Transportation News, Logistics, Ports and Trade

LATAM Cargo Brazil transports over 50 tons of essential goods to the country’s Northern area to fight COVID-19

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Air Cargo | Airlines

LATAM Cargo Brazil maintains its cargo operation and is working its logistics to deliver essential goods to Brazilian states. Last Friday (29) and Saturday (30), in partnership with VTC LOG, the company transported 50 tons of essential hospital goods to combat COVID-19 in Roraima, in addition to respirators that will be sent to Rondônia.

PACCAR Parts opens new parts distribution center in Las Vegas

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

BluJay launches transportation modeling application, blazes trail as first TMS provider to build modeling solution on LLamasoft cloud platform

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Logistics

OOC oil & gas blockchain consortium announces successful completion of produced water haulage pilot leveraging blockchain technology

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Energy

Maritime

Stas Margaronis | June 02, 2020

AMP and AWO urge unified US Covid-19 protocols and support for the Jones Act

Michael Roberts, president of the American Maritime Partnership (AMP), called upon US Coast Guard Captains of the Port to agree on a unified set of protocols regarding Covid-19 treatment of mariners on U.S. flag vessels operating in the non-contiguous trades serving Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico.

DNV GL launches new certification in infection prevention for the maritime industry

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Maritime

CMA CGM PSS update - from France and Spain to Far East

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Key players develop emission-free navigation solution for barges

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping | Ports & Terminals

Today, Zero Emission Services B.V. (ZES) was founded. ZES is introducing a new energy system for making inland shipping more sustainable. This will be realized with emission-free navigation infrastructure that is accessible to everyone.

Rising to the challenge of working aboard a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence ship during COVID-19

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Maritime | Bulk | Ports & Terminals

US to initiate tariff probe into India, Spain over digital tax

Bloomberg | June 02, 2020 | International Trade

MSC BRC updates effective July 1st

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

MSC Bunker Recovery Cost Surcharge updates effective July 1, 2020

ISTOBAL achieves a safer and more efficient sanitization of the interior of trailers

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

• ISTOBAL HW’INTRAWASH applies food safe chemicals followed by a high-pressure rinse for deep cleaning with a controlled and professional sanitization in 5 minutes or less. • ISTOBAL’s automated system reduces down-time and improves employee safety in the washing of refrigerated trailers and achieves greater control in the consumption of water and chemical products.

Transplace acquires leading parcel TMS provider ScanData and expands its logistics platform capability

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Logistics

MSC changes on the acceptance of solid waste to PR of China and Hong Kong

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Virgin Atlantic increases cargo-only flights by over 33% in June after a record-breaking month in May

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Air Cargo | Freighters

Virgin Atlantic will increase its cargo-only flights by 35% to nearly 600 in June with the launch of new routes including Beijing and Brussels following the success of its May programme.

FEMA, MARAD provide essential US maritime workers cloth masks to shield against COVID-19 spread

AJOT Newsroom | June 02, 2020 | Ports & Terminals

Federal shipments of 2.4 million reusable cloth facial coverings will begin arriving this week at ports and related maritime transportation operations around the U.S. that requested them, thanks to the urging of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) – the unified and recognized voice of seaports in the Americas – its member port authorities, and a host of port industry partners, including the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD).