The National Transportation Safety Board said its mission to recover the El Faro’s voyage data recorder will be delayed a month from early July to early August.
NASCENT Technology helped Long Beach Container Terminal to automate its marine terminal, giving LBCT the ability to control the number of trucks at each lane and direct trucks to the next available lane.
The freight trains collided near the town of Panhandle, Texas Tuesday morning at 8:40 a.m. local time.
The United Seamen’s Service’s 2016 Admiral of the Ocean Sea Awards will be presented to a ferry operator, union leader and a chairman of a classification society at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel Oct. 28.
Canadian National Railway has named Claude Mongeau’s successor as president and CEO of the company, Luc Jobin, as company director, and promoted Mike Cory to chief operating officer and Ghislain Houle to chief financial officer.
The United States Department of Commerce estimated that imports of truck and bus tires from China in 2015 were valued at about $1.07 billion.
The integrated logistics provider formed a joint venture in South Africa with Johannesburg-based Super Group, offering local and multinational customers a range of logistics and supply chain solutions.
The freight transportation analyst said its Shippers Conditions Index is at its highest sustained level since 2011, but conditions for shippers should reverse in 2017, as fuel prices increase and regulatory drag tightens capacity.
The Mobile, Ala.-based full service intermodal drayage carrier and transportation broker opened its 13th intermodal drayage terminal at Baltimore.
A new port navigation system consisting of 12 off-shore buoys and two land-based range markers, will allow for night time operations at the Liberian port for the first time in three decades, APM Terminals said in a statement.
The Port of Oakland names new information technology director, while the Port of Redwood City reappoints three commissioners.
Container pricing today is more likely to be based on a carrier’s cost of providing the service and the value of a customer’s business, rather than what on what is in the box.
The collision in northern Texas left one injured and three missing Tuesday morning.
Shippers should worry about fewer liner carriers Your June issue editorial (“Shippers should be outspoken about liner shakeout,” page 48) on what happens to shippers is a great point, but leaves out some important facts and conclusions. This will mark the sixth straight year that the container industry will lose money. The first […]
Like lawyers, insurance is a real problem, until you need it. And that’s not the way it should be. Lawyers are an integral component of the global supply chain and their value is not only when you need them but in assisting you to grow and manage your business. Those of us […]
Sometimes order matters a lot, and other times not so much. For example, if you order a turkey and Swiss cheese sandwich or a Swiss cheese and turkey sandwich, you will get the same sandwich either way. But if you are dealing with a combination lock, it makes a big difference if you try […]
2016 looks like it will be an even more difficult year for container carriers.
Just a few months ago, this column examined the potential merger between struggling South Korean container lines Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and Hanjin Shipping (March 2016 American Shipper, “Who’s next for liner M&A?,” page 30), and the effect it would have on carrier marketshare by capacity. Although both carriers, as well as the South […]
The congestion at port terminals on the West Coast that developed in 2014-2015 during contract negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and employers created many shipper-carrier conflicts. Case in point: a dispute between Ponte Vedra Gifts & Accessories (PVGA), a company headquartered just outside Jacksonville, Fla., and non-vessel-operating common carrier APL […]
Commercial printer Quad/Graphics evolves to succeed in a world with more digital publishing.
