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Gary G Burrows

Crowley among First Private Companies to Earn U.S. AQUA Lane Certification from CBP

Crowley Liner Services recently became one of the first private companies in the nation to be certified and validated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as part of its new Marine Port Terminal Operator (MPTO) designation, known as the AQUA Lane program. Following on-site inspections and vetting of its Port Everglades terminal, Crowley was found fully compliant with all program requirements and was even recognized for having implemented additional ... [+]

East Coast Warehouse Receives Safe Quality Food Certification from FDA

East Coast Warehouse & Distribution announced that it has completed a rigorous accreditation process to receive the Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This designation puts East Coast Warehouse at the forefront of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) mandate and raises its ... [+]

Hamburg Süd receives gold rating from EcoVadis

Hamburg Süd has been awarded gold, the highest-possible recognition level, for its evaluation completed in July 2016 by the supply chain sustainability network EcoVadis. The scorecard provided by independent sustainability expert EcoVadis indicates that Hamburg Süd has achieved advanced sustainability management practice. The gold rating is based on a detailed survey ... [+]

Port Manatee promotes Stufflebeam, Zimmermann

Port Manatee has promoted Denise Stufflebeam to senior director of business administration and finance and Virginia Zimmermann to senior communications manager. Stufflebeam, who has served since 2013 as Port Manatee’s director of business administration and finance, joined the port in 1991 as information services assistant and subsequently received promotions to data ... [+]

Ports America and Cooper/T. Smith form new Houston JV

Ports America and Cooper/T. Smith have merged their breakbulk operations in the Port of Houston into a new joint venture (JV) called Cooper/Ports America, LLC, which will be referred to as C/PA. Operations commenced on Oct. 1, 2016. Additionally, C/PA agreed to acquire all the assets of Shippers Stevedoring and Chaparral Stevedoring under C/PA’s operations upon startup. Integrated Marine Services LLC (IMS), the empty ... [+]

SeaLand adds Port of Hueneme to WCCA service

SeaLand has introduced the Port of Hueneme as a new port call on its West Coast Central America (WCCA) Service.  This direct service started on Sept. 13, 2016. WCCA offers weekly service between Southern California, Mexico, Central America, and the West Coast of South America, a total of 10 port ... [+]

Transervice Logistics names Erin Jones Director of Business Development – Southwest

Transervice Logistics, Inc., a leading provider of customized transportation solutions, has named Erin Jones its new Director of Business Development—Southwest. A 15-year veteran of the transportation industry, Jones was previously Regional Sales Manager for Omnitracs, responsible for the sale of enterprise telematics software applications to strategic regional and national accounts. Jones was ... [+]

King of the Caribbean

Liebherr Maritime Crane recently delivered the biggest mobile harbour crane of the Caribbean to Kingston Wharves Limited in Jamaica. The LHM 600 is equipped with an elongated tower extension and eases the handling of big container vessels up to Super-Post-Panamax size. In November 2015 Kingston Wharves ordered the first Liebherr mobile ... [+]

POLB September Cargo Weighed Down by Hanjin Bankruptcy

Port of Long Beach container volumes declined 16.6% year-over-year in September, as the effects of the Hanjin bankruptcy reached West Coast ports. Longshore workers moved 546,805 TEUs last month. This included 282,945 TEUs in imports, down 15% from September 2015, a month which capped off the port’s best quarter ever. Exports ... [+]

Rickenbacker’s FTZ tops in 2015 textile and footwear imports

Rickenbacker’s Foreign Trade Zone #138 is tops in the nation for the total value of textiles and footwear imported into the U.S. through FTZs in 2015, moving more than $6.2 billion out of the nation’s total $8.9 billion in that category. David Whitaker, Columbus Regional Airport Authority spokesman, attributes its success ... [+]

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