Transportation News, Logistics, Ports and Trade

MARAD accepting applications for domestic maritime workforce training and education

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Maritime

ATA Truck Tonnage Index Jumped 6.7% in September

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking | By The Numbers

American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 6.7% in September after declining 5.3% in August. In September, the index equaled 115.1 (2015=100) compared with 107.9 in August.

Cleantech Campus @SeaPoint offering free office space to companies focused on clean Techn

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Logistics

FedEx and Happy Returns team up to offer box-free returns at most FedEx office locations

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Logistics | Integrators

CMA CGM PSS from North Europe to Asia

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Ports & Terminals

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020

Top international forest product producer signs agreement expanding business at Port of Baltimore

Finland-based Metsä Group to consolidate its Mid-Atlantic operations through Port of Baltimore

Nokia escalates patent wars by taking on German Lenovo sales

Bloomberg | October 20, 2020 | International Trade

Oil slips with renewed virus restrictions sapping demand rebound

Bloomberg | October 20, 2020 | Energy | Conventional | By The Numbers

International Trade

Bloomberg | October 20, 2020

Brexit talks hit stalemate after call between chief negotiators

Talks between Britain and the European Union over a post-Brexit trade deal are mired in a stalemate after a call between the two sides’ chief negotiators concluded without a breakthrough.

SWARM Engineering adds two former Microsoft execs to leadership team

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Logistics | People | Appointments

Pilot LNG and GAC Bunker Fuels partner to supply LNG Marine Fuel from Galveston

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

Pilot LNG has executed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with GAC Bunker Fuels for the supply of LNG marine fuel from its proposed Galveston LNG Bunker Port, which will be the region’s first dedicated LNG bunker terminal.

Yang Ming names new 2,800 TEU vessel, YM Capacity

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Yang Ming held a naming ceremony for its 2,800 TEU class full container vessel ‘YM Capacity’ at CSBC’s Kaohsiung shipyard on October 20th.

Svitzer A/S appoints new global COO

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Maritime

Svitzer, world leading towage operator and part of Maersk, is welcoming Ingrid Uppelschoten Snelderwaard as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO)

RAKEZ named as this year’s best free zone for SMEs in the Middle East

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | International Trade

fDi Global Free Zones of the Year 2020 recognises RAKEZ as the SME Free Zone of the Year along with five other awards

CMA CGM FAK rates from West Med, Adriatic, Black Sea & East Med to the ISC

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Greencarrier Freight Services purchases top player in Finland-to-Baltics Road transport

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Logistics

EIA expects relatively high distillate inventories to decrease through the winter

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Energy | Conventional

These initially relatively high inventories, along with lower crude oil prices, will continue putting downward pressure on distillate fuel oil prices through the 2020–21 winter season.

Hapag-Lloyd GRI from Turkey to East Asia

AJOT Newsroom | October 20, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Hapag-Lloyd announced an increased Ocean Tariff rate for all cargoes for 20’ and 40’ General Purpose (incl. High Cube Container) Container on the Eastbound Trade from Turkey to East Asia.