The Port of Jacksonville appointed a senior director of facilities development, while Lamar University named an executive director of its new Center for Advances in Port Management.
The Swiss-based third-party logistics provider increased net profits 10.5 percent year-over-year to 169 million Swiss francs for the first quarter of 2016.
ZIM Pacific Atlantic Service (ZPA) will start in early May and offer connections from the U.S. East Coast to South Korea and China.
Nine shipyards will share $4.9 million from the U.S. Maritime Administration for modernization projects aimed at making them more globally competitive.
Swiss WorldCargo, the air freight division of Swiss International Air Lines Ltd., has entered an agreement with va-Q-tec to provide cold-chain services for its global network.
The freight forwarding and logistics company launched two new less-than-container-load services.
South Korean steelmaker POSCO this spring plans to start building a $19 million wire rod processing plant at the Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville.
The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, Bahri, saw net profits skyrocket 54 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2015 to 612 million Saudi riyal.
Third-party logistics services provider time:matters has expanded its same-day services from Portugal to about 20 destinations across Europe.
The logistics company opened a new 200,000-square-foot cold storage and blast freezing facility in Savannah, GA.
The airport handled 368,000 metric tons of cargo in March, a 1.1 percent year-over-year increase, primarily driven by 5 percent growth in exports and 3 percent growth in transshipments.
A federal factfinding agency’s report said while lifting U.S. trade and travel restrictions to Cuba will inevitably expand exports to the Caribbean country, those opportunities in the medium term may be modest at best.
One year after ports were snarled during ILWU contract negotiations, FMC has yet to receive complaint or petition.
A research ship will search waters off the coast of the Bahamas for a second time in an attempt to locate the voyage data recorder from the vessel, which may have clues on how it sank.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, reported that seizures of imports containing intellectual property infringements rose 25 percent year-over-year in fiscal year 2015.
The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a $162,500 civil penalty against Airbus Defence and Space of Madrid, Spain, for allegedly violating federal hazardous materials transport regulations.
The Belgian port handled 53.3 million metric tons of cargo during the first three months of 2016, a 3.9 percent increase from the corresponding period in 2015.
Crowley Maritime Corp. took delivery Friday of Louisiana, the third of four new, Jones Act product tankers being built for the company by Philly Shipyard, Inc.
Ocean carriers Maersk Line, CMA CGM, COSCO, CSCL, Hapag-Lloyd, OOCL and MOL issued general rate increases.
Macquarie, which already owns several container terminals in the U.S. and Canada, will now own the largest container terminal at the Port of New York and New Jersey.
