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Hunters warned to stay off tracks

Cordero: Demurrage fees deserve FMC attention

AIM releases Chinese 2-D bar code

Commerce awards $1.9 million to boost exports

Crowley expands logistics services in Caribbean

St. Louis forwarder settles export violations

Röhlig’s Opara heads air cargo

FMC commissioner comments on port concessions

Pa. funds Delaware River deepening

NOAA surveys Prince of Wales Island seafloor

S&P revises Hapag-Lloyd outlook to ‘negative’

   A Zim-operated service between the Far East and Black Sea will drop calls at India’s largest container port as of late October, according to a note this week from Hapag-Lloyd, which takes slots on the service.    Starting from the Oct. 24 sailing, Zim’s EMX service will drop calls at the Nhava Sheva port […]

   Schneider Logistics said it is offering a new service that pools deliveries of shippers with reoccurring less-than-truckload moves.    The new Integrated Delivery Services (IDS) was piloted in Denver with shippers of competing brands who had similar delivery windows, routes, shuttles and cross-dock locations. Schneider merged freight and created customized routes based on multiple […]

   Union Pacific Railroad said Tuesday it would invest nearly $300 million over the next few years on its central corridor between Fremont, Neb., and Missouri Valley, Iowa.    UP called the corridor “a primary shipping lane,” with the investment part of the $3.3 billion the railroad plans to spend in 2011 on its 32,000-mile […]

GSP, TAA, FTAs

Kirk    The United States is challenging Chinese duties on U.S. chicken exports.    U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Tuesday that the Obama Administration is requesting consultations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) to challenge Chinese antidumping and countervailing duties against U.S. chicken exports.    “Today’s action pertains to what we believe is China’s […]

   DHL said Wednesday it has opened an additional facility in China designed to serve the pharmaceutical industry.    The logistics company said the life sciences and health care “competence center” in Beijing is similar to facilities opened in Shanghai in 2009 and in Seoul, Korea, this July.    The 140-square-meter temperature-controlled warehouse is located […]

   DHL Global Forwarding has opened five offices in China, the company said Wednesday.    Two of the new branches are in major inland cities Zhengzhou (Henan province) and Taiyuan (Shanxi province), while the other three are in “tier three” cities Wenzhou (Zhejiang province), Xuzhou (Jiangsu province) and Huizhou (Guangdo province).    “The move is […]

  The Port of Houston on Monday awarded a contract to BMO Capital Markets for financial advisory services in connection with the possible sale or lease of its Woodhouse Terminal.    Bill Hensel, a spokesman for the port, said the port is looking at possible alternative uses for the 100-acre terminal, which is located on […]

   The Port of Busan’s August container volume rose 11.7 percent to nearly 1.4 million TEUs, the Busan Port Authority said Wednesday.    Throughput was boosted by a 19.8 percent increase in transshipment to 659,710 TEUs. For the year, Busan’s volume has increased 13.3 percent to 10.7 million TEUs, 45 percent of which is transshipment […]