Maritime

Six maritime unions have formed a new group called the Maritime Labor Alliance. 

   The Halifax Port Authority said David Henderson has been elected vice chairman of its board, succeeding Tom McInnis.    McInnis was recently appointed to the Canadian Senate.    Henderson is a sales professional with over 35 years of experience and is currently the Atlantic territory account manager for Samsung Electronics Canada Inc.

The new Boeing 747-400 services will initially operate five times weekly from Shanghai, via Chengdu or Chonqing. The flights return via Tianjin. The airline has slots for up to 10 flights per week from Amsterdam.

The agency has withdrawn a solicitation for a study on the “safety, economic and environmental issues of vessels with double hulls” due to a “lack of available funding and interest,” a spokesman said.

   Apple’s announced release of its new iPhone 5 yesterday, as well as the introduction of the new Kindle Fire and other tablets – including the possibility of a “mini-iPad” – are expected to strengthen demand for air freight capacity and push rates higher.    The air freight market “is very poor right now to begin with, in […]

The EcoLiner could haul bulk commodities or containers and its developers said “we expect this new concept to appeal to shippers of consumables particularly, oil companies and logistic operators keen to get their cargo off the roads.”

   Marine services provider Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has opened 10 new offices in India.    The offices are located in Ludhiana, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Nagpur, Kanpur, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Indore, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru, and are the result of Inchcape’s significant increase in business with Hapag-Lloyd India.    “Winning this additional business is a new chapter in […]

   The environmental group Basel Action Network (BAN) said the U.S. Maritime Administration has adopted a new policy effectively ending the federal artificial reefing program that allowed the scuttling of old ships for artificial reefs.    The practice dates back to the 1972 Liberty Ship Act.    “Since the program’s inception, approximately 45 ships have been […]

   The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received for review an application for a license change.    The agency received the application from NTL Naigai Trans Lines (USA), Torrance, Calif. (Yoij Kurita, president) to add the trade name NTL Cargo One.    Persons knowing of any reason why the applicant should not receive an OTI license amendment are urged […]

FMC reviews OTI license application

   U.S. Xpress Enterprises, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based trucking company, has named Latasha Neal vice president of driver recruiting.    She has nearly 20 years of experience in the trucking industry, working primarily in the areas of driver recruiting and retention. Neal most recently served as director of recruiting and retention for Swift Transportation.

“It has been a challenge to develop a viable concept for transporting blades of this size (55 meters long) by rail in Europe, but well worth the effort,” said Mette Heileskov Bulow, transportation chief specialist at Vestas.

   The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday reported the country’s exports in goods and services for July was $183.3 billion, down 1 percent compared to the month previously.    Imports for July also declined 0.8 percent to $225.3 billion, compared to June.    “While there’s still more work to do, we remain on track toward […]

A trade organization for the agriculture and forest product industry said U.S. exporters are “extremely worried of massive economic loss” in the event of a shutdown of U.S. East and Gulf coast ports if longshoremen and their employers can’t agree…

   Dachser Transport of America Inc. (Dachser USA), the U.S. division of Germany-based Dachser GmbH & Co., has appointed John Barbasetti di Prun to director of ocean freight for the United States.    In this role, Barbasetti di Prun will oversee all ocean forwarding operations for Dachser USA’s growing client base. Dachser has recorded very […]

   Qatar Airways has appointed CHEP Aerospace Solutions to maintain and repair its world fleet of Unit Load Devices (ULDs) and galley cart equipment under a five-year contract.    CHEP will use its overseas network of 50 repair stations to maintain the airline’s more than 24,000 ULDs and galley carts, and will expand this network […]

   A news report on Monday interpreted Hapag-Lloyd’s temporary suspension of its service to Puerto Caldera as a response to the massive earthquake that occurred in Costa Rica on Sept. 5. The liner carrier clarified the suspension was actually the result of “extreme congestion” and “partial closure of most of their berthing positions” due to dredging […]

   Venezuela has released the captain of a U.S.-flag cargo ship and dropped charges against the vessel and crew, said a U.S. union.    Ocean Atlas, a heavylift ship operated by Crowley for shipping company Intermarine, has been in Maricaibo since Aug. 29, according to an account in Forbes.    A Reuters report said the […]

   Ship agency and brokerage T. Parker Host has appointed Cees van de Mortel to chief operating officer.    He spent the last 12 years with Kinder Morgan Terminals in various senior management positions, and prior to that he was employed with the Dutch transportation and terminal company Vopak.    Reporting to Adam Anderson, president, […]

The large shippers organization said a survey of its members found they anticipate “significant disruptions in their supply chains in the event of work stoppages at East and Gulf coast ports.”