JAX LNG, a joint venture between Pivotal LNG and Northstar Midstream, received a Letter of Acceptance from the U.S. Coast Guard to begin operations by the end of 2017.
The seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index equaled 138.5 in July 2017, up slightly from 138.4 in June, due to the mixed bag of high retail sales and low manufacturing production, said American Trucking Associations’ Chief Economist Bob Costello.
Singapore-based ocean carrier APL, now a subsidiary of CMA CGM of France, began purchasing slots on Maersk Line’s AC3 loop between Asia and the West Coast of South America this week, dubbing it the AE3-AW3.
The two vessels will be built by Texas-based Keppel AmFELS and will be deployed on the Hawaii-U.S. Mainland trade by 2020.
The Moscow-based all-cargo airline also saw volumes rise to 20 percent in its Asia Pacific network, a strong factor in its overall volume increase for the period.
The new cranes are part of a $60 million terminal expansion and modernization program to prepare Matson’s Hawaii operational hub for the arrival of four new ships the company has on order.
MST and Reederei is accused of failing to keep accurate pollution control records and falsifying records for the vessel Marguerita, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
U.S. solar panel manufacturers SolarWorld and Suniva say their days are numbered without relief from a flood of cheap imports China and Taiwan.
China is leading a trading bloc in Asia – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – that would more than fill the void of the abandoned Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and could leave the United States on the outside looking in.
Postponement of determination on carton-closing staples The Department is postponing the deadline for the preliminary determination of carton-closing staples from China by 50 days. Biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia The Department of Commerce has issued an affirmative preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation into biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia. WTO Dispute Settlement Body WTO […]
Maersk Oil’s liquids-weighted production will provide the French energy giant with short-term benefits, with key United Kingdom and Norway assets boosting cash flow, and possibly cost-savings synergies in the North Sea, according to Energy Intelligence.
Previously occupied by BAE Ship Repair and then Puglia Engineering, the shipyard at Pier 70 in San Francisco is undergoing investments and improvements including dredging and is now up for lease, according to the city and county.
Through the first six months of the year, full import volumes at the Pacific Northwest ports of Seattle and Tacoma were up 6 percent to 803,357 TEUs, while full exports were flat at 540,344 TEUs, according to data from the Northwest Seaport Alliance.
New business-to-consumer e-commerce practices are rapidly changing the way retailers and their supply chain providers operate, as well as how governments apply trade oversight.
The Neopanamax vessel CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt, which measures 1,200 feet in length and 158 feet in beam and has a container carrying capacity of 14,885 TEUs, on Aug. 22 became the largest ship to ever transit the Central American waterway.
The agreement will provide Maersk Tankers with access and exclusive rights to Boston-based hedge fund CargoMetrics’ analytical models, algorithms and capabilities.
IBM and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) successfully completed a pilot trial of three out of seven modules that will utilize data analytics to increase port safety and improve port volumes.
Blue Sky Blue Sea, Inc., doing business as American Export Lines and International Shipping (USA) (collectively referred to as AEL) agreed to pay $518,063 for violating U.S. sanctions on Iran 140 times.
Airfreight rates rose on east-west routes to an average of $2.64 per kilogram in July 2017, an increase of 1.9 percent from the previous month and 1.5 percent from the same 2016 period, according to Drewry’s East-West Airfreight Price Index
The transportation and logistics sector added 900 position in July 2017 from June 2017, according to recent preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor.
