In addition, the country’s largest carrier, Hyundai Merchant Marine, is reportedly looking to allocate more vessels to U.S. routes thanks to rising demand.
At least 32 rail cars from a CSX train carrying hazardous materials derailed early Wednesday, causing a petroleum fire and forcing the evacuation of a one-mile radius around the site, according to CSX officials.
The trial, which begins in September with a heavy-duty, all-electric truck, is part of a statewide effort to determine the feasibility of zero-emission freight hauling.
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) is aiming to ensure a steady influx of young, up-and-coming supply chain professionals to its membership.
The two positions are among nine that fall under the jurisdictional responsibility of the Senate Commerce Committee, with the others being in the departments of Commerce and Homeland Security, as well as the FCC.
The containership Mercosul Santos collided with a tug boat pushing several barges upriver on the Amazon early Wednesday morning, leaving nine of 11 tug crew members missing.
The non-asset-based supply chain management and third-party logistics provider’s airfreight volumes soared 15.6 percent year-over-year during the quarter, fueled by the transpacific and intra-Asia trades.
The port terminal operator arm of Chinese conglomerate COSCO Shipping will merge three terminal operators into one business entity at the Port of Dalian, according to an official statement from COSCO Ports.
The U.S. Maritime Administration beat its target date of Sept. 30 to remove 57 obsolete ships from its reserve fleet holding area in Suisan Bay, Calif.
The Bahamas-flagged bulk carrier MV Rena won’t be allowed to re-enter any Australian port until the first quarter of 2018, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
The new trucking industry arm of the now-ubiquitous ridesharing application is expanding its focus to major metro areas across California, Arizona, the Chicago-Midwest region, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.
Peter Zuccarelli of Plano, Texas, conspired to illegally export U.S.-made radiation hardened integrated circuits to China and Russia for their respective space programs, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Iron ore shipments increased over 21 percent in U.S. Great Lakes ports in July but had mixed results in Canadian ports, according to the Lake Carriers’ Association.
Deutsche Bahn’s freight rail operation will purchase 60 new locomotives from Siemens at a cost of about $250 million euros, and use the equipment in its European cross-border services.
Intermarine unveils various leadership changes, BDP International and Wen-Parker Logistics each name chief financial officer, and the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association’s executive committee appoints new executive director.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will struggle to regulate an increased flow of e-commerce goods, but a plan is in the works, according to Acting CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan.
U.S. seems likely to investigate China IP theft, but China’s trade leverage is powerful enough to offset any sanctions
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Bradley Jacobs, chairman and chief executive officer of XPO Logistics, said bigger merger and acquisition deals likely will not occur soon, but the company is currently in discussions regarding smaller purchases that could take place at any time.
Global airfreight demand grew in excess of 10 percent for the first six months of 2017, the strongest first half performance since 2010, according to recent data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
