A ship loaded with the first Ford vehicles to be exported through the Port of Portland is now making its way across the Pacific Ocean, bound for South Korea.

The 500,000th vehicle rolled off the production line today at the Ford Sollers plant in Vsevolozhsk, near St. Petersburg, Russia. It marked a double celebration as the milestone car was a Ford Focus Wagon – the very first all-new Focus Wagon to be built at the plant.

Søren Skou has been appointed new CEO of Maersk Line with effect from 16 January 2012. Søren Skou was previously CEO of Maersk Tankers and replaces Eivind Kolding who is leaving Maersk Line to become Chairman of the Executive Board of Danske Bank.

German car manufacturer exports continue to boom, and the industry’s forecasts do not indicate a collapse any time soon. This is the feeling in BLG’s automotive logistics division.

How many people can honestly say that they have not had a day off sick in the last year? Well, how about 5 years or even more remarkably 10 years without a day’s sickness? That is exactly what staff at the GBA Group of Companies have recently been rewarded for.

A milestone was reached at UECC’s premier port of Pasajes in northern Spain last week, when, together with the Port Authority, UECC celebrated the 6 millionth unit through their state-of the-art terminal facility.

2011 sees BLG CEO Detthold Aden inducted as the new member of the “Logistics Hall of Fame”. He was elected from 27 candidates by an independent jury of experts.

The Port of Stockton, Calif., has selected Savage Companies (Savage) to manage the M-580 Marine Highway Corridor between the Port of Stockton and Port of Oakland.

At this week’s Automotive Supply Chain Europe conference in the Hyatt Regency hotel Mainz, Michael Gartside, Senior Manager PwC Autofacts, outlined his views on how the economic situation would impact the automotive markets in Europe in the short to medium term.

The new 7-years facility is provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to finance FESCO’s strategic investment program aimed at further boosting the Group’s infrastructure and container logistics capacity.