Global Logistics

LNG Vessel Owners' Earnings Hopes Hinge on More U.S. Liquefaction Plants Coming Online

May 3, 2016

LNG shipowners will have to wait until 2018 for earnings to improve, when the majority of new U.S. plants are expected to come online, according to the latest edition of the LNG Forecaster report published by global shipping consultancy Drewry.

Continued M&A Activity Predicted for Logistics Services Industry

May 3, 2016

Logistics Viewpoints

Last year was a pretty hot 12 months in the area of business mergers and acquisitions, which hit a new high of $4.3tr in deals struck.

DHL Launches ACE-Compliant Customs Brokerage System

May 3, 2016

DHL Global Forwarding

DHL Global Forwarding has launched its new internal U.S. customs brokerage-management system.

MatchBack Systems Launches MatchPodium for Street Turns

May 3, 2016

MatchBack Systems, Inc.

MatchBack Systems, Inc. has launched MatchPodium, software for analyzing data and providing systematic street-turn options to truck-fleet and container planners.

SAP Unveils Apps for Digital Asset Management

May 2, 2016

SAP SE

SAP SE has introduced SAP Asset Intelligence Network and SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service.

Last Year's West Coast Labor Strife Boosts New York/New Jersey, Houston, Savannah, Index Shows

May 2, 2016

CBRE

The balance of seaborne-cargo delivery in the U.S. shifted further east in the last year, resulting in East Coast seaports making gains against their West Coast counterparts in CBRE Group Inc.'s second-annual North American Seaports and Logistics Index.

Weak First Quarter Doesn't Dampen Confidence of Air Cargo Executives Going Forward

April 29, 2016

Air Cargo World

Now that the first quarter of fiscal 2016 is in the past, results are in from IATA's most recent airline business confidence survey, and gauging from the responses of airline CFOs and cargo heads surveyed - their outlook is bullish for the remainder of the year, despite a perceived weak first quarter.

Blood on the Water: The Dismal Outlook for Ocean Carriers

April 29, 2016

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Too many ships, too much rate discounting, and too many service providers for the market to support: the outlook for ocean carriers is "pretty bleak indeed."

In Transition? How NetSuite takes Enterprise Technology 'Graduates' to Full-Scale Replacements

April 28, 2016

Mint Jutras

Maersk Begins Direct Service From North European Ports to Cuba's Mariel

April 28, 2016

Maritime Executive

Maersk Line marked the introduction of its first direct service from Northern Europe to Cuba on April 22 when a 2,556-TEU container vessel arrived in the Port of Mariel, 30 miles from Havana.

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