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GEODIS Tackles Colombia, Canada Moves

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 totaling 776 tons and 4,455 cubic meters on 13 flights over seven days, from Lisbon to the southeast part of ... [+]

Dali’s Owners Declare General Average

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 ... [+]

Galveston Invests in West Port Complex

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 ... [+]

DHL Supply Chain Reshuffles Leadership

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 ... [+]

3PLs Automate to Solve Workforce Shortages

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 ... [+]

Ex-AG Barr Sues Calif. Over Emissions Rule

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 ... [+]

Bechtel, Georgia Power Complete Vogtle 4

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 ... [+]

CY Shipping, BigLift Order Heavy Transports

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 ... [+]

Port of Corpus Christi Sees Q1 Volumes Dip

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 ... [+]

CMA CGM Rate Restoration for Europe, Med

CMA CGM said it is implementing a rate restoration initiative for cargo from North European and Mediterranean ports to the U.S., Canada and Mexico, effective May 1.Rate Restoration Initiative 4 (RRI04) will be enforced on tariff or service contract rates for all cargo moving under ... [+]

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