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Zim Integrated Shipping Services and a European short-sea operator are reintroducing a seasonal refrigerated service aimed at agriculture shippers that connects the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

A C$285 million ($217 million) expansion of its intermodal yard will allow the largest container terminal at Port Metro Vancouver to maintain a speedy transfer of cargo between the docks and intermodal trains even when larger vessels discharging more containers begin calling the facility in the next few years.

Federal investigators have confirmed that the wreckage found Saturday is the TOTE Maritime cargo ship El Faro, which disappeared along with its 33-member crew during a hurricane Oct. 1.

There’s little hope the port of Itajai, Brazil’s second-largest container port, will receive emergency government dredging help, despite the severe siting that closed the port for days and still causes draft restrictions for container vessels.

Customs brokers and forwarders are urging the federal government not to botch the late February roll-out of the ACE “single window” program, noting how Australia’s implementation of a similar system roiled supply chains in 2005.

Australia logistics firm Qube Holdings' $1.2 billion raid on Asciano, whose Patrick subsidiary is the country’s largest stevedore, has the blessing of shipping industry players and sounds the death knell to Canada management group Brookfield’s $6.4 billion takeover bid.

Container lines, U.S. shippers and logistics providers are coming together to figure out the best way to prepare for the July 1 start of new global regulations requiring the weighing of containers before they are allowed to be loaded onto a ship.

China’s nine major listed container terminal operators will be more profitable in 2016 with a majority booking high single or double-digit growth in net profit when compared with 2015, according to a valuation report issued by Citi Asia Pacific.

Container throughput at Iran’s ports should grow by up to 25 percent annually over the next half decade as a confluence of benefits are realized from the expected relaxation of sanctions, a senior Iran-based industry researcher and commentator told JOC.com.

DP World has acquired full control of the DP World Southampton container terminal after agreeing to buy the remaining 49 percent stake held by Associated British Ports.

Deutsche Post DHL has written off 345 million euros ($380 million) of costs after deciding to abandon Net Forwarding Environment, a customized IT restructuring program aimed at turning around its troubled global forwarding unit.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone increased its net income and revenue in the second fiscal quarter, but it did so at a slower rate than last year as India’s biggest non-government port operator struggled to maintain its growth momentum amid a global shipping slowdown.

The Teamsters union is eying California, a state with drivers clamoring for representation and a regulatory climate sympathetic to work misclassification, as a launching pad for a national drayage organizing push.

U.S. Navy searchers have found the wreckage of what they believe to be the TOTE Maritime cargo ship El Faro after the vessel disappeared Oct. 1 during a hurricane with the loss of its 33-member crew.

The Northwest Seaport Alliance has outlined the goals and strategies that will guide future development of the Seattle-Tacoma gateway in an era that will be dominated by big ships, mega-alliances and fierce competition among ports for a larger piece of the North American container trade.

In the wake of a major deepening project to accommodate post-Panamax megaships, there is intense debate over how successful the Port of Miami will be realizing its goal of becoming a competitive gateway for Asian imports destined for points beyond Florida.

YRC Worldwide drove further into the black in the third quarter, raising net profit at its national and regional less-than-truckload carriers.

Spot rates on the Shanghai Container Freight Index to the U.S. West and East coasts bumped up this week.

Baltic Stevedore Co. said its new nearly two-acre container yard for empties and an inspection point will speed up customs cargo processing and improve inland distribution at the Baltiysk container cargo terminal.

Atlantic Container Line has taken delivery of the first of five new container/roll-on, roll-off ships that are the largest of their type ever built and that will expand ACL’s unique trans-Atlantic niche.

The port of Rotterdam has established a strategic partnership with the Bank of China focused mainly on Beijing’s “Belt and Road” strategy to boost trade links with Europe.

International Airlines Group posted a slight increase in cargo revenue in the third quarter despite a bigger decline in volume as the Anglo-Spanish carrier scaled back freighter operations.

APM Terminals-operated Gujarat Pipavav Port recorded a 24 percent year-over-year decline in its container volumes during the second fiscal quarter, according to a company statement filed with the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Hapag-Lloyd on Friday cut the price range for shares in its initial public offering, citing “ongoing market volatility.”

Japan Airlines Corp.’s net profit surged 28.7 percent year-over-year in the April-September period to 103.4 billion yen ($854 million), as lower fuel prices and cost-reduction efforts more than made up for a decline in cargo operations revenue.

NOL’s third-quarter results were awash in red ink as the Singapore-listed company reported a third-quarter net loss of $96 million, down 300 percent compared to the same period last year as rate levels tumbled on the major trades.

Spot rates on the battered Asia-North Europe trade skyrocketed 327 percent to $988 per TEU this week as some carriers appeared to recover the full Nov. 1 general rate increases for the first time since anyone can remember.

Japan’s three largest container lines saw their group revenues miss forecasts and remain almost flat in the first half of the current fiscal year, while Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) slipped into the red.

Hours after reporting a $160 million net loss in the first nine months of the year, China Shipping Container Lines announced that it planned to charter 11 mega ships of 21,000 TEUs.

U.S. infrastructure projects focused on improving freight movement got more backing from the federal government in the latest round of a popular grant program.

Hub Group profit rebounded in the third quarter after a management shake-up and intermodal volume declines. The strong quarter was partly thanks to increased intermodal and truck brokerage freight volume and incremental rail service improvements, the company said.

Too few shippers are ready to meet new global regulations requiring the weighing of containers before they are allowed to be loaded onto a ship, said Chris Welsh, secretary general of the Global Shippers’ Forum, the largest global shipper group. Welsh spoke with JOC.com Executive Editor Mark Szakonyi in late September about the risks of not complying with the rules set to take effect July 1, ways to meet the International Maritime Organization regulations and the complicated issue of who exactly is a “shipper.”

The Oakland Port Authority said Thursday a longshore labor shortage that generated congestion and long truck lines at marine terminals is over and operations are returning to normal.

'Softening' freight demand affects all carriers, slowing growth at Old Dominion Freight Line and pushing down revenue and profit at Saia. Carriers are adapting to the slower paced economy.

Even though global trade growth has slowed, there’s still plenty of opportunity out there as the list of the fastest-growing global transportation providers shows.

Air France-KLM’s cargo losses narrowed in the third quarter but revenue and traffic shrank as the carrier slashed its full-freighter capacity in a bid to return to the black.

A senior leader of the International Longshoreman’s Association expressed optimism on Wednesday over a multiyear contract extension with East and Gulf Coast employers but said it won’t happen by the end of the year.

China Shipping Container Lines followed China Cosco into the red today with the mainland’s second largest carrier posting a $160 million loss for the first nine months as revenue took a dive.

Lufthansa Cargo is heading for its first annual loss in six years after Europe’s largest freight airline sank into the red for the second consecutive quarter.

After years of saying it was nearing completion of a new, privately-operated offshore container terminal, authorities at the Mumbai Port Trust are now looking to redesign and rebid the troubled project.