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Crowley Logistics Expands Cold Storage

Crowley Logistics has announced the opening of its second CrowleyFresh cold storage facility in Florida, this one within its West 30th Street distribution center in Jacksonville. This strategically positioned warehouse further expands the company’s cold-chain services from South Florida into Northeast Florida, providing another gateway in the Southeast. The newly renovated facility features humidity and temperature-controlled coolers capable of receiving, storing and otherwise handling perishables transiting between the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean, ... [+]

Leadership Role Hands Over at CargoLogicAir

British cargo airline, CargoLogicAir, has confirmed management changes to support the next phase of its development strategy. Dmitry Grishin, who successfully led the establishment and launch of CargoLogicAir as well as its initial network development, has now handed over his responsibilities to newly-appointed CEO David Kerr, ... [+]

Six Months After Hurricane Maria

It has been six months since Hurricane Maria crashed into Puerto Rico leaving a path of destruction and misery. And since then, Crowley Maritime Corporation’s liner services and logistics teams, working with government and commercial customers, have played and will continue to play an integral ... [+]

Truckload Turnover Rate Sinks in Final Quarter of 2017

American Trucking Associations Chief Economist Bob Costello reports that the driver turnover rate at truckload carriers fell in the final three months of 2017, but that the rate stayed higher than in the previous year.  “Despite this dip in turnover, the driver market remains tight and ... [+]

Evergreen Launches New Electronic Documentation Function

Evergreen, in line with its avowed mission to deliver the highest standards of customer service through continual improvement, has introduced two new Intelligent Services - the intelligent i-B/L (Bill of Lading) and i-Dispatch, a solution that delivers documents associated with such transactions. These new services, provided ... [+]

Bart Pouwels to lead Cargo Team within new Schiphol Aviation Department

Bart Pouwels, currently Director Business Development Cargo at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, will take on his new role effective 1st April. He will report directly to Head of Aviation Marketing, Cargo, and Customer Experience Maaike van der Windt and lead the dedicated cargo team. "I am dedicated to ... [+]

Cosco subscribes to Cargotec’s Navis’s N4 terminal operating system

Navis, part of Cargotec's business area Kalmar, has entered into a subscription agreement with Cosco Shipping Ports Ltd. (CSP) for the Navis N4 terminal operating system (TOS). With the N4, Cosco aims to further enhance the efficiency of its port operations.  CSP is one of world's ... [+]

Data Sharing Platform at Schiphol

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is increasing trust and transparency in the supply chain by linking flower shipment data to Air Waybill numbers at source, part of its Smart Cargo Mainport Program (SCMP). The SCMP aims to make Amsterdam Airport Schiphol the Smartest Airport in Europe through increased ... [+]

E*DRAY Transforms Inefficient Container Shipping Industry Practices

  E*DRAY has been announced as the container shipping industry's first collaborative port logistics technology platform that delivers a new coordinated standard for drayage operations at terminals and container yards. E*DRAY standardizes and scales the block stow, flow stack, and export street turn processes for the import ... [+]

Hamburg Süd improves Asia – Europe/Mediterranean network

Since February 2017, Hamburg Süd, through its partnership with 2M, has been able to offer its customers access to the world's most comprehensive Asia – Europe/Mediterranean network. As part of a regular network review, and in an effort to enhance schedule reliability, the decision has ... [+]

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