Resistance to Haitian customs reforms has left containers of much needed food aid rotting on the docks of Cap-Haitian, according to an investigative report released Thursday by the Associated Press. Some of the containers containing 40,000 pounds of beans have sat inside the port since November, the news service said. The Haitian government attemp...
YRC Logistics, a subsidiary of Kansas-based YRC Worldwide Inc., has named Eric Friedlander as its managing director for Asia. Friedlander was senior vice president for Asia development at YRC Logistics and the chief operating officer of YRC Logistics Asia. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer at YRC Logistics. As...
International transport and logistics group cargo-partner AG said it plans to have 28 offices in India by the end of 2008, after opening 20 within its first year of business in the booming South Asian country. The Vienna, Austria-based company established cargo-partner Logistics India Pvt Ltd. early last year and is expecting turnover growth of at lea...
The owner of a Los Angeles-area trucking company pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to participating in a massive scheme that exploited the customs entry process to smuggle at least $267 million worth of apparel into the country without paying duty, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security agency c...
An arbitration tribunal agreed with the United States that Canada violated the Softwood Lumber Agreement by failing to properly adjust the quota volumes of Canada's eastern provinces in the first six months of 2007 to account for rapidly changing market conditions. But the tribunal also found the western provinces exempt. The SLA took effect on Oc...
Waterloo, Ontario-based Descartes Systems Group Inc. posted a net income of $22.4 million for is fiscal year ended Jan. 31, compared to a $4 million in the previous year. The recent fiscal year was boosted by a fourth quarter $16 million non-cash, deferred income tax recovery. The Canadian logistics software company, which reports its financial re...
DHL parent Deutsche Post World Net will split its logistics division into two operating units: supply chain, led by Bruce Edwards; and global forwarding and freight business, headed by Hermann Ude. Both men will join the German company's executive board. The changes were announced after a meeting of the Deutsche Post AG supervisory board on Tuesday. ...
The World Shipping Council has submitted comments to the docket in favor of the proposed 10+2 rulemaking that seeks to gain more advance data on the commercial parties involved in producing, packing, shipping and receiving international ocean shipments. Importers or foreign exporters would be responsible for submitting 10 types of information. L...
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