The Florida based shipping company announced it now offers a direct connections between Port Everglades and Mariel and Santiago de Cuba.
U.S. to hold TPP negotiations in Atlanta next week
The United States will host a meeting of Trans-Pacific Partnership trade ministers in Atlanta on Sept. 30-Oct. 1, preceded by a meeting of TPP chief negotiators from Sept. 26-29.
ITC’s hot-rolled steel import investigation continues
The U.S. International Trade Commission determined there is a “reasonable indication” domestic producers of hot-rolled steel flat products are harmed by similar imports.
Nighttime truck deliveries studied in New York City, Pensacola
The Federal Highway Administration will provide $200,000 in grants to fund pilot projects to encourage the movement of trucked inner-city freight deliveries from the day to the night.
Hamburg-Süd to add fortnightly calls at Corinto, Nicaragua
Additionally, port calls in Mexico on the ocean carrier’s Pacific Coast-West Coast of South America Service will move from the port of Manzanillo to the port of Lazaro Cardenas.
Capital Product Partners L.P. acquires ninth containership
The new 9,288-TEU containership was purchased for $81.5 million and is on charter to CMA CGM for five years.
Boluda launches new maritime service
The Spanish shipping company commenced a new service between the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands.
ARC promotes Eric Ebeling to CEO
U.S.-flag vessel operator American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier (ARC) has appointed Eric P. Ebeling to president and chief executive officer.
BNSF adds express intermodal service on northern tier
The new service, which connects Chicago and St. Paul, Minn. with Seattle, features expedited service seven days a week for westbound traffic and six days a week for eastbound traffic.
Standalone legislation may be needed to extend PTC deadline
Without an extension past the original Dec. 31, 2015 deadline for implementation of Positive Train Control, shippers say the resulting “large-scale service disruption would be dire.”