Graybar Electric Co. can trace its history back to the dawn of the electrical age—the company’s website says Elisha Gray was a child prodigy who at age 10 in 1845 built a working model of a telegraph; later taught at Oberlin College in Ohio; and invented a facsimile machine that used telegraph lines, while […]
Graybar knows when purchase order says “tomorrow,” it means “in the morning.”
A crossroad of trade for millennia, regional shipping services remain vital to some 700 million people in 24 countries along the shores of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. A new report, Intra-Mediterranean Container Trades, from the Netherlands-based firm Dynamar, forecasts that total intra-Mediterranean full-container trade (regional trade and feeder boxes) will grow from […]
It could be said that fledgling U.S. exporters can use all the help they can get, but are they getting too many federal agencies coming at them with offers of assistance? In January 2010, President Obama announced the National Export Initiative which proffered the goal to double the nation’s exports over the next […]
In February and April 2011 Kentucky Fuel Corp. entered into contracts with Celtic Marine for the transport of coal by barge from terminals in Kentucky and West Virginia to New Orleans and Darrow, La. James C. Justice Cos. guaranteed obligations KFC owed to Celtic Marine. There were agreements for additional freight and stevedoring, […]
First State Depository provides shipping and other services for coins and special metals. It shipped product with UPS. Its insurers alleged 27 of First State’s shipments worth $150,000 were lost or stolen by UPS or its employees during an eight-week period in 2012. When the insurers brought state law claims against UPS in […]
Frustration builds among shippers as SoCal ports struggle to get cargo off docks by truck, rail.
FAS has initiated a new fee structure to be charged for coverage under the CCC’s Export Credit Guarantee Program.
APL says it will realign network to facilitate smooth cargo flow through the U.S. West Coast.
MOL: Cargo volumes to Asia showed weak growth; north-south trades see “substantial downswing”
Terminals are being asked to forgo charges even as they say they have incurred $22 million in additional expenses related to port congestion.
The French liner carrier said it will retrofit the vessels with bulbous bows as part of its effort to improve efficiency and reduce emissions.
The Korean shipping giant moved fewer containers than last year, but benefited from rate restoration and cost cutting.
The Teamsters says payment shows shows driver was misclassfied as an independent contractor.
The union is concerned about jobs as Seaway plans to install automatic mooring system.
The NVO’s new branch is located in the Brooklin neighborhood, a key financial and commercial hub in Sao Paulo.
The commission has started an investigation into the changes by the Indian government to the country’s trade and investment policies.
NMLK Steel will become the first tenant at the Holt terminal in Paulsboro, N.J.
Atlantic Container Lines expects delivery of new ships starting next summer.
AIIS reported the 3.89 million net tons of U.S. steel imports for September was 38% higher than in September 2013.
