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Clarksons, the world’s biggest shipbroker and shipping services group, posted stagnant profits and revenues for the first half of the year amid depressed markets in most shipping sectors.

The Navios Group has announced the formation of Navios Europe as the next step in concluding its letter of intent signed with HSH Nordbank in April 2013.

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

GlobalFoundries, a joint venture between Advanced Micro Devices and the government of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, is investing $8 billion to build a fabrication plant to make nanochips it supplies to electronics plants worldwide.

Norfolk Southern will hike its domestic intermodal rates in September.

Federal Marine Terminals will continue to provide terminal and stevedore services at the Port of Milwaukee, following a recently agreed upon lease renewal.

Regional Container Lines’ board of directors has appointed Jamlong Atikul as chairman.

Japan’s exports to the United States rose for the seventh straight month in July on a year-on-year basis, surging 18.4 percent to ¥1.106 trillion ($11.3 billion), according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Ministry on Aug 19.

After contracting in June, total exports from Asia last month accelerated, and double-digit growth is likely in the months ahead, according to analysis by Nomura.

Cash-strapped container carriers are retreating to port-to-port operations from door-to-door services, allowing freight forwarders to increase their ocean market share, according to industry consultant Drewry.

The Maritime Labour Convention, an International Labour Organization agreement established in 2006 to embody all existing global maritime labor conventions and recommendations...

Modern Terminals has hired Vivian Tso as CFO.

FTR Associates’ Shippers Conditions Index for June fell “only marginally” from the previous month to a reading of negative 8.1.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has expanded the amount of chicken products being recalled by the Chilean Ministry of Health.

Marine terminal gates at the Port of Oakland were beginning to reopen at noon Monday following a morning-long blockade by owner-operator truck drivers protesting slow turn times at marine terminals.

Tampa Port Authority has signed a letter of intent with Green Express for the development of an on-dock transload and rail-served facility connecting the port to the Midwest.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has expanded its ocean transportation service from Veracruz, Mexico.

The U.S. industrial real estate market performed “well” during the first half of 2013, highlighted by year-over-year increases in transaction volume and revenue in many markets...

Making the Port of New York and New Jersey more resilient is a tough challenge. This summer’s fiasco reinforced the port's reputation as a place where even a tiny glitch can send things haywire — and where it’s difficult to get operations back on track quickly.

This summer’s congestion at New York-New Jersey terminals has renewed talk of extended hours for terminal gates that normally operate weekdays from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Demand in the container shipping segment is “hobbling forward,” as a “healthy level” of demolition counterbalances the inflow of new and larger ships, according to the BIMCO Shipping Market Overview & Outlook report for August.

The United Nations Security Council has called for a comprehensive regional approach to combat the threat of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea.

Changing Oakland’s reputation and making it the preferred port on the West Coast is the mission of newly appointed Executive Director Chris Lytle.

Damco slumped to a second quarter loss of $8 million from a $28 million profit a year earlier, as lower ocean container traffic more than offset strong growth in its air freight and supply chain management operations.

APM Terminals Rotterdam terminal in the Netherlands has welcomed the inaugural call of the 18,000 20-foot-equivalent-unit Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller, a Triple E vessel.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide has appointed Ivo Aris as director of European global forwarding.

Global port activity as measured by The Journal of Commerce’s Top 50 container ports in 2012 demonstrates the importance of macroeconomic trends on container shipping. The fastest-growing ports last year were located in those regions with the most vibrant economies.

Indian Railways reported revenue-earning freight traffic in July totaled 86.21 million metric tons, up 4.9 percent or 4.0 million metric tons from 82.21 million metric tons in the same month in 2012.

Port authorities should be preparing now for the demands they will make on local power grids as terminals automate their operations and shipping lines plug their vessels into shore-side electrical power while at berth.

BNSF Railway has allocated $115 million for Montana and $220 million for North Dakota for maintenance and rail capacity expansion projects this year.

The California Air Resources Board has fined three international shipping companies a combined $440,250 for failure to switch from bunker fuel to low-sulfur marine distillate fuel...

Legislation being introduced by Washington state’s two U.S. senators to replace the Harbor Maintenance Tax with a new levy on U.S. containerized imports reflects a stark reality: Washington’s two container ports, Seattle and Tacoma, have for years been individually and collectively losing market share — mostly to Canadian west coast ports, where U.S.-bound containers aren’t assessed the HMT.

Livingston International has appointed Steven C. Preston as its new CEO, effective immediately.

Baltimore U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have intercepted seven shipments of uncertified chicken skeletons from China.

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

APM Terminals boosted second quarter operating profit to $179 million from $160 million a year ago even as traffic stalled in a growing global market.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex’s total container volume in July was 1.3 million 20-foot-equivalent units, rising 2.3 percent from 1.2 million TEUs in July 2012.