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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.

The use of 40-foot chassis in the Seattle-Tacoma area has risen from 72 percent to 92 percent, causing supply to run short, according to Northwest Seaport Alliance data.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition gives Walmart access to Parcel’s routing algorithm for scheduled, time definite delivery of orders.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has amended its regulations to allow fresh persimmon imports from New Zealand into the United States.

Cold treatment is a process where perishable fruits have their pulp brought to a certain temperature for a period in order to fulfill U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) quarantine requirements for fruits and vegetables entering the United States.

The two air carriers opened a facility for handling and storing pharmaceutical shipments at London Heathrow Airport, with plans for facilities in New York and Los Angeles next.

Ocean carrier Africa Express Line will deliver the new Star Cool refrigerated (reefer) containers to its parent company, French fruit exporter Compagnie Fruitiere, for use on its Europe-West Africa service route.

The two federal agencies charged with overseeing the nation’s seafood imports must strengthen their testing for unsafe drug residues in these products, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has imposed a civil penalty of $230,000 against Northampton, Mass.-based Millitech for 18 violations of the Export Administration Regulations.

AASHTO’s board elects the association’s new president, VP and secretary-treasurer; NYK’s corporate officer resigns to serve as senior managing director at Ocean Network Express Japan Ltd.; and AAPA installs three new chairpersons.

The acquisition of Long Beach, Calif.-based California Cartage creates the largest family-owned, vertically integrated third-party logistics provider in North America, according to NFI.

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The cumulative effects of anxiety, fatigue and vessel motion from heavy weather degraded the crew’s decision making and physical performance of duties during the fateful voyage, according to a report from the Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation.

Under a new proposed change from the U.S. Department of Transportation, multimodal projects would be required to follow only one process, rather than multiple agency processes, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said in a recent speech.