The Cleveland, Ohio-based logistics solutions provider expanded its nationwide warehouse network with the opening of a 100,000-square-foot warehouse near the Port of Savannah.
PECO names chief executive officer, Union Pacific appoints chief legal officer and CenterPoint annouces senior vice president of development.
The Suez Canal Authority has begun granting a 65 percent discount on tolls for all containerships sailing from East Coast North America ports south of Norfolk to Asian ports and 45 percent reduction from Port of Norfolk and north.
The plantiffs claimed the U.S. Coast Guard violated the Administrative Procedures Act in its rule-making procedure in developing the pilotage rates, which have jumped about 114 percent over the past 10 years.
Claude Mongeau, president and chief executive officer of Canadian National Railway, will be succeeded in his role by current Chief Financial Officer Luc Jobin after having surgery to remove a tumor from his throat in 2015.
The National Transportation Safety Board will attempt to retrieve the El Faro’s voyage data recorder in July, which is located in about 15,000 feet of water near the Bahamas.
The Port of Jacksonville’s terminals are willing to use on-site scales to provide carriers with a certified container weight to meet a new maritime safety rule.
The Port of Oakland’s largest marine terminal will continue night operations even after a port subsidy expires this month, but will assess a $30 flat-fee on all loaded import and export containers once the subsidy ends.
The container and railcar leasing company has acquired Hybrid Logistics, Inc. and its General Transportation Services, Inc affiliate, which are asset-light truck brokers with a focus on flatbed truck and over-dimensional shipments.
Americans were supposed to be the world’s economic engine, but haven’t been straying from domestic shores.
San Francisco, Calif.-based private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo said its purchase of the global supply chain solutions provider will allow Elemica to expand its client offerings by focusing its resources and investing in new technologies.
Chongqing, which is a key logistics hub for China and a leader in high-end manufacturing, is also making a big push into robotics.
The port handled 55.6 million metric tons and 4.32 million TEUs during the first quarter of 2016, a year-over-year drop of 18.7 percent and 12.1 percent, respectively.
DHL Express Germany’s new 32.5 million euro (U.S. $36.88 million) logistics center at Hanover Airport in Germany consolidates the functions of two formerly separate sorting facilities into one 30,000-square-meter site.
Japanese companies have $59 billion at stake on the June 23 referendum in the U.K., when Britons vote to either leave or stay in the European Union.
The Cool Chain Association called for closer cooperation from shippers and other industry stakeholders in order to reach its goal of a 10 percent reduction in global food waste by 2025 at its annual Perishables Summit in in Barcelona, Spain.
The Japanese ocean carrier in 2015 had reduced carbon dioxide emissions from ships by 13.6 percent since 2011, well ahead of the targeted 10 percent reduction by 2019.
SMC³ CEO Andrew Slusher told American Shipper the less-than-truckload solutions provider and trade association is focused on improving less-than-truckload rate and transit tools, while also pondering expansion into truckload and new content areas.
Transportation and logistics companies cut 500 jobs for the month, following revised increases of 10,100 in April and 5,700 in March, according to recent preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The South Korean shipping conglomerate has already reached a deal with Zodiac Marine, according to shipping publications Lloyd’s List and Tradewinds.
