Maritime

MacroPoint hires new VP, while Bibby Ship Management names safety and quality director.

The plot may have been an inside job, as one of the 13 people arrested reportedly worked for the Suez Canal Authority.

Ocean carriers Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk announced plans for rate increases on August 1.

A spokesperson for the Port of Oakland said it will hire 500 additional workers to address a shortage in time for peak season in the fall.

The container terminal operator made the decision because its primary customer in Jacksonville, ocean carrier Horizon Lines, halted its Puerto Rico service and sold off its assets in 2014, APMT said in a statement.

Saigon Port Company Limited, owned by Vietnam National Shipping Lines, sold 35.71 million shares in its initial public offering on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange.

Members of the ocean carrier alliance have added a second call at Halifax on their Asia Suez Express service between Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the United States East Coast..

World Bank provided a total of three loans for the construction of a 1,146-kilometer stretch of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor in India.

The Breeddiep, an inland shipping connection at the mouth of the Port of Rotterdam, will be expanded to 350 meters wide by the end of 2016.

The aircraft manufacturer signed a framework agreement with the Tianjin Free Trade Zone Investment Company Ltd. and the Aviation Industry Corporation of China to set up an A330 Completion and Delivery Centre in Tianjin.

DP World London Gateway names supply chain manager, while American Airlines appoints cargo sales manager to target new global markets.

International Longshoremen’s Association and employers represented by the United States Maritime Alliance will begin full wage scale meetings in mid‐September.

Total shipments and total revenues for third party logistics providers both fell in first quarter 2015 compared to fourth quarter 2014, according to a recent benchmarking report from the Transportation Intermediaries Association.

Daseke, Inc., an open-deck and specialty transportation company, announced it would merge with Charleston, S.C.-based Bulldog Hiway Express.

A recent survey of professional truck drivers found 60 percent of respondents indicated that road conditions in the United States have gotten worse since they began driving.

The Justice Department arraigned four people in Newark, N.J. based on charges of allegedly smuggling fake handheld electronic devices from China into the United States.

The agency announced it will amend regulations to allow for the importation of chilled and frozen beef from Northern Argentina and fourteen states in Brazil.

Manzanillo International Terminal in Panama said the new cranes are part of a $270 million expansion plan at the cargo terminal.

DB Schenker Rail UK partnered with Imerys and S. Walsh & Sons to transport aggregates from Burngullow, Cornwall to Stratford, London.

CCM names new chief operating officer, while Agility appoints CEO for South Asia and ATA adds VP of supply chain security.