Thomas Bek, a 29-year veteran of Blue Water, is succeeding CEO Søren Nørgaard Thomsen, who is leaving the transport and logistics group after seven years.
There has been significant development at the Danish transport and logistics group since 2018, when Thomsen took over as CEO, Blue Water said in a release. Turnover has nearly doubled, earnings have increased, and the number of employees and offices has increased to 2,700.
Bek will lead ...
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Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. on July 29 announced an agreement to create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad, connecting more than 50,000 route miles across 43 states from the East Coast to the West Coast, linking about 100 ports within it’s the combined network.
Named the Union Pacific Transcontinental ...
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U.S. seaborne grain shipments improved 9 percent in the first half of 2025, despite retaliatory tariffs that caused U.S. grain exports to China to plummet 57 percent in the same period, said BIMCO, the Danish shipping association.
The first half result was driven by stronger maize exports, said Filipe Gouveia, shipping ...
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The Georgia Ports Authority’s fiscal year 2025 was its second-busiest year on record, with container volume reaching 5.7 million twenty-foot-equivalent units, an 8.6 percent increase, or 400,000 TEUs compared to fiscal year 2024.
The growth shows continuing strength in Georgia’s logistics trajectory. The ports’ busiest year was fiscal year 2022, when ...
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Hanseatic Global Terminals said it has launched Hanseatic Global Terminals Latin America, the brand’s first-ever regional expansion and a significant step in the company’s mission to strengthen its global terminal network and enhance service offerings worldwide.
With this launch, the Hapag-Lloyd subsidiary, founded in 2024, has located its regional headquarters is ...
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The Port of Palm Beach has signed a new lease agreement with Thalle Construction Co. and SAB Solutions that will increase inbound shipments and diversify the port’s cargo profile.
Effective August 1, the companies will lease two acres along the port’s southwest perimeter to support the import of granite aggregate. The ...
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Georgia Ports broke ground in July on a new PermaCold Logistics 216,000 square-foot cold storage facility near Brunswick, adding 30,000 pallet positions.
The building is being developed by Ti Cold and Karis Cold for PermaCold Logistics at Tidewater Industrial Park in Darien, Ga. Located five minutes from Interstate 95, less than ...
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British International Freight Association Director General Steve Parker, while echoing BIFA’s support for Heathrow Airport’s long overdue expansion, has called for the UK government to get on with it.
"Over the past decades, successive UK governments have shown a singular lack of vision in the face of a massive surge in ...
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The World Trade Center New Orleans has named Gregory Rusovich, CEO of Transoceanic Development, as the recipient of the 2025 C. Alvin Bertel Award.
Joining Transoceanic Shipping Co. in 1981, he implemented the company’s global strategy, launching 25 international offices with a primary focus on the energy and emerging markets. Rusovich ...
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President Trump on July 30 issued an executive order suspending commercial de minimis entries from all countries as of Aug. 29.
Trump said he is taking this action under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to prevent evasion of the “reciprocal” tariffs he imposed in response to a declared ...
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