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Oversized steel tanks move through JAXPORT

Highly trained master riggers moved nine oversized specialty tanks through JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal, home of one of the nation’s highest weight-bearing capacity docks. The new pressurized steel evaporator tanks, which arrived at JAXPORT from Zhangjiagang, China, are 45-feet in length, 20-feet in diameter, and weigh 220,000 pounds each. Workers employed by stevedoring company Portus lifted the tanks one at a time from the SAL heavy lift vessel Trina before placing ... [+]

HANSA HEAVY LIFT Opens Two New Offices, Appoints New Commercial Agent

HANSA HEAVY LIFT is continuing its global expansion program with new offices in Brazil and the UAE and with the appointment of a new commercial agent in Colombia. The new office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is headed by Marcello Marano, Business Development Manager, while the ... [+]

CSX and Partners Celebrate Groundbreaking, Construction of Pittsburgh Intermodal Rail Terminal

CSX joined with Allegheny County officials, local and state partners and members of the Stowe Township and McKees Rocks communities on December 4 to celebrate the construction of the Pittsburgh Intermodal Rail Terminal. The $60+ million facility, which is expected to commence operations in 2017, ... [+]

CEVA wins Logistics Company of the Year for 6th time in Italy

CEVA Logistics was named Logistics Company of the Year in Italy for the sixth time by Assologistica, the leading Italian association of logistics companies. This year’s award was given in recognition of CEVA’s TireCity - a logistics hub dedicated to the warehousing, handling and cross-docking of ... [+]

PFG Streamlines Distribution with Descartes Cloud-Based Mobile Solutions

Descartes Systems Group recently announced that Performance Food Group Company (PFG),one of the largest foodservice distributors in the United States, is streamlining its national distribution operations using Descartes Food Perform™ and Descartes Electronic Vehicle Inspection Reporting™ (Descartes eDVIR™). "With one of the largest private truck fleets ... [+]

National 3PL Announces New Kansas City Operation

Commonwealth, Inc., a full-service third party logistics (3PL) company specializing in providing public warehousing and contract warehousing solutions, is opening a new operation in the KC region. The facility represents an investments of $3.5 million in a 101,567-sq.-ft. facility. “When the opportunity arose to come to ... [+]

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Signs 30-year Contract with Port of Baltimore

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, along with state and local elected officials, announced on December 3 a new 30-year contract between the Maryland Department of Transportation’s Maryland Port Administration and the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore’s top roll on/roll off customer, global shipping and logistics ... [+]

Direct CaroTrans Miami-Manaus LCL Service Supports Growing FTZ

NVOCC and freight consolidator CaroTrans has announced a new, direct, biweekly LCL export service between Miami and Manaus, Brazil where container volumes have grown considerably the last 10 years.  The first sailing occurred November 29th. Miami serves as a strategic consolidations hub for freight originating from ... [+]

Congress Passes Surface Transportation Bill, Reauthorizes Ex-Im Bank

News hailing from December 3: Congress has passed a long-term reauthorization of the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank and surface transportation bill. Groups, such as the Washington Council on International Trade (WCIT) and its members – farmers, manufacturers, retailers and service providers from across Washington state – celebrate ... [+]

CEVA Logistics appoints new Contract Logistics Operations Director for Iberia

CEVA Logistics has appointed Oriol Bartol to the position of Director Contract Logistics for Iberia.  He will also join the company’s Board of Directors in Iberia. [+]

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