Maersk Sealand to end Boston call in November A decision to continue direct weekly calls is under review.
Court upholds BNSF-CN merger halt Ruling effectively puts off merger deal for at least a year.
High-tech can cherry-pick air rates after fruit season The end of cherry season means low cargo rates to Asia for high-tech.
CMA-CGM to enter Atlantic trade The carrier will sail in October through a slot-sharing arrangement with Maersk Sealand and New World Alliance.
Hapag-Lloyd joins in US-Med service The company's entry will allow a weekly schedule.
Giant Rotterdam port project clears key hurdle Construction of a second basin gets government approval.
Data, data everywhere, and nary a thought to think The joy of the Internet is that information can be passed easily, quickly and cheaply all around the world.
Baltic Exchange to launch Web trading platform
Report: Marad lagging on vessel-scrapping project
US airlines report strong cargo gains for May
Air Canada, pilots break off negotiations
Analysts expect strong second-quarter earnings from airlines
Long Beach approves $583.1 million budget
Eurogate posts 20% box growth
Ford taps SynQuest for supply chain software
BAX Global gets online bill-payment
Trucks, trains and everything in-between: NTE, FreightWise in Web alliance
Yellow Freight sets rate increase
Hijacked ship possibly found in Colombia
Marseilles approves new cranes, expansion
Nedlloyd completes sale of Mammoet to Van Seumeren
CVN 77 will do Windows Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems has announced that Microsoft Federal Systems is joining the Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS) Team supporting the design and development of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier CVN 77.
Royal Nedlloyd disposes of heavy lift unit Royal Nedlloyd has transferred the shares of its subsidiary Mammoet Transport B.V. to Van Seumeren Holland B.V.
Greenpeace activists delay lumber carrier Activists from Greenpeace yesterday prevented the cargo vessel Ranger I from unloading a timber cargo in the northern Spanish port of Vilagarcia de Arosa.
Kværner finds buyer for Kimek Kvæ,rner, has signed a preliminary agreement for the sale of its Kimek shipyard in Kirkenes, Norway, to a Norwegian investor group
Mosvold places another VLCC order with Samsung Norway's Mosvold Shipping and Korea's Samsung have agreed the terms of a shipbuilding contract for the building of a 308,000 dwt VLCC for delivery in August 2002, with an option for a second vessel for delivery in 2003.
Global Marine reports second quarter results Global Marine Inc. reported net income of $28.1 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, on revenues of $231 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2000.
U.K. publishes report on "killer wave" accident Britain's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has now published its official report into the man overboard fatality from the angling boat Purdy, at Shipwash Bank, off Harwich, on July 17, 1999.
Cammell Laird to refurbish sub for Canada Britain's Cammell Laird has won a contract from BAe Systems to support the maintenance of former Royal Navy submarine, HMS Unseen, for the Royal Canadian Navy.
Tractebel grabs $680m Cabot LNG BELGIAN energy holding company Tractebel has bought the Cabot Liquefied Natural Gas operations of US speciality chemicals manufacturer Cabot Corporation for $680m.
Costa decision soon on new cruiseships COSTA Cruises plans to make a decision on new ships "very soon", according to chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi.
ICG invests in cargobiz net venture INTERNATIONAL Capital Group, a US company which specialises in business-to-business e-commerce, has spent Dm12m ($5.88m) acquiring a stake in cargobiz.com, a German operation which plans to launch an on-line shipping exchange.
US Gulf drilling contractors poised for demand upturn US OFFSHORE drilling contractors have reported further evidence of a phased recovery in drilling markets around the world as strong oil prices finally start to kick in and boost demand for their services.
Antonini rounds on EU response THE European Union's response to the South Korean threat to its shipbuilding industry has been inadequate, according to Assonave, Italy's association of shipbuilders and shiprepairers.
Scottish ferry officers in strike threat over pay P&O SCOTTISH ferries operations are facing the threat of strike action by officers' union Numast, after members rejected an improved offer in the long running negotiations over this year's pay round.
Disposal sales to slash Hyundai profit margin PROFITS at Hyundai Heavy Industries will collapse by half this year as the world's largest shipbuilder absorbs losses on the sale of holdings in sister firms.
One network offers opportunity to another IN RECENT days the London market has been the scene of a really large gathering of the Lloyd's Agency Network. For several days in a conference at the Caf' Royal, then later in more private meetings, the winds of change in this historic world have been observed.
Schneider Logistics is off and running. LTL giant Schneider National has decided to spin off its successful logistics unit with plans for its own public offering. Chris Logren, COO at Schneider National, will be CEO of the new venture. E-commerce is a key focus of the company that has designs on becoming a "global supply-chain integrator" competing with the likes of UPS and FedEx. The cash infusion from the planned IPO will help Schneider expand beyond its North American-European focus to become a truly international player.
If North America is headed toward two dominant transcontinental railroads, then the Surface Transportation Board should "remove its blinders" and determine just how much market power railroads really possess, said economist Fred Dunbar. He wants the STB to make a real-world test of its so-called one-lump theory, which Dunbar asserts may be allowing CSX and Norfolk Southern to recover from captive shippers the immense acquisition premium those railroads paid for Conrail.
Single-source distribution is a good thing when it works. When the provider files for bankruptcy and leaves its customers holding the bag as Ameriserve Food Distribution has done to Burger King, the old model of spreading the wealth around looks more appealing. Burger King is in the process of implementing a regional distribution model to serve its 5,800 restaurants primarily to avoid the nightmare of having its national distribution company go down the tubes. Burger King isn't the only restaurant chain burned by the Texas-based company. Pizza Hut, Chick-fil-A, Taco Bell and KFC are among the 36,000 restaurants Ameriserve used to support.
OK, this time software companies really mean it: integration. Supply-chain software companies are creating applications that enable Internet marketplace customers to do logistics planning and execution through the Internet marketplace. How? By linking supply-chain software to the web through an integration application. Two such companies integrating their applications to Internet marketplaces are Optum and Capstan Systems.
All commercial ships should be equipped with voyage data recorders "without delay," according to the head of Britain's Marine Accident Investigation Branch. Flight data recorders, or so-called black boxes, are used extensively in aircraft accident investigations, and until equivalent boxes on ships are the standard, it won't be possible to identify the causes of accidents at sea, the MAIB said.
The Department of Transportation's inspector general said states are not fully complying with the federal commercial driver's license program, which is intended to keep unsafe drivers off the highway. Moreover, said an IG audit, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has failed to enforce compliance by such means as suspending a state's right to issue CDLs or by withholding federal highway funds. The audit was requested by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
The Ford Motor Co.-Norfolk Southern vehicle distribution mixing centers: were they fixed or improved? It depends on whom you talk to. Ford's dealerships say the system wasn't working, while Ford and NS claim the system was merely underachieving. But it's a fact that UPS Logistics subsidiary Autogistics, which began managing Ford's finished vehicle distribution in March, has helped improve the mixing center system. Ford confirms that it is moving more vehicles through its system faster - and Autogistics is up and running on only half the network.
Airborne Express released more bad news, warning Wall Street investors that it would miss earnings targets again for the second time in three quarters. Blaming high fuel costs and paltry domestic growth, Airborne is struggling to carve a viable niche beneath its powerhouse competitors United Parcel Service and FedEx. Even the U.S. Postal Service has raided some of Airborne's former low-cost provider territory, leaving the Seattle-based company scrambling to make its fixed-cost network profitable. The company holds great hope for its year-old Airborne@Home service, but many fear that even as new volume is added it won't be enough to stop the flow of customers from its core business.
The Suez Canal Authority has announced that it will introduce surcharges on transit tariffs through the Egyptian canal for most major cargo vessels, effective July 15.
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