South America

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

   NYK Line will launch a new roll-on/roll-off service connecting U.S. East and Gulf coast ports with the west coast of South America, starting July 24.    The service, called NYK Chile Express, will have a rotation of Baltimore, Jacksonville, Houston, Vera Cruz, Manzanillo (Panama), Guyaquil, Callao, Iquique, and San Antonio.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

   Austrian crane manufacturer Liebherr has opened a new $20 million sales and service center in Miami off Okeechobee and the Florida Turnpike.    It will serve as a major hub for Liebherr’s maritime cranes division and further strengthen its business relations to Central and South America and the Caribbean regions, said Gernot Schranz, president of Liebherr Nenzing Crane Co.    Liebherr called the 430,000-square-foot property ideal, stating the port of Miami and Miami Inter...

Monday, June 17, 2013

   Cargolux launched Boeing 747-8 service from Luxembourg to Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 16, marking the first ever freighter flight of this size plane into the country.    Viracopos International Airport is the only airport in Brazil certified for 747-8 service.     Officials expect auto parts, pharmaceutical products and fruit to serve as the main exports from Brazil.    "We are extremely pleased to see our new flagship freighter eventually operating to a ...

Thursday, June 13, 2013

   The U.S. agribusiness Cargill said Thursday it has expanded its operational use of CargoDocs, an electronic bill of lading (eB/Ls) solution, to include agricultural shipments from South America.    Cargill first used the solution on a shipment of grain from Houston to Veracruz, Mexico in March.    Electronic Shipping Solutions (ESS), a provider of shipping and trade document and data solutions, is partnering with Cargill to include new trade routes from Argentina and Bra...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

   Hamburg Süd will be offering a new fixed-day, fortnightly service from South Africa to Argentina and Brazil (SABR Service) in cooperation with Nile Dutch, beginning next month.    The new service will have a rotation of Durban, Port Elizabeth, Buenos Aires, Rio Grande, Itajai, Santos, and Rio de Janeiro.    Further destinations in South America, North America and Europe will be offered on a transshipment basis.    The first westbound call at Durban will be...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

   LATAM Airlines saw passenger traffic rise on declining capacity in May, but cargo load factor remained flat for the month.    Cargo traffic increased 1.5 percent, year over year, but capacity also ticked up 1.5 percent. The carrier’s cargo load factor stayed stagnant at 58.2 percent. So far this year, LATAM cargo traffic has increased 2.3 percent, but capacity gains of 4 percent have wiped away any positive growth trends. For the first five months, cargo load factor is down by 1 p...

Monday, June 10, 2013

   An effort by container shipping companies to deal with surplus tonnage by cascading 8,000-TEU vessels into the trade lane between Asia and South America's east coast "appears to have seriously backfired," said an article in  the latest edition of Drewry's Container Insight Weekly .    The London consultant said "recent launching of MSC’s new Ipanema service in the middle of April, and the subsequent announcement of the deployment of much bigger 8,000-TEU vessels by other...

Friday, June 07, 2013

   The Brazilian government has launched a $41 million real ($19.24 million) grant program intended to boost its competitiveness in the shipbuilding industry by generating new technology and equipment for vessels.     According to a statement, the goal is to increase jobs in shipbuilding as well as increase the efficiency of the ships themselves. Individual proposals, which must be submitted by June 21, will be capped at $3.3 million real.    “Proposals will be selected...

Monday, June 03, 2013

   The International Air Transport Association bumped up its global airline profitability by $2.1 billion to a projected $12.7 billion in 2013. The industry generated $7.6 billion in profits last year.    Despite the increase, and a new prediction of $711 billion in revenues this year, the industry’s profit margin will remain low at 1.8 percent. In 2010, the industry saw a profit margin of 3.3 percent, its highest since 2001 and best since 2007’s profit margin of 2.9 percent. This ye...

Monday, June 03, 2013

   Euroandinos Port Terminals at the Port of Paita in Peru has ordered one super post-Panamax ship-to-shore crane and two rubber tire gantry stacking cranes from Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd., the Irish company said.    The container cranes are scheduled for delivery late this year.    The ship crane has a maximum load capacity of 55 tons with a twin-lift spreader. It can reach 51 meters across the water and 17 meters back to the wharf.    The order follows one fo...

Friday, May 31, 2013

   The U.S. Commerce Department has found shippers of certain frozen shrimp in China, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam receive government subsidies, while those in Ecuador and Indonesia do not.    In its China investigation, Commerce preliminarily determined that the sole respondent, Zhanjiang Guolian Aquatic Products Co., Ltd. and its cross-owed affiliates, received a subsidy rate of 5.76 percent. All other producers and exporters in China have also been assigned a preliminary s...

Friday, May 31, 2013

   The Peruvian freight forwarder International Freight Shipping S.A.C. has adopted the cloud-based platform from logistics technology provider CargoWise.    IFS in Peru, part of the IFS Group, will use CargoWise’s ediEnterprise. IFS has 5,000 international partners globally, and more than 1,000 active local customers.    “After careful analysis of all available global freight forwarding systems we opted for ediEnterprise, through WiseCloud, because it provided all our staff...

Thursday, May 30, 2013

   Etihad Cargo and Atlas Air Worldwide have launched a round-the-world freighter service, adding new services to Viracopos, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; and Miami to its existing Boeing 747-8 routing.    The globe-spanning service begins in Abu Dhabi, continuing on a Hong Kong-Chicago-Miami-Viracopos-Quito-Amsterdam routing before returning to the Middle East.    “This goes beyond simply joining the dots, it’s about working with partners, operating routes which benefit our ...

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

   During a meeting on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that ended Friday, attendees worked through e-commerce, rules of origin and other technical and legal barriers to trade.    The next round of talks is scheduled for July 15 in Malaysia.    U.S. officials and leaders of 10 additional countries also spent the 17th round of transpacific partnership negotiations moved toward a common ground on issues concerning government procurement, dispute settlement and...

Thursday, May 23, 2013

   Workforce Florida Inc., the statewide workforce investment board of business and government leaders, last week announced the availability of a $2 million Quick Response Training Challenge Grant for employers in Florida's logistics and trade industry.    The special grant is intended to help the state's logistics and trade sector become more competitive by improving the skills of existing and new employees hired during the next year.      Florida's economic developme...

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

   Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank last week wrapped up a seven-day trip to Latin America to help drum up business for U.S. companies engaged in infrastructure planning and construction with a speech at the American Chamber of Commerce Panama where she highlighted the importance of trade relations with the Central American nation.    Twenty companies specializing in project management, transportation, energy and water resource infrastructure accompanied Blank on her ...

Thursday, May 16, 2013

   The White House on Wednesday welcomed growing exports for U.S. businesses, farmers, and ranchers on the first anniversary of the entry into force of the U.S.-Colombia trade agreement.    Via the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, U.S. manufacturers have substantially increased their exports to the South American country.    In specific, U.S. exports of transportation equipment, petroleum and coal products, processed food, and computer and electronic products have risen t...

Thursday, May 16, 2013

   Hapag-Lloyd said the rotation of the U.S. Gulf - South America East Coast Loop 1 (GS1) service is being revised.    Starting with the voyage of the ship Suape Express (1316N), the GS1 will replace the northbound call of Caucedo, Dominican Republic with Cartagena, Colombia. The first call in Cartagena will be on June 10.    The southbound call of Caucedo will continue.    The revised GS1 port rotation will be Veracruz, Altamira, Houston, New Orleans, Cauced...

Thursday, May 16, 2013

   The U.S. Grains Council (USGC), along with the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), MAIZAR, representing Argentinian producers and the maize supply chain, and ABRAMILHO (Brazilian Association of Corn Producers) signed a memorandum of understanding this week to form an alliance of North and South American corn producers to collaborate to address key issues concerning food security, biotechnology, stewardship, trade and producer image.    The organizations will operate under th...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

   A half dozen container shipping lines say they will restructure their services between the Far East and South America east coast.    The Chilean carrier CSAV said the changes are being made "in view of continuous challenging trading conditions" in the trade.    It said that effective from July, CSAV, China Shipping, CMA CGM, Hamburg Süd, Hanjin and Maersk Line will restructure their services between the Far East and South America East Coast by launching three new joi...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

   Total revenues at LATAM Airlines inched up 1.5 percent, year over year, to $3.4 billon on the strength of the carrier’s passenger revenues, while cargo revenues fell 3.2 percent during the first quarter.    As the group continues putting together the LAN and TAM businesses, it saw operating income shoot up 149.8 percent during the first quarter to $114.2 million as operating margin rose to 3.4 percent. Net income dropped 48.9 percent, year over year, to $42.7 million.   ...

Monday, May 13, 2013

   Three-fourths of global logistics companies are unable to get the prices they deserve for their services, according to the findings of the Global Pricing Study 2012 , conducted by strategy and marketing consultancy Simon-Kucher & Partners.    The causes, managers say, are a price-aggressive competitive environment and a prevalence of standardized products. The study incorporated responses from 151 people in the transportation and logistics sectors throughout Europe, Asia, North...

Friday, May 10, 2013

   The U.S. Export-Import Bank approved a final commitment for a $45.5 million loan guarantee to VRG Linhas Aereas S.A. (GOL), a Brazilian airline.    The financing will support the export of engine maintenance services by Delta TechOps (Delta), a subsidiary of Delta Airlines. This transaction will support about 400 jobs, according to Ex-Im Bank.    GOL engines will be shipped from São Paulo, Brazil, to Atlanta for heavy maintenance to be performed by Delta’s maintenance, r...

Monday, May 06, 2013

   North Carolina’s Port of Wilmington will now offer shippers direct access to Manzanillo, Panama, and Puerto Moin, Costa Rica, in addition to Puerto Cortes, Honduras, and Santo Tomas, Guatemala, in northern Central America, via vessel calls added by Maersk Line to its weekly South Atlantic Express (SAE) service.    New trade lanes to South America’s west coast and the Caribbean for Port of Wilmington users are also open via transhipments at Manzanillo, the North Carolina State ...

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

   The Chilean liner shipping company CSAV said shareholders meeting in Valparaiso this week approved a plan to increase capital by $500 million that will be used to purchase seven 9,300-TEU ships and prepay a loan from American Family Life Assurance Company (AFLAC) at a 46 percent discount.    The company said it will raise the funds through the issue of 6.75 billion shares.    (The company has about 8.7 billion shares outstanding. They were selling at around 42 Chilean pe...

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

   Southern California-based ocean freight consolidator DGX will start a weekly all-water service from Los Angeles to Guayaquil, Ecuador, effective May 7.    “With an aggressive transit time of only eight days from port to port, customers will be able to enjoy all of the benefits of shipping their products via the West Coast as opposed to routing West Coast cargo via Miami - which is slower and more expensive,” said Antonio Bellido, DGX’s Latin America trade lane manager, in a statem...

Monday, April 29, 2013

   Cargo theft in North America stayed flat, year over year, in 2012 as European theft rates rose by 24 percent, according to FreightWatch International.    Cargo theft in Asia also increased.    According to the company, however, the greatest theft threats still exist in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. Last year, about 6,800 thefts were reported in Sao Paulo, and more than 6,000 Mexican thefts occurred in 2012.    Pharmaceutical thefts are on the rise in Europe, ...

Thursday, April 25, 2013

   The U.S. Commerce Department has selected 20 companies to join its deputy secretary, Rebecca Blank, on an infrastructure business development trade mission to Sao Paulo, Brazil; Bogota, Colombia; and Panama City, Panama, from May 12-18.    “The governments of these countries have each outlined ambitious infrastructure development plans for the years ahead, and this trade mission will help U.S. companies in a broad range of infrastructure industry sectors make the connections they ...

Monday, April 15, 2013

   The United States and Japan on Friday announced they had reached agreement on Japan's participation in negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.     Japan last month signaled its willingness to join the TPP and would become the 12th nation in the talks once approved by the current partners. As the world's third largest economy, it's participation would make a Pacific Rim trade bloc extremely powerful, accounting for nearly 40 percent of global GDP...

Monday, April 15, 2013

   To increase their cargo presence, officials at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport have their sights set on attracting Latin American carriers, perhaps even convincing some to leave their standard hub, Miami International Airport, according to the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Bob Pertierra.     He pointed out recently in comparing the two cities and their prospects for growth, Atlanta has 15 Fortune 500 companies, while Miami has only one.    “When you lo...

Monday, April 15, 2013

   The Philadelphia-based logistics company BDP International has taken an equity position in Interflex, based in Cartagena, Colombia.    The resulting joint venture will operate as BDP International Colombia under its current management team led by Enrico Benedetti.    “Our decision to bolster our presence in Colombia is based on a number of factors, not the least of which is the excellent relationship we have with our partner Interflex, which like BDP is family-...

Monday, April 15, 2013

   Liner carrier Evergreen said it will join forces with COSCO and Zim to operate a new service between the Far East - South America Service (ESA).    Evergreen said the new loop will link China, Singapore and South America's east coast from May 11.    A total of 10 ships of 8,500-TEU capacities will be deployed on the new ESA service, replacing the existing fleet of 3,000-TEU vessels. Evergreen will provide five of these ships, COSCO three and Zim the remaining tw...

Friday, April 12, 2013

   American Airlines has launched non-stop cargo service between Chicago O'Hare and Dusseldorf, Germany.    The flight joins other new service expansions, such as AA Cargo's offering from Dallas to Lima, Peru; seasonal flights between JFK and Rome; and flights from Chicago to Rome and Dublin.    Flights between Dallas and Seoul will start May 9. - Jon Ross

Thursday, April 11, 2013

   FedEx Trade Networks has opened new offices, launched new freight forwarder services and created new alliances over the past few months to gain a greater marketshare in Latin America.    The company recently opened new locations in Rio de Janeiro and in Guadalajara and Monterrey, Mexico. FedEx Trade Networks' latest strategic alliance bonds it with Brazilian forwarder Portlink Logística Multimodal Ltda. New services offered by FedEx operation include an air consolidation...

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

   LATAM Airlines Group, the amalgamation of LAN Airlines and TAM, saw cargo inch up in March, increasing by 0.4 percent, year over year, to 407 million tons.    Capacity rose as well, ramping up by 3.5 percent. Cargo load factor dropped by 1.8 points to 60.1 percent.    “The growth in cargo capacity is a result of an increased availability in the belly of passenger aircraft,” according to a company statement. “Despite a delay on certain seasonal demand, cargo traffic was d...

Friday, April 05, 2013

   CSAV, the Chilean container shipping company, said it will invest $570 million in its business, building seven new ships and paying back a $258 million loan at a steep discount.    The company said it will buy seven 9,300-TEU ships that will be built by Samsung Heavy Industries.    When the ships are delivered, the company will increase its owned fleet to 55 percent from 37 percent today and just 8 percent at the beginning of 2011.    The company...

Friday, March 29, 2013

   A coordinated strike of Chilean ports by stevedores has hampered cargo activities in the South American nation.    The strike began in mid-March at Angamos, but has since spread to the ports of Antofagasta, Iquique, Mejillones, San Antonio, San Vicente, Lirquén and Coronel, the Chilean liner carrier CSAV said in a customer notice Thursday.    “As a consequence of the above described situation, port operations are temporally suspended in the aforementioned ports, and there...

Friday, March 29, 2013

   Damco, the third party logistics arm of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has appointed Stefan Bengtsson as chief finance officer for Latin America and is based at Damco’s Latin American office in Panama City. Bengtsson was previously CFO for Kuehne & Nagel in Brazil for more than nine years.     Also for the Latin American region, the company transferred Sune Stilling from his role as managing director for West Africa to chief operating officer for Latin America, also ba...

Thursday, March 28, 2013

   The chairman of the Chilean shipping company CSAV, Guillermo Luksic Craig, has died at the age of 57.    The Bloomberg news service reported Luksic died of lung cancer . Through its 83 percent stake in Quiñenco, one of Chile's largest conglomerates, the Luksic family acquired a stake in CSAV in 2011. Quiñenco, is involved in a wide variety of businesses, including financial services, manufacturing of packaging and metal products, food and beverages.    Former&nb...

Monday, March 25, 2013

   As part of its new profit improvement plan, TNT Express will sell its Chinese and Brazilian domestic operations, ramp up technology investment and strive to generate 220 million euros ($283 million) in savings by 2015.    Officials expect to cut 4,000 jobs over the next three years and spend 150 million euros on restructuring costs by 2015 to achieve these goals.    Bernard Bot, TNT’s interim chief executive officer, will collaborate with his proposed successor...

Thursday, March 21, 2013

   U.S. Commerce Department officials said progress was made to strengthen the economic relationship between the United States and Brazil, following the eighth meeting of the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum, which took place in Brasilia this week.    “It is clear that both the Obama and Rousseff administrations recognize that our two countries must continue to build on the strength of U.S.-Brazil economic relations,” said U.S. Deputy Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank in a statement.   ...

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

   With LATAM Airlines Group three years away from the full integration of LAN and TAM operations — officials estimate a target of June 2016 — the company is still attempting to harmonize programs between the two Latin American carriers, standardizing processes and renegotiating contracts.    The cargo business, however, is now fully integrated. Fourth-quarter 2012 cargo revenues for the LATAM Airlines Group finished at $37.89 million, a 3-percent, year-over-year declin...

Friday, March 15, 2013

   The Japanese government announced it intends to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.    The TPP is a free trade agreement currently under negotiation between 11 countries, including Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam.    Trade groups welcomed the possibility of including Japan in the TPP.    “The inclusion of Japan – the third largest economy in the worl...

Thursday, March 14, 2013

   Rickmers-Linie is launching a westbound round-the-world service for breakbulk, heavylift and project cargoes.    "Having introduced our round-the-world Pearl String service with an eastbound rotation 10 years ago, we are convinced that the time to start up a similar concept in the other direction has now come," said Ulrich Ulrichs, chief operating officer and managing director of Rickmers-Linie, in a statement. "This move further confirms our commitment to, and trust in, the ...

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

   InterSystems Corp., a Massachusetts-based software company specializing in healthcare technology, beat three foreign competitors to win a $37 million contract with the Chilean Ministry of Health.    This bid was supported by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Advocacy Center, which coordinates federal resources to help "level the playing field" on behalf of U.S. businesses as they compete against overseas firms for specific international contracts or other U.S. export opportunities. &...

Monday, March 11, 2013

   American Airlines Cargo is beefing up its presence in Latin America, continuing to add capacity to a region where it has focused its efforts for a number of years.    The carrier has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-300ER, adding service from Dallas to Sao Paolo, Brazil, last month. According to AA Cargo President Kenji Hashimoto, plans are in the works for service from Dallas to Bogota, Colombia, and two new Brazilian routes out of Miami.    Last month, officials ...

Monday, March 11, 2013

   IAG Cargo has added capacity between Hyderabad and London with an additional Boeing 767 passenger flight.    The extra capacity is geared toward Hyderabad’s growing pharmaceutical industry.    IAG Cargo’s Pravin Singh has seen steady growth from Hyderabad to markets in North and South America.    “This additional capacity represents growth in a commercially important market and provides our customers a much-needed solution for Friday lift,” he said in a stateme...

Thursday, March 07, 2013

   Yang Ming is increasing its participation in a service between the United States, Caribbean, and east coast of South America.    The Taiwanese carrier will deploy one ship on what it calls the ANS route jointly operated with NYK, Evergreen and Hanjin.    Under this new service structure, Yang Ming's status will move up from a slot purchaser to that of a vessel provider.    The service employs six ships with capacities of about 2,100 TEUs. The port rotation...

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

   The liner carrier CMA CGM said Tuesday it plans to raise rates on European exports to the west coast of South America from April 1.    The increase, 300 euros per TEU, is applicable from origins in Scandinavia, the Baltic, United Kingdom, Ireland, and continental Europe (including Atlantic ports in Spain and Portugal). - Eric Johnson

Monday, March 04, 2013

   The liner carrier CSAV said Monday it made an operating profit of $8.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, a huge improvement on the $158.1 million the line lost in the same quarter in 2011.    The improvement came despite a 15.1 percent year-on-year drop in operating revenue in the quarter to $845.4 million and a 5.3 percent drop in container volume to 463,484 TEUs. The fourth quarter operating profit was also significantly less than the $37.3 million the line secured in ...

Monday, March 04, 2013

   The U.S. agribusiness Cargill made its first grain shipment using an electronic bill of lading last week, Reuters reported Friday.    Cargill used the electronic process to underlie a shipment of grain from Houston to Veracruz, Mexico. The transfer of documents took 19 minutes, the company said in a statement to Reuters .    “After nearly 150 years of paper bills of lading, this first electronic BL represents a historical milestone for us,” company spokesman Ernst Herger...

Thursday, February 28, 2013

   MIQ Logistics has promoted John Carr, a six-year MIQ veteran who became company-wide president in 2009, to chief executive officer.    Carr will also serve in an expanded president's role. Joey Carnes will stay on as board chairman.    Board member David Lack pointed to Carr's leadership during the 2010 relaunching of MIQ after its purchase by Austin Ventures as a reason for the promotion. Carr positioned the company for accelerated growth, he said.     “In...

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

   At 11 p.m. on Feb. 16, 30 armed men forced their way into a warehouse in the Sao Paulo-based industrial park Centro Logistico Brasil, stealing an unknown number of tablet computers and smartphones, according to FreightWatch International.    Analysts are calling it one of the largest thefts in Brazil.     The suspects, who gained access to the building by masquerading as security guards, used nine cars and six trucks to make off with the goods. Intruders, who we...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

   DHL Global Forwarding has launched direct less-than-containerload services from India's Nhava Sheva to Lodz, Poland, and Santos, Brazil.    The weekly services will reduce transit times and lower CO 2 emissions by 17 percent to Poland and 9 percent to Brazil, according to DHL. The service will reduce the transit to Poland by 29 days and the transit time to Brazil by 38 days.    “Our new services once again demonstrate our commitment to strengthen our network an...

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

   SDV has opened a new South American office in Colombia, adding the location to its current holdings in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.    Officials cited Colombia’s GDP growth and economic reforms as reasons to expand into the country. Oil and gas, as well as mining, are big industries in Colombia; those are two of SDV’s largest industry verticals.     “Our local know-how in the growing South American sectors of oil and gas, mining, aerospace and health care, ...

Monday, February 11, 2013

   Last year, UPS ramped up its ocean freight offerings, expanding less-than-containerload services to more than 300 lanes.    The integrator now offers direct LCL service on 1,700 lanes to 116 countries.    UPS recently added 139 outbound lanes and 42 intra-region lanes in Asia, including 12 inbound and outbound lanes in South Korea and 10 outbound lanes from Vietnam. The company added 81 direct lanes in Europe. Last year also brought 33 new North American outbound la...

Wednesday, February 06, 2013

   The terminal operating systems (TOS) developer Tideworks Technology has won a contract to supply a TOS to the to-be-developed greenfield Barranquilla Container Terminal in Colombia.    Barranquilla Container Terminal is a joint venture between terminal operator SSA International and Sociedad Portuaria del Norte (SNP). The new facility will be managed by Santa Marta International Terminal Company (SMITCO) and will initially have annual capacity for 122,000 TEUs. Barranquilla Contai...

Wednesday, February 06, 2013

   The Port of Tampa said it has been selected as the port of entry for shipments of wing and fuselage assemblies destined for Embraer's jet assembly plant in Melbourne, Fla.    Assemblies were delivered from Santos, Brazil to Tampa by the Pluto Leader , a roll-on/roll-off ship operated by NYK on Tuesday. That ship operates in NYK's Gulf Express Service, which began serving Tampa 12 years ago and was expanded last September to now include calls in the Dominican Republic, Mexico,...

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

   Cargolux has added its first-ever Boeing 747-8 freighter services to Xiamen, China; Latacunga, Ecuador; and Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.     The carrier now flies its six 747-8s to 70 destinations and hopes to add service to Vietnam in the near future, offering near complete network coverage for the large freighter. Brazil still hasn’t approved 747-8 services into the country, and so the carrier has to fly 747-400 freighters into the region.     Cargolux is sche...

Friday, January 25, 2013

   The port director of the Tampa Port Authority said robust growth in Latin America presents potentially significant opportunities to ports at the intersection of major East-West and North-South trade lanes.    Tampa this week is hosting a conference co-sponsored by the American Association of Port Authorities and U.S. Maritime Administration on shifting international trade routes.    The higher growth rate in the economies of Latin American countries are a ...