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Automated freight payment pioneer starts new venture to further refine process. By Chris Gillis With today’s available automation, it would appear that paying the right carrier the right amount at the right time should be a straightforward process for shippers, but that’s still far from reality. “Unfortunately, transportation payments are very complicated when […]
Swiss freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel has opened a new distribution center in Cartagena. The new facility has 10,000 square meters of warehouse space and 11,000 pallet positions at the Contecar complex at Cartagena, a key transshipment in northern South America. The site can be expanded to 20,000 square meters and is intended […]
Ace Hardware next year will deconsolidate and ship import cargo to regional distribution centers from a new import distribution facility near the Port of Virginia. The home repair retailer said last week that the 336,000-square foot distribution center in Suffolk, Va., scheduled to be completed by May 1, will be located closer to […]
The Norfolk Southern Railway plans to launch a new double-stack container service in mid-October connecting the Port of Virginia with customers in central North Carolina.
The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Friday it will raise U.S. export rates to the Far East beginning Nov. 1. The increases are $100 per 20-foot and $200 per 40-foot dry container, port-to-port, and $150 per 20-foot and $250 per 40-foot dry container for intermodal movements. For reefer cargo, the increases […]
The Paris-based consulting and outsourcing company Capgemini has partnered with Oakland-based supply chain software-as-a-service developer GT Nexus, the companies said last week. The agreement calls on the companies to jointly market what they call “supply chain orchestration.” Essentially, the two companies will collaboratively sell supply chain applications across North America and Europe, enabled […]
ILWU president charged after protest
New York airport capacity study moves forward
Crowley expands logistics services in Caribbean
DHL said Wednesday it has opened an additional facility in China designed to serve the pharmaceutical industry. The logistics company said the life sciences and health care “competence center” in Beijing is similar to facilities opened in Shanghai in 2009 and in Seoul, Korea, this July. The 140-square-meter temperature-controlled warehouse is located […]
Panama Canal pilots affiliate with ILWU
OOCL and Freightliner said Thursday they have renewed a 10-year strategic partnership to provide OOCL customers with U.K. intermodal services. Under the new contract, OOCL has committed to increase capacity by 50 percent, with daily wagons being linked between the Freightliner terminal at the Port of Southampton to their strategic terminal networks at […]
A federal judge in Tacoma, Wash., on Thursday found the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and two of its locals in contempt of a temporary restraining order it had issued earlier this month.
Washington Notebook By Eric Kulisch Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently pointed in his blog to two construction projects as examples of the type of infrastructure upgrades the United States needs to maintain an efficient and safe transportation system that can support economic activity. One is the modernization of the control tower at Oakland […]
New UP facility will bring together bulk agriculture grain, empty containers. By Chris Dupin Union Pacific Railroad will give agriculture exporters another way to tap the plentiful supply of empty containers in Southern California with a facility slated to open late this summer in Yermo, Calif. The new facility will be able to […]
NATO’s bombardment of Libyan government facilities in an effort to drive Col. Muammar Qaddafi from power continues. Libya is a small country and the loss of trade opportunities due to hostilities is having minimal impact on the global economy, although individual companies in Europe and elsewhere are certainly suffering from the loss of […]
Education key to NVO’s plan to complement Obama’s export call. By Chris Dupin If President Obama wants to double exports in the next five years, he could do worse than find more businessmen who think like Daniel L. Gardner. Named chief executive officer of Ocean World Lines (OWL) in January, Gardner notes that […]
2010 logistics costs go up despite better inventory management, study says. By Eric Kulisch U.S. logistics costs increased 10.4 percent, or $114 billion, to $1.2 trillion in 2010 because there were more shipments as the economy recovered from the recession and indirect costs for storing inventory increased, according to the 22nd annual State of […]
CSX, Ports America put Baltimore on container map despite distance from ocean. By Eric Kulisch The Port of Baltimore, relegated to the lower tier of harbors in the container trade for the better part of 20 years, is poised for significant growth as new wharf and intermodal investments get underway and private sector partners […]
On Second Thought … Thomas Nightingale Chief Marketing officer, Con-way Inc. board of directors Transport Marketing and Sales Association nightingale.tom@con-way.com The Transportation Worker Identification Credential was launched with the best of intentions, spurred by the tragic events of 9/11. With security measures heightening everywhere, Congress, through the Maritime Transportation Security Act, established what […]
High-tech CSX hub takes intermodal to next level. Companies like CSX are applying new approaches to increase the density and efficiency of new intermodal terminals. These include stacking stored containers trackside, using cantilevered, wide-span electric cranes that can cross several tracks at once, employing advanced software to optimize the order of lifts, and […]
American Shipper’s International Transportation Management Systems (ITMS) Benchmark Study, published November 2010 (available for free at www.AmericanShipper.com/ITMS), demonstrated that shippers use an average of about four-and-a-half IT systems to manage international transportation, while best-in-class firms or “winners” actually use more. More technology isn’t necessarily a good thing. Most likely these shippers have adopted […]
APL Logistics rebuilds domestic intermodal business a decade after selling double-stack business to Pacer. By Chris Dupin It’s back to the future at APL Logistics as the company rebuilds its domestic intermodal business a dozen years after selling it to Pacer International. APL, as American President Lines, pioneered double-stack intermodal rail and 53-foot […]
Sputtering recovery translates into fewer shipments. By Eric Kulisch Growth has been choppy since the U.S. economy pulled out of recession two years ago, alternating between lukewarm and anemic expansion. Most economists have minimized the likelihood that the U.S. or global economies will fall into decline again, but economic data and shipment volumes […]
Houston’s Ellington Air Cargo Facility, a property adjacent to the Ellington Air Field, is ready for development, said Project Director Mark Briggs. “The Ellington Air Cargo Facility is the first of its kind in Houston,” Briggs said. “Not only does it offer the lowest cargo tariff in the Houston Airport System, it also […]
The ports of Seattle and Tacoma said they resumed normal operations on Friday, following a one-day wildcat strike Thursday by workers sympathetic with International Longshore and Warehouse Union demands that they should be employed at a new grain terminal in the Port of Longview in Washington. Protesters vandalized the EGT terminal early Thursday […]
Pacer International said Friday it has expanded its direct double-stack intermodal rail service to serve customers moving cargo between Chihuahua, Mexico, and key U.S. and Canadian markets. The service, which began operations on Aug. 29, will operate five days per week and uses the Ferromex and Union Pacific railroads. The new service […]
Wildcat strike shuts down Northwest ports
MarAd Panama Canal, marine highways workshops
Apollo expands perishables handling at LAX
Protesters arrested at Longview terminal
CSAV seeks strategic partner amid cash injection
Huntsville gets FAA approval to handle B747-8s
American expands cold-chain service
COAC meeting shows Bersin’s innovation
Roadrunner, Prime Logistics completes merger
Clothes and cars for K + N in India
Jacobson Cos. buys G-Link Express Logistics
Freight rail feels Irene more than ports
ALAN helps with Hurricane Irene relief
CSX to expand Columbus terminal
Transportation sector girds for Irene
Port Everglades, FEC to develop intermodal yard
Averitt expands facilities in U.S. south
Kerry opens auto center in Hefei
MD Logistics adds Reno DC
UP invests in N.M. intermodal yard
CEVA profit grows, markets 4PL capability
Maersk profit slides, still bests peers
Carriers complain to FMC about N.Y.-N.J. fee
Wincanton sells off European units
Troy joins CargoSphere Network
Saddle Creek expands in Chicago, Jacksonville
Yusen Logistics makes senior appointments
IANA: Domestic container volume rises
CSX invests in Louisville intermodal terminal
DHL expands China warehousing
Port Everglades reports cargo upswing
Greenbrier gets orders for 3,700 railcars
MIQ Logistics acquires U.K. logistics firm
Improved rail benefits Southampton terminal
Old Dominion rolls out 3PL
Hub increases 2nd quarter income 49%
Quillen picked to chair overhauled VPA
Daggett elected ILA president
Norfolk Southern 2nd quarter profit up 42%
Swiss air cargo interest group formed
Longshore labor leaders say they are united
Intermodal buoys CN Q2 performance
C.H. Robinson profit increases
Management cautions ILA on West Coast competition
FedEx Express completes MultiPack buy
Union Pacific reports higher profit
CSX reports 28 percent hike in profits
Matson rebrands units as Matson Logistics
GSA Global assumes management of Africa West
Pacer expands near Seattle, Tacoma
Congress pressed for action on harbor dredging
House GOP proposes scaled-back highway bill
CMA CGM adds 5th Zeebrugge/Duisburg shuttle
Companies keen on relocating to Mexico
U.S. Mexico sign cross border truck pact
Americold appoints Lange as CFO
Crowley acquires Puerto Rico Freight Systems
DOT claws $527 million for TIGER III
APL builds intermodal yard near Chicago
Inland port planned for South Florida
Holt, Philadelphia-area stevedore, dead at 74
Holt plans massive solar installation at port
DHL expands Morocco gateway facility
Troy Container expands LCL service to Italy
APL Logistics debuts 53-foot domestic boxes
Port Everglades moves forward with ICTF
MSC plans peak season surcharge from Asia
Ports America, MSC to expand Newark terminal
