Recovery of the ill-fated TOTE Maritime general cargo ship’s voyage data recorder under 15,000 feet of water presents a “formidable challenge,” but National Transportation Safety Board investigators hope to complete the mission in the next several months.
Gary LaGrange, president and chief executive officer at the Port of New Orleans, announced plans to retire in April 2017, at the time his current contract expires.
A House measure that would allow companies to ask the International Trade Commission to reduce or suspend tariffs on chemicals or other items that generally aren’t available in the U.S. passed by a vote of 415-2 on Wednesday.
A new report from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration revealed fatal crashes involving large trucks fell 3.7 percent year-over-year in 2014.
Freight brokerage and third-party services provider Echo Global Logistics reported non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.24 on revenues of $405.3 million for the quarter, in-line with consensus analyst expectations.
Gross domestic product rose at a 0.5 percent annualized rate after a 1.4 percent fourth-quarter advance, less than the 0.7 percent median projection in a Bloomberg survey, Commerce Department data showed Thursday.
Truckload pricing dipped 0.6 percent in March 2016 compared to the same 2015 period, the first negative pricing change in nearly six years, according to the latest Cass Truckload Linehaul Index.
A total of 1.7 million square feet of warehousing has recently been completed in Savannah, Ga., while over 1.9 million square feet is under construction and a 2,700-acre development was just unveiled.
Rates fell another 3 percent for the month compared to March of last year, the 15th consecutive month prices have decreased, and analysts with Avondale Partners expect this trend to continue through the rest of 2016.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s 2016 West Coast Trade Symposium will be held May 25-26 in Phoenix, Ariz.
Registration has opened for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s annual Trade Symposium, which was canceled in October due to the government shutdown. The event will be held March 6-7 in Washington. CBP is calling the meeting its “East Coast Trade Symposium,” leaving open the possibility it will hold a similar event later in the […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin accepting registrations for its East Coast Trade Symposium today at 1 p.m. The registration page can be accessed here.
COSCO Pacific Ltd. re-designates executive director and vice chairman, while “K” Line nominates managing executive director, outside directors, and supervisory board members
The April 27 AS Daily news report included a mistake in the name of Ryder’s TranSync product.
The project will enable third-party logistics provider SEKO to expedite the availability of rates, improve their accuracy since prices are coming directly from UASC in CargoSphere’s cloud-based platform, and reduce staff hours in the process.
The National Transportation Safety Board hopes to recover the voyage data recorder and use it in the agency’s investigation into why the TOTE Maritime general cargo vessel sank last fall, claiming the lives of 33 crew members on board.
Jim Newsome, director of the South Carolina Ports Authority, is arguing for weighing containers at terminals to meet new international safety rules, but the Port of Long Beach says using on-site scales for that purpose is too much of a challenge.
Meanwhile, the ocean carrier alliance members reconfirmed their current cooperation scheme on east-west trades until the end of March 2017.
The outgoing director of the Georgia Ports Authority told a conference in New Orleans this month that port infrastructure can’t be used in a proprietary manner as ship sizes increase at United States ports.
The canal authority will conduct a lottery on Friday to select which of its top 15 customers will be in the spotlight with the historic first passage through the Central American waterway’s new, expanded locks.
