will be pulled in October and early December, respectively, a Hanjin Shipping spokesperson said. […]
