Minneapolis-based XRS Corp. has appointed Brendan Reidy to president and chief operating officer. Reidy is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Clarus Systems in Redwood City, Calif. He has also held executive-level positions at Qwest Communications/US West, Litton Integrated Automation and Software Alliance Corp. “With the launch of our new […]
DCT Gdansk Container Terminal said Maersk’s 18,000-TEU “Triple E” ship will call its terminal on the Baltic Sea in August. DCT said a Triple E ship “will call for the first time at DCT Gdansk during her maiden voyage from Asia to Europe. DCT Gdansk is extremely honored with the Maersk Line decision and […]
Zim will add a second outbound call in New York to its Zim Container Service Atlantic (ZCA) string that connects the U.S. and Mediterranean ports. Starting this month, the liner company said it will add a call on the eastbound stretch of the ZCA weekly service so that the new rotation will be […]
Drewry, the London-based maritime research and consulting company, said nearly 150 sailings by container carriers were cancelled on the transpacific and Asia-Europe routes between October 2012 and this February, and that “uncertain cargo growth to Europe and the U.S. will encourage ocean carriers to continue with short-term vessel capacity planning, which means more sailing […]
The Jacksonville Port Authority’s 2013 Logistics & Intermodal Conference, March 18-19, will highlight how major global terminal operators are expanding in emerging markets, including those in South America, Central America and the Caribbean – but not investing as aggressively in the United States. Leading this discussion will be senior management from BlueWater Reporting, […]
DB Schenker Logistics has opened a new cross-docking terminal in Pruszcz Gdański in the greater Gdansk area. Schenker said the new facility is close to roads linking Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot and will allow it to further develop business operations in Poland and other parts of Europe. Schenker said its previous terminal […]
“It is something that on the face of it sounds so logical, but, quite frankly, behind all this is a property rights question,” said Matthew Rose, the Class I railroad’s chairman and chief executive officer, at the TPM conference.
COSCO said Friday that CKYH – the Green Alliance, which includes COSCO, “K” Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin Shipping, is reorganizing its service network for Asia-North Europe and Asia-Mediterranean trades in 2013. The CKYH Alliance will be providing four loops (NE2, NE3, NE6 and NE7) for Asia-North Europe and three loops (MD1, MD2, and MD3) […]
Jim McNamara, an ILA spokesman, said the agreement with employers represented by the New York Shipping Association (NYSA) is “subject to some tweaking,” but will be presented to local union officials next week.
The Los Angeles Harbor Commission on Thursday certified the final Environmental Impact Report for the proposed Southern California International Gateway (SCIG) intermodal railyard, which it said would increase the efficiency and competitiveness of moving containerized cargo through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. BNSF will invest $500 million in the rail container […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Tuesday stopped a shipment containing 445 counterfeit “Beats by Dr. Dre” headphones and 28 all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) that violated Environmental Protection Agency rules. The seized merchandise was valued at $171,499. “This seizure demonstrates the vigilance of CBP […]
The Martin Bencher Group, a Denmark-based freight forwarder, has opened a new office in Sydney, Australia. Josefin Ahlgren will manage the office. She has been with the company for over seven years, during which time she has opened and managed Martin Bencher´s office in Stockholm, Sweden, and recently served as quality manager. “Martin Bencher has […]
Gerry Wang, chairman and chief executive officer of the containership chartering firm Seaspan, said his firm has “never been as excited as we are today about the opportunities, dealing with all the new growth opportunities and also the financing transactions that we’re doing.” Wang made the comment this week while discussing the company’s […]
The United States and Iraq on Wednesday announced that the bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) between the two countries, first negotiated in 2005, is likely to enter into force later this year. The TIFA will provide a bilateral forum devoted to increasing trade and investment between the countries. The announcement follows […]
A post on the ILA’s Facebook page Wednesday said the union and New York Shipping Association (NYSA), the group that represents employers in the Port of New York and New Jersey, “engaged in intense negotiations for (the) third day.”
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), Russia’s largest cargo airline and part of Volga-Dnepr Group, has increased its flights from Moscow to Milan, Italy, to three times a week. The new Boeing 747 all-cargo service will operate every Tuesday and is in addition to ABC’s existing flights on Thursdays and Sundays. AirBridgeCargo has served the Italian […]
This Sunday emergency response agencies around the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach port complex will conduct a full-scale exercise that will provide a “vivid depiction of a unified command working together on a simulated incident” inside the Alameda Corridor. The drill, which will take place between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., will include […]
Yang Ming is increasing its participation in a service between the United States, Caribbean, and east coast of South America. The Taiwanese carrier will deploy one ship on what it calls the ANS route jointly operated with NYK, Evergreen and Hanjin. Under this new service structure, Yang Ming’s status will move up […]
The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) has elected Tom Kretsinger Jr., president of Liberty, Mo.-based American Central Transport, as its 2013-2014 chairman. He follows past association chairmen Gary Salisbury and Robert Low. Kretsinger’s first objective as chairman will be to conduct a strategic plan, something TCA has only done twice in the last 20 […]
The union said United Grain “took the extreme measure of locking out its entire bargaining unit even though by its own statements it had identified and terminated the employee allegedly responsible for the property damage.”
