Regional News : Canada

A shortage of Russian grain due to a devastating drought and wild fires in that country has generated a substantial uptake in North American grain exports via the St. Lawrence Seaway. According to Marine Delivers, a bi-national industry coalition administered by the American Great Lakes Ports Association in the United States and Canada’s Chamber of Marine Commerce, grain shipments through...

The inland waterways industry was left high and dry in President Obama’s announcement Monday that he will ask Congress to approve a more than $50 billion long-term spending plan for roads, railways and runways. In a statement on Thursday, Cornel Martin, president and chief executive officer for the Waterways Council, said the industry was “disappointed and puzzled” by the Obama administra...

LeanLogistics, a supply chain services company, has opened a sales and service office in Mississauga, Ontario, its first in the Canadian market. “While many Canadian supply chain issues mirror those of the USA, they also require domain-specific expertise,” said Chris Timmer, LeanLogistics’ senior vice president of business development and marketing, in a statement. ...

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received 22 license applications and changes for review. The FMC has received non-vessel-operating common carrier license applications from Car Go Worldwide, Compton, Calif. (Lionel Perera, president); Providence Shipping Group, Imperial Beach, Calif. (Jessica A. Drewnowski, vice president of chartering and operations); Sino United Link Corp., Plac...

Zim said Tuesday it is raising rates on shipments from northern Europe (including Scandinavia) to the Unites States and Canada. The line will raise rates by $250 per 20-foot container and $350 per 40-foot container as of Oct. 1. ...

A fuel tanker carrying nearly 60,000 barrels of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said the Canadian Coast Guard confirmed the ship Nanny ran aground Wednesday in Simpson Strait, about 50 kilometers southwest of Gjoa Haven, a hamlet on King William Island in western Nunavut. Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada, s...

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) said Thursday that weekly rail traffic posted their highest numbers for 2010 in both rail carloads and intermodal volume for the week ending Aug. 28. U.S. railroads originated 302,358 carloads for the week, up 5.8 percent compared with the same week in 2009, but down 11.3 percent from the same week in 2008. Intermodal traffic totaled 237,194...

Jim Eckler has retired as chief executive officer of SCI Group, but will continue as non-executive vice chairman, according his voice mail message. John Ferguson, vice president for international logistics at Schneider Logistics, will replace Eckler on Sept. 7, a spokeswoman for the company confirmed. Toronto-based SCI is part of the Canada Post group of companies, which includes Puro...

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will implement general rate increases in the transatlantic on Oct. 1. MSC said the rate for cargo moving from the United States, Mexico or Canada to Northwest Europe, including the United Kingdom, will increase $200 for 20-foot containers and $300 for 40-foot containers. For cargo moving to Scandinavia or the Baltic, the increase will be $300 for 20-foot...

Member lines of the Canada Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said Wednesday they are lowering the bunker surcharge they assess on shipments from Asia by 5 percent beginning Oct. 1. The lines last increased the surcharge in April. For East Coast ports, the fuel recovery charge will be $551 per 20-foot container, $689 per 40-foot container, $775 per 40-foot high-cube, and $872 per 45...

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky has forwarded a wide-ranging set of recommendations for revising the Shipping Act of 1984 to the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Lidinsky Included in the recommendations to committee Chairman Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, R-Md., are six proposals: • Bring container and chassis lessors within the ambit of...

Member lines of the Canada Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said last week they will raise their currency adjustment surcharge to 6 percent beginning Oct. 1. The surcharge will drop to 5 percent in September, after being at 6 percent since May. CTSA member lines are APL, COSCO Container Lines, Evergreen, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, “K” Line, NYK Line, OOCL, Yang Ming and...

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received 16 license applications and changes for review. The FMC received non-vessel-operating common carrier license applications from ECM Freight Solutions Corp., Miami (Christian A. Saravia, vice president); “K” Line Logistics (U.S.A.) Valley Stream, N.Y. (Antonio Rodriguez, vice president); Norma’s Cargo Solutions, Miami (Norma A. Pineiro, mana...