May 2024
Shipping line Hapag-Lloyd said it has launched Live Position, its first dry container tracking product to provide full transparency on the location of their shipments – from the start of transportation until the arrival at the destination.As the first container shipping line to introduce a fleet-wide dry container tracking product, Hapag-Lloyd said it is demonstrating its commitment to deploying pioneering IoT (Internet of Things) technology in logistics on a large ...
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Global logistics provider GEODIS recently completed a complex air cargo transport to Colombia, and has contracted to provide inbound logistics for Canada’s National Shipbuilding Program.GEODIS’s Colombian just-in-time logistics operation featured oversized thermocompressors via Antonov AN-124, the world’s largest cargo aircraft. The move required transporting 249 pieces of oversized, overweight cargo ...
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The owners of the Dali, the 9,971-TEU containership that lost power struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore harbor, have declared “general average,” according to a spokesperson for vessel owner Grace Ocean Private Ltd.General average is a principle in maritime law in which all stakeholders proportionately share any losses ...
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The Galveston Wharves Board of Trustees on April 23 approved a US$29.9 million construction contract to begin the first phase of an estimated US$90 million in cargo infrastructure expansion and improvement work at Galveston’s West Port Cargo Complex. Texas Gulf Construction Co. Inc. is expected to begin work this summer ...
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Contract logistics provider DHL Supply Chain on April 30 reported strategic changes in its global leadership team, with a partial restructuring of roles and the addition of new members to the division’s global board of management.Patrick Kelleher has been promoted to CEO of DHL Supply Chain North America, from global ...
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More than half of supply chain and logistics leaders are focused on automating non-value-added and repetitive tasked with technology to improve worker productivity in the face of workforce shortages, according to a study released April 15 from Descartes Systems Group.The study, What Are Companies Doing to Survive the Supply Chain ...
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A former U.S. attorney general is suing California over its Advanced Clean Fleets, or ACF, regulation, which requires fleets to transition to zero-emission trucks for draying, beginning this year.William Barr operates as chair of AmFree, the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Legal Action, in the lawsuit filed ...
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Bechtel, the engineering, procurement, and construction company under contract to help complete construction on Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 in Waynesboro, Georgia, on April 29 congratulated Georgia Power and Southern Nuclear on achieving commercial operations for Unit 4.“According to the World Nuclear Association, about 30 countries are considering, planning, ...
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Partners CY Shipping and BigLift Shipping are adding two heavy transport vessels, or HTVs, bring their fleet to six HTVs.The partners jointly designed the “BC-Class” vessels, which are being built by Jing Jiang Nunyan Shipbuilding Co Ltd. China.The vessels are designed to transport ultra-large and heavy modular cargoes worldwide, with ...
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Customers moved 48.9 million tons through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in the first quarter of 2024, a 1 percent decrease from the year-earlier quarter.A slight increase in crude oil shipments to 30.2 million tons, and a significant increase in agricultural shipments, were unable to fully offset decreases in refined ...
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