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An International Maritime Organization call for countries to exercise regulatory leniency has added to shipper confusion and is the latest harbinger that disruption will hit many of the world’s ports in three weeks.

CMA CGM has agreed to form a joint venture with Singapore-based PSA.

Details were still scant Thursday as to the exact problem that occurred. The port authority had yet to respond to a JOC.com request for specifics.

Online container freight rate management company Xeneta has compiled a list of the reasons why shippers are most likely to leave their current container line.

Europe’s top terminal operators and equipment manufacturers are accelerating moves to help shippers comply with a new international regulation.

U.S. exporters moving goods out of the Port of New York and New Jersey are getting a better understanding of how terminals at the largest U.S. East Coast gateway will handle the new SOLAS rule.

APM Terminals Pipavav, or Gujarat Pipavav Port, has completed an expansion program to boost its container-handling capacity.

Shippers have been told by another carrier of the steep cost of non-compliance with the new container weighing regulations.

A mega-fireboat is dedicated to protect mega-ships in Long Beach.

The largest container terminal in the Northwest Seaport Alliance has stated its position on SOLAS VGM generation.

The Port of Virginia has closed its Virginia International Gateway terminal to inbound truck traffic.

Shipyard, maritime and labor interests have criticized an Alabama congressman’s proposal to exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act’s requirements for U.S.-flag shipping between the island and the U.S. mainland.

Orient Overseas Container Line will offer to weigh containers — at a steep cost — for shippers.

The U.S. Justice Department has indicted an executive for his role in roll-on, roll-off cargo price-fixing.

Trans-Pacific carriers are beginning to phase in their new deployments for the peak-shipping season.

Container terminals in Brazil are hashing out pricing policies for enabling shipper compliance with an international container weight rule that enters force July 1.

Latin America’s demand for polyethylene, the key raw material for plastics production, is forecast to rise sharply.

CentrePort in the New Zealand capital of Wellington is pushing for a deepening project despite shipper recommendations.

Container volumes at India’s major public ports are growing steadily after a sluggish performance last fiscal year.

Like their U.S. counterparts, Canadian exporters know some but not all of the details of how individual container terminals will cope with a new international container weight rule.

Containerized imports are expected to spike in the fall.

The spring freight bounce fell flat for the Phoenix-based trucking company.

Motor carrier offers SOLAS-aimed weighing service, believed to be the first in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The Panama Canal Authority will determine whether its third set of locks where leaks were found are functional.

Canadian National Railway announced Tuesday that chief executive officer Claude Mongeau will step down at the end of June, just months after returning to the railroad’s helm following treatment for a throat tumor.

India’s port regulator has tentatively allowed Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust to charge tolls for truck cargo, but the matter is not yet settled.

United Arab Shipping Company is the latest container line to choose Inttra to help comply with a new international container weighing regulation.

A leading Chinese construction and trading company has acquired a controlling stake in Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

Shipping Corporation of India has teamed up in a vessel-sharing arrangement with a domestic short-sea ship operator.

Southeast Asia’s infrastructure is emerging as a major beneficiary of China’s Belt and Road initiative.

A new automobile shipping processing operation will open at a site adjacent to the Port of Baltimore.

DP World won a concession to develop a new port in Ecuador.

At the U.S.-Canadian border, rising truck volumes are a welcome sign of economic improvement. But an 8 percent increase in truck crossings in Detroit in the first quarter also raises concerns about the speed and fluidity of cross-border freight traffic.

Hapag-Lloyd and Compagnie Maritime Marfret leaving United States/Australasia Discussion Agreement

The Port of Oakland’s largest terminal operator is addressing looming congestion problems by preparing to charge a fee to support night gates.

Kansas City Southern Railway cross-border and domestic shippers are grappling with disruptions.

The Suez Canal has extended and deepened discounts to container lines.

New York state plans a potentially “game-changing” bid on a federal lease to develop an Atlantic Ocean wind farm.

Hanjin Shipping, South Korea’s largest container line, is taking its seat at the negotiation table with tonnage providers.

Drayage companies that service the Port of New York and New Jersey are once again squaring off with the Teamsters union.