The drivers’ unionization vote is at least the fourth such decision by intermodal company workers in the past 13 months, according to the Teamsters union.
The crowd-sourced ocean freight rate benchmarking and analytics platform says it is responding to customer demand for similar airfreight rate intelligence tools, with a full launch planned for second quarter 2018.
After several months of strong growth in containerized cargo, the Northern California port’s TEU throughput figures were down nearly across the board for in November compared with the same month a year ago.
Port Everglades projects that the expanded agreement with produce importer Sol Shipping will generate $1.6 million in lease revenue and $4.3 million in maritime-related revenue for the port during the lease term.
The Berlin, Germany-based digital freight forwarder secured $20 million in a Series A funding round just 18 months after its initial market launch.
The Port of Corpus Christi Commission voted to approve a lease agreement with Gulf Coast Growth Ventures Asset Holding LLC, an ExxonMobil-SABIC joint venture, for a 13-acre multi-purpose cargo dock and a 35-acre marine terminal facility at the port.
DHL Express and Air Hong Kong will extend their partnership another 15 years as Central Asia capacity out of Hong Kong continues to grow.
The all-cargo airline has partnered with DHL Global Forwarding to test container transport of pharmaceutical shipments from Russia to the United States and Nicaragua.
The U.S.-based air carrier now offers seven certified pharma facilities in Europe that connect to its Atlanta hub in the U.S., Delta announced on Wednesday.
MC11 ends without agreement WTO members wrapped up their 11th Ministerial Conference (MC11) in Buenos Aires with no agreement possible in a number of the substantive issues that were under discussion at the conference. WTO’s MC11 “A missed opportunity” “All WTO Members have to face a simple fact: we failed to achieve any of our objectives, […]
The Port of Galveston appoints port director; Ryder names rental sales executive for Scotland; Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg adds an advisor in its export controls and sanctions practice; and the European Community Shipowners’ Associations names president.
The Dec. 11 AS Daily article “Customs to test launch electronic payment for commercial vessel fees,” about U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) pilot test for electronic payment of taxes and fees imposed on commercial vessels at four ports of entry – Los Angeles/Long Beach; New Orleans; Gulfport, Miss.; and Mobile, Ala – […]
Sydney, Australia-based Global logistics software provider WiseTech Global, which has made seven other various acquisitions around the globe throughout the year, has snatched up warehouse management solutions (WMS) provider Microlistics.
Nominations to the Supply Chain Competitiveness Advisory Committee The Department of Commerce is seeking nominations to fill positions on the Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness for the 2017-2019 charter term. Joint statement on WTO’s MC11 Officials from the U.S., EU and Japan issued a joint statement on enhancing cooperation at WTO’s MC11 on Tuesday. […]
The council has requested that the city attorney submit a written report with options regarding how to mandate fair wages and working conditions for employees that work for companies operating on City of Los Angeles property.
The National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) final report on the 26-month-long investigation into the loss of the TOTE Maritime vessel in October 2015 put the majority of the blame on the captain of the ill-fated cargo ship.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) notified the Truck Renting and Leasing Association (TRALA) that it plans to grant the association’s request for a 90-day waiver from the electronic logging device mandate for short-term rental trucks.
The Port of Los Angeles is on track to become the first North American seaport to ever handle more than 9 million TEUs in a calendar year, according to port projections.
The mid-Atlantic port installed a 40-plug central power unit on the Richmond Express barge, as well as a specialized, heavy-lift forklift with a 52,000-lb. lift capacity at the Richmond MarineTerminal this week using federal grant funds.
Through the first 11 months of the year, shippers sent 6.84 million TEUs through Long Beach, a 10 percent increase over the same period in 2016, according to data from the port.
