The National Transportation Safety Board said its mission to recover the El Faro’s voyage data recorder will be delayed a month from early July to early August.
NASCENT Technology helped Long Beach Container Terminal to automate its marine terminal, giving LBCT the ability to control the number of trucks at each lane and direct trucks to the next available lane.
The freight trains collided near the town of Panhandle, Texas Tuesday morning at 8:40 a.m. local time.
The United Seamen’s Service’s 2016 Admiral of the Ocean Sea Awards will be presented to a ferry operator, union leader and a chairman of a classification society at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel Oct. 28.
Canadian National Railway has named Claude Mongeau’s successor as president and CEO of the company, Luc Jobin, as company director, and promoted Mike Cory to chief operating officer and Ghislain Houle to chief financial officer.
The integrated logistics provider formed a joint venture in South Africa with Johannesburg-based Super Group, offering local and multinational customers a range of logistics and supply chain solutions.
The freight transportation analyst said its Shippers Conditions Index is at its highest sustained level since 2011, but conditions for shippers should reverse in 2017, as fuel prices increase and regulatory drag tightens capacity.
The Mobile, Ala.-based full service intermodal drayage carrier and transportation broker opened its 13th intermodal drayage terminal at Baltimore.
A new port navigation system consisting of 12 off-shore buoys and two land-based range markers, will allow for night time operations at the Liberian port for the first time in three decades, APM Terminals said in a statement.
The Port of Oakland names new information technology director, while the Port of Redwood City reappoints three commissioners.
Container pricing today is more likely to be based on a carrier’s cost of providing the service and the value of a customer’s business, rather than what on what is in the box.
The collision in northern Texas left one injured and three missing Tuesday morning.
2016 looks like it will be an even more difficult year for container carriers.
Just a few months ago, this column examined the potential merger between struggling South Korean container lines Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and Hanjin Shipping (March 2016 American Shipper, “Who’s next for liner M&A?,” page 30), and the effect it would have on carrier marketshare by capacity. Although both carriers, as well as the South […]
The congestion at port terminals on the West Coast that developed in 2014-2015 during contract negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and employers created many shipper-carrier conflicts. Case in point: a dispute between Ponte Vedra Gifts & Accessories (PVGA), a company headquartered just outside Jacksonville, Fla., and non-vessel-operating common carrier APL […]
It’s reasonable to wonder whether the container-shipping industry is headed to becoming a “commoditized” business, like buying lots of corn and soybean, or oil and gas. The condition of the container carriers is desperate: a soft global economy and a tremendous amount of container capacity to fill, and reports of steep financial losses […]
The United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union last week could have implications for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the U.S. and EU, as well as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to experts at the Stimson Center.
The struggling South Korean shipping line plans to return 20 containerships and 18 bulk vessels when their charters expire this year and next as the latest step in its cost cutting and restructuring efforts.
United States GDP grew slightly more than initially expected in the first quarter of 2016, but durable goods orders fell in May, according to the most recent data from the Department of Commerce.
The French ocean carrier said it intends to have Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines delisted from the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange as it pushes forward to acquire all of the shipping company’s shares.
