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Juan Kuryla, deputy port director at Miami, has been chosen the new CEO at the Port of Jacksonville.

Blue Stingray Digital Ad Agency has launched a revamped logistics application for Pepsi Logistics, replacing the transportation provider’s previous desktop application for tracking shipments and deliveries.

DDC FPO, a freight process outsourcing provider, has completed the rollout phrase of bill data capture operations for Brown Transfer Company.

TCB Railways has reached a monthly transportation capacity of 17,000 20-foot-equivalent units between the Port of Barcelona and...

Globe Express Services has appointed Regina Cross as vice president of the U.S. Northeast region and U.S. compliance leader.

The International Chamber of Shipping and the International Transport Workers’ Federation have made a joint submission to the International Maritime Organization expressing concern about...

Navios Maritime Holdings, a NYSE-listed tanker and dry bulk vessel owner, has moved into container shipping, acquiring five vessels from debtors of HSH Nordbank.

Konecranes has delivered a busbar-powered, fully electric rubber-tire gantry crane to EVYAP Port in Istanbul.

OOCL has announced that the Norfolk Express vessel on the Gulf Mexico Service, GMX, will be replaced on its current voyage by another vessel, Irenes Rainbow, effective immediately.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has opened three new Centers of Excellence and Expertise, featuring base metals in Chicago; industrial and manufacturing materials in Buffalo, N.Y.; and machinery in Laredo, Texas.

The European Union and Morocco today started the first round of talks for an EU-Morocco Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area.

U.S. and Canadian intermodal growth accelerated in the first quarter at a 4.5 percent year-over-year clip, helping three publicly traded U.S.-based major railroads — CSX Transportation, Union Pacific Railroad and Kansas City Southern Railway— boost profit growth despite weak coal and grain traffic.

Asian exporters have been warned to expect sudden cancellations of shipping services and rejigged schedules to Europe as ocean carriers scramble to reverse an accelerating collapse in freight rates.

As the Hong Kong dockworkers’ strike for better pay and working conditions enters its fourth week, some analysts believe there could be long-term economic repercussions for the city and port.

Work has started on the first phase a £250 million (about US$380.8 million) program to improve performance and capacity on the Stafford, U.K., section of Europe’s West Coast Main Line.

The Port of Koper, Slovenia, reported container throughput in the first three months of 2013 totaling 146,903 20-foot-equivalent units, down 3.4 percent compared with 152,072 TEUs in the same period in 2012.

ASF Intermodal has opened an intermodal drayage facility in Chesapeake, Va., to provide drayage service in and out of the port and rail facilities in the Norfolk area and serve the Southeast.

Ever Liven, the 10th in a series of 8,452 20-foot-equivalent unit L-type container ships to be operated by Evergreen Line, has been christened at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea.

The marine freight transportation industry’s revenue is expected to reach $411.6 billion by 2017, according to Luctinel’s “Top 5 Global Marine Freight Transportation Service Companies: Performance, Strategies and Competitive Analysis” report.

As customer expectations for improved service and rapid fulfillment of orders in the e-commerce space increase, retailers of all sizes must achieve excellence in their supply chains, according to a logistics expert.

The Port of Tacoma’s container volume in the first three months of 2013 rose 37 percent year-over-year to 469,233 20-foot-equivalent units.

Ports America has promoted Chris Smith to vice president, where he will be responsible for breakbulk, bulk and military operations on the U.S. East, Gulf and West coasts of the terminal operator’s business unit Ports America Stevedoring.

Horizon Lines has relocated its U.S. Northeast port of call from Elizabeth, N.J., to the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal at the Port of Philadelphia.

CenterPoint Properties Trust has acquired a single-story, 123,199-square-foot industrial building in Rancho Dominguez, Calif., an unincorporated section of Los Angeles, from Big Tree Big Sleep.

The Port of Oakland’s containerized throughput dropped 5.4 percent year-over-year in March, reaching 186,617 20-foot-equivalent units, including both laden and empty containers.

The Port of Halifax in Nova Scotia reported container traffic in the first quarter of 2013 was 112,670 20-foot-equivalent units, jumping 26.3 percent from 89,214 TEUs in the first quarter of 2012.

Container carrier Mitsui O.S.K. Lines will launch its new Finland Express Service on April 29, to expand service in the Baltic region.

CMA CGM’s Alexander von Humboldt container ship today began its maiden voyage in Busan, South Korea.

Damco has appointed Helmut Kaspers chief commercial officer of its West Europe region.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and import specialists at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex have seized 14,904 toasters with fake Underwriters Laboratories safety markings.

TransForce reported net income in the first quarter of 2013 was C$18.9 million (about US$18.4 million), compared with $29.4 million in the first quarter of 2012.

Curtis Foltz, executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority, said the GPA is anticipating calendar 2013 growth in the 3 to 5 percent range in container volumes handled by the Port of Savannah.

TransContainer reported rail container transportation volume in Russia in the first quarter of 2013 totaled 342,400 20-foot-equivalent units, decreasing 4,400 TEUs, or 1.3 percent, from 346,800 TEUs in the first quarter of 2012.

Kansas City Southern reported profit in the first quarter of 2013 was $103.7 million, jumping 38.5 percent from $74.9 million in the first quarter of 2012.

India’s Tuticorin Port Authority on Thursday awarded a contract to Hyderabad-based Transstroy-OJSC Consortium for the construction of two new general cargo berths at the southeastern port.

Japanese containerized cargo trade will rise 2.6 percent in fiscal 2013, which started on April 1, from a year earlier to 12.760 million 20-foot equivalent units, a Tokyo-based research firm predicted in a new report.

The United States supplanted China as Japan’s biggest export market in fiscal 2012, which ended on March 31, for the first time in four years, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Ministry.

Hub Group today reported a record income of $15.4 million for the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 12 percent compared with $13.7 million for the first quarter of 2012.