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Container lines are looking at the possibility that the gap between supply and demand globally will widen in 2014, likely exacerbating rate volatility and challenging carriers to be profitable.

A key Customs and Border Protection official instrumental in expanding the agency’s trusted trader programs and forging mutual recognition agreements has retired.

West Coast employers in 2014 are bracing for what could be the most frustrating contract negotiations they’ve had with the powerful International Longshore and Warehouse Union in decades.

Canadian Pacific Railway will sell the western end of its Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern line to Genesee & Wyoming for $210 million, the latest effort by the former to boost profitability by cutting non-core assets.

The Panama Canal Authority has a contingency plan to fall back on if it cannot resolve its dispute on cost overruns with the engineering consortium that is building its new locks.

CRST International started 2014 by acquiring BESL Transfer, a flatbed trucking company in Cincinnati. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

China isn’t expected to approve a genetically modified strain found in corn and corn-based dried distillers grains with solubles until late spring, forcing some U.S. exporters to seek new markets or hold off on shipments, an agriculture analyst said today.

Containerized exports from West Coast ports surged 15 percent year-over-year in November, and imports increased 12 percent...

The deadline is drawing near for a Teamster vote that could decide the fate of $4.9 billion trucking operator YRC Worldwide by deciding whether to extend wage and benefit cuts an additional four years through 2019.

Container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey will be closed Friday because of a blizzard that’s forecast to hit the region with six to nine inches of snow and winds of up to 35 miles per hour.

The Panama Canal Authority said Thursday it will not bow to pressure by the lead contractor in the engineering consortium that is building its new locks to recover an estimated $1.6 billion in cost overruns that are not covered by the terms of its contract.

If truckload capacity is getting tighter on America’s highways, it’s not pinching XPO Logistics. The fast-growing freight brokerage and logistics business sees truck capacity pretty much in balance nationwide, despite warnings that trucking’s supply-demand “equilibrium” is getting closer to its breaking point.

Maersk is reportedly close to selling its fleet of 15 very large crude carriers as it continues to offload non-core operations to focus on container shipping.

The MSC Monterey is expected to sail to Boston on Jan. 3, following temporary repairs to a crack in its main deck that forced the Liberian-registered container ship to abort its voyage...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has declared two Walterboro, S.C.-based trucking companies...

Major container lines have announced planned rate increases for a variety of trades, as detailed below, slated to take effect in January and February.

Seventeen of the Top 20 container carriers worldwide are expecting deliveries of new ships in the next 12 months, which could make 2014 a record-breaking year for capacity...

Seaspan has entered into an agreement to extend and refinance its $1.0 billion credit facility.

Normal operations resumed on Dec. 25 at India’s Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, a DP World facility in Cochin Port, following the end of a work stoppage action by harbor truck drivers.

A consortium comprising DP World and Mumbai-based J.M. Baxi Group has been selected to build and operate a new container terminal at Visakhapatnam, a major state-owned cargo hub on India’s southeastern coast.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has promoted Brian van Helden to the role of chief operating officer.

TransForce today agreed to acquire Vitran for approximately $136 million, including $29 million in debt.

Political protests in Bangladesh are causing lengthy delays for inbound and outbound shipments via Chittagong, the country’s busiest gateway hub port, according to reports from Dhaka.

Russia’s Global Ports has completed the $1.6 billion acquisition of its domestic rival NCC to create Eastern Europe’s biggest container terminal operator.

Port of Antwerp’s container traffic shrunk 0.7 percent in 2013 from a year ago, but is set to accelerate next year after the world’s three largest ocean carriers launch their P3 alliance.

The MSC Monterey aborted a voyage from Antwerp to Boston after its crew discovered a crack in main deck of the Liberian-registered container ship as it sailed past the Newfoundland coast on Friday.

U.S. corn exporters are bracing for a potential slowdown in shipments to their top foreign customer after Chinese authorities reportedly rejected imports of corn and corn-based dried distillers grains with solubles, citing the presence of an unapproved genetically modified strain.

India’s engineering exports to the U.S. tumbled nearly 10 percent year-over-year in the first eight months of the current fiscal year (2013-14), according to the Engineering Export Promotion Council of India.

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Hapag-Lloyd’s chairman is urging the German carrier’s domestic rival Hamburg Süd to join its merger talks with CSAV, the Chilean container line.

Descartes Systems Group, the global logistics technology solutions provider, has acquired Impatex, the UK’s largest customs and freight forwarding software company for an undisclosed sum.

A strike by harbor truck crew over wage improvement and bonus entitlement issues has disrupted normal operations at the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, a DP World facility in India’s Port of Cochin, according to local shipping sources.

“K” Line and NYK Line have reached compromise agreements with the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission to settle allegations that the two Japanese carriers engaged in antitrust violations with regard to roll-on, roll-off cargo.

The fleet of idled surplus container ships hit 718,000 20-foot-equivalent units in mid-December, and lay-ups will persist for the next two years, as record deliveries of new vessels will continue to keep supply and demand out of sync, according to industry analyst Alphaliner.

U.S. apparel imports in the third quarter of 2013 tumbled 17.7 percent year-over-year to 181,126 20-foot-equivalent units, the industry’s steepest decline since 2007.

India’s Allcargo Logistics Ltd., through its subsidiary Ecu Line, has acquired a majority stake in FCL Marine Agencies, a Netherlands-based non-vessel-owning common carrier operating primarily in trades between Europe and North America.

Hyundai Group is planning to sell off assets to generate cash to help out Hyundai Merchant Marine.

Combined container volume at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma fell 4.3 percent in November from a year earlier to 274,016 20-foot-equivalent units...

A bidding war is on for the Canadian trucking business of Vitran, as TransForce counters an offer from Manitoulin Transport. The contest for Vitran is part of a larger battle to consolidate trucking operations in Canada being waged by companies such as TransForce and Manitoulin.