Starbucks names new executive VP for global supply chain, while DHL appoints senior leadership for its eCommerce division and Foss Maritime promotes new president.

The Port of Long Beach is working with a local company to commercialize an exhaust treatment system that captures smoke-stack emissions from cargo vessels to meet California clean air rules.

Ocean carriers should “embrace the obvious solution” terminal operators can offer to ensure compliance with the International Maritime Organization’s new verified gross mass regulations, says Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Mario Cordero.

The renaming of COSCO Pacific, the port terminal operator division of the former COSCO Group, to COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited follows the company’s decision to rebrand its bulk shipping operations earlier this month.

Jett McCandless, the chief executive officer of transportation consulting firm CarrierDirect, will be replaced by current Managing Director Peter Rentschler as he transitions to a full time position with data exchange startup project44.

Forwarders Nippon Express and Globaltransol, as well as produce shipper ACX Global, will submit verified gross mass data through CargoSmart’s platform to comply with upcoming International Maritime Organization regulations.

A bill to change the way tariffs are set at 11 state-owned ports is progressing, while another aiming to overhaul the entire operational structure of Indian ports is languishing.

The Port of Los Angeles set a container throughput record in May as cargo volumes continue their strong growth in 2016.

Fragmentation in the transportation management system market persists because there’s still so much of the market, across verticals and sizes, that is not using a system, according to an executive at TMS provider Cloud Logistics.

The South Carolina Ports Authority expects a modest increase in container volumes for the new fiscal year that begins July 1.