The Carlyle Group has acquired a majority interest in ITS Technologies & Logistics LLC, an intermodal facilities operator, from Lanigan Holdings LLC. ITS is one of the largest operators of intermodal facilities in North America, where it transfers containers between trucks and rail cars and performs rail switching, terminal administration and equipmen...
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received five ocean transportation intermediary license applications for review. The agency received a non-vessel-operating common carrier license applications from World Export & Logistics, Miami (Celia Leon, president); LCL Logistic, Torrance, Calif. (Christopher T. Le, president); and Aramex International Co...
The U.S. Census Bureau could publish by the end of this month new export compliance rules that have sat in limbo for three years, government officials and industry sources familiar with the situation say. The news comes four months after agency officials indicated they had resolved a standoff with the Department of Homeland Security and that a final r...
British logistics service provider Wincanton plc has moved to find new leaders of its German subsidiary Wincanton Deutschland. Two members of the senior German team, Harry Dumser, managing director of solution, and Christian Wurst, managing director of finance and administration, will become joint managing directors. They report directly to Graeme McF...
British Airways World Cargo has reported commercial revenues of 15.7 million ($1.22 billion) for its financial year ended March 31, up 3 percent against the same period last year. The airline's full-year volume rose 4.2 percent to 4.9 billion cargo ton kilometers (CTK) with capacity, measured in available cargo ton kilometers, down 3 percent. Over...
The U.S. Surface Transportation Board issued a decision granting an estimated $30 million in rate reductions and reparations in the maximum railroad-rate case brought before the STB by the Kansas City Power & Light Co. against the Union Pacific Railroad Co. At issue in the case was KCP&L's challenge to rates charged by UP for the rail transportation o...
Over 150 delegates attended Transport Intelligence’s (Ti’s) inaugural Global Distribution Strategies Conference last week in Amsterdam. Attendees heard from a range of expert speakers and took part in interactive panel discussions. A diverse range of topics were covered, including analysis of the key developing geographies, technology issues, environ...
The U.S. intermodal industry saw international container shipments declined 5.2 percent in the first three months of 2008 -- the largest quarterly decline in international activity in nine years. About 1.9 million ISO containers were transported in the first quarter, according to the Intermodal Association of America. IANA said domestic container ...
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