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The airline has introduced new routes to Milan, Italy and Zaragoza, Spain.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District proposed a tax on container shipments to fund incentives for further reducing ozone levels.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said the Trump administration’s planned $1 trillion infrastructure initiative would include “energy, water and potentially broadband and veterans hospitals as well,” according to a report from Reuters.

The freight forwarding unit of European rail giant Deutsche Bahn AG saw earnings before interest and taxes increase 3.8 percent to 410 million euros (U.S. $438.5 million) on revenues that slid 2.2 percent to 15.1 billion euros in 2016.

Plaquemines Port Harbor & Terminal District and American Patriot Holdings, LLC want to build a container port and river vessel to move containers to and from ports on the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is ready to follow through on President Trump’s directives to whittle down the number of regulations on the books, but CBP Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan assured that facilitating trade flows will remain a priority.

KLG Europe selected BluJay Solutions for end-to-end transportation management and customer visibility services.

The U.S. maritime regulator said its final rule amending requirements for service contracts and NVOCC service arrangements, announced earlier this month, will become effective May 5, 2017.

Switzerland’s Federal Office for Civil Aviation gave the Swiss postal company permission to fly laboratory samples between two hospitals via drone starting in 2018.

Kuehne + Nagel, a Swiss-based third-party logistics provider, and Grünenthal, an international research-based pharmaceutical company, agreed to a global partnership for land, air and seafreight.

The new generation freighters will be leased to AirBridgeCargo for use on one of their 38 routes between Asia, Europe and North America.

SEKO Logistics names chief operating officer for Asia Pacific region, while enVista hires ocean category manager for Middle East and Africa.

Freight invoicing errors are bleeding shippers, NVOs and even carriers, one small cost at a time.

The Taiwanese ocean carrier reported a loss of 14.91 billion Taiwan new dollars (U.S. $492.1 million) for the full year in 2016 compared with TWD 6.46 billion the previous year, according to the company’s latest filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange.

Walmart is opening an import distribution center in Mobile, Ala., which is expected to boost cargo volumes at APM Terminals Mobile by 10-20 percent.

The world’s fourth largest container shipping line, COSCO Shipping, experienced the 9.9 billion yuan (U.S. $1.44 billion) loss due to weak freight rates and restructuring costs, Reuters said Thursday.

2017 will be a pivotal period for companies doing business in or though Canada, as two geopolitical events will impact its place in the global trade marketplace, according to Keith Haurie, vice president of business development for ONESOURCE Global Trade.

United States gross domestic product increased 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to the “third” estimate from the Department of Commerce, up from a previous estimate of 1.9 percent.

Japanese ocean carrier Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has purchased a 20.9 percent share in PKT Logistics Group, a provider of end-to-end logistics solutions, including freight forwarding, customs brokerage, contract logistics, haulage and distribution.

Port and container loading equipment was delivered to Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Bahamas this month, including the largest operated crane in the Caribbean.