The ICTSI Oregon terminal in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday closed after dockworkers represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) honored a picket line thrown up by longshoremen from Honduras who said they were locked out of a terminal in Puerto Cortés also operated by the Philippines-based International Container Terminal Services Inc. […]
Harley Marine Services has awarded a contract to Portland, Ore.-based shipyard Vigor Fab to build two 83,000-barrel tank barges. These barges will be the ninth and tenth built by Vigor for Harley Marine. The first of these two new tank barges is scheduled for delivery in spring 2015, followed by the second that […]
Singapore-based Odfjell Asia II Pte Ltd. and one of its senior crewmen pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Hartford, Conn., for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, the Justice Department said.
Non-vessel-operating common carrier Troy Container Line has entered a partnership with Basic Warehousing & Distribution for container freight station services in the Chicago area. Basic Warehousing’s Oak Grove Village container freight station will handle Troy’s outbound and inbound less-than-containerloads and full boxes for the Midwest region. The 100,000-square-foot CFS is located outside of […]
The vehicles were manufactured in China and imported into the United States between 2007 and 2013 without the required certification indicating that emissions would meet federal standards, EPA said.
The transpacific container trade could see increased rate volatility in the coming year, predicted Lars Jensen, the chief executive officer of SeaIntel Consulting. Speaking at the Journal of Commerce’s TPM 2014 conference in Long Beach, Jensen noted that rates in the Asia-Europe trade have fluctuated more over the past two years as large […]
Fred Smith, the chief executive officer of FedEx, said a rise in protectionism is one of the biggest reasons that world trade is no longer growing rapidly.
The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday proposed to approve United Airlines’ application to serve Tokyo’s downtown Haneda Airport from San Francisco. Under a U.S.-Japan agreement, U.S. airlines may operate up to four daily round-trip flights per day at Haneda Airport, where operations are limited. The four flights have been operated by Hawaiian Airlines […]
IT Minerals will spend $4.5 million to establish an importing, processing and exporting facility at the Port of New Orleans for minerals sourced from Mexico and other countries. “The port welcomes IT Minerals as a tenant of our industrial real estate properties,” said Port of New Orleans President and Chief Executive Officer Gary […]
“K” Line said it will launch two new services this month to enhance service between Japan and the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia. Hapag Lloyd and NYK will also participate.
Many container trades are lopsided, with great numbers of loaded boxes moving in one direction but not the other. Such imbalance has led some companies to investigate the possibility of building folding containers to reduce the cost of storing and transporting empty units. Several say they have workable designs and are seeking to […]
Hanjin Logistics’ Ambrite asks if industry is losing its entrepreneurial passion. Globalization has been a boon for the shipping industry, resulting in a huge increase in cargo volume.
Nothing stays the same, and that also goes for American Shipper. The 62-year-old publishing company, based in Jacksonville, Fla., has made a number of changes since the start of this year, which we would like to share with you on this page. For starters, we have expanded our editorial and research staff, […]
SeaLand will be Maersk’s intra-Americas brand. Earlier this year, Maersk Line announced it would spin off its intra-Americas service into a new independent unit and operate it under the SeaLand name, reviving a brand of the company founded by container shipping pioneer Malcom McLean. Maersk acquired the international container business of Sea-Land Service […]
BIS wants to clearly define responsibilities for these transactions. Navigating U.S. export control regulations has always been a tricky task and it’s not uncommon for exporters and their freight forwarders to get tripped up over regulatory language alone. One of those trouble spots, which the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security […]
Plano Molding designs and manufactures plastic storage boxes, including tackle boxes for fishermen. When it needed steel molds for its Illinois factory it contracted with CMT International, a company that assists American customers that wish to purchase products in Asia. CMT solicited bids from manufacturers, and Plano selected Kunshan, a Chinese company, to […]
The governor of Oregon is once again getting involved in problems at the Port of Portland’s container terminal, Terminal 6, operated by International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI). Last December, Gov. John Kitzhaber intervened in a dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers over […]
CSAV said it has called an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting for March 21, “when investors should approve the possible merger of CSAV’s containership business with those of the German shipper Hapag Lloyd.” CSAV said should the merger be completed, it would receive 30 percent of the combined company, a percentage subject to closing adjustments. […]
With the release of a new corn seed from Syngenta and concerns over mixing genetically modified grains in shipments, the U.S. Grain Council urged its shipper members to exercise an “aggressive stewardship” program as it relates to corn exports. “It is important for all sectors of the value chain — individual farmers, technology […]
The A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, helped by strong performance from its Maersk Line container shipping business and APM Terminals business, reported a profit of $3.78 billion in 2013, down from $4 billion in 2012.
