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World Direct Shipping to double Port Manatee service

Ocean carrier World Direct Shipping is doubling its service across the Gulf of Mexico between the state of Veracruz and Central Florida’s Port Manatee. World Direct Shipping today announced plans on October 5 to add a weekly sailing to Port Manatee from the Port of Tuxpan, in the north-central portion of Veracruz, to augment the successful service it has operated each week since November 2014 to Port Manatee from Coatzacoalcos, in ... [+]

Bahri Data, DNV GL sign partnership to leverage Big Data

Bahri Data and DNV GL have signed a contract to co-develop and jointly leverage their Big Data capabilities for safety, quality and compliance innovation. The contract laying the framework for the partnership, was signed in Hamburg, Germany, in the presence of Anwar Siddiqui, president of Bahri ... [+]

CEVA expands UK Centre of Logistics Excellence and celebrates 10th birthday

To jointly celebrate its tenth birthday and to enhance the scope of its training and education capabilities, CEVA Logistics, one of the world’s largest supply chain management companies, has launched its newly expanded European Centre of Logistics Excellence in the presence of key customers and ... [+]

Flexport’s epic plan to build a freight empire with its $110M raise

TechCrunch reports that Flexport has an epic plan to build a freight empire via a $110 million Series C at an $800 millilon pre0money valuation. TechCrunch has confirmed the round, and says it is mostly filled with existing investors, including DST, although the TechCrunch also ... [+]

Terry Unrein Returns to SEKO Logistics as CCO, Americas

Terry Unrein has joined SEKO Logistics in the new role of Chief Commercial Officer, Americas, responsible for sales and revenue growth and Air and Ocean Product strategy in the Americas region. His appointment represents a return to SEKO, where he spent over two years as Vice ... [+]

Crowley Says On-Island Distribution is Key

With more than 3,000 loads of food, supplies and other cargo on its terminal in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and more on the way, executives with  said today the key to providing relief to citizens impacted by Hurricane Maria will be expediting local transportation and ... [+]

“Deal of the Year”: Hapag-Lloyd Wins Lloyd’s List Award

Hapag-Lloyd was awarded one of the industry’s most prestigious honors: The Lloyd’s List “Deal of the Year” award for its merger with UASC, a project dubbed “better.united.”, thereby prevailing against six other finalists. The Lloyd’s List Global Awards was held in London on September 27. In the ... [+]

Emirates SkyCargo obtains revalidation of pharma certification at Dubai hub

Emirates SkyCargo has received a revalidation of the European Union Good Distribution Practices (EU GDP) certification for pharma operations at its hub in Dubai. The annual surveillance audit for the revalidation was conducted by Bureau Veritas, Germany. The air cargo carrier originally received its EU GDP ... [+]

FAA Supports St. Thomas commercial air service

On Thursday, September 28, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic controllers handled the landing of the first commercial air carrier flight in weeks into the Cyril E. King International Airport in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (TIST). Working from a mobile air traffic tower the FAA moved to the ... [+]

Port of Baltimore Handled Record Number of General Cargo Tons, Containers in FY17

The Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore’s public marine terminals handled more TEU containers and general cargo tons than ever before during fiscal year 2017, which ran from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. The port handled 907,957 TEU containers and 10,347,794 tons of ... [+]

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