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Issue 6 2019 - FBJNA


Record-breaking reefer order for Hapag-Lloyd


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Iconic Bayonne Bridge rededication caps


The 88-year-old Bayonne Bridge – a major engineering and historic landmark and the longest steel arch bridge in the world when it first opened in 1931 – was rededicated on June 14 following the completion of a $1.7 billion project to raise the bridge’s roadway to allow the world’s largest container ships to call on terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey. The rededication ceremony


comes in the midst of a $5.3 billion Port Authority commitment to modernize its four bridges between New York and New Jersey to reduce traffic and improve mobility across the region. The Bayonne Bridge project


was conceived in December 2010 as an innovative way to preserve the historic structure of the bridge while helping the Port of New York and New Jersey remain competitive. The previous navigational clearance of 151 feet only allowed for ships as large as 9,300 TEUs to pass underneath the Bayonne Bridge. But the new clearance of 215 feet provides enough space for newer, larger cargo ships up to 18,000 TEUs to travel under the bridge and access port terminals in Elizabeth and Newark, NJ and on Staten Island.


a record order for the refrigerated containers known as “reefers”. Production of 970 20-foot containers and 12,450 40-foot containers is already scheduled to commence as early as July. Delivery of the refrigerated containers, which have traditionally been white as opposed to Hapag-Lloyd’s orange standard containers, is set for November 2019 – or right in time for reefer season, as that is when harvest season begins in countries in the southern hemisphere. It will primarily be fruits and vegetables – such as blueberries,


cherries and 7/24/19 4:37 PM PANYNJ’s $1.7B project


“When legendary engineer Othmar Ammann first designed this bridge, it was widely heralded as an unprecedented engineering marvel,” said Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole. “[The] completion of this major $1.7 billion project is a testament to the expertise and creativity of this generation’s is


engineers further evidence of


and the


agency’s nearly 100-year-old legacy as the builder of great transportation projects.” Construction of the Bayonne


Bridge project began in late 2013 following an expedited environmental review process


under President


Obama’s Executive Order on Permitting and Federal Review. On February 20, 2017, the first span of the bridge opened for bi-directional travel. On June 8, 2017, the 215 feet of navigational clearance was achieved. Since


the bridge’s


navigational clearance was achieved, the Port of New York and New Jersey has seen a dramatic increase in the size of vessels calling on the port, with more than 26% of all containerized cargo at the port now carried on vessels with the capacity to handle 10,000 or more TEUs, an increase from 4% before


the navigational clearance


was achieved. During the first four months of 2019, cargo volumes at the port are growing at record levels, 7.5% over the previous record highs for that four-month period set in 2018. The Bayonne Bridge was


designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1985. It was listed as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Its “sister” bridge is the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Sydney, Australia.


avocados from Chile, Peru and elsewhere – but also fish and meat that will be making their way to consumers in these containers. Hapag- Lloyd reefers are also used worldwide to


transport


goods that are sensitive to high temperatures, such as pharmaceuticals and blood plasma. “With this new order, we will


be expanding our transport capacities for our customers. They will now have at their disposal over 100,000 state-of-the-art refrigerated containers with a total capacity of 210,000 TEU, some of which will be equipped with the latest Controlled


Atmosphere technology,


which slows the ripening process during transport, thereby extending the shelf life of fruit and vegetables,” explains Niklas Ohling, Senior Director Container Steering at Hapag-Lloyd. The production of the


reefer containers will also be


the fleet-wide equipping of reefers with the latest IoT monitoring


technology. The


resulting customer products will be marketed under the name Hapag-Lloyd LIVE. The product features of Hapag-Lloyd LIVE will be gradually made available to customers as the installation of the equipment proceeds and will offer real-time GPS positioning, information on the temperature inside the container, and systems for notifications and alarm management, among other features. “In recent years, we have


continuously invested in the expansion and modernization of the reefer fleet. We have consolidated our leading position in this market segment and can offer our


customers outstanding


quality in the transport of temperature-sensitive goods on all trades routes,” Ohling adds.


the starting signal for


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CHAMP Cargosystems has introduced CHAMP Academy, a catalog of courses to help customers and likewise their customers learn how to use CHAMP solutions - all delivered through our state-of-the-art e-learning platform. The CHAMP Academy is currently offered to users of Traxon Global Customs and Traxon Global Security solutions. It will be soon offered across the wider CHAMP customer base.


Cloud Logistics by E2open (Cloud Logistics), a leading innovator and provider of a modern, easy-to-use transportation management system (TMS), announcef a strategic partnership with Raven Logistics, an international company that specializes in advanced rail management around Rule 11, including planning and execution.


In June, Sterling Transportation started operations in Houston, offering 2-Day Express Service to Florida. In order to better serve the state of Texas the company will be adding an office in Dallas effective July 1st, 2019.


Descartes Systems Group, global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that it has acquired STEPcom, a B2B supply chain integration network based in Switzerland. STEPcom has connected trading partners to its B2B network for more than 15 years, helping supply chain participants connect, collaborate and seamlessly exchange electronic data. A community of more than 600 customers leverage the STEPcom suite of solutions to automate supply chain processes and streamline a wide array of complex, mission-critical documents found in typical procure- to-pay and order-to-cash processes. STEPcom also operates a GS1- certified, industry-independent data content pool where suppliers can share product master data with customers all around the world.


DB Schenker has opened its new entity in Bangladesh. Whereas before, customers relied on the service of a partner, Schenker Logistics (Bangladesh) Limited will now be fully operational as a local entity under the global freight forwarder’s India cluster organization. The new Bangladesh subsidiary is now part of the global DB Schenker network, with 2,000 locations in more than 130 countries.


E2open has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Amber Road, Inc. Together, E2open and Amber Road will allow customers to operate their entire end-to-end supply chain – from sourcing to manufacturing to trade management to logistics and distribution to omni-channel operations – from one place in the cloud. Specifically, the addition of E2open’s solutions will extend Amber Road’s portfolio with the following Intelligent Applications.


Chain.io has announced that Kontainers, a modern digital freight execution platform, has joined the Chain.io provider network. By connecting with Chain.io. Kontainers is able to bring enhanced TMS integration to both new and existing clients, providing a more seamless digital freight experience. The Kontainers/Chain. io integration layer allows freight forwarders to integrate all major Kontainers features including automated quotation, booking, and tracking with their TMS platform of choice.


Kontainers, the industry-leading E-Commerce soſtware provider for global freight brands, announces Kontainers Essentials to democratize every single freight forwarder on the planet with their own-branded, customer-facing SaaS (Soſtware as a Service) E-Commerce solution. Kontainers Essentials is the third product release from Kontainers in the last three years. Essentials is built to cater to smaller freight forwarders and enables freight forwarders to immediately compete with new digital first market forwarding entrants. The Kontainers customer list has already included industry giants such as Maersk Line, Toll Global Forwarding and many other household names, more to be announced in the coming weeks.


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