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Etihad Cargo, the cargo division of Etihad Airways, will launch a new weekly freight operation from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to Guangzhou, China, effective Jan. 17.

The Teamsters union and ABF Freight System are back at the bargaining table. Negotiations on a new multiyear contract resumed Jan. 8 and will continue through next week, the union said in a notice published on its Web site.

Chinese exports ended 2012 surprisingly strongly, but economists expect the rebound to be short-lived.

The Port of Singapore reported its container throughput in 2012 was a record 31.6 million 20-foot-equivalent units, increasing 5.7 percent from 29.9 million TEUs in 2011.

Cathay Pacific Services, a subsidiary of Cathay Pacific Airways that operates the new Cathay Pacific Cargo Terminal at Hong Kong International Airport, will open the new terminal on Feb. 21.

Freight forwarder and logistics management company China Logistics Group has announced its outlook for logistics operations in China in 2013 is improving.

The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority in Ohio, the grantee of Foreign Trade Zone 8 since 1971, has been approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce Foreign-Trade Zone Board for the reorganization and expansion of its FTZ.

According to provisional figures, total transshipment in the port region along the North Sea Canal in the Netherlands, including the ports of Amsterdam, Ijmuiden, Beverwijk and Zaanstad, is expected to reach 94.4 million metric tons...

The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, which represents toll facility owners and operators and the businesses that serve them, today launched a 2013 public awareness campaign to highlight the benefits of tolling.

U.S. intermodal volume fell for the second week straight, dropping 8 percent year-over-year in the week ending Jan. 5, according to the Association of American Railroads.

Long Beach, Calif.-based APS Stevedoring has appointed Steven K. Nixon as vice president.

The Panama Canal Authority has issued a notice to Vinci Construction Grands Projets to start building a bridge on the Atlantic side of the canal.

AMR Corporation, parent of American Airlines, reported a 3.7 percent increase year-over-year in system cargo ton miles for the month of December 2012, at 149,505, up from 144,178 ton miles in the same month in 2011.

The Port of Dunkirk in France reported container traffic for the year 2012 was 260,000 20-foot-equivalent units, dropping 5 percent compared with 2011.

After a seesaw year in which freight rates bounded up and down like a yo-yo, shippers and carriers alike are looking for stability and predictability in their businesses.

Lufthansa Cargo closed 2012 with traffic down 8.5 percent from the previous year, but the German carrier’s utilization of its freighter fleet was unchanged as it slashed capacity in line with sharply lower demand in the global air cargo market.

Lake Oswego, Ore.-based railroad equipment supplier The Greenbrier Companies recently reported profit in the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, ending Nov. 30, 2012, was $10.4 million, increasing 40.5 percent...

Puteaux, France-based supply chain management company SDV, a subsidiary of the Bollore Group, has acquired a majority stake in Safcomar Overseas, a Swiss-based logistics provider, and renamed it SDV Suisse.

Nashville, Ind.-based transportation forecaster FTR Associates has reported that its Trucking Conditions Index for November, published in its January 2013 Trucking Update, rose almost two full points to a favorable reading of 9.7.

The Tampa Port Authority has announced that Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Company will start offering its global container service at the Port of Tampa.

A Chinese national, Xiang Li, 36, of Chengdu, recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and wire fraud, after operating a Web site used to distribute more than $100 million worth of pirated software.

Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wasn’t on the list of Cabinet officials that a White House official said would hang around for President Obama’s second term, suggesting someone else might fill the spot held by the Illinois Republican, according to reports.

Washington’s Port of Bellingham board of commissioners has elected Jim Jorgensen to be president of the board for 2013.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell recently appointed Craig P. Coy to the Virginia Port Authority board of commissioners.

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach hope to improve truck turn times by distributing to harbor trucking companies a fact sheet...

The New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad Corporation has received contract approval for more than $900,000 from the New York State Department of Transportation to construct a multimodal rail terminal in Cortland...

Major Japanese international freight forwarder Kintetsu World Express Inc. said that it has established a subsidiary in Mexico to cope with anticipated growth in demand for transportation services there.

Japanese carrier Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has announced changes to its APX service, which runs between North America and Europe, and CNY service, which travels between Asia and the U.S. East Coast and West Coast and Panama.

The Massena Terminal Railroad Company in St. Lawrence County, N.Y., has signed a contract for the main line track and bridge rehabilitation project...

Maersk Line postponed the effective date of its proposed congestion surcharge at West Coast ports until Feb. 14.

San Mateo, Calif.-based Menlo Worldwide Logistics, a subsidiary of Con-way, today opened a new warehousing and retail distribution management center in Singapore.

Transportation management and logistics technology company Transplace today promoted Frank McGuigan to executive vice president of operations.