Bruce Seaton, former APL executive, dies at age 90
Under Seaton’s leadership, ocean carrier APL pioneered industry innovations like larger-than-panamax containerships, doublestack trains, and domestic intermodal service.
Under Seaton’s leadership, ocean carrier APL pioneered industry innovations like larger-than-panamax containerships, doublestack trains, and domestic intermodal service.
The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled Canadian National and Canadian Pacific exceeded their Western grain revenue entitlements for crop year 2014-2015 and will be required to repay the difference.
Criminal syndicates are adulterating olive oil and other products, putting consumers at risk, according to reports from the CBS News magazine “60 Minutes.”
Spot container rates from Shanghai to Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean rose by 115.0 percent and 146.5 percent, respectively, last Thursday compared to Friday, Dec. 25.
Hebei Port Group and Tianjin Port Group have signed a framework agreement to purchase and operate port cargo facilities in each of their respective port areas.
Jacksonville, Fla.-based logistics services provider Momentum Transportation – USA, a Landstar agency, has acquired Get Fr8 and expects to benefit from its intermodal capabilities.
The Russian container transport company handled 113,387 laden containers during the first 9 months of 2015, an increase of 6.3 percent from the corresponding period in 2014.
The Hong Kong-based logistics services provider opened an IT development center in Penang, Malaysia today.
UPS appoints new general counsel, while customs and trade lawyer starts new firm in Miami.
The National Surface Transportation Board found the bridge of the ill-fated TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico general cargo vessel a half mile away from the rest of the wreck after it was sheared off when the ship sank in Hurricane Joaquin.
Texas-based oil firms ConocoPhillips, NuStar and Enterprise Product Partners are racing to see who will be the first to export oil from the United States after Congress lifted the 40-year-old ban earlier this month.
Dubbed “National Returns Day,” Jan. 6 marks the date that American consumers are expected to make the most returned product shipments after the holiday season.
Worldwide airfreight volumes dropped 0.9 percent year-over-year in November, according to the latest figures from industry analyst World ACD.
Changes resulting from the implementation of the Union Customs Code and SOLAS container weight regulations will be just as important as economic issues in the coming year, according to the British International Freight Association.
Argentina’s government will now issue automatic licenses for imports for domestic consumption of products under virtually all tariff lines, according to Miami-based law firm Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg.
The dedicated Asia-Oceania AAX service and the NEMO loop between Europe, Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Indian Subcontinent will change one vessel each, increasing their average vessel capacity by 2.5 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively.
The port operator signed a contract with Gulf Marine Services, which will move its construction and maintenance yard in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi to a larger site closer to the channel at Zayed Port in Abu Dhabi City.
The freight division of Emirates secured a charter from a Japanese construction company to transport equipment from Tokyo’s Narita Airport to Entebbe, Uganda via its cargo hub in Dubai for a new bridge being constructed in Jinja, Uganda.
Many agricultural shippers are storing grain or using rail to get commodities to export markets as a result of the continued closure of an entire section of the important freight corridor.
The U.S. Coast Guard closed a five-mile stretch of the Mississippi River near St. Louis due to high water levels and fast currents caused by the winter storm Goliath.