U.S. Transportation Department’s Deputy Secretary Jeffrey Rosen has been tapped by Secretary Elaine Chao to head the department’s Regulatory Reform Task Force.
“While we’ve always been a freight forwarder, the bulk of our business has been driven by northbound transportation into the Canadian market,” Purolator International President John Costanzo said of the new service.
Bound for the North Atlantic trade, 96 new reefer container were delivered to Samskip in Rotterdam with additional reefers to be delivered by June 5.
Set to commence in July, the new route operated by Virgin Australia will offer bellyhold capacity on five Airbus A330-200 flights a week between Asia and Australia.
The Japanese shipping company joined up with the Norwegian technology company to bring automation and “big data” analysis on-board at sea.
Direct ChassisLink, Inc. names president, Kansas City Southern adds four new members to its board of directors, and Genesee & Wyoming appoints board chairman.
Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Calif., says he wants freight infrastructure to “declare its independence” from the Obama administration’s Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act because it is too closely tied to highway funding for states.
A group of 32 chief executive officers wrote a letter to the White House, saying they are willing to work with the administration to “modernize” the deal rather than on an overhaul that starts from scratch, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Heavy rains and flooding throughout the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River region have authorities considering shutting down the seaway for shipping until water levels recede.
Operations at the Port of Chittagong remained suspended as of 3:00 p.m. local time Tuesday, but flight operations at Chittagong’s Shah Amnat International Airport have resumed, the Dhaka Tribune reported.
The parcel carriers will focus initially on international delivery services from China to the United States and plan to expand their joint offerings to other destinations in the near future.
The largest port on the U.S. East Coast saw its share of containerized cargo slip in the first four months of 2017, but may have a chance to gain market share once again with larger ships now able to call terminals west of the Bayonne Bridge.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., last Thursday introduced the Revamping American Infrastructure Act of 2017, legislation that would to remove outdated regulatory obstacles and encourage the use of technology, according to the congressman.
A tentative contract agreement was reached yesterday after railway union TCRC-CTY informed Canadian National Railway over the weekend of an impending strike.
The civil settlement reached Friday over a former food supply contract to the Defense Department will allow Agility to move forward on future U.S. government business, the third-party logistics provider said in a statement.
Singapore-based containership lessor Rickmers Maritime has completed the initial sale of five vessels for $59 million, and plans to divest another nine ships to Navios as indicated in previous announcements.
The $512 million redevelopment project, of which ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. will contribute $222 million, seeks to make Port of San Pedro in the Ivory Coast a major transhipment hub for West Africa.
Congressmen Adrian Smith, R-Neb., and Earl Blumeneauer, D-Ore., introduced a bill (H.R. 2735) on Thursday to add footwear to the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission’s notice of inquiry requesting the ocean shipping industry’s input into how it might eliminate or change outdated and burdensome regulations is now ready.
The U.S. Transportation Department’s Maritime Administration said the funding will support capital improvements and employee training at small shipyards across the country.
