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Carson, Calif.-based freight forwarder Target Logistics Services will operate under the Mainfreight name beginning July 1 as the New Zealand company furthers integration following its acquisition of Target last November. Target has been in business for 28 years and grown into $200 million company with facilities in 38 U.S. cities and a network of offi...
Fireworks made in China may have a tough time making it to U.S. shores in time for July 4 shows, according to an Associated Press report Monday. The number of Chinese ports willing to handle the country's huge number of fireworks exports is dwindling due to safety concerns. An explosion in February at a warehouse in South China prompted the Port of Sa...
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has initiated a review to consider the designation of Vietnam as a Beneficiary Developing Country under the Generalized System of Preferences, according to an e-mail Friday from the trade law firm of Katten Muchin Rosenman. The USTR's office has initiated this review to determine whether to make a recommenda...
Kunio Mikuriya, a Japanese national, was elected late last week to serve as the World Customs Organization's next secretary general, according to both industry and customs sources. He succeeds two-term WCO Secretary General Michel Danet, effective Jan. 1. Mikuriya serves as WCO deputy secretary general, a post he has held for a term from January 200...
A further five major international airlines have pleaded guilty to fixing air cargo rates and will pay fines totaling $504 million, the U.S. Justice Department reported Thursday. The latest airlines to admit their roles in a multiear conspiracy were: Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which now operates as Air France-KLM under common owne...
Astara Transit Terminal, a main gateway border facility connecting Europe, Russia and CIS countries by rail on the Azerbaijan-Iranian border, has appointed Moscow-based freight group Prodvijeniye as general agent for freight and project cargo moving between Russia, Iran and Iraq via the border crossing. Goods shipped by Prodvijeniye will arrive at the...
RoadLink, a fast-growing intermodal container delivery and logistics provider, said Thursday it plans to acquire CP Ships Trucking Ltd. from Hapag-Lloyd (Canada). The German ocean carrier is selling its 240-unit trucking fleet to concentrate on its core business, RoadLink said. RoadLink will collaborate on drayage operations with Fastfrate, a less...
Hedge funds seeking to shake up CSX Corp. said they had secured four seats on the railroad's 12-person board of directors, while CSX management said the outcome of the election was too close to call at this time. CSX said Wednesday's annual meeting will reconvene at 10 a.m. Friday at the company's headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., to receive certifi...
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.
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