The Retail Industry Leaders Association on Monday said the EPA will later this year launch a retail specific web portal that will streamline information gathering on environmental sustainability and compliance issues. RILA said that it, along with other retail industry representatives, has been collaborating with the EPA over several months to create...
Supply chain software firm JDA Software Group Inc. said Monday it will acquire Dallas-based competitor i2 Technologies Inc. for $346 million in cash. The acquisition, JDA's 11th in 10 years, is expected to boost JDA annual revenue to $635 million per year and help JDA create a global supply chain management platform. The purchase is expected to be...
A House committee plans in September to look into DHL's proposed arrangement for UPS to handle its domestic United States airlift. Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., expressed concern about the tie up that would have DHL ditch its two existing contract carriers, ABX Air and Astar Air Cargo, in favor of using the UPS air ...
An unaffiliated collection of international trade professionals has mapped out a way for the U.S. government to allow importers to pre-file information on an account basis rather than for each transaction to comply with the pending 10+2 rule requiring advance ocean shipment data for security screening. The alternative approach was offered as a way to ...
Plastics solutions provider, Borouge, has awarded a service contract to Agility PJSC to build the Borouge Compound Manufacturing Unit (CMU) and Shanghai Logistics Hub in Shanghai, China, and to provide local logistics services for Borouge's customers in Asia for a period of ten years with effect from its operational start-up date in 2010. Following th...
SITA, the specialist provider of IT business solutions and communication services for airlines, today announced a five-year $3 million agreement with Middle East Airlines, Lebanon’s national airline, to implement and maintain an advanced communication and data infrastructure across 20 of their sites globally. The implementation will result in speed and da...
Russia will more than double high quality diesel exports from the port of Primorsk from October after its pipeline monopoly hooks up two more refineries to its newly built pipeline, an executive said on Thursday. Vladimir Karamanov, vice-president of refined products pipeline monopoly Transnefteproduct (TNP), part of oil pipeline monopoly Transneft TR...
United Arab Chemical Carriers Ltd. (UACC) has appointed Jens Groenning as chief executive officer. Groenning, chief operating officer for Copenhagen, Denmark-based Eitzen Chemical, will start his new role in Dubai in the fourth quarter. The appointment of a CEO has been long awaited, but we believe our patience has been rewarded. We are very happy...
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