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The merger, once fully approved, will create the world’s fourth largest container shipping company.

Diversity of recent hires belies charges of discrimination, says ILA union and its employers.

BIS on Friday took additional steps to restrict trade with Russia.

Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is among the investors plugging cash into XPO.

After a three-year idle, the first trucks carrying export boxes will roll through the terminal gate Monday.

ACI reported 6.7-percent growth in cargo volumes.

Forwarder will increase size of its logistics subsidiary in Hong Kong.

Smith, DiNucci have excellent rapport with freight sector.

Carriers to delete a sailing each from CC2 and SC1 services.

USITC report finds foreign barriers stymie further opportunities in digitally sensitive industries.

Bipartisan bill proposes to increase size of STB from three to five members.

Congress will debate whether to disband credit agency next summer.

Congress is told while Jones Act carriers are experiencing the best of times, things are worse for U.S. carriers in international trade.

PierPass announces Free-Flow Program to move bulk lots of containers quickly out of port.

Agency seeks input on slow turn times, supply chain efficiency.

TPP members finished 10 days of meetings Wednesday in Hanoi, making what they claim to be “important progress across a range of issues.”

ITA released about $2.2 million across eight non-profit business organizations university programs to assist their export promotion programs.

Containerization and Intermodal Institute is recognizing the CEO of MSC’s U.S. subsidiary for his leadership.

The move follows the company’s on-going work to merge US Airways’ former cargo operations into its own. The airlines initiated their integration nine months ago.

Coal shipped on the Great Lakes reached 2.6 million tons in August, an 18 percent drop compared to a year ago, according to the Lake Carriers’ Association.