Supply chain

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials board of directors today voted to approve Frederick G. “Bud” Wright as executive director.

Dallas-based package and freight shipping firm Worldwide Express today named Amy Milligan as vice president of marketing and business analytics.

Commercial trucks crossing the U.S. border into Canada have been given a reprieve: The Canada Border Services Agency won’t begin assessing fines or refusing entries to trucks and drivers not meeting eManifest requirements until May.

The Food and Drug Administration has a daunting task ahead: inspecting food imports to keep the U.S. food supply safe, according to a new report by the congressional General Accountability Office.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Coast Guard and representatives from the barge and shipping industries held a press conference in St. Louis on Nov. 16 to discuss government-industry cooperation in managing the Mississippi River...

The recession hit as green warehouse development was taking hold. Now, it’s back.

Commercial warehousing may be a latecomer to the environmental trend, but given the synergies between efficiency and sustainability, shippers, third-party logistics providers and developers are enthusiastically embracing it.

The World Trade Organization on Nov. 16 adopted panel and appellate body reports in the United States' dispute with China about the imposition of duties on U.S. exports of grain oriented flat-rolled electrical steel, according to Ron Kirk, U.S. Trade Representative.

UPS today published new rates for 2013, including an average net increase of 4.5 percent for all UPS air and U.S.-origin international services, and 4.9 percent on UPS ground services, effective Dec. 31.

Changes in European Union trade rules could cause Caribbean countries to lose up to 10 million euros by the end of the decade from falling rum revenues, reported the Overseas Development Institute, a UK think tank on international development issues.

Nicaragua was recently approved for a $39.2 million loan by the Inter-American Development Bank to improve the efficiency and safety of its transportation system.

Germany-based logistics provider Dachser recently opened a branch in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, the company’s fourth South African office.

The IEC System of Conformity Assessment Schemes for Electrotechnical Equipment and Components, which provides conformity testing and certification for the safety and performance of electronic products...

Cordstrap, a cargo securing systems company, recently appointed Brad Tribble as CEO.

Growth in Asia will drive the world economy and prompt an acceleration of global trade growth in the decade ahead, according to a new report from HSBC.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The competition among ports in the U.S., Canada and Mexico for Asian cargo is not a zero-sum game, but rather a matter of each port capturing market share based on what it does best.

Container freight shipping company Evergreen Line recently announced a general rate increase for reefer cargo, effective Jan. 1, 2013.

Truck leasing company Ryder System’s fleet of 250 natural gas vehicles today surpassed a milestone of 6 million miles.

Eighty percent of logistics providers and freight forwarders reported slight business expansion in the last two years, and more than 75 percent expect that growth to continue into 2013...

With the U.S. and Europe struggling to escape recession, and China’s stellar economy displaying signs of exhaustion, it’s tough to find a region of the world that’s thriving on the logistics front. But here’s a hint: Follow the money — the oil money, that is.

Logistics provider Agility reported its profit in the third quarter was 9.8 million Kuwaiti dinars (about US $34.7 million), jumping 21 percent from $28.4 million in the third quarter of 2011.

Challenges in supply chains, such as shifts in global sourcing and new and multiple channels to market, are likely to cause a switch to multi-location distribution networks, said Peter Ward, cargo supply chain commercial manager at DP World London Gateway...

Hickory, N.C.-based logistics provider Transportation Insight recently appointed Chris Baltz, formerly chief strategy officer, to president and CEO; and Laura Easley, formerly chief solutions officer, to chief operating officer.