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More than 75 business, agriculture and labor groups and local governments are urging the U.S. House of Representatives to hike the fuel tax that barge and towing companies pay into the Inland Waterway Trust Fund.

OOCL has leased 50,000 square feet of office space in the RiverPark 7 building in South Jordan, Utah.

India’s Mumbai Port Authority has awarded Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors a contract for maintenance dredging of port berths to help alleviate draft restrictions.

Japanese containerized cargo exports will rise 3.0 percent in fiscal 2013, which started on April 1, to 5.176 million 20-foot-equivalent units (TEUs), amid a moderate recovery in the global economy, a Tokyo-based research firm predicted in a new report.

While for-hire trucking companies are shedding assets and focusing on profits, a national survey of private fleet operators revealed that 67 percent of the respondents expect their operations to grow in the coming years.

Diana Containerships, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, has taken delivery of the Pucon, a 2006-built post-Panamax container ship of about 6,500 20-foot-equivalent capacity.

Royal Boskalis Westminster has won a €130 million (about US$175.3 million) contract from CJSC Baltstroy for the dredging and construction of the Bronka Port shipping channel in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Liebherr Container Cranes has received an order from APM Terminals Gothenburg in Sweden for two ship-to-shore cranes and two rail-mounted gantry cranes.

The trend in global pirate attacks is bringing shippers good news and bad news.

Hapag-Lloyd has recruited Rolf Habben-Jansen, the head of Damco, A.P. Moller-Maersk’s global logistics unit, to succeed Michael Behrendt, CEO of the German ocean carrier.

A weakening cargo market and economic slowdown in Asia will cut global airlines profit in 2013 by 8 percent to $11.7 billion, according to the International Air Transport Association.

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma’s combined container volume in August was 296,289 20-foot-equivalent units, declining 5.5 percent from 313,602 TEUs in August 2012.

Trucking company Vitran is on a route back to Canada across Detroit's Ambassador Bridge.

A Greek shipowner-charterer has taken delivery of the first in a series of 10 ships with capacities of 13,800 20-foot-equivalent units that will be deployed on Evergreen Line services.

When the South Carolina Ports Authority broke ground for an inland port at Greer, S.C., it implemented a strategy that was based upon securing an anchor tenant and linking that exporter to the Port of Charleston with multi-modal transportation options that include short-haul rail.

Capt. C.J. Wang, chairman of Evergreen Marine Corp., died of illness Sept. 20 at the age of 61, the company said. Evergreen President C.Y. Chang will take over the chairman’s duties temporarily until the board elects a new chairman.

Port Manatee and The Pasha Group are teaming up to develop and market a roll-on, roll-off terminal near the entrance to Tampa Bay in Florida.

Hapag-Lloyd will launch a Black Sea Feeder service connecting Egypt’s Port Said with ports on the Black Sea and in Israel and Turkey.

U.S. District Court Judge John R. Adams has issued a temporary restraining order in Akron, Ohio, ending a strike by workers with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen...

Rickmers Group, the German shipowner, has established a joint venture with funds linked with U.S.-based Apollo Global Management to buy container ships.

Russia’s Global Ports reported its first-half net income fell 25.9 percent from a year ago to $53.7 million on stagnant container traffic and lower oil products shipments.

James Welch, CEO of YRC Worldwide, is taking charge at YRC Freight, replacing President Jeff Rogers, who left the less-than-truckload carrier abruptly.

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

More than 100 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen today struck the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway to protest...

Marta R. Stewart will succeed John P. Rathbone as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Norfolk Southern Corp., effective Nov. 1. She will report to NS President James A. Squires.

The number of foreign trade containers handled by the Port of Nagoya in central Japan edged up 0.8 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier to 1.226 million 20-foot equivalent units, according to preliminary figures released by the Nagoya municipal government.

China’s exporters could face even more intense pressure from rivals in Asia if the renminbi continues to strengthen, according to one analyst.

Japan’s exports to the United States rose for the eighth straight month in August on a year-on-year basis, surging 20.6 percent to 1.069 trillion yen ($10.8 billion), according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Ministry on Sept. 19.

Farmers, railroad and shipping executives agree that if together they can find a way to efficiently ship grain from the rural interior to seaports, the export of containerized grain products would know no limits.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has acquired substantially all of the assets of YES Trans, a refrigerated truckload service provider based in Salisbury, Mass.

The International Maritime Organization today backed a compromise proposal for verifying the weight of containers before they are loaded on board ships.

The International Bunker Industry Association has welcomed the U.K. government’s call for the International Maritime Organization to expedite the release of its study on...

DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight subsidiary of DHL, has appointed Samar Nath as its new chief executive officer and country manager for India.

Crane Worldwide Logistics has expanded its presence in India by opening a new office in Delhi.

The U.S. port and inland waterway industry is celebrating that a major port and inland waterway bill is headed to the House floor for a vote next month after being passed by the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today approved H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013, which aims to streamline the infrastructure project delivery process.

The Duluth Seaway Port Authority’s board of commissioners today appointed Vanta E. Coda II as its new executive director, effective Oct. 1.

The Federal Maritime Commission said it is “considering a range of options to obtain further clarity” on how China is implementing a new nationwide value-added tax on international transportation services.

The Stifel Nicolaus Logistics Confidence Index, a monthly survey of international shippers and forwarders measuring Europe-based air and ocean freight trade lanes...