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The P3 Network announced between Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM will bring together portions of the three largest global container ship fleets. The alliance, which is planned for the second quarter of 2014, will enable the three carriers to deploy their largest vessels in the Asia-Europe trade and cascade slightly smaller ships into the trans-Pacific and the trans-Atlantic lanes. This infographic gives a look at how the partners' fleets - both individually and as contributed to the alliance - measure up against the global fleet.

The Port of Long Beach’s board of harbor commissioners has elected board member Thomas Fields as its president for a one-year term that will begin on July 1.

The European Commission’s social dialogue committee in the port sector launched today in Brussels with port authorities, terminal operators, dockers and other port workers across the European Union.

The South Carolina Ports Authority board of directors approved its fiscal year 2014 plan, which includes volume increases across business segments and $123 million in capital spending on a number of projects.

The U.S. Department of Defense has adopted as final, with changes, the interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement...

U.S. business logistics costs remained at 8.5 percent of GDP for the second consecutive year in 2012, according to the Council of Supply Chain Management’s annual State of Logistics Report.

FedEx Trade Networks has opened a new distribution facility in Romulus, Mich.

Deutsche Bahn and Bombardier Transportation have signed a frame contract for the delivery of up to 450 electric locomotives by the year 2020.

Hapag-Lloyd will add a direct port call at Bahrain to its South China Sea Express and Middle East Express services.

Yusen Logistics is adding a weekly service from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, to Los Angeles to its LCL network.

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Trucking Tonnage Index jumped 2.3 percent to 126.0 in May, after falling 0.2 percent in April to 123.2, making it the highest level on record.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered E & K Trucking, based in Commerce City, Colo., to immediately cease its trucking operations...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has begun the first phase of a truck cargo pre-inspection pilot at the Pacific Highway crossing in Blaine, Wash., adjacent to Surrey, British Columbia.

Jacksonville Port Authority’s board of directors has unanimously elected Joe York as chairman, effective July 1.

The new Canadian National-Indiana Rail Road intermodal service to Indianapolis will offer export “matchback” opportunities for steamship lines and shippers when it launches on July 1.

The first ship in a new G6 Alliance service linking Asia and the U.S. East Coast via the Suez Canal called at Global Terminal in Bayonne, N.Y.

A U.S. District Court judge in Portland ruled that the National Labor Relations Board last year had no right intervening in a contractual dispute between a container terminal operator at the Oregon port and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

The P3 Network announced today between Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM will have little or no impact on the glut of vessel capacity that has been depressing global freight rates, but will enable the world’s three largest container lines to substantially cut their operating costs on the Asia-Europe, trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic trades.

Liebherr has opened a new sales and service center in Miami.

The Coast Guard has told Horizon Lines the carrier can convert two steam-powered ships to LNG and diesel propulsion in non-U.S. shipyards and still be able to operate the vessels in the Jones Act domestic trade.

The Galveston County Rural Rail Transportation District has signed an agreement with Legacy Port Partners for a feasibility study for a new freight rail connection to Pelican Island...

Old Dominion Freight Line will increase its base rates for intrastate, interstate and cross-border lane charges, effective July 1.

Maher Terminals reports progress in recovery from severe delays that accompanied glitches in a new computer system, but CEO Gary Cross said additional ship calls may be subcontracted to other terminals this week in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The two parts of the container ship MOL Comfort, which broke apart during heavy weather while en route from Singapore to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, remain afloat, according to the carrier and the Indian Coast Guard.

FedEx Ground Shipping Service will move its Jacksonville, Fla., distribution hub to a new facility it is planning to build at the Cecil Commerce Center, Jacksonville Business Journal reports.

CMA CGM, Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Co. have agreed to establish a long-term operational alliance on East–West trades.

In May, India’s exports were valued at $24.5 billion, falling 1.1 percent from $24.8 billion in the same month in the previous year, and imports were valued at $44.6 billion, rising 7.0 percent from May 2012’s $41.7 billion...

Indian Railways reported its revenue from April 1 to May 31, 2013, was Rs. 22,439.30 crore (about US$3.9 billion), increasing 12.7 percent from $3.4 billion during the corresponding period last year.

Maher Terminals said a fifth ship has been diverted to a nearby terminal as the Port of New York and New Jersey’s largest container facility struggles with congestion and delays for a second week.

The Port of Long Beach reported total container volume in May was 583,588 20-foot-equivalent units, up 17.2 percent compared with the same month last year, making it the highest monthly container volume since October 2010.

French carrier CMA CGM will increase rates on westbound cargo moving on its Epic service from India to North Europe and the Mediterranean, starting July 1.

Cathay Pacific Airways reported that Cathay Pacific and Dragonair combined carried 121,529 metric tons of cargo and mail in May, down 1.5 percent compared with May 2012.

AECOM Technology Corp. has won a $148 million, three-year contract to provide construction supervision and design review services for the portion of the Doha Expressway program in Qatar known as Group 7.

Port Freeport’s commission has unanimously elected John Hoss as chairman of the Texas port.

The Jacksonville Port Authority’s board of directors today unanimously voted to offer the position of Jaxport CEO to Brian W. Taylor.

Inflation-adjusted gross domestic product increased at a 2.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2013, while manufacturing output rose at a “much faster” 5.0 percent annual rate, according to the quarterly Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation U.S. Industrial Outlook.

The Port of Seattle has selected Panattoni Development Co. to develop the Des Moines Creek Business Park.

Crowley Maritime’s logistics group has launched a new, weekly less-than-containerload service from Chicago to Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and Central America.