October 2016
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has won a three-year contract to provide cargo handling and trucking services for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in the UK.
WFS will handle export and import cargo for PIA’s wide-bodied flights at London Heathrow, Birmingham and Manchester, connecting customers in the UK with Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore.
At Heathrow, cargo carried onboard PIA’s 10 flights a week will be managed at WFS’ Building 551 in the airport’s World ...
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CaroTrans recently announced a new direct, weekly LCL service from Atlanta to Nhava Sheva, India to address increased demand from the U.S. Southeast and Gulf regions. This service offers extremely competitive transit times, from the Gulf - 38 days, and the Southeast - 33 days.
At destination, shipments are securely handled ...
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Crowley Liner Services recently became one of the first private companies in the nation to be certified and validated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as part of its new Marine Port Terminal Operator (MPTO) designation, known as the AQUA Lane program. Following on-site inspections and vetting of its ...
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East Coast Warehouse & Distribution announced that it has completed a rigorous accreditation process to receive the Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This designation puts East Coast Warehouse at the forefront of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) mandate and raises its ...
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Hamburg Süd has been awarded gold, the highest-possible recognition level, for its evaluation completed in July 2016 by the supply chain sustainability network EcoVadis.
The scorecard provided by independent sustainability expert EcoVadis indicates that Hamburg Süd has achieved advanced sustainability management practice. The gold rating is based on a detailed survey ...
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Port Manatee has promoted Denise Stufflebeam to senior director of business administration and finance and Virginia Zimmermann to senior communications manager.
Stufflebeam, who has served since 2013 as Port Manatee’s director of business administration and finance, joined the port in 1991 as information services assistant and subsequently received promotions to data ...
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Ports America and Cooper/T. Smith have merged their breakbulk operations in the Port of Houston into a new joint venture (JV) called Cooper/Ports America, LLC, which will be referred to as C/PA. Operations commenced on Oct. 1, 2016.
Additionally, C/PA agreed to acquire all the assets of Shippers Stevedoring and Chaparral Stevedoring under C/PA’s operations upon startup. Integrated Marine Services LLC (IMS), the empty ...
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SeaLand has introduced the Port of Hueneme as a new port call on its West Coast Central America (WCCA) Service. This direct service started on Sept. 13, 2016. WCCA offers weekly service between Southern California, Mexico, Central America, and the West Coast of South America, a total of 10 port ...
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Transervice Logistics, Inc., a leading provider of customized transportation solutions, has named Erin Jones its new Director of Business Development—Southwest. A 15-year veteran of the transportation industry, Jones was previously Regional Sales Manager for Omnitracs, responsible for the sale of enterprise telematics software applications to strategic regional and national accounts.
Jones was ...
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Liebherr Maritime Crane recently delivered the biggest mobile harbour crane of the Caribbean to Kingston Wharves Limited in Jamaica. The LHM 600 is equipped with an elongated tower extension and eases the handling of big container vessels up to Super-Post-Panamax size.
In November 2015 Kingston Wharves ordered the first Liebherr mobile ...
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