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Port authority installs new board members and reports tonnage increases.

Airline names managing director of cargo operations; supply chain integration platform hires two vice presidents.

Conglomerate reports an $85 million loss from continuing operations, plans to spin off drilling company.

Drewry’s World Container Index stands at $1,759.86 per FEU, up 4 percent from last week and up 12.6 percent year-over-year.

Importers are still paying rates that were in place prior to enactment of tax reform legislation.

Container throughput climbed 4.6 percent in July after four consecutive monthly declines.

U.S. truckload rates surged 10.2 percent in July, the largest year-over-year percentage increase in more than a decade.

Crewless, electric containership will move products along Norway’s coastline.

July figure marks the largest year-over-year increase since 2011.

Treasury Department says two of the companies illicitly ship cigarettes, a trade generating more than $1 billion annually.

Trinium Technologies is a Los Angeles-based intermodal trucking software provider.

New York-based company will operate a 10-acre aggregate terminal at the Tampa Bay port.

Railroad also announces promotions and shift of network planning and operations function.

Purchased Southern Counties Express has been serving California ports for more than 25 years.

Railway and railcar repair company announce senior management promotions; industry veteran joins board.

Company says it is seeing increased demand for transporting refrigerated cargo.

New APL service offers 11-day transit from Shanghai to California.

The German airline is expanding its coverage across Africa.

CBP says most of that money has come from Section 232 steel and aluminum duties.

Pact bans equipment “devoid of human interaction,” lays out rules for negotiating use of semiautomated machinery.