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Japan and the European Union formally agreed on Monday to kick off negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement aimed at eliminating import tariffs on most products traded between them.

M & M Cartage has received delivery of its first dedicated compressed natural gas powered truck, supplied by Kentucky Truck Sales.

India’s Ministry of Railways has decided to reduce haulage charges for containers transported by rail in privately owned railcars, effective April 1.

Work on $88 million worth of construction for three segments of the Port Mackenzie Rail Extension project in Alaska has kicked off.

Andrew Distribution has selected Ryder System to provide and maintain 18 new straight trucks under a full-service lease agreement.

Representatives from Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish Economic Development Authority and the Port of Terrebonne have determined that liquefied natural gas will offer a “huge opportunity” for exportation for regional Gulf Coast ports...

The NOL Group has unveiled its new 14,000 20-foot-equivalent unit APL Temasek container ship at the PSA Pasir Panjang Terminal in Singapore.

On April 15, Emirates Shipping Line will raise rates on two of its trade lanes.

With the transit of Canada Steamship Lines’ newly built Baie St. Paul through the St. Lambert Lock, the St. Lawrence Seaway’s 55th navigation season has opened, according to the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation.

Port Everglades has announced that Guatemala is a key target market for the South Florida port.

TNT Express said it plans to cut 4,000 jobs, slash costs, slim its aircraft fleet and sell its Chinese and Brazilian operations as it focuses on its core European market following the recent collapse of a planned $6.8 billion takeover by United Parcel Service.

The International Bunker Industry Association has appointed Peter Hall as its new chief executive.

Hapag-Lloyd will launch its new Finland Express Service in April, directly connecting German hubs with ports in the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea.

The news that Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud have walked away from a merger that would have created the world’s fourth-largest ocean carrier didn’t come as a major shock to rival container lines or industry watchers.

Contract negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and three grain terminal operators in the Pacific Northwest broke down at the weekend with each side refusing to consider the other’s proposal.

United Cargo has expanded its service for temperature-sensitive shipments by adding nine new cities to its worldwide TempControl network, increasing the number of locations offering the service to 37.

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering and Lufthansa Cargo will enter into a strategic cooperation agreement, starting April 1.

Hanjin Shipping plans to increase rates on its sevice between Asia and Europe, starting April 15.

Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Süd have abandoned a planned merger because the German container shipping lines couldn’t agree on the terms to create the world’s fourth largest ocean carrier.

Two Italian ship guards accused of killing two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast in February last year returned to New Delhi on Friday evening, easing a standoff that threatened to strain diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Whether recent legislation that funds the federal government for the next six months will prevent slated furloughs at Customs and Border Protection that could snarl freight traffic at U.S. ports of entry is unclear.

Toll Intermodal has opened its interstate freight forwarding facility in Kewdale, an intermodal hub in Perth in Western Australia.

U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., has introduced the Customs Training Enhancement Bill, which is intended to facilitate the sharing of information between the private sector and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to allow the U.S. government to better identify foreign companies that illegally avoid customs duties.

The Pacific Merchant Shipping Association and International Longshore and Warehouse Union have sent a joint letter to U.S. Sens. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and other officials...

Terreno Realty Corporation, a U.S. industrial real estate company, has acquired an industrial property in Burien, Wash., for about $6.5 million.

Old Dominion Freight Line has updated its expectations for growth in total tons for the first quarter to a range of 4.5 percent to 5.0 percent, compared with the first quarter of 2012...

Two shipping firms based in Germany and Cyprus have pleaded guilty to felony obstruction of justice charges and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships...

The Journal of Commerce and SJ Consulting Group annually rank the largest less-than-truckload carriers by revenue and track the sector’s economic recovery.

Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, and David Vitter, R-La., ranking member of the...

The Port of New Orleans’ board of commissioners has notified AECOM Technical Services to begin the design of the port’s new Mississippi River Intermodal Terminal Project.

The 2013 shipping season at the Port of Duluth-Superior in Minnesota, on the western edge of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system, has kicked off.

Construction has begun on the Pioneer Project, which will expand the New Town transloading facility in North Dakota, increasing rail capacity in the Williston Basin...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun requiring all exporters of U.S. pork to report weekly export sales to the agency’s Foreign Agricultural Service.

Norfolk Southern reported profit in 2012 was $1.75 billion, dropping 8.7 percent from $1.92 billion in 2011.

APM Terminals and its French consortium partners, Bollore Africa Logistics and Bouygues, have been named preferred bidders to operate a second container terminal in the port of Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire.

The European Parliament’s international trade committee has urged the European Union to reinstate Myanmar’s duty and quota free access to the EU market, in support of the European Commission’s proposal to back Myanmar in its reforms.