Supply chain

Ryder System reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was $71.1 million, dropping 5.3 percent year-over-year from $75.1 million.

Japan’s exports to the U.S. rose for the ninth straight month in September on a year-over-year basis, surging 18.8 percent to 1.109 trillion yen (about US$11.3 billion)...

Shipper acceptance of refrigerated rail has grown in the past several years as new services have proved reliable in intermodal and boxcar sectors.

The European Union and Canada expect their free trade agreement boost two way trade in goods and services by $29 billion a year.

Load Delivered Logistics has opened its Los Angeles-based operations.

The Australian red meat industry sold record amounts of beef and goat meat to China in August. China imported 19 percent of Australia’s total red meat shipments, compared with 4 percent in August 2012.

As Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia is one of the rising stars on a continent full of them. An archipelago consisting of more than 17,000 islands, it’s also one of Asia’s biggest logistics challenges. Now it’s facing another challenge, a slowing economy marked by rising inflation colliding with an urgent need of a transportation infrastructure upgrade.

Chinese consumers soon could be in line for a lot more U.S. pork in mainland grocery stores.

The Japanese government adopted a new anti-piracy bill at a cabinet meeting this week that would allow private armed guards to board Japanese-registered oil tankers and other cargo ships in waters off Somalia and elsewhere.

Thilawa is located some 20 miles down the coast south of Yangon, the commercial center and former capital of Myanmar in the days when it was more famously known as Burma. There, a gleaming new multipurpose port complete with 3,300 feet of berth — with a planned adjacent special economic zone likely to house a cluster of original equipment manufacturers — stands testament to the rapid transformation of Myanmar's economy.

Chinese officials have officially accepted an August finding by the World Trade Organization that China improperly imposed anti-dumping and counterveiling duties on U.S. poultry.

Wholesale prices for lobster caught in Maine and Canada have plummeted to $2.30 a pound, about the same price commanded 25 years ago, as the annual catch grows. Most consumers, however, aren’t seeing the savings because restaurant menu prices largely haven’t dropped.

China and India are tipped to overtake the U.S. as the lead importers of goods tied to infrastructure projects by the end of this decade, according to a new forecast by analysts at HSBC.

Marten Transport reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was a record $8.0 million, jumping 22.4 percent year-over-year from $6.5 million.

DHL has signed a new, five-year agreement to provide global freight management and forwarding services for BP, the London-based oil and gas company.

Rich Dines wants more reefer cargo moving across the docks in Long Beach.

Kuehne + Nagel’s third-quarter earnings increased 8.3 percent year-over-year, even as the Swiss logistics giant’s core ocean container business stalled as it prioritized profit ahead of volume.

One of the consequences of the prolonged U.S. government shutdown is the suspension of federal transportation and trade data releases.

Damco has appointed Tommy Mølgaard as global CFO.

TOKYO — Yusen Logistics is focusing on building supply chains in Mexico, Myanmar and Cambodia, as the former provides customers easier access to the North American market and latter two allow shippers to diversify their sourcing.

IAG Cargo has opened a new pharmaceutical center at London Heathrow Airport, the latest step in the expansion of its Constant Climate service...

There’s little good news coming out of Washington these days. The federal government partially shut down at the beginning of the month after a stalemate in Congress over funding President Obama’s health care reform law. Congress and the Obama administration failed to address long-term fiscal issues, allowing the federal budget sequestration — the proverbial gun pointed to its own head — to fire.

Inland waterways shippers and barge companies welcome the prospect of freeing up Inland Waterways Trust Fund dollars for projects other than the problem-plagued, over-budget Olmsted Lock and Dam project. But they’re also keen to pay more in fuel taxes so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can better maintain and modernize the nation’s lock and dam system.

Yusen Logistics (India) has opened a new sales office in Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan, to serve its customers in the northern region.

Michael Stark sounds pleasantly surprised at 2013’s second-half surge in transloading volume for import containers in Southern California.

Galborg USA has upgraded its refrigerated container cargo service from Jacksonville, Fla., to ports in Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique, according to Jacksonville Port Authority.

In November, DB Schenker will open a new logistics center in Tilburg, the Netherlands, at the Katsbogten industrial estate, to serve the needs of customers in the health care sector.

Trade Tech, a cloud-based solutions provider for the logistics industry, has opened a new office in Tokyo to support customers in Japan and the surrounding region.

Zenith Global Logistics has relocated its Elkton, Md., freight hub to an Aberdeen, Md.-based facility.

Russia today ended supplementary border checks on Lithuanian trucks imposed a month ago amid rising tensions over the European Union’s bid to forge closer trade relations with ex-Soviet republics.

UPS will expand its forwarding footprint in Asia under the guidance of new regional forwarding chief Jeff McCorstin, whose official appointment as president of global freight forwarding for the Asia-Pacific region was announced Tuesday.

Echo Global Logistics has announced three internal promotions, naming Dave Menzel as chief operating officer, Kyle Sauers as CFO and Evan Schumacher as chief commercial officer, effective immediately.

Vanguard Logistics Services, a leading non-vessel-owning common carrier and ocean freight consolidator operating primarily in North America, has entered into a strategic alliance with Freight Systems India, a similar organization with offices at all major locations in the country.

It sounds pretty straightforward and uncontroversial, but few issues have divided the shipping industry more deeply than the International Maritime Organization’s proposal for a legal requirement to verify the weight of containers prior to loading on a ship.

Peter Rose, CEO of Expeditors International of Washington Inc. since 1988, will retire in March after 35 years with the company.

UPS has named Jeff McCorstin as president of UPS freight forwarding in Asia-Pacific.

Menlo Worldwide Logistics has opened a new multiclient warehouse and office facility outside of Brisbane, Australia, in Seventeen Mile Rocks.

The Panalpina Group has realigned its regional setup and identified a fourth region for customer targeting, consisting of the Middle East, Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States.