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 […]
Congress is poised to pass bills providing short-term extensions for aviation and surface transportation programs without which funding for non-essential services would expire. Congressional leaders reached a deal on both measures late Friday. According to Politico.com, the agreement would provide the Federal Aviation Administration $5.4 billion to keep the agency running through the […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday that after 10 years of negotiations, U.S. cherries can now be exported to Western Australia, making cherries the first U.S. fresh fruit to gain access to that market. The market opening positions Australia as the seventh most valuable export market for U.S. cherries, USDA said. U.S. […]
On Monday at Round 8 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Chicago, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued a white paper outlining a new USTR strategic initiative, Trade Enhancing Access to Medicines (TEAM). TEAM offers trade policy tools to promote trade and reduce obstacles to access to both new and generic […]
Wayne State University’s School of Business Administration, with support from General Motors, is bringing in logistics students from across the country to Detroit on Sept. 22-25 for an in-depth look at the supply chain systems that support the automotive industry and its high-tech vehicles. The General Motors-Wayne State University Supply Chain Case Competitio, […]
Maersk Line on Monday unveiled a new concept for its westbound Asia/Europe customers aimed a providing a fixed transportation time for goods shipped from four key Asian ports to three northern European ports. The product, Daily Maersk, will provide shippers a daily cutoff at each of the four Asian ports, compared to less […]
Washington State’s two U.S. senators have asked the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission to investigate the extent to which the federal Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) and “other factors” are causing U.S.-bound cargo to be routed through ports in Canada and Mexico. In a letter to FMC Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr., Sens. Patty Murray Sen. […]
Asia/Europe ocean freight rates continued their nosedive in July, according to the latest figures from Container Trades Statistics (CTS), which gathers volume and price information from carriers on trades to and from Europe. CTS’s rate index on westbound head-haul Asia/Europe shipments dropped below 80 (the benchmark is 100) in July, its lowest point […]
Maritime analyst SeaIntel on Monday released a new measure of liner carrier reliability. The SeaIntel Global Liner Schedule Reliability report will track, on a monthly basis, 1,300 vessels arriving at more than 200 ports globally, with reliability figures given on 16 global trade lanes. The first report, which looks at July and […]
Liner carrier CMA CGM is altering the rotation of a service linking the U.S. East Coast and the Caribbean ahead of the suspension of its Black Pearl service between the U.S. East Coast, the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America. The line’s Cagema service has added calls at New York and […]
The Antwerp Port Authority said Friday it has appointed three representatives in South America to promote the port and strengthen existing contracts. The new representatives, Chile-based Fernando Bustamante and German Calderon, and Brazil-based Henrique Machado Rabelo, “will exploit his own niche, network and specialization, creating closer links with manufacturers (shippers) and the shipping […]
The ports of Seattle and Tacoma said they resumed normal operations on Friday, following a one-day wildcat strike Thursday by workers sympathetic with International Longshore and Warehouse Union demands that they should be employed at a new grain terminal in the Port of Longview in Washington. Protesters vandalized the EGT terminal early Thursday […]
Washington-based United Fresh Produce Association has put its support behind two pilot programs designed to enhance the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ability to trace products responsible for food-borne illness outbreaks. FDA announced last week the pilots, required under the Food Safety Modernization Act, will be carried out by the nonprofit Institute for […]
Swiss logistics company Kuehne + Nagel has extended the contracts of its top management, the company said Friday. K + N’s board of directors extended the contracts of Chief Executive Officer Reinhard Lange through 2013, Chief Financial Officer Gerard van Kesteren until mid-2014 and Dirk Reich, executive vice president of contract logistics and […]
New cranes arrive at Jacksonville Port Authority’s Blount Island Marine Terminal. The Port of Jacksonville said two new container cranes have arrived at its Blount Island Marine Terminal. The cranes are worth $10 million each, stand 170 feet tall and weigh 1,050 tons. Each crane boasts a 145-foot front reach and can lift […]
Bersin Reports of a potential al-Qaeda plot against Washington or New York around the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks led to a heightened state of alert for law enforcement and intelligence authorities, but normal precautions didn’t result in delays for travelers and shippers moving across the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection […]
CMA CGM has started a service between eastern Russia and China as it drops out of a slot-buying agreement with FESCO on the same trade, according to American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data. The French line has started its Russian Far East Express service with a rotation of Chiwan, Ningbo, Shanghai, Busan, Vostochny, Busan […]
T. Parker Host has purchased all the outstanding shares of NSA Agencies, adding offices in Houston; New Orleans; Mobile, Ala.; and Tampa, Fla. NSA Agencies (successor to Navios Ship Agency) will now become part of the T. Parker Host group. George Duffy has led NSA for more than 30 years, and T. Parker […]
Intra-Asia carrier T.S. Lines has joined a shuttle between Japan and Shanghai operated by Grand China Shipping, according to research from American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data. The carrier has joined the EKX service, which operates with one vessel by Grand China, on a rotation of Shanghai, Osaka, Kobe and Shanghai. According to […]
