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Gary G Burrows

Port Everglades, Crowley Liner Services Renew Long-Term Agreement

Crowley Liner Services, which operates the largest cargo terminal at Port Everglades, has entered into a new 10-year, $157.8 million lease and operating agreement with the Broward County Board of County Commissioners for a 99-acre marine terminal at Port Everglades. The agreement also includes two five-year extension options. The lease agreement combines Crowley's original 74-acre leasehold with the 25-acre SeaFreight leasehold, which Crowley acquired in October 2015. "Crowley became the first tenant in ... [+]

FMC Chairman Urges Ocean Carriers to Accept Obvious Path to VGM Compliance

With June 30 being the date for implementing new container weighing requirements, Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission Mario Cordero is urging ocean carriers to embrace the obvious solution to achieving compliance that Marine Terminal Operators can offer. Specifically, Cordero asserted the weight of export containers, as determined by terminal operators, ... [+]

Study Reveals Growth in Intermodal Freight

According to Forecast, a collaboration between the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and IHS Global Insight, overall freight tonnage will grow 23.5% from 2013 to 2025 and freight revenues will surge 72%. “We continue to see growth for the entire freight economy – but we also see that trucking will maintain its ... [+]

AN-225 Gets Helping Hand from Freightworks

The world’s largest cargo plane, the Antonov An-225 Mriya (AN-225), took its first voyage from Ukraine to Abu Dhabi carrying a shipment handled by Freightworks, the WACO System member for the UAE. The six-engine, 600-tonne aircraft, which has twice the wing area of a Boeing 747, was transporting a compressor skid ... [+]

Mainfreight USA Expands Operations

Mainfreight, a global supply chain and logistics provider, announces the addition of two new warehouses to its North American logistics network.  They're located in Newark, NJ and Dallas, TX. The Newark facility is 135,000 sq. ft., and Dallas is 129,000 sq. ft.  Mainfreight's logistics network also includes warehouses in Los Angeles, ... [+]

Mallory Alexander expands to Texas

Mallory Alexander International Logistics has opened an office in Houston, Texas as part of ongoing expansion plans. The office, headed by Brenda Goodrich and her team, is the third location that Mallory Alexander operates in the southern US state and specializes in supporting customers, not only in the Gulf of Mexico ... [+]

MHI, ITE and Messe München join forces, new trade fair logistics with MODEZ in 2018

A newly created international Transportation & Logistics Americas (TLA) exhibition is being launched, to be collocated with the already established MODEX supply chain exposition. Both events will take place on April 9-12, 2018 at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center. MODEX is sponsored by MHI and is the largest manufacturing and ... [+]

POLB’s imports, exports edge up

Container cargo numbers improved slightly at the Port of Long Beach in May, rising 0.8% compared to the same month last year when the docks were still busily catching up after several months of congestion. With cargo volumes near all-time peak levels, May’s 640,566 TEUs qualified the month as the second-busiest ... [+]

Schiphol Cargo again scoops best airport Europe award at AFLAS Award

Schiphol Cargo, the cargo department of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, scooped the prize for Best Airport-Europe at last night’s Asian Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain (AFLAS) Awards. The annual event, organized by Asia Cargo News, recognizes best-in-class across the supply chain, with a focus on industry leadership, innovation, and service quality. Over 15,000 ... [+]

CMA CGM’s stake in NOL is 78.07%

CMA CGM S.A. (CMA CGM) satisfied on 9 June the acceptance condition in its all-cash voluntary conditional general offer  for Neptune Orient Lines Limited (NOL), after NOL’s majority shareholders (Temasek and its affiliates) tendered all of their shares in acceptance of the Offer. The Offer has therefore been declared to ... [+]

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