Con-way announced that its three primary operating companies -- Con-way Freight, Con-way Truckload and Menlo Worldwide Logistics -- received the highest fuel efficiency and environmental performance score for 2007 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Transport Partnership. The three Con-way companies each received a Shipper Index F...
YRC North American Transportation has named Phil Gaines to president of Yellow Transportation. Gaines will oversee a range of national, regional and international services for the movement of industrial, commercial and retail goods for the YRC Worldwide subsidiary. Prior to this appointment, Gaines was senior vice president and chief financial off...
Cathay Pacific Airways and sister airline Dragonair carried 137,680 tons of cargo and mail between them in June, up 4 percent on June 2007, Hong Kong-based Cathay said Monday. Capacity for the month, measured in available cargo/mail ton kilometers, grew 2.2 percent while the cargo and mail load factor edged up 0.5 percent to 67.5 percent. Both cargo t...
The Korea Importers Association said Monday that an index used to measure the prices of import commodities into South Korea rose to a record high for the 10th month in a row in June. The so-called KOIMA Index rose 28.49 points from May's 425.06 points to 453.55 points, the Korea Herald reported. The index uses import prices as of December 1995 as the ...
Container lines participating in the Canada Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (CTSA) plan to raise their fuel recovery surcharges on August 1. The increases will be as follows: US$1,012, up from $904, per TEU; $1,265, up from $1,130, per FEU; $1,423, up from $1,271, per FEU high-cube; $1,601, up from $1,431, per 45-footer and $28 up from $25 weigh...
Project cargo shipping company Intermarine has brought Craig Stevenson onboard to serve as the company's chairman of the board of directors. Stevenson was chief executive officer of OMI Corp. and will work closely with Intermarine's management in this non-executive position to formulate the company's strategic objectives and growth plans, the company ...
Hapag-Lloyd parent TUI AG today said the process to separate itself from container shipping is going according to plan and expects to review initial non-binding bids by mid-August. The German shipping and tourism group said a final evaluation of the different separation options (trade sale, merger or spin-off) would only happen once binding bids have ...
France's CMA CGM on Thursday said Jean-Marc Lacave, managing director of the Le Havre Port Authority, will join the shipping group on Sept. 1 as chief executive vice-president and member of the executive board. Lacave, 51, who has spent most of his career in the French transport and public works sectors, will take charge of the CMA CGM departments cur...
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