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| Kewill receives validated Oracle integration |
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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Kewill, a provider of global trade and logistics services and a Gold-level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced it has achieved Oracle Validated Integration of Kewill Flagship with the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1. Kewill Flagship provides an enterprise parcel shipping service for Oracle’s E-Business Suite users and the validated integration allows for the system to give easier implementations, lower costs, and improved ease of use. The validated...
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| APL Logistics offers shipment planning tool |
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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APL Logistics on Wednesday unveiled a new shipment planning platform aimed at changing the way large freight buyers coordinate their transportation activities. The company’s ShipmentOptimizer will allow shippers to generate the best shipment plan according to three variables: Cargo arriving at final destination on the preferred date. Maximization of space and load utilization. Minimization of overall transportation costs on a door-to-door basis. "This technology inn...
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| Zonar provides asset tracking |
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Seattle-based Zonar has announced its new ZTrak solution for companies that need to manage the transfer of assets and track the locations of valuable materials. Zonar said the service could be used to track equipment, shipping containers, hazardous materials trailers, rental equipment, high security items, and other assets that must stay in certain areas. The company said it has used the same high-definition GPS imaging and cellular technology...
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| Acsis puts data tracking on floor |
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Friday, February 03, 2012
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Acsis has released the latest line of its Acsis ProducTrak, a set of data collection and task management software that can be integrated with ERP systems from SAP, Oracle, J.D. Edwards, and others. Acsis aims the new software at bringing real-time connectivity to every point in the supply chain by supplying the infrastructure to manage data collection points to where they are gathered, namely the shop floor and warehouse. Acsis said it targeted this area bec...
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| RedPrairie moves to the cloud |
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
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RedPrairie, an Atlanta-based supply chain and retail technology provider, announced that its Merchandise Management and Direct Commerce applications are now available as on-demand through the cloud. RedPrairie is adding cloud versions of these applications as part of an overall cloud platform strategy, touting its ability to save money and provide more efficient systems for small and mid-sized businesses. The company said these cloud applications will help c...
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| Mexican terminal picks Tideworks |
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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Tideworks Technology, a provider of terminal management and planning software, said SSA Mexico (SSAM) has deployed the new Forecast customer service Web portal at its container terminal at Manzanillo, Mexico. Both Tideworks and SSA Mexico are subsidiaries of Carrix, one of the largest privately held marine and rail terminal operators. The Forecast Website provides terminal customers including ocean carriers, trucking companies, and customs bro...
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| FedEx expands SenseAware deployment |
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Memphis, Tenn.-based FedEx has announced the expansion of its SenseAware product, which provides shippers with near real-time tracking and increased shipment visibility, to all of its customers. The platform, launched in November 2009, was initially available only to healthcare and life sciences customers. FedEx has now expanded the product to anyone “who can benefit from this added level of visibility and monitoring." SenseAware is a tracking service that p...
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| Orium expands in Europe |
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
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Orium, which operates an e-fulfillment and multilingual contact center, has launched a new Website dedicated to helping U.S. e-commerce and multichannel retailers expand their Internet sales to European markets. In particular, the new site helps facilitate exchanges with clients by streamlining inventory access, e-fulfillment, and shipping options. The company said the biggest barriers it has found for U.S. retailers successfully expanding to EU market...
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| INTTRA picks Cognizant for tech testing |
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
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INTTRA, a global provider of e-commerce applications for the ocean freight industry, said it plans to streamline the development and quality assurance testing efforts for its applications to a single partner, Cognizant. Cognizant, a New Jersey-based technology consulting and business processing service, will help INTTRA develop efficient ocean freight management and e-commerce solutions and speed up their release to market. “The global ocean shippi...
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| Amber Road's free global trade cloud portal |
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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Amber Road, formerly Management Dynamics, is building on its global trade management (GTM) offerings with the launch of TradeWizards.com, a free cloud-based portal for global trade operations. The Website is a combination of nine research tools built around obtaining data related to cost and compliance risks around importing and exporting goods. The modules available in the suite cover restricted party screening against 40 lists; product classification cover...
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| New online freight booking system starts |
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Friday, January 13, 2012
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A new online booking processing system, Freibos.com , has started offering services that cover price quotes, freight bookings, and transport invoices. The system aims to allow small- and mid-sized transportation and forwarding companies throughout Europe to process more bookings and serve more clients without expanding their staffs. The system is also expected to reduce costs for companies that use these forwarders. The new process management system l...
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| TranZcenter's transport management Website |
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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A new transportation management Website has popped up, promising to help shippers, distribution centers, manufacturers, and other companies get better rates from a list of more than 28,000 available carriers. The RateMyShipment.com site comes from TranZcenter, a logistics and supply chain management services provider, and its head of operations Milton Collier. The network of multimodal carriers covers North America and includes modes like less-than-truckload (LTL), truckloa...
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| Amsterdam launches smartphone app |
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
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Now, just about anyone can track basic movements in the Port of Amsterdam thanks to a new smartphone application, iamPort. The service provides information on expected, arriving and departing ships. The app, which currently works with Apple’s iPhones and iPads, tracks both seagoing vessels and river cruises. Users can get information like the size of a vessel, its agent, basic cargo information, expected arrival date and time, and the mooring place of each s...
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| INTTRA signs up Kewill in productivity partnership |
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Monday, December 12, 2011
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INTTRA and Kewill have announced the formation of a strategic alliance to give Kewill’s customer base access to INTTRA’s multi-carrier network. INTTRA, which focuses on providing e-commerce solutions for the ocean freight industry, provides a network of more than 30 ocean carriers on a single connection and bills this as the largest multi-carrier network. The partnership will give Kewill’s customers a unified processing platform, aiming to streamline the supply chain and...
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| Vanguard to use CargoSmart schedule function |
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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The global shipping software as a service (SaaS) company CargoSmart said Wednesday it has tied up a deal with neutral non-vessel operating common carrier (NVO) Vanguard Logistics Services. The deal sees Vanguard integrate CargoSmart’s new Sailing Schedules function with its worldwide in-house transportation management system. “The multiple-carrier sailing schedule integration allows Vanguard to streamline the way its global operations team obtains schedule d...
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| Champ buys Traxon |
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
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Champ Cargosystems, a provider of integrated air cargo applications, has acquired Traxon Europe, a developer of electronic communications services to the air cargo industry. The deal was agreed to by Champ, and Lufthansa Cargo and Air France, the majority shareholders of Traxon Europe. Financial terms were not disclosed. “By selling our stake in Traxon to Champ, we are continuing our policy of concentrating on our core business,” said Andreas Otto,...
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| INTTRA reaches 2 million e-orders monthly |
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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The ocean shipping software developer INTTRA said Monday that e-commerce usage in ocean shipping has reached an all-time high, with a record two million container orders per month initiated through its portal the last two months. The company said it expects 22 million orders in 2011, representing roughly 14 percent of global container trade. INTTRA said growth is especially strong in China, India, Chile, and Indonesia. "I am pleased to see e-commerce ad...
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| HK air cargo terminal gets IT upgrade |
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
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Hong Kong’s SuperTerminal 1 – the world’s largest independent air cargo handling facility – will migrate to a totally new cargo management system in December, following almost three years’ development by the operator of the terminal, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals, Ltd. (HACTL). The new $30 million system is the fourth major upgrade to the terminal cargo management system, first introduced at Hong Kong’s former airport, Kai Tak, in 1976. The upgrade includes multilingual, online ...
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| Freightgate’s ocean procurement module update |
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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Supply chain software developer Freightgate this week released the newest version of its OceanTender product. The OceanTender 3.1 transportation procurement application uses a common business process and standardized format developed in conjunction with global shippers, 3PLs and carriers. The product standardizes and supports all phases of a tender from initial creation, request, responses, complex shipper evaluation, countering, and award. "We are excited that our ...
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| Hines named VP at Zonar |
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Monday, October 17, 2011
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Zonar, a Seattle-based firm specializing in compliance and fleet efficiency information technology applications for the trucking industry, has appointed Chris Hines to executive vice president. Prior to this appointment, he was president and chief operating officer of the Celadon Group. Hines was also formerly president and chief executive officer of Tripmaster Corp. (now Mix Telematics), and president and CEO of Atipical Holdings, a business he founded. In addition...
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| GT Nexus adds social networking |
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
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GT Nexus has launched "G2," a social networking tool. As an example, information technology applications developer said members of its GT Nexus Shipper Council – a group of shippers – are using G2 to collaborate on key initiatives. “The shipper council has become a very active group,” said Patrick Halloran, director of trade and logistics at Cardinal Health and chairman of the council. “We have several subcommittees already collaborating on G2 in ways similar to th...
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| Capgemini, GT Nexus tie up deal |
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Monday, October 03, 2011
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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 by GT Nexus’ technology platform. “This is a unique combination of ...
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| UPS lets receivers change delivery terms |
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
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UPS Wednesday said it will launch on Oct. 3 a new product called UPS My Choice, which is designed to make it easier for receivers of parcels to avoid missed deliveries. The company said out of the 5 million or so homes it visits each day, it leaves 100,000 to 200,000 missed delivery notices. So the company said the product will not only eliminate a major frustration for people who miss deliveries, but also reduce its costs. There will also be fees charged for the s...
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| Ex-CBP chiefs: Congress misguided on border security |
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
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Two former U.S. Customs commissioners, now out of government and free to speak their minds, unloaded on Congress for making their jobs more complicated by forcing the Department of Homeland Security to implement ineffective security measures. Bersin But Alan Bersin, the current commissioner, said the way to prevent politicians from overreacting to perceived threats at the border is to address security gaps and other problems before they rise to a critical level. Th...
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| FMC addresses index-linked contracts |
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Friday, September 09, 2011
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The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to initiate a rulemaking to give more leeway for ocean carriers and shippers to use service contracts with rates linked to freight rate indexes. To date, the FMC said it has received more than 50 service contracts that reference freight indexes. Under the commission's current rules, service contracts can only reference outside terms, such as a rate in a freight index, that are 'contained in a public...
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| Bergerson named Liberian registry CEO |
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Friday, September 09, 2011
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Scott Bergeron was appointed chief executive officer of the Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry (LISCR), the U.S.-based manager of the Liberian Registry. He joined LISCR in 2000 as chief operating officer. Before that, he worked for shipowner and manager Laurin Maritime, Det Norske Veritas, and the U.S. Coast Guard, as well as gained practical seagoing experience on a variety of different types of ships. Yoram Cohen and Adam...
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| DHL outsources B767 flying to Atlas |
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Friday, September 09, 2011
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Atlas Air said Thursday it will fly and maintain five Boeing 767 wide-body freighters owned by express carrier DHL Express in its North American network starting in 2012. The company is an all-cargo airline that operates its own planes under contract to airlines. It also offers plane-only leases, charter services, flight training and other specialized aviation services. In 2010 it began offering airlines the ability to simply hire Atlas to provide crews and maintenance for thei...
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| Guidelines for U.S. meat exports to Mexico |
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
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The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) has published guidelines for managing and expediting the export of red meat products to Mexico. The 74-page booklet covers everything from paperwork done at the processing plant to documentation, Mexican inspection, customs verification and answers to commonly asked questions. 'These recommendations were developed after many visits performed by USMEF technical staff to different agencies and groups engaged in
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| DOT releases $34 million for Texas project |
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Friday, September 02, 2011
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The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday obligated $34 million to local authorities setting the stage for work to get underway improving a major freight rail chokepoint in Texas. The department also announced a $15 million grant to start engineering and environmental planning on a high-speed passenger rail route between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. The DOT announced last October that the Tower 55 project in Fort Worth was one of the winners
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| CSAV adds ports to Gulf Bridge Express |
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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Chilean containership operator CSAV said it is adding ports to the Gulf Bridge Express service that it operates with CMA CGM between ports in South America, the Caribbean, Mexico and the United States. The service will add calls at Puerto Cabello in Venezuela and New Orleans in late September
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| FedEx Freight expands in Mexico |
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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FedEx Freight, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., will serve three additional markets in Mexico. With new service centers in Toluca, Puebla and Veracruz, the less-than-truckload company said it has reduced transit times by an average of 50 percent for customers shipping in the southeastern
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| Globe Express opens in Miami, expands in China |
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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Globe Express Services has opened an office in Miami and expanded its presence in China with facilities opened in Guangzhou and Suzhou. The Charlotte, N.C.-based logistics services provider said these openings mark the first step of a plan to expand its office network from 42 to 50 by the end of 2011. 'By setting up shop in Miami, we provide that direct service link between Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the countries we already serv
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| Report: Military paid $720 million in late box charges |
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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The U.S. military has spent more than $720 million since 2001 on container detention fees, according to a USA Today report. Scott Ross, a spokesman for the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, said his agency has been working to reduce fees paid by the military in r
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| MSC to raise westbound transatlantic rates |
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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Liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Monday it will raise westbound transatlantic rates to Canada and Mexico on Oct. 17. The increase, $200 per 20-foot container and $250 per 40-foot container, is applicable to origins in northern Europe and the Mediterranean, and destinations on the East and West coasts of Canada and Mexico. The notice does not apply to U.S. destinations.
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| U.S. forges ahead on supply chain security strategy |
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Monday, August 29, 2011
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Developing the U.S. government's national strategy for securing the global supply chain has bogged down in the White House's National Security Council, where it has been under review since at least early April, a Department of Homeland Security official told industry members.
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| ATA: Truck volume fell in July |
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Friday, August 26, 2011
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U.S. trucking activity softened in July based on a 1.3 percent decrease in the American Trucking Associations Truck Tonnage Index on Tuesday. The trade association also revised downward its June index from an increase of 2.8 to 2.6 percent. Tonnage has fallen in three of th
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| Maersk to raise Asia/Australia rates |
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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Maersk Line said this week it plans to raise rates on shipments from Northeast Asia to Australia. The increase is $250 per 20-foot container and $500 per 40-foot container, effective Sept. 15. The rate hike is applicable to origins in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. In a separate note, Maersk said it has stop accepting 45-foot high-cube containers in any Mexican ports, as of Aug. 20.
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| APL-Hamburg S�d join on Americas services |
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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Liner carriers APL and Hamburg S'd said Wednesday they are joining together on two services, connecting Central America to the West Coast of South America and to Mexico. APL said it is dropping an existing service, the PX2, it operates between Panama and the West Coast of South America and replacing it with a new loop, which it will call WCX and Hamburg S'd will call WECA1 from Sept. 4. The PX2 service is a one-vessel feeder on which its New W
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| Old Dominion to raise rates |
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
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Less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line said Monday it will increase its base rates from Sept. 6. 'The general increase is in keeping with our long-term pricing philosophy and as such involves a restructure that provides for increases in our rates based on length of haul rathe
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| CBP to mitigate UP drug smuggling fines |
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Monday, August 22, 2011
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has agreed to waive $500 million in penalties accumulated in recent years by the Union Pacific Railroad following the discovery of illegal drugs on trains originating in Mexico. In exchange, UP will invest $50 million in security systems to prevent
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| Customs, IG reach corruption probes accord |
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
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Overcoming years of mistrust, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General and U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday they will work together to investigate corruption within the border security agency. Under the agreement, CBP will immediately assign inv
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| Maersk profit slides, still bests peers |
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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Maersk Line saw its first half operating profit drop 67 percent to $438 million, the line said in its interim financial statement Wednesday. The steep decline in profit, which includes a $29 million operating loss in the second quarter, still places the Danish line in an enviable position r
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| Study: 675 containers a year lost at sea |
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
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The main industry group for the liner shipping industry said a study of containers lost at sea finds far fewer are lost than in some reports. The World Shipping Council (WSC) said Wednesday that based on survey results it estimates that "on average there are approximately 350 containers lost a
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| IANA: Domestic container volume rises |
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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Domestic and international intermodal volumes increased to 3.53 million units in the second quarter, 6.5 percent more than in the second quarter of 2010, said the Intermodal Association of North America. IANA reported the growth, by equipment type, as: ' 1.23 million d
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| ICSTI first half profit up 29% |
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011
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Manila-based global terminal operator International Container Terminal Services Inc. said Tuesday its first half operating profits rose 27 percent to $108.7 million. Revenue for the first half of 2011 rose 29 percent to $319 million. ICTSI chalked up the gains to 'continued recovery of the global economy' and the addition of new terminals in its network. Volume at ICTSI terminals rose 24 percent in the first half. The operator said it is becom
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| Vanguard appoints Groff general counsel |
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Friday, August 05, 2011
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Non-vessel-operating common carrier Vanguard Logistics Services has appointed Terry Groff to vice president and general counsel for legal administration, effective Aug. 8. Groff brings with her more than 20 years of experience as an attorney in the freight forwarding industry. She started as a maritime attorney specializing in NVO matters, and has legal and industry expertise in all transport modes.
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| Maersk describes focus on fast-growing trades |
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Monday, August 01, 2011
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A.P. Moller - Maersk said it is focused on increasing its business in fast growing trades between China and regions such as South America and West Africa. An article in the most recent issue of the company's in-house magazine Maersk Post quoted Lars Reno Jakobsen, head o
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| International Shipholding profit slips |
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Friday, July 29, 2011
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International Shipholding Corp. reported second quarter net profit of $2.8 million, compared to $9.6 million in the same 2010 period. Revenue for the quarter ending June 30 was $70 million compared to $85 million in the same 2010 period. Mobile-based International Shipholding operates a diverse fleet of ships that "performed as expected," said Niels M. Johnsen, chairman and chief executive officer. The company said gross voyage pro
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| Shippers ask STB for more rail competition |
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
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A group of 40 shippers and business advocacy groups are asking the U.S. Surface Transportation Board for increased rail competition and improvements to the rate regulatory process. 'While the STB's recent decision to lower filing rates for shippers was a step forward, freight rail ref
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| UPS 2nd quarter net income up 26% |
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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UPS reported on Tuesday second quarter net income of $1.06 billion, a 26 percent increase over the same period last year. Revenue was $13.19 billion in the quarter, 8.1 percent higher than the $12.2 billion earned in the second quarter of 2010. The company said revenue f
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| FedEx Express completes MultiPack buy |
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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FedEx Express on Monday completed the acquisition of Servicios Nacionales Mupa, S.A. de C.V., which strengthens its network in Mexico. 'The acquisition of MultiPack further solidifies our long-term presence in the market,' said Michael L. Ducker, chief operating officer of Fe
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| Papaya imports linked to Salmonella outbreak |
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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McAllen, Texas-based distributor Agromod Produce on Monday announced a national recall of all its papayas, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella Agromod had shipped fresh, whole papayas nationwide and to Canada through retail stores and wholesalers.
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| Exel makes senior appointments |
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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Exel, the North American supply chain management unit of Deutsche Post DHL, has announced a number of recent senior level management hires and promotions: New hires: ' Craig Brace, vice president of asset management for the Americas. ' Claudius
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| Sweden signs Rotterdam Rules |
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Monday, July 25, 2011
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The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) said that Sweden has become the 24th country to signed the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, known as the Rotterdam Rules, at U.N. headquarters in New York on July 20. The Rotterdam Rules were adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on Dec. 11, 2008 to establish a uniform and modern global legal regime for maritime trade. &nbs
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| BIS promises improved trade with U.S. allies |
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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A newly proposed regulation by the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security calls for amending the Export Administration Regulations to establish a process by which certain items moving from the Munitions List to the Commerce Control List would be made eligible for License Exception Strategic
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| FedEx Launches ocean choices portfolio |
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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FedEx said its FedEx Trade Networks freight forwarder arm will begin offering three distinct ocean forwarding products including a new priority product for full-containerload and less-than-containerload shipments from three select ports in China. The new service, FedEx Interna
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| IMO, EC approve environmental initiatives |
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Monday, July 18, 2011
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There was forward movement on two major environmental initiatives in the shipping industry last Friday. At the International Maritime Organization in London, the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) voted in favor of a proposal requiring new ships to meet mandatory energy efficiency
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| BIS proposed rule moves U.S. export reform forward |
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Friday, July 15, 2011
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The U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security released a proposed rulemaking Friday that moves another step forward the Obama administration's goal to modernize the country's aging export control system. A significant piece of the reform is for BIS and its count
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| Shipper groups oppose bunker levy |
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Friday, July 15, 2011
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As the International Maritime Organization Marine Environment Protection Committee winds up a meeting in London this week, the Global Shippers Foru
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| Moody's concerned about shipping overcapacity |
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Moody's Investors Service said Tuesday it has revised its outlook for the global shipping industry from neutral to negative, saying that while the dry bulk sector is most vulnerable in 2011, it also believes the tanker market faces challenges and the container segment could deteriorate in 2012. &nb
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