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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. President & CEO Junichiro Ikeda exclaimed that that the MOL Benefactor, a 10,000-TEU containership, successfully passed through the expanded Panama Canal on July 1, 2016. This is significant in that the MOL Benefactor is the first Neo-Panamax containership to perform a commercial transit through the Canal's new expanded locks.
MOL Benefactor, newly built and delivered to MOL in March of 2016 is also the first Neo-Panamax vessel deployed on ...
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The US Senate confirmed the nominations of three individuals on June 30 to serve as Federal Maritime Commissioners. Those confirmed are Rebecca F. Dye, Michael A. Khouri, and Daniel B. Maffei. Dye and Khouri, both of whom currently serve as Commissioners, were re-nominated by the ...
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Union Pacific is the first large North American railroad to be recognized as a Top Green Provider by Food Logistics. The publication's annual list recognizes companies whose products, services or leadership enhances sustainability within the food and beverage industry.
Many foods travel by train before landing ...
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As part of the Obama Administration’s historic effort to normalize relations with Cuba, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has proposed to select eight US airlines to begin scheduled flights between Atlanta, Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New York City, Orlando, and ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo is increasing its investment in temperature-controlled services after more than doubling its share of the pharmaceutical market from the UK to North America since the launch of its Cool Chain product two years ago.
Heading this focus is Darren Sherlock in the newly-created ...
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Envirotainer, the world leader in secure cold chain solutions, and CHEP Aerospace Solutions, the leading global provider of Unit Load Device (ULD) management and repair services, have extended their successful partnership for a further three years.
CHEP provides repair, handling, transportation and storage services for Envirotainer's ...
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Florida East Coast Railway (FECR) recently debuted a new online quoting tool, EZ Buy. The tool provides an online price quote and booking system for customers to ‘buy’ door-to-door intermodal transactional freight between the Southeast U.S. markets and the South Florida markets.
One of the key ...
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SEKO Logistics is to partner with INTTRA, the world’s ocean shipping electronic marketplace, to submit verified gross mass (VGM) information to shipping lines in compliance with the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) amendments to The Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS), which come into force ...
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CMA CGM officials crossed the 91.05% threshold in its acquisition of Neptune Orient Lines Limited (NOL). Following its all-cash voluntary conditional general offer for NOL which was launched on June 6th, 2016, CMA CGM now owns 2,376,715,557 shares representing approximately 91.28% of NOL’s share capital.
CMA ...
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Crowley Maritime Corporation will begin offering weekly, fixed-day, less-than-container-load (LCL) shipping services from Houston to 33 port destinations throughout the Caribbean Basin on July 1. The new logistics service will be the only one of its kind available from the Houston gateway.
This new offering is ...
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