Liner carrier CSAV will end its Marco Polo service between India, the Middle East and South Africa as it joins a similar Mediterranean Shipping Co. service as a slot buyer, according to American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data. The last voyage of the service is to depart Thursday from Durban. In July the […]
Balling Niels Kim Balling, 60, a shipping executive and consultant has died. Balling was a managing director at Econships, a management advisory for transport and logistics headquartered in Hong Kong. He had been a managing director at MISC Integrated Logistics and group vice president at MISC Bhd, a general manager and director […]
Eng Eng Aik Meng, former president of Singapore-based liner carrier APL, has joined an Indian-based health care conglomerate as its new chief operating officer, according to news reports. Eng will be charged with developing Fortis Healthcare’s business outside of India, primarily across Asia and Australia. He left APL at the end of […]
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has approved certification of Envirotainer’s RKN e1 electrical heating and compressor cooling air cargo container. Envirotainer, pioneer of the world’s first active temperature-controlled container in 1995, has experienced significantly increased demand for its RKN e1 since it was first approved by the European Air Safety Agency (EASA) in […]
Houston’s Ellington Air Cargo Facility, a property adjacent to the Ellington Air Field, is ready for development, said Project Director Mark Briggs. “The Ellington Air Cargo Facility is the first of its kind in Houston,” Briggs said. “Not only does it offer the lowest cargo tariff in the Houston Airport System, it also […]
Singapore Airlines Cargo has added Jakarta to its freighter network and increased its weekly frequencies to Auckland, Shanghai, Sydney and Xiamen. The new weekly Boeing 747-400 freighter service to Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport started on Sept. 5. It is to be increased to twice weekly during the winter. The carrier said the Jakarta […]
Russian Railways subsidiaries RZD Logistics and TransContainer will cooperate in a joint venture to offer shippers express container trains. The express service is being tested on the route between Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg. Fast container trains will offer a convenient and reliable shipping service to Urals-based steel exporters, said According to RZD […]
The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday in two separate votes approved extensions to Federal Aviation Administration and surface transportation programs that were due to expire in the coming days. The FAA bill will keep aviation programs running through the end of January while authorization for highway and transit programs is extended through March […]
Transportation and energy ministers from 21 economies in the Asia-Pacific region, including the United States, on Tuesday agreed to continue initiatives for cleaner and more energy-efficient transportation in the region. The announcement came during the first-ever joint Transportation and Energy Ministerial Conference held in San Francisco by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the […]
van der Jagt Nicolette van der Jagt, the long-time secretary general of the European Shippers’ Council, will become director general of CLECAT, the European association for forwarding, transport, logistics and custom services. She will succeed Marco Sorgetti, who is leaving CLECAT to become the director general of FIATA in Zurich, effective Jan 1. […]
A.P. Moller’s freight forwarding and supply chain management subsidiary Damco has begun providing customers with an online calculation of carbon dioxide emissions. The new information is available online at myDamco, the browser-based customer interface with Damco, and will enable customers to track carbon dioxide emissions for all products shipped by ocean and air. […]
Marine terminal equipment manufacturer Cargotec has opened a marine service company in Klaipeda, Lithuania. The new company, MacGregor BLRT Baltic UAB, is a joint venture owned by Cargotec (51 percent) and Western Shipyard (49 percent). “In Baltic, cargo access equipment repairs and annual maintenance are mainly carried out during dry docking repairs […]
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The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has criticized the Department of Homeland Security for its handling of Jones Act waivers in a report accompanying the DHS Appropriations Act (H.R. 2017). The Jones Act requires goods moving between U.S. ports be moved on U.S. crewed, flagged and built vessels, but the Senate said, “U.S. vessels, […]
California’s clean fuel regulations and voluntary slowdowns by shipping companies have substantially reduced air pollution caused by commercial cargo ships near the state’s shore, according to a study published online Monday in Environmental Science & Technology. The study, led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), examined a containership operating under a […]
A new report by Drewry Maritime Research projects that by 2014, about 74 percent of reefer cargo will move on containerships instead of purpose-built breakbulk reefer vessels. Drewry’s latest Reefer Shipping Market Annual Review and Forecast 2011/12, said 12-month charter rates for conventional reefer ships continue to fall after a 10 percent drop […]
Container carrier Hamburg Süd and the classification society Germanischer Lloyd said they are jointly developing a data management system for systematically capturing information about shipboard emissions. Data recorders installed on ships collect information that is then fed automatically to a central server located at Germanischer Lloyd from which queries and reports can be […]
Yehuda “Yuli” Ofer, 87, who with brother Sammy co-founded one of the world’s largest shipping companies, dies late Sunday night at his home in Herzliya, Israel. Sammy, 89, died in June. The Ofer Brothers Group is a wide-ranging conglomerate that among other things owns and operates Israel’s largest privately owned shipping enterprise. […]
Titan Salvage, a Crowley Maritime Corp. company, has appointed Dan Dolson to operations manager for the Americas. Dolson has responsibility for the operations and profitability of Titan’s U.S. office and depot in Pompano, Fla. He will relocate to Florida from Bellevue, Wash., and report to Titan Vice President Richard Habib. Dolson has more […]
Old Dominion Freight Line said Monday it has opened a new service center in Madison, Wis. The center is designed to complement Old Dominion’s four existing service centers in Wisconsin, where the trucking industry hauls roughly 90 percent of the state’s manufactured tonnage. The 24-door facility is intended for a radius of 50 […]
