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The surging number of mega-ships, increasingly powerful carrier alliances and sluggish global trade growth are making financially pressured container terminals think twice about automation.

Hanjin Shipping met with Seaspan to talk about charter rates.

An online marketplace for dynamic less-than-truckload spot rates is expanding rapidly as technology helps shippers, carriers meet goals.

Cargolux China aims to establish a global network.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is intensely focusing on productivity improvements.

South Africa plans to invest billions in its ports to meet rising demand.

Container lines keep cutting capacity even as the season for back-to-school restocking kicks into gear.

A new port at Anaklia will be able to handle the ships that Georgia's top ports of Poti and Batumi cannot.

A new Panama Canal container route to the U.S. Gulf from Asia will replace and build on an intermodal rail service that Maersk Line launched via Mexico.

A South Korean government minister has left open the possibility of a merger between Hanjin Shipping and Hyundai Merchant Marine.

Chennai shippers who have long been subjected to major cargo delays amid landside bottlenecks may soon see improvements.

Canadian freight operator Manitoulin Global Forwarding added temperature-controlled trucking to its portfolio.

CMA CGM named a new CEO and CFO for NOL.

Damco, the global logistics and freight forwarding group, Tuesday launched container weighing services.

Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines launched a new direct regular container service to South Korea.

The Port of New York and New Jersey will be able to accommodate ships with capacities of 14,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units at its Newark Bay terminals.

Japanese logistics firm SG Holdings has secured two strategic business partners in Southeast Asia.

The Multi-Rio container terminal in the port of Rio de Janeiro will charge shippers for container weighing services and verified gross mass transmission.

The Home Depot is moving its stores closer to consumers, digitally, if not literally.

Lufthansa Cargo, Europe’s largest all-cargo airline, said it will lay off hundreds of its 4,600-strong worldwide workforce.

Shareholders of Greece’s Piraeus Port Authority approved a concession agreement with Cosco Shipping Group.

Indian lawmakers have unveiled draft legislation aimed at transforming major public port trusts.

The port of Liverpool will offer container weighing services to help its customers comply with a new international regulation that comes into effect on July 1.

California took another step Friday toward meeting the governor’s goal of a zero-emissions freight transportation environment.

The recent rate war between carriers on Asia-Europe does not appear to have had much of an upside.

The Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, is riding a wave of bulk and project cargo with a common theme: the energy industry.

Russia’s containerized trade is recovering after a bruising from Western economic sanctions and low oil prices.

The NFI Industries case is unusual, but not the first such whistleblower action in trucking.

Because the guidance is so variable and prone to change, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America cannot ensure all the information is timely or accurate.

Container line attempts to increase rates on the major east-west trade lanes are not working.

It sounds counterintuitive, but today’s depressed market for multipurpose ships offers buying opportunities.

A U.S. House committee rejected a proposal to exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act

Gate automation at terminals in the Chennai Port will increase productivity.

Hyundai Merchant Marine on Friday said it had reached an agreement with shipowners to secure lower charter rates.

France’s Bolloré Group signed a contract with the Southeast Asian state of Timor-Leste to build the country’s primary international seaport.

CMA CGM takes yet another major step toward its NOL acquisition.

Competition in the soft market means lower domestic intermodal rates for shippers today, but a peak season turnaround — when volumes are expected to accelerate back to 2015 levels — could end historically low pricing.

Ports, shippers and politicians from the Brazilian state of São Paulo are lobbying the government to appoint a technocrat to the country’s national port administration.

In what is possibly the most counter-intuitive development so far in this year’s unconventional trans-Pacific peak-shipping season, carriers have announced the suspension of two Asia-U.S. services.

The Port of Oakland’s 83,969 laden 20-foot-equivalent export containers marked the highest monthly total since October 2014, according to the port’s website.