The port said it expects to benefit from the new ocean carrier alliances that launched this month, along with a new non-alliance transpacific service.
The southeast Asian port said the station will facilitate the bunkering of ships as well as shore-based furnaces that use liquefied natural gas as fuel.
The introduction of physical customs checks following the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union would be a “catastrophe” for ports and trade volumes in the UK, according to Guy Platten, CEO of the UK Chamber of Shipping.
The Commerce Department has started an investigation into the dumping and government subsidization of U.S. biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia.
The joint port concession agreement was signed in 2005 with the joint goal of building, operating and expanding the Fujairah Container Terminal for container handling and transshipment.
RoadOne IntermodaLogistics adds two new regional business development directors and a regional vice president of operations in the Midwest, while USA Truck appoints vice president, corporate controller.
The intermodal segment, which brought in the majority of J.B. Hunt’s operating revenues for the quarter, saw revenues rise 5 percent year-over-year, reflecting 2 percent volumes growth and a 3 percent boost in revenue per load.
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The wife of a seafarer who perished when the cargo ship El Faro sank in October 2015 near the Bahamas is asking Congress to establish new regulations aimed at preventing similar tragedies.
Exports from China increased 16.4 percent from the previous year in March, while imports grew 20.3 percent, reversing a rare trade deficit in February, according to recent data from the country’s General Administration of Customs.
The international trade association has asked the Supreme Court to review its case on the electronic logging mandate, and to determine whether the rule violated the Fourth Amendment.
The liner shipping industry will see “profound change” in the next two decades, as macro-economic & demographic shifts are altering trade patterns, industry consultant Lars Jensen said in his book, Liner Shipping 2025 – How to survive and thrive.
The oil and gas industry said CBP’s proposed revisions on when Jones Act vessels must be used in offshore oil and natural gas activity will lead to less oil and gas production, but the OMSA said it would return 3,200 jobs to the Gulf Coast.
The Southern California port saw a surge of cargo following Asian Lunar New Year celebrations and because U.S. retailers shipped merchandise ahead of the new vessel alliance deployments that began this month.
The parcel giant and third-party logistics provider has expanded dangerous goods shipping program with the addition of 400 new commodities to the list of accepted products for its global air network and 300 products for its European ground services.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the number of counterfeit merchandise seizures in Puerto Rico for the first two quarters of federal fiscal year 2017 increased by over 300 percent year-over-year.
Omaha, Neb.-based Class I freight railroad Union Pacific is combining its Wichita service unit leadership with its Kansas City, Fort Worth and North Little Rock units and reassigning three management positions to other locations, the company said.
After taking the consumer market by storm, the famed electric automaker will attempt to break into the commercial truck market later this year with an all-electric semi truck, founder and CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet yesterday.
Fellow Hamburg-based containership owners Leonhardt & Blumberg and Buss Shipping have agreed to form a new joint ship management venture that will sport a fleet of 55 feeder-size vessels, the firms said in a joint statement.
The opening signaled the official start of the APL Logistics Oman SAOC joint venture to develop Oman as a regional logistics hub.
