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MSC Goes It Alone with East/West Network

            MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Monday that will provide an independent, competitive, and complete network for east/west trades. MSC’s future standalone network will replace the current 2M VSA agreement that MSC has with Maersk.             As MSC assumes full operational control of its network, it will offer clients routing options for both via Suez and the Cape of Good Hope, featuring a total of 34 loops across five key trades.             ... [+]

DHL Report Explores AI, Sustainability

Logistics giant DHL on Sept. 3 released the seventh edition of the DHL Logistics Trend Radar, a biennial report that highlights the foremost social, business and technological trends impacting the industry.Since its inception in 2012, the report provides an in-depth analysis of logistics trends, their ... [+]

CSX Expands Collective Bargaining Pacts

CSX said Aug. 30 that it has secured new five-year tentative collective bargaining agreements with International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers & Helpers (IBB) and the Transportation Communications Union (TCU).The tentative agreements, which are pending ratification by the unions’ membership at CSX, ... [+]

Innovative Alette Maersk Calls Pier 400

The Alette Maersk, Danish shipping line A.P. Moller - Maersk’s new methanol-enabled containership, arrived Aug. 27 at Pier 400 in Los Angeles on its maiden voyage this August.Pier 400 – one of eight APM Terminals locations globally taking part in a ground-breaking electrification pilot – ... [+]

Höegh Autoliners Launches Aurora Class

Höegh Autoliners has launched its first Aurora class vessel, the largest and most environmentally friendly pure car truck carrier, or PCTC, ever built,             Three years since launching the design, the Höegh Aurora, was delivered at a naming ceremony at China Merchants Heavy Industry’s yard in ... [+]

Galveston Expands West Port Cargo Complex

Galveston Wharves has started more than US$90 million in phased construction work to improve and expand its West Port Cargo Complex and grow its cargo business.Funded by port revenues and a US$36 million Texas government grant, the work will add 30 acres of cargo-handling area ... [+]

Drewry-Port

Drewry, the maritime research consultancy, said its Global Container Port Throughput Index increased 3.3 percent month over month from May to June, improving 5.5 percent year over year to 118.5 points.The rolling 12-month average growth rate for global port handling also rose to 4.4 percent ... [+]

CMA CGM Sets Caribbean Peak Season Rates

French shipping line and logistics company CMA CGM said it plans to implement a peak season surcharge from the U.S. to the Caribbean, effective Sept. 23.The surcharge will be US$250 per 40-foot and 45-foot containers for dry cargo, US$300 per 20-footer and US$600 per 40-footer.The ... [+]

Savage Terminal Serves Las Vegas Market

Supply chain infrastructure and solutions provider Savage said it is developing a new multicommodity, rail-connected transload terminal to serve the Las Vegas market.             The Las Vegas transload facility will be in Jean, Nevada, and served by the Union Pacific Railroad. Savage anticipates moving various fuels ... [+]

Port Canaveral NCB4 Renovation Advances

Work progresses on Port Canaveral’s US$39 million capital improvement project to remove the existing North Cargo Berth 4 and replace it with a 981-foot-long multipurpose, multi-use wharf, expected to be completed in the fourth quarter.The existing, functionally obsolete over-the-water pier has been out of service ... [+]

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