The FAST Act, which provides $253 billion in funding over five years for highway and bridge infrastructure, motor carrier safety, hazmat safety, passenger rail programs and transit, now goes to the House and Senate for a full vote.
Jamaica will use SOGET’s port community system to provide a single platform for submission of key logistics and compliance data as the country looks to grow its container volumes after the completion of the Panama Canal expansion.
While some containers will flow to Portland, others will be loaded on trains in Boardman, Oregon for shipment through Seattle and Tacoma.
The Northern California port expects to begin work in April on a project to raise cranes so they can accommodate vessels with capacity for up to 14,000 TEUs.
The container terminal at the Port of Antwerp took delivery of five new ship-to-shore gantry cranes for its new location at the Deurganck dock on the left bank in preparations to move from the Delwaide dock on the right bank.
Truckload transportation and logistics provider Werner Enterprises will increase annual pay for approximately 1,400 company drivers across 48 states, effective Jan. 1 2016, according to a statement from the company.
The United States imported 2.99 million net tons of steel in October, 5.4 percent higher from September, but nearly one-third lower from Oct. 2014.
The new service, which utilizes radio tags built into labels for flat parcels, is designed to help smaller shippers keep tabs on letter-size parcels with less expensive items that don’t require updates at every step in the shipping process.
Major regional economies including China, India and Japan have experienced continued weakness in export-import activities, which has hindered the air cargo market.
The online e-commerce giant plans to deploy different unmanned aircraft systems for its planned 30-minute UAS delivery service depending on the environment.
Logistics services provider time:matters has expanded its same-day cargo network by accessing more than 50 direct airline connections from Amsterdam and another 50 from Paris to major European cities.
The global supply chain services and solutions provider introduced two new multimodal hubs located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
A first in nation pest was discovered Nov. 12 inside a container of ceramic tile from Italy at the Baltimore Seaport.
Congress has until Friday to deliver a conference report reconciling long-term federal transportation and infrastructure spending measures put forth by the House and Senate and send it to both sides of the legislature for a vote.
Listening to Scott Malet, chief strategy officer for XPO Logistics, speak in San Diego at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ conference it dawned on me how U.S. Customs and Border Protection has something in common with the cutting-edge logistics services provider. Government doesn’t have a reputation for being agile and innovative. When it […]
Consumers continue to migrate to mobile devices to make purchases, with mobile devices accounting for 36 percent of Black Friday sales, according to Custora, a company that provides predictive analytics for e-commerce.
Net income at the Israeli ocean carrier improved vastly compared to loss of $63 million in the third quarter of 2014 despite a 12 percent year-over-year reduction in total revenues.
Rates from Shanghai to Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean skyrocketed, while rates to the United States inched up slightly from last week.
FNV Ports union, concerned about jobs being eliminated when two new automated container terminals open at the Port of Rotterdam, is planning 24-hour strikes in December and January, according to reports from Reuters.
The construction of a wide access channel to Port Said East, which will permit uninterrupted vessel traffic to the Suez Canal Container Terminal, officially received approval last week.
