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The aerospace and maritime engineering company signed a deal Wednesday with Google to further develop its intelligent awareness systems for self-driving ocean vessels.

Fortna, which handles distribution optimization and implementation for brands like ASICS, will use LLamasoft’s supply chain design tool as its core technology, the company said in a statement.

The Oak Brook, Ill.-based industrial real estate development and management firm said the disposition consisted of about 2.4 million square feet and 110 acres of land.

The Oregon-based freight railcar manufacturer announced its fourth quarter railcar orders, which are valued at $200 million, and additional orders at the beginning of the company’s 2018 fiscal year.

The United States says it wants Canadian province British Columbia to stop discriminating against imported wine through its regulation of allowing only provincial wine to be sold on regular grocery store shelves.

Net orders of North American class 8 trucks totaled 22,100 units in September, a 7 percent increase from August and a 62 percent increase year-over-year, according to the latest figures from the freight transportation analyst FTR.

Norfolk Southern appoints chief information officer; Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff re-nominates two Port of Oakland board of port commissioners; and the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) names new secretary general in Brussels.

Despite promises of a 10-year, $1 trillion spending plan that would be 80 percent private investment, recent comments from President Trump indicate he will no longer pursue public-private partnership funding for U.S. infrastructure projects.

U.S. files second complaint over Canadian wine sale restrictions The U.S. argues the British Columbia measures appear to discriminate against imported wine by allowing only provincial wine to be sold on regular grocery store shelves while imported wine may be sold in grocery stores only through a so-called “store within a store”.  Brexit negotiations: statement […]

A key element to President Trump’s plan for securing funding for critical infrastructure upgrades and repairs across the country has now been emphatically rejected by Trump himself, according to reports from multiple media outlets.

The French ocean carrier will buy out Sofrana Unilines via CMA CGM’s subsidiary ANL by the end of this month, the company announced Monday.

According to David Lancaster, cargo development director at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL), “the prospects for cargo through STL look better than at any time since the closure of TWA’s hub operations in 2002.”

United States gross domestic product increased 3.1 percent in the second quarter of 2017, according to the “third” estimate from the Department of Commerce, up from the second estimate of 3 percent and first estimate of 2.6 percent.

The proposed rail spur to a planned temperature controlled transload and distribution facility known as Cool Port is the final piece of a plan for a refrigerated gateway to Asia for U.S. meat exports, according to the Northern California port.

Higher e-commerce supply chain costs will induce companies to devote more money to overall freight movement, the investment bank’s transport and logistics group said in a note Tuesday.

The global trade management software provider’s denied-party screening tool will complement MercuryGate’s import and export generation and Automated Export System and Importer Security Filing capabilities, the company said in a statement Tuesday.