Port Freeport’s CEO will retire, while National Interstate appoints a new president.
Short-term transportation authorization expires Friday
Congress has until the end of the week to reconcile respective long-term federal transportation and infrastructure spending bills from the House and Senate and prevent a shutdown of highway funding.
L.A. box volumes dip in October
Throughput results so far this year at the San Pedro Bay ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach appear to be diverging, possibly due to an ongoing restructuring of carrier service schedules.
Georgia, South Carolina sign framework agreement for Jasper terminal
A permit application to Army Corps of Engineers for a new terminal, which would be located in S.C. just down river from the Port of Savannah, and channel modification study is expected at the end of the fiscal 2015 year.
FDA implements new import food safety rules
Under the Foreign Supplier Verification Program, importers must verify foreign suppliers are producing food in a manner consistent with U.S. safety standards and they are achieving the same level of food safety as domestic farms and food factories.
GPA plans clean truck program for Port of Savannah
The Port of Savannah continued to see steady growth in container volumes during the month of October, with throughput up 3 percent to 321,094 TEUs compared with the same month in 2014.
British man arraigned in U.S. for illicit exports to Syria
Ahmad Feras Diri of London was arraigned Friday in the United States on charges that he allegedly conspired to illegally export U.S. chemical laboratory equipment to Syria.
CMA CGM, subsidiaries join Hanjin’s intra-Asia KPI loop
French ocean carrier CMA CGM and its subsidiary lines Cheng Lie Navigation, ANL and Delmas will join Hanjin’s KPI service, which operates between Korea, China, Singapore and Indonesia.
Port of Hamburg reports decline in YTD throughput
The German port handled 104.6 million tons of cargo during the first nine month of 2015, a 4.8 percent decrease from the corresponding period in 2014.
Coatings company to use Amber Road for export automation
Axalta Coating Systems will use Amber Road’s on-demand tool to automate restricted party screening, licensing determination, and document generation for its growing operations in 130 countries.