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Class I railroad Norfolk Southern today opened a new $97 million intermodal terminal in South Central Pennsylvania, advancing the company’s Crescent Corridor series of project...

Freight rail system Florida East Coast Railway today appointed Francis J. Chinnici as senior vice president of engineering and purchasing.

Nashville, Ind.-based transportation forecaster FTR Associates’ Shippers Conditions Index for November fell slightly from October to a reading of -5.3, a sign that 2013 will be challenging for shippers.

Classification of distiller’s dried grains with solubles as non-hazardous cargo has become final and mandatory under the International Maritime Organization’s code.

Major East Coast container ports are likely to come under the type of environmental pressure West Coast ports have faced for years when the Panama Canal completes its new locks.

Stockholm-based crane spreader manufacturer Bromma Conquip has contracted an order for 52 yard spreaders from the new DP World-led Rotterdam World Gateway terminal in the Netherlands.

Unions affiliated with International Transport Workers are showing support for their colleagues in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, ahead of what could be a major labor showdown in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

NefteTransService is preparing an initial public offering in London that is expected to value the Russian rail freight company at around $2 billion.

The International Longshoremen’s Association and employers will resume bargaining Tuesday on New York-New Jersey port issues that may pose the toughest challenge to settlement of an East and Gulf Coast dockworker contract.

Manchester Airports Group significantly boosted its share of the U.K. cargo market with an agreement to buy London Stansted Airport.

Moody’s downgraded HSH Nordbank’s standalone financial strength rating, citing the impact of the deepening crisis in the shipping market on the world’s biggest ship finance bank.

Cosco Pacific starts a series of roadshow presentations to investors this week ahead of a planned issue of U.S. dollar notes, fuelling speculation the Chinese container terminal operator is set to bid for a majority stake in the Greek port of Piraeus.

Antwerp’s container traffic dipped 0.3 percent in 2012 from 2011 and total tonnage was down 1.6 percent as the Belgian port managed to contain the impact of economic slowdown across Europe.

The Inland Empire in 2011 led the industrial real estate industry out of the disastrous economic recession. Thanks to measured, steady progress in 2012, much of the vacant property remaining from the 2008-09 recession has been reabsorbed.

Michigan-based Hanson Logistics, which provides temperature-controlled supply chain services, has promoted Jack White to the position of vice president and CFO.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has begun investigating allegedly subsidized imports of shrimp from China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, after determining that the Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries...

Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line debuted two 13,208-TEU mega-vessels at an opening ceremony held at the Geoje Island Shipyard in South Korea.

It probably was true in the cave man era, and it’s true today — when people move into a new home, they furnish it.

Market intelligence provider Industrial Info Resources is currently tracking 13 active coal export terminal projects in Queensland, Australia, worth more than $33.1 million, and has reported that if all of these projects are approved...

Florida’s Governor Rick Scott broke ground this week on Port Everglades’ intermodal container transfer facility.

Hong Kong’s Census and Statistics Department reported the volume of exports of goods in November 2012 increased by 10.2 percent, and the volume of imports of goods rose by 7.6 percent, compared with the same month in 2011.

CMA CGM has reduced some of its services into and out of China, in anticipation of reduced production during the Chinese Lunar New Year.

Asia Airfreight Terminal, an air cargo terminal based at the Hong Kong International Airport, reported its tonnage throughput in December 2012 was 68,252 metric tons, increasing 11 percent compared with the same period last year.

In the week ending Jan. 12, U.S. intermodal volume rose 10.4 percent year-over-year to 252,896 trailers and containers, according to the Association of American Railroads.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations seized 22,848 shipments of counterfeit and pirated goods in fiscal year 2012...

In fiscal year 2011, the cargo and vessel activity at the Port of Mobile contributed an estimated $22.3 billion in economic value to the state of Alabama, according to an economic impact study prepared by John C. Martin Associates.

Logistics provider SynchroNet Intermodal Services has hired Derrel E. Chappell as director of sales for North American domestic services.

Luxembourg-based Cargolux Airlines International’s board of directors has elected Paul Helminger as its chairman.

Naviera Master Line de Venezuela, a division of Miami-based Master Line Shipping Company, has selected Port Manatee in Florida for a new container and breakbulk service to Caribbean and Central and South American locations.

Freight trucking company ABF Global Supply Chain Services, a subsidiary of Arkansas Best, has added Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay to its ocean transport network...

Jacksonville, Fla-based rail and intermodal company CSX has appointed Andrew Glassman as vice president of operations finance.

Canadian National Railway, a Class I railroad, will construct an intermodal ramp at its freight yard in Joliet, Ill., to offer importers and exporters access to distribution centers in the Chicago metropolitan area.