Ozburn-Hessey Logistics' Barthco international division has opened a new customs brokerage office in San Francisco and hired Andrew Creighton as sales director, the company said. The office is located adjacent to an existing OHL freight forwarding facility and will allow Barthco to provide a full complement of international freight management and dist...
San Mateo, Calif.-based trade management software firm TradeBeam Inc. on Tuesday released a major functionality upgrade to it self-branded global trade management suite of on-demand applications. TradeBeam 3.2.4 release offers new and enhanced capabilities in several areas, including bar code label management. The firm's GTM suite of applications ...
Menlo Worldwide Logistics said Thursday it is relocating its Mexico regional office from Mexico City to the fast-growing high-tech manufacturing region of Guadalajara to take advantage of its skilled labor pool. Sales, finance, administrative, transportation management and engineering functions will transfer to Guadalajara. The moves will not affect d...
Concord, Calif.-based third-party logistics provider Pacer International Inc. will promote Brian Kane to chief financial officer and Joseph Doherty to executive vice president, investor relations, effective Sept. 15. Kane will succeed Larry Yarberry, who will continue to serve the company in an unspecified senior executive capacity until his retiremen...
The government of Qatar and Deutsche Bahn have signed an agreement to develop a rail system for the Gulf country, with two specific plans aimed at cargo movement. The agreement, signed at the end of the August, will see the German rail giant develop the conceptual design and provide consultancy services for the plans, which are part of a multibillion-...
Panalpina, the global forwarding and logistics company, on Tuesday concluded its share buyback program initiated in August 2007. The Swiss firm said that, as planned, between Aug. 13, 2007 and Sept. 2, 2008, it repurchased 1.25 million registered shares totaling a value of CHF 184.8 million ($167.1 million) and representing 5 percent of share capital....
Growth in the global freight forwarding market slowed to its lowest rate in four years during 2007, a trend that will be repeated for this year, according to a new report from Transport Intelligence (Ti), a United Kingdom-based analyst. The report, Global Freight Forwarding 2008, congratulated the market for its resilience amid the current worldwide e...
DSC Logistics of Des Plaines, Ill., has been awarded a three-year contract to provide supply chain and transportation management services to Merisant, a marketer of low-calorie tabletop sweeteners. The work will be performed from DSC facilities in Des Plaines; Mira Loma, Ca.; Allentown, Pa.; and McDonough, Ga. Source: American Shipper
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi