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Liner carrier APL has expanded the rotation and changed the name of a service connecting Central America and the West Coast of South America, according to American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data. The line’s service formerly known as PX2 has changed names to WCX now operates with three ships instead of one (with new partner Hamburg […]

  Nordana said it will reintroduce regular service into Libya.    The carrier said it operated the only regular direct roll-on/roll-off service from the U.S. Gulf and East coasts into Libya until unrest forced the temporary suspension of services in February.    The company said the lifting of sanctions and improved security in the region […]

UPS said it will spend about $200 million to expand its hub at the Cologne-Bonn Airport in Germany.

   The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Australia’s Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism have reached a memorandum of understanding to continue research and development of clean, sustainable alternative aviation fuels.    “Air travel is global and we need international partners to develop these innovative new fuels,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said. “Our ultimate […]

   OOCL and Freightliner said Thursday they have renewed a 10-year strategic partnership to provide OOCL customers with U.K. intermodal services.    Under the new contract, OOCL has committed to increase capacity by 50 percent, with daily wagons being linked between the Freightliner terminal at the Port of Southampton to their strategic terminal networks at […]

   Politicians from European cities Brussels, Berlin, Budapest, Paris and Vienna plan to sign a charter on Friday to “step up the dialogue with the inland ports authorities and take the necessary decisions in view of tackling the growing challenges in terms of urban freight supply and distribution.”    The charter will be presented to […]

   U.S.-flag Great Lakes freighters carried 10.4 million tons of dry bulk cargo in August, 3.7 percent more than in August 2010.    Iron ore volume was 4.8 million tons, up 8 percent; limestone was 2.9 million tons, up almost 21 percent; and coal was 2.2 million tons, down 7.5 percent.    Through the end […]

  U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) awarded a $593,954 grant to PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI), Indonesia’s state-owned railroad, to develop a strategic plan and system recommendations for upgrading its rail signaling and telecommunications systems.    The grant will fund a technical assistance program that includes a review of existing rail transport corridors, […]

FAA, highway funding crisis averted

Associations urged Senate to promptly confirm Eric L. Hirschhorn as the Commerce Department’s undersecretary for export administration.

   Descartes Systems Group had second quarter net profit of $2.6 million, 30 percent more than the $2 million earned in the same period a year earlier.    Revenue was $28.8 million in the quarter ending July 31, up 14 percent from $25.2 million in the second quarter last year.    The Waterloo, Ontario-based logistics […]

  Exel, the North American contract logistics unit of DHL Supply Chain, said it will build a 250,000-square-foot distribution center in Laredo, Texas, to serve as a hub for shipping across the U.S.-Mexico border.    Officials expect to complete the multiclient facility, which will meet the highest security and environmental certifications, by July 2012.    […]

   A federal judge in Tacoma, Wash., on Thursday found the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and two of its locals in contempt of a temporary restraining order it had issued earlier this month. 

  The Port of Antwerp will begin constructing the world’s largest lock near Deurganckdock on the left bank of the Scheldt River.    The Belgian port already has the biggest lock, the Berendrecht lock. The new Deurganckdock lock will be even deeper than the Berendrecht, to handle the increasingly larger containerships. It will have a […]

Washington Notebook By Eric Kulisch    Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently pointed in his blog to two construction projects as examples of the type of infrastructure upgrades the United States needs to maintain an efficient and safe transportation system that can support economic activity.    One is the modernization of the control tower at Oakland […]

   Maersk Line said this week it has adjusted its Asia/Mediterranean service network, adding calls in Valencia and La Spezia and narrowing rotations on services connecting its key Asian origin ports with Port Said in Egypt.    The adjustments affect five services — four operated by Maersk and one by CMA CGM on which the […]

   Maersk Line said this week it is seeking rate increases on a host of global trades.    From Oct. 1, the line plans these increases:    • Southeast Asia to Australia, $300 per 20-foot container and $600 per 40-foot container.    • Northern Europe to the East Coast of South America, $150 per 20-foot […]