The Federal Aviation Administration told Braille Battery to stop shipping lithium-ion batteries by air transport or the company will risk criminal prosecution and fines.
The United States imported 2.99 million net tons of steel in August, an 8.5 percent month-over-month decline, driven down by lower volumes from Brazil and South Korea from a month prior.
The first logistics-focused technology accelerator Dynamo has its inaugural demo day Tuesday, and American Shipper recently visited Chattanooga to find out more.
Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., said he will fight the trade deal in the Senate, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., hinted the deal could fly in 2017 if controversial language giving corporations the right to challenge a nation’s regulations is removed.
The association has called on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to promulgate rules that require importers of low value goods to bear the same data requirements as shippers of goods over the de minimis level.
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., has requested the Department of Transportation study potential methods for reducing the combustibility of crude oil trains.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it has postponed the mandatory date for all importers to file certain post-release documents in the Automated Commercial Environment to give all stakeholders more time to prepare their software for the switch.
Sources said the South Korean liner carrier will lay off about 180 members of its 500 person workforce in the United States on Friday.
U.S. gross domestic product increased 1.4 percent in the second quarter of 2016, according to the “third” estimate from the Department of Commerce, following a revised increase of just 0.8 percent in the first quarter.
Japan’s Kintetsu World Express’ wholly-owned subsidiary, APL Logistics, said its employees are retracting earlier statements they made last week regarding “K” Line’s financial position.
Hanne B. Sørensen, chief executive of A.P. Møller-Maersk’s third-party logistics subsidiary, will be replaced by current Maersk Line Head of East West Trades Klaus Rud Sejling, the company said in a statement.
The Japanese carrier said it will use the funds to invest in its growth, boost the company’s earnings base to increase business competitiveness, and to raise funds for vessel-related facilities.
The chief executive officer of SSA Inc., Knud Stubkjaer, who has over 35 years of expertise in the transportation, terminal operations and logistics industry, received the 2016 Connie Award.
Airports Council International, a trade association representing the world’s airports, has approved a resolution to support the United for Wildlife Transport Task Force campaign.
The Danish container carrier ordered 14,800 new refrigerated cargo containers, lowering the average age of its reefer equipment fleet to 7.9 years old, well below the industry average, the company said in a statement.
The Japanese ocean carrier has acquired a 25 percent share of EMAS Chiyoda Subsea, a construction firm specializing in offshore and subsea oil and gas facilities, from Singapore’s Ezra Holdings and Japan’s Chiyoda Corporation.
The Ottawa-based Chamber of Marine Commerce will take over the operations of the Canadian Shipowners Association.
United European Car Carriers, a joint venture between ocean carriers NYK and Wallenius Lines, received the world’s first pure car and truck carrier capable of running on liquified natural gas from Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., NYK said in a statement.
Starting Oct. 1, the Pacific Northwest port will be accepting applications for a new, permanent chief executive officer and executive director to replace the outgoing Todd Coleman, who stepped down in May, according to a statement from the port authority.
The Hong Kong-based third-party logistics provider has renamed Albini & Pitigliani Sverige AB, known as ALPI Sverige, Kerry Logistics (Sweden) following the integration of the company’s businesses.
