The U.S. Commerce Department and the city of Los Angeles will develop a new online resource to highlight domestic suppliers of apparel, textiles and footwear. “There is incredible demand for products stamped with the label: ‘Made in the USA’ globally, but it’s sometimes difficult to identify domestic resources for these products. We are […]
TOTE, Inc. has appointed Philip H. Greene Jr., a retired rear admiral of the U.S. Navy, to vice president. After 32 years in the Navy, Greene served as the eleventh superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. Most recently he was the U.S. Transportation Department chairman at the National Defense […]
The agency is expected to announce rules on Aug. 22. The provisions are part of the sweeping Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation.
The Swiss logistics company Panalpina is introducing new technology to better monitor temperature-controlled air freight. Panalpina says one-fifth of the air cargo moved on some routes within its own controlled air freight network, for example its Luxembourg-Huntsville, Ala. route, is temperature-sensitive. Most of that cargo is health care-related, though the company said temperature-controlled cargo can include […]
The law firm Holland & Knight is cautioning shipping companies that the U.S. government has “significantly ratcheted-up sanctions against Iran with a new presidential executive order and new legislation.” In an alert to clients, the frim said “together, these new sanctions substantially restrict the types of trade that the international shipping community can continue […]
An Italian shipowner and its chief engineer on one of its ships were sentenced Wenesday in federal court in Mobile, Ala., for deliberately falsifying records to conceal discharges of oily wastewater into the sea. Giusseppe Bottiglieri Shipping Company S.P.A. was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Ginny Granade in the Southern District of […]
Air Canada has selected CHEP Aerospace Solutions to supply and manage its fleet of cargo equipment, known in the airline industry as unit load devices (ULDs). CHEP will acquire Air Canada’s existing fleet of more than 8,000 containers and pallets and integrate them into its shared ULD fleet over time, taking CHEP’s total […]
FedEx Trade Networks, the freight forwarding arm of FedEx Corp., has started operations in Glasgow, Scotland, as part of its ongoing expansion initiative. This is the third FedEx Trade Networks office to open in the United Kingdom and will offer customers increased access to major global markets and the company’s range of forwarding […]
Al Stanley, president and CEO of Intermarine, said the company had chosen to merge with Scan-Trans because it had a similar focus and little overlap in operations, leaving the combined companies with “a pristine balance sheet.”
Port of Houston Authority commissioners voted to not go ahead with a plan to build a marsh of up to 411 acres in Galveston Bay with dredge spoils from the Bayport Ship Channel at a meeting Wednesday. Instead, the port plans to use existing disposal areas east of the bay on Atkinson Island. […]
Ethiopian Airlines on Wednesday received its first U.S. Export-Import Bank-supported Boeing 787 Dreamliner at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the main terminal of Washington Dulles International Airport. Earlier in May, the bank approved a loan guarantee of more than $1 billion to Ethiopian Airlines for the export of a new fleet of 787 Dreamliners. […]
The U.S. Export-Import Bank on Wednesday opened a new regional export finance center in Atlanta as part of its Global Access program to promote small business exports. This is the second opening of four planned regional export finance centers this year by Ex-Im Bank. Minneapolis received the first office in late July. The remaining […]
José Viegas, a Portuguese national, has become secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s International Transport Forum. The forum is an intergovernmental organization with 54 member countries that acts as a strategic think tank for global transport policy and organizes an annual summit of transport ministers. It’s housed by the […]
The investment firm said Tuesday that it has submitted a proposal to Virginia as an alternative to the offer APM Terminals made in May to operate the state’s three marine terminals in Hampton Roads and inland port in Front Royal.
Evergreen is operating the service in response to increasing market demand for feeder space. It said “recent political and economic reforms have attracted significant amounts of foreign investment to the country.”
Two shipping companies that specialize in moving project and heavylift cargo – Houston-based Intermarine and Denmark’s Scan-Trans Holding -announced Wednesday that they are merging. The combined companies will operate under the Intermarine name and have a fleet of more than 50 multipurpose and heavylift vessels with lifting capacities of up to 800 metric […]
“If an index on container rates might prove useful to exporters of agricultural products, such an index should be created by private interests and not an agency of the federal government, especially a regulatory agency like the FMC,” NIT League said.
Virginia Transportation Secretary Connaughton said “we are now in the process of reviewing the proposals to determine whether the documents satisfy the minimum submission criteria set out in the request for alternative proposals.”
BDP revealed earlier this year that it was speaking to private equity investors to help it grow and diversify capital sources, but decided after a seven month review that the Bolte family will retain full control of the company.
