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Rep. Lowenthal says bill would raise $8 billion for dedicated freight fund.

Demand for tank containers is up, but revenue per shipment has decreased due to competition.

TSA announces contract rate objectives for 2015-16, differentials for 20-foot and high-cube boxes.

Acquisition gives Kewill multi-tenant SaaS offering to target shippers intent on managing planning and execution.

Port operators, users say cargo delays caused by inefficient system.

Report says design specifications must deal with loading condtions.

Diego Aponte succeeds founder and father Gianluigi Aponte as president and chief executive officer.

Shippers face a price jolt as regulations require ships to burn fuel with one-tenth as much sulfur close to shore.

Israeli carrier says customers are important and it will ‘service them at the highest level in any situation.’

Brazil ends cotton case, giving up its rights to countermeasures against U.S. trade.

New monikers give terminals a common identity aligned with the GCT brand.

The development will employ 500 workers.

Philadelphia Regional Port Authority seeks expressions of interest in developing terminal along Delaware River.

Hapag-Lloyd says ships continue on, but agent says Suez Canal convoys disrupted by collision with Maersk ships.

Barges will aimed at servicing customers in the Asia-Pacific region.

Drewry says spot freight rates between Europe and North America helped by high utilization.

ILWU says its members were threatened outside terminals by hostile demonstrators.

Both of the carrier’s new drayage sites are located near major railheads.

Starting Oct. 1, the carrier will increase its scheduled flights from Moscow to Tokyo.

Alternative sites will help keep cattle moving across the U.S./Mexico border, if APHIS officials can’t conduct inspections in Mexico.

New York City says lawsuits against other companies continue.

Sustainability Accounting Standards Board says standard metrics will help investors gauge risk.

Department of Justice says Japanese carrier will pay $67.7 million for its role in price-fixing conspiracy.

The company said this investment will allow it to ‘grow with the market.’

PacAvi Group of San Diego will start a new program to convert Airbus A320 and Airbus A321 passenger planes to freighters.

U.S. steel imports dropped 5 percent from July to 3.67 million net tons in August, according to the AIIS.

The 3PL will feed parts from Europe to Chrysler’s assembly plant in Mexico.

The company will provide a new line of trailer and self-powered truck units that use a next-generation refrigerant.

Shippers add more DCs, while port expands internally to meet trade demand.

Containerships will add two more dual-fuel engine-technology container vessels to its short-sea fleet.

With 90 percent of fire contained, terminals reopened Tuesday evening.

Companies hope to put gray pool in place by beginning of 2015.

The smartway program promotes collaboration, innovation to cut pollution.

Slot exchanges will allow each carrier to expand their scope of service.

Service providers detail intermodal issues at the annual IANA conference.

The terminal will provide container drayage services over the Port of Wilmington and rail ramps at Charlotte.

The FMC agreement would allow two ports to discuss congestion issues.

Tote awarded a $324.6 million Title XI loan guarantee to help finance replacement ships for Sea Star Line.

FTR reported North American truck trailer orders of 23,135 units in August, a 27-percent increase over the previous month.

The service provides up-to-date information on nearly 35,000 point-to-point connections worldwide.

European Shippers Council tells FMC that Maersk-MSC alliance might damage world trade.

MSC provides details on 2M, CMA CGM provides details on Ocean Three.

Long Beach executive says larger ships will cascade to smaller ports.

The natural gas boom is driving increased domestic chemical production and demand for new tank barges.

Danish company sells U.S. dollar bonds for the first time.

The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Holleyman, who was nominated for the post in February.

The United States is proceeding with a labor-enforcement case against Guatemala under CAFTA-DR.

Chinese hackers have infiltrated systems of U.S. Transportation Command contractors at least 20 times in a single year, warned the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has set Greenville Yard terminal to be its fourth ExpressRail terminal.

The Port of Cleveland and Spliethoff Group plan to add a second monthly vessel to the Cleveland-Europe Express.

Rates fall after a “pretty good summer” for liner carriers.

The major bulk chemical hauler will gradually roll out the product across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

The Washington state port helped load scrap metal into a ship for export on behalf of PNW Metal Recycling.

Companies sign agreement for five ships to service between the East Coast and Gulf Coast, and Central America.

Area S.p.A. agreed to a civil penalty to settle charges that it sold U.S.-origin network monitoring equipment to Syria without authorization.

COSCO officials said the investment for new ships is needed to improve the competitiveness of its fleet.

FMC Commissioner William Doyle detailed revisions incorporated in a soon-to-be published proposed rule.

Speakers blame big ships, carrier exit from chassis business as contributing to port snarls.

Heavy weather and other challenges mean roadway will not be raised until the summer of 2016.

Express cold chain product now available to Scandinavia.

DHL Global Forwarding spent $4.41 million to expand its pharmaceutical footprint.

TIGER funding will go to 72 projects, 13 percent of which are in the maritime sector.

Drewry says Asia-U.S. West Coast spot rates could fall as volumes slacken, capacity grows.

The merger, once fully approved, will create the world’s fourth largest container shipping company.

Diversity of recent hires belies charges of discrimination, says ILA union and its employers.

BIS on Friday took additional steps to restrict trade with Russia.

After a three-year idle, the first trucks carrying export boxes will roll through the terminal gate Monday.

Forwarder will increase size of its logistics subsidiary in Hong Kong.

Bipartisan bill proposes to increase size of STB from three to five members.

Congress is told while Jones Act carriers are experiencing the best of times, things are worse for U.S. carriers in international trade.

PierPass announces Free-Flow Program to move bulk lots of containers quickly out of port.

TPP members finished 10 days of meetings Wednesday in Hanoi, making what they claim to be “important progress across a range of issues.”

ITA released about $2.2 million across eight non-profit business organizations university programs to assist their export promotion programs.

Containerization and Intermodal Institute is recognizing the CEO of MSC’s U.S. subsidiary for his leadership.

The move follows the company’s on-going work to merge US Airways’ former cargo operations into its own. The airlines initiated their integration nine months ago.

Coal shipped on the Great Lakes reached 2.6 million tons in August, an 18 percent drop compared to a year ago, according to the Lake Carriers’ Association.

Haven Energy’s proposal would move propane and butane to markets around the Pacific Rim.

The office, which will be managed by Oliver Schmidt, will focus on European road transportation services and logistics services for the German market.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker will lead a delegation of U.S. businesses on an economic fact-finding mission to the countries later this month.

Maersk Container Industries says use of controlled atmosphere containers could boost mango trade.

USDA closed a loan guarantee to build a bio-refinery to produce jet fuel from solid waste.

With ILWU negotiations continuing, retailers stock up on holiday inventory.

Drewry says companies are eager to acquire, refinancie port assets while interest rates are low.

The vessel carrier will have 14,000-TEU ships in fleet by 2018.

‘Ocean Three’ agreements will unite the carriers on major East-West trades.

U.S.-flag freighters transported 11 million tons of cargo in August, according to the Lake Carriers’ Association.

Steel shipments continued to drop in July, according to the American Institute for International Steel.

An EPA grant will be used to imporve Los Angeles Harbor’s air quality.

Seaspan has entered into contracts for four 10,000-TEU ships.

Maersk plans to implement a GRI on cargo from the Far East.

All shippers must be mindful of how these new alliances might impact their service agreements as they start planning for the 2015 negotiating season.

U.S. carriers operating in domestic cabotage trades under the protection of the Jones Act are undergoing an “extraordinary renaissance,” while that’s not so in the international trades.

The Canaveral Port Authority recently received a $1.6 million port security grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Space Coast port courts new lines of cargo business, makes investments to ignite growth.

Shippers want a more balanced truckload market in which to move freight.

Israeli liner carrier believes it has renewed vigor now that restructuring is complete.

Can a distributor of DVDs expand and diversify its 3PL business?

U.S. freight industry is ready to take off, but other regional economies still need to catch up.

In this decision, a request by the petitioners—a shipper and its insurance company—to have an arbitration award vacated was unsuccessful.

The International Chamber of Shipping is warning of new environmental regulations about to impact ship operators at more or less the same time.