The multipurpose Gulf Coast port signed a two-year agreement with the Central Ohio River Business Association to strengthen commerce between the two regions.
CEVA Logistics established an agreement with Fintyre, an Italian distributor of replacement tires, who will use the third-party logistics company’s TyreCity in Somaglia Italy to provide warehousing activities for its stock buffer products.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Gregory K. Frizzel sentenced former chief executive James Douglas Pielsticker to serve seven and one-half years in prison and pay a fine of $21 million for conspiracy to defraud the United States, bank fraud and tax evasion.
Exports helped drive record throughput in September at the Port of Long Beach, but were the main reason the Port of Oakland experienced a 4.8 percent drop in container volumes.
The derailment of a CSX train carrying Bakken crude, which resulted in a fire that forced the evacuation of hundreds of area residents, was caused by a defect that was missed on two separate inspections, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.
In a response to the ITF recommendations, the International Chamber of Shipping said it prefers a fuel levy, rather than an emissions trading scheme, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.
Third-party logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel posted a 6.7 percent year-over-year increase in net profits for the first nine months of 2015.
No one was killed in the latest blast at a warehouse that Chinese officials said was in violation of rent laws.
A new company called Sea Pac plans to build a 1.5 million-square-foot facility in Ladson, S.C. for transloading bulk shipments of plastic pellets into containers for export, according to the South Carolina Department of Commerce.
Ocean carrier APL unveiled a new rotation for the ASA service between Asia, the West Coast of Mexico and the West Coast of South America.
The Port of Savannah received its first cold-treated citrus shipment from Peru as part of a United States Department of Agriculture pilot program.
The terminal operator ordered four ship-to-shore gantry cranes and 14 automated rail-mounted gantry cranes for the APM Terminals Vado, scheduled to open Jan. 2018.
Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. introduced its “load and roll pallet” (LRP) service for shippers of coiled metal products, as well as those with long and flat metal products.
The air cargo terminal, based at Hong Kong International Airport, established a multi-year cargo handling contract with the Vietnam-based airline Jetstar Pacific.
DB Schenker Rail names new CEO, while Scandinavian Bunkering appoints managing director and Sparrows Point Terminal picks advisor.
Cargo volumes passing through the Central American gateway in the 2015 fiscal year increased 4.3 percent compared to fiscal 2014, according to the Panama Canal Authority.
Industry advisors to the Commerce Department are calling on the government to get involved much sooner when contract talks between dockworkers and terminal operators diminish port productivity.
A group of Republican House lawmakers on Friday exercised a rarely used “discharge petition” to gather enough support to force a vote on the chamber floor to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
The legislation (HR 702) also includes a provision to increase funding for the 60 ships in the Maritime Security Program from $3 million to $5 million.
Federal Aviation Administration officials say they plan to back a proposed international ban on shipping potentially dangerous lithium ion batteries on passenger airlines, according to multiple media reports.
