North America

 
23 May 2013
Hapag-Lloyd will revise three of its trade routes...
 
23 May 2013
Subaru has chosen WWL Vehicle Services America to manage its vehicle processing in Brunswick, Ga.
 
23 May 2013
When the Los Angeles City Council on May 8 approved the final environmental impact report for construction of BNSF Railway’s $500 million near-dock intermodal yard in Southern California, the approval proved to be the beginning of a journey rather than the end of a saga.
 
23 May 2013
Zim will end its involvement in the two Northern Europe-related trans-Atlantic services that are currently part of its service offering, linervision reports.
 
22 May 2013
Japan’s exports to the United States rose for the fourth straight month in April on a year-on-year basis, surging 14.8 percent to 1.101 trillion yen ($10.69 billion), according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Ministry.
Drewry Container Rate Benchmark, May 22, 2013. Source: Drewry
 
22 May 2013
Drewry’s Hong Kong-Los Angeles Container Rate Benchmark rose $250 this week, achieving almost 63 percent of a proposed $400 per-40-foot-container general rate increase by USL and CMA CGM set for May 21.
 
22 May 2013
Long Beach’s Board of Harbor Commissioners has unanimously approved a Port of Long Beach energy policy that will guide efforts for a more sustainable supply of power as demand increases.
Rick and Susan Held of Held & Associates receiving the “E” Award for Export Service from Secretary Blank.
 
22 May 2013
Rebecca Blank, U.S. acting secretary of commerce, has honored 57 U.S. companies and organizations that export goods or services at the 2013 President’s “E” Awards ceremony...
Europe: Containerized exports to North America through March 2013. Source: Container Trades Statistics
 
22 May 2013
Containerized export volume from Europe to North America reached 322,300 20-foot-equivalent units in March, its highest volume since July 2012 and the second highest volume in this lane since the JOC began collecting this data in January 2011, according to data from Container Trades Statistics, Ltd.
 
22 May 2013
Con-way Freight will build a new, 96-door freight service center in Fond du Lac, Wis.