Supply chain

Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, today urged the U.S. Senate to pass the pending Hurricane Disaster Relief Appropriations Act to help regions affected by...

Hong Kong’s Census and Statistics Department today reported that the volume of goods exports dropped 4.7 percent in October, although the volume of goods imports rose 1.4 percent from October 2011.

At the second India-ASEAN Business Fair in New Delhi, Anand Sharma, Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles; expressed confidence that trade between India and...

At the 30th Customs Cooperation Conference in Seoul, Korea, today, Clement Cheung, commissioner of Hong Kong Customs, and Joo Yung-sup, commissioner of the Korea Customs Service...

India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation has established the Air Cargo Logistic Promotion Board, an inter-ministerial group, to lay down policy framework to govern air cargo operations in the country.

Ocean and air freight company Shipco Transport will open a new export warehouse facility, on Jan. 7, 2013.

The International Chamber of Shipping has issued a report about the future governance of Arctic waters and shipping, intended for high-level policymakers in environmental and foreign ministries...

Supply chain management company Descartes Systems Group today announced it is working with DHL Global Forwarding to upgrade the freight transportation company’s electronic communications to Cargo-XML...

Kerry Logistics has secured a contract with luggage company Samsonite in Thailand to manage its supply chain, including general warehousing, value-added services, pick and pack and local transportation services.

Hong Kong-based CargoSmart and Japan-based Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated signed an agreement to integrate their logistics systems before Japan Customs’ newly enacted Advance Filing Rules go into effect in March 2014.

Graybar, a company specializing in electrical products and related logistics services, today announced that Thomas S. Gurganous will retire on Feb. 1, 2013, after more than 39 years with the company.

Miami-based transportation and trucking company Ryder System today announced that Gregory T. Swienton, chairman and CEO, will retire...

Netherlands-based CEVA Logistics today signed an agreement with Australian company Brambles for the sale of both its European Container Logistics business and Asia Pacific Pallecon business...

The National Association of Manufacturers has applauded President Obama’s signing of the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal Act...

A fatal accident serves as another reminder of the difficulty U.S. regulators face in keeping illicit carriers off the road.

President Obama today signed H.R. 6156, the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Segei Mangitsky Rule of Law and Accountability Act of 2012, which authorizes the establishment of permanent normal trade relations with Russia and Moldova.

Dollar General will open 635 new stores next year, building on the 625 stores the retail giant is on track to open by the end of 2012.

The National Association of Manufacturers’ President and CEO Jay Timmons today said in a released statement that the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards for fine particulate matter is a display of the agency’s “shortsightedness.”

The New York-New Jersey Foreign Freight Forwarders and Brokers Association has selected Claudio Bozzo, president and CEO of Mediterranean Shipping Company...

Cosco Container Lines will increase rates by $500 per box for reefer shipments from the Far East to Persian Gulf, Red Sea and Indian subcontinent, effective Jan. 1, 2013.

Striking port clerical workers had barely raised their picket signs at Los Angeles-Long Beach this month when shippers began clamoring for President Obama to use the Taft-Hartley Act to end the walkout.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered Two Dayes Trucking and Two Dayes Transport, based in Murfreesboro, N.C., to cease all transportation services immediately because of safety violations.

The Import Specialist Enforcement Team at U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Laredo, Texas, port of entry recently seized an $83 million commercial shipment of...

Lakeland-Fla.-based third-party logistics provider Saddle Creek Logistics Services today named Amy Barnes as director of business development.

Third-party logistics company C.H. Robinson Worldwide today announced that Senior Vice President Jim Butts will retire on Dec. 31, after 34 years with the company.

The U.S. Senate today approved H.R. 2838, the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2012, clearing the House-passed bill for the president’s signature.

San Francisco-based Prologis’ board of directors has approved sponsorship of a Japanese real estate investment trust to serve as a long-term investment vehicle for modern logistics facilities.

U.S. pork exports in October increased 9 percent to a record 218,132 metric tons (about 240,449 tons) valued at $607 million, according to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

German logistics provider Dachser will acquire Spanish logistics provider Azkar, effective Jan. 15, 2013.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., severely downplayed the prospects of a federal fuel tax hike...

The Defense Department's decision to drop the TWIC card as a trusted key to its online transportation systems doesn’t throw up roadblocks that would stop TWIC-carrying truckers, but it will raise costs for some companies that employ them.

Dallas-based supply chain management company Entercoms has named Michael Smith as chief commercial officer.

Lineage Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company sponsored by Bay Grove Capital, plans to open and operate a new 196,000 square foot cold storage facility at the Port of Long Beach by mid-2014.