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Construction workers building the Panama Canal’s third set of locks have called off a threatened strike after winning a pay increase from the construction consortium at the helm of the project.

Surging demand for U.S. industrial real estate is outstripping demand, pushing rents to near pre-recession levels and attracting speculative investment in new facilities, according to a new report by the real estate firm CBRE Inc.

Trading of the eight listed units of Cosco and China Shipping on the Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong Exchanges has been suspended all week in preparation of a joint announcement by the giant state-owned carriers that is widely expected to be news of a merger.

The expansion of the Suez Canal and the reduced draft for ships transiting the Panama Canal won’t immediately impact the rival waterways’ shares of Far East-U.S. East Coast traffic, according to Alphaliner.

The Italian government plans to sell up to 40 percent of the state-owned postal company Poste Italiane in an initial public offering in October.

APM Terminals’ Gateway Terminals India resumed operations Wednesday morning following the end of a week-long shutdown due to labor troubles, but it will take stakeholders weeks to clear up cargo backlogs and bring ship schedules back on track at the country’s busiest container gateway, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, according to local shipping sources.

Smaller ports in the Philippines are bracing for rising container throughput following the government approval of an act that liberalises the country’s cabotage law and allows foreign carriers to participate in the domestic transport of cargo.

Multipurpose carriers face fresh competition from the Press family's return to the shipping sector with new company d.ship Carriers.

China’s currency has now fallen 3.5 percent in two days after the central bank on Tuesday triggered the yuan’s greatest one-day decline in 20 years, and it is expected to fall further as the country struggles to reverse a sharp drop in trade recorded in July.

Workers handling rubber-tired gantry crane operations and their employers at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust reached a new contract late Tuesday, ending a week-long strike that shut down APM Terminals’ Gateway Terminals India facility, the largest container terminal in India.

Norfolk Southern Railway says infrastructure improvements and added locomotives are improving network velocity, but the railroad’s intermodal train speeds, an indicator of network reliability, tell a different story.

Infor’s announcement that it would acquire GT Nexus for $675 million is the latest sign of how consolidation in the logistics cloud-based software industry is paralleling similar activity in the global third-party logistics market.

Customs broker A.N. Deringer is billing its new less-than-containerload service from Hong Kong to Toronto as faster than via U.S. West Coast offerings, and free of U.S. harbor maintenance taxes and customs paperwork.

New York-New Jersey truckers and APM Terminals are exploring a pilot program that would allow drayage drivers to make expedited pickups of containers that have been pre-sorted in blocks for a single customer.

Shippers wanting to better track their containers railed from Europe to Asia have a new option, reflecting not only the rush of interest in the rapidly growing trade lane but also the persistent threats of theft — often from customs inspectors.

Russia plans to increase container volume through the Baltic Sea via the opening of a Bronka seaport and CMA CGM weekly services set to begin calling the port in September.

The $5.25 billion Panama Canal expansion project may face a fresh setback if construction workers building the third set of locks follow through with their threat to strike.

London Heathrow’s cargo traffic decreased by 5.4 percent in July from a year ago but the airport urged the government to approve an expansion of the airport to keep pace with growing trade with emerging markets.

Hub Group’s President and Chief Operating Officer Mark Yeager has resigned from his post, a move one analyst called a “surprising and abrupt” departure from the Chicago area-based intermodal rail provider.

In a sign Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust users are running out of patience with congestion spurred by the shutdown of APM Terminals-operated Gateway Terminals India, which halted operations August 4 following labor troubles, ship agents representing ocean carriers in JNPT have called on federal government agencies to urgently step in to restore normalcy at the country’s busiest container port.

Nippon Express Co., Japan’s largest international freight forwarder, said that it has bought the remaining 5 percent of Nippon Express (China) still held by a Chinese partner to speed up the decision-making process. Those decisions center on adjusting to China's rapidly changing logistics business environment, wherein manufacturers are shifting their operations further inland, necessitating greater inland penetration by international logistics firms.

Allcargo Logistics Ltd., India’s leading international freight forwarder and logistics provider, posted a big jump in net earnings driven by strong gains across multiple segments, especially cargo consolidation, in the first fiscal quarter.

UPS plans to build a parcel distribution center adjoining London Gateway in a major boost to the container port’s bid to become one of Europe’s biggest logistics hubs.

Container ships greater than 10,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units calling at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in July experienced significantly longer berth stays than the overall vessel average, with Long Beach also recording greater mega-ships arrival delays than the industry average, CargoSmart data has found.

Container volumes on both the trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe trades in the first half of the year were buffeted by wild swings from month to month, according to data on the east-west shipping routes.

The labor dispute that has shut down Gateway Terminals India at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust port complex in Mumbai has again focused negative attention on a country that has long been plagued by a lack of investment in its logistics infrastructure.

Ports in the U.S. Southeast — the country’s fastest growing — are aggressively spreading their intermodal rail reach into the hinterland, giving shippers facing higher truck rates and capacity shortages an added incentive.

Daseke kicked its expansion plans into an even higher gear after acquiring Hornady Transportation, giving the fast-growing truck company a greater flatbed presence in Alabama.

The outlook in the car carrier sector appears to be brightening as slower fleet growth, rising vehicle production and demand from countries like China and India have led to better vessel utilization, according to shipping analysts at DNB Markets in Oslo.

A lawsuit claiming that the largest pharmaceutical theft in U.S. history was an inside job at a shipper’s warehouse has been set for trial Oct. 9 in Miami.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone posted a 13 percent increase in net earnings in the first fiscal quarter on the back of strong cargo gains, due in part to Jawaharlal Nehru Port traffic diversions.

Union picketing is disrupting operations at Hutchison Ports Australia’s terminals in Sydney and Brisbane, even after the terminal operator denied accusations that it slashed workers at its facilities to bring in more automation.

E-commerce is creating demand for small distribution centers that can provide last-mile retail delivery more nimbly than the big regional DCs that currently dominate industry investment.

The Panama Canal Authority plans a temporary half-foot reduction in maximum drafts of ships passing through the waterway, and said an additional reduction may be ordered if rainfall stays below normal levels.

The trans-Atlantic bull-run has hit a glitch as a “huge” injection of capacity on the route since May has outpaced the growth in demand, “bringing a predictable outcome” for freight rates, Drewry Maritime Research said.

The Hong Kong Marine Department has issued a safety notice following the death of a seaman who was killed when a stack of containers tumbled over during a mid-stream offloading operation recently.

Ocean carriers have begun levying surcharges on Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust cargo to compensate for operational cost increases caused by the prolonged shutdown of APM Terminals-operated Gateway Terminals India, even as JNPT maintains it is taking all the necessary steps to mitigate supply chain disruptions at India’s largest container gateway.

India’s major public ports boosted container volumes by nearly 5 percent in July from a year earlier, helping the ports recover from a year-over-year decline of 1.5 percent in throughput recorded last month, according to the latest provisional port statistics compiled by JOC.com.