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Agriculture shippers are concerned that they won’t be able to bring their goods to BNSF Railway’s soon-to-open intermodal terminal in the Kansas City area because overweight containers aren't permitted on the road connecting the facility and the nearby interstate.

Maersk Line has announced general rate increases of between $400 and $500 to transport a 20-foot container from Asia to northern Europe and the Mediterranean, effective Sept. 1.

The federal government needs to better manage, promote and coordinate trade programs so that export resources can be better used to help small and medium-sized business be globally competitive, according to a Government Accountability Office report released today.

The Surface Transportation Board will hold a public hearing this fall related to a petition by The National Industrial Transportation League to modify the board's standards for mandatory competitive switching.

Wilson Sons reported a net loss of $7.0 million in the second quarter of 2013, compared with a net loss of $3.9 million in the second quarter of 2012.

Mazda North American Operators has become the Port of Baltimore’s newest auto customer after agreeing to a five-year contract with auto processor Amports...

China has begun its first commercial transit of the Northeast Passage, with the Yong Sheng, a 19,000-ton multipurpose cargo ship, heading for Russia’s Arctic waterway en route from Dalian to Rotterdam.

A UPS cargo plane crashed near Birmingham, Ala., this morning.

UTi Worldwide has opened its new London operations in Heathrow in the U.K.

Typhoon Utor is causing transport chaos as southern China and Hong Kong prepare for the impact of heavy rain, strong winds and waves of up to 10 meters later today.

Delegations from North and South Korea will make a last-ditch effort to reopen Kaesong industrial complex later today.

The International Longshoremen’s Association has served notice that it will insist on retaining its jurisdiction over chassis that truckers lease from equipment providers that have historically used ILA labor for maintenance and repair.

Import volume at major U.S. retail container ports is expected to rise 1.7 percent month-over-month in August, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker...

For the second time in four months, International Longshoremen’s Association members in Hampton Roads have rejected a local contract covering gang sizes and other issues.

Kansas City Southern’s current executive chairman and employee, Michael R. Haverty, will transition to non-executive chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the executive committee of the board...

Drayage companies in the Port of New York and New Jersey are asking container lines to waive per-diem charges for late return of containers and chassis to congested terminals, and are threatening to challenge per-diem bills caused by the terminals’ delays.

The Port of Virginia is experiencing an influx of rail cargo at Norfolk International Terminals and APM Terminals in Portsmouth as a result of peak season volume...

Diana Containerships has signed, through two separate wholly-owned subsidiaries, two memoranda of agreement to buy two post-Panamax container ships from an unaffiliated third party.

Kewill has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Four Soft, a Hyderabad, India-based software company.

The U.S. and the U.S.-East African Community have agreed to launch formal negotiations on a trade facilitation agreement, according to Michael Froman, U.S. Trade Representative.

Euroseas reported a net loss of $8.9 million in the second quarter of 2013, compared with a net loss of $1.4 million in the second quarter of 2012.

CMA CGM vessels may become part of the Daily Maersk service from Asia to Europe next year when the French carrier joins Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Co. in the new P3 Network.

OnTrac has decided to expand its San Diego operation to support increased volume.

Contecon Manzanillo, operator of the Specialized Container Terminal 2 in Mexico’s Port of Manzanillo, has received its first vessel, the 5,500-TEU Maersk Kalamata.

Kerry Logistics has acquired a majority stake in Cargo Master’s Group, a Mexico-based freight forwarding and logistics company with six domestic offices.

CaroTrans will launch a new direct, weekly less-than-containerload and full containerload export service from Houston to Rio de Janeiro.

IAG Cargo, created from the merger of British Airways World Cargo and Iberia Cargo, will offer cargo services on a new Iberia route connecting Quito, Ecuador, with its Madrid, Spain, hub, starting Oct. 26.

U.S. footwear imports from China rose 2 percent through May compared to the first five months of 2012, but the long-term trend is toward increasing imports from emerging economies such as Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia, according to an industry study.

Peel Ports has appointed specialized contractors BAM Nuttall and Van Oord to construct a new in-river quay wall at the Port of Liverpool’s post-Panamax container terminal, Liverpool2, in the U.K.

Black Sea ports most likely will not receive vessels of 10,000 20-foot-equivalent units in the near future, as the ports are not prepared and productivity is too low, according to the latest issue of SeaIntel Sunday Spotlight.

The Japanese economy grew 0.6 percent in the April-June quarter from the preceding quarter, or at an annualized pace of 2.6 percent, in real terms, the Cabinet Office said in a preliminary report.

U.S. footwear imports in 2012 slipped 0.4 percent year-over-year, although they are predicted to rise from $23.4 billion in 2012 to $29.6 billion in 2017...

Austrian Post reported its revenue was €570.2 million (about US$758.4 million) in the second quarter of 2013, compared with €567.4 million in the second quarter of 2012.

Regarding the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s lawsuit against Oregon’s Port of Portland, the port has responded that at “no time” did it deny access to its public records.

Statistics from 2010 and 2011 suggest that the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro claim 83 percent of all recorded cargo crime incidents in Brazil...

June was the best month of the year so far for U.S. beef and pork exports, according to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

U.S. steel exports in June totaled 1.064 million tons, falling 8.5 percent from 1.163 million tons in May and 9.1 percent from June 2012, according to government reporting.

HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai at Germany’s Port of Hamburg has received four new gantry cranes designed for the latest generation of mega-ships.

An increasing volume of cargo is being delayed by late deliveries or rolled over as the peak season comes into full force, according to Drewry Maritime Research.

In July, Fraport Group’s five majority-owned airports handled 179,500 metric tons of cargo, a drop of 0.6 percent from July 2012.