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The express carrier is installing more efficient engines in more than 100 of its hybrid electric vehicles.

Acquiring the cloud-based multi-tenant TMS and managed transportation services provider will allow Kewill to expand the customer base of LeanLogistics’s platform through its broader global reach.

Kewill will pay Brambles, the Australian holding company that owns Michigan-based LeanLogistics, $115 million to acquire the cloud-based multi-tenant TMS and managed transportation services provider.

At a briefing in Washington, D.C., Singapore’s ambassador to the Unites States Ashok Kumar Mirpuri said trade is what plugs in smaller economies and opens selling opportunities for United States firms.

A CSX freight train carrying hazardous materials went off the rails along a busy route in Northeast Washington, D.C. early Sunday morning, spilling sodium hydroxide and forcing the suspension of service on the Metro’s Red Line.

CSX train derails in Washington, D.C.

More than 100 neopanamax ships have already made reservations to transit the waterway’s new larger locks following the historic inauguration and first voyage, according to the Panama Canal Administration.

Importing cargo from Asia to Central Europe is more sustainable when done through big ports in the north than through southern Europe, which requires longer hinterland routes, according to a new study by Netherlands-based research firm Panteia.

The 12,500-TEU containership MSC Fabiola was successfully refloated early Saturday morning, allowing vessel traffic in the important cargo gateway to resume as normal, according to a customer advisory from shipping agency GAC.

Econocaribe has become one of the biggest NVOs in the U.S. market during its 28 years, but the company is now fully integrated in name and operations with parent company ECU Line.

The Tokyo-based third-party logistics provider also unveiled the construction of a logistics facility in Myanmar’s Thilawa Special Economic Zone.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is seeking to resolve an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into the agency’s bond statements on the financing of tunnel, bridge and road projects.

Yu joined the Taiwanese shipping company in 1984 and became president in 2013.

“All of our proposals are public; they have already been published,” Ignacio Garcia Bercero, the European Union’s chief negotiator in talks with the U.S. on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership told reporters in Brussels on Monday.

The e-commerce giant’s strong results validated CEO Jeff Bezos’s customer-centric philosophy and the Amazon Prime membership model, sending company stock up the most in almost a year Friday morning.

The air cargo terminal operator achieved new throughput records for March and the first quarter of 2016.

The international oil shipping services provider’s net profits for the first quarter of 2016 soared 40.4 percent year-over-year to $113.5 million.

New orders for manufactured durable goods grew 0.8 percent to $230.7 billion in March 2016 following a revised 3.1 percent monthly decrease in February, according to data from the United States Census Bureau.

Asset-light trucking and third-party logistics provider Roadrunner Transportation Systems has expanded its less-than-truckload service to include outbound service from Vancouver, British Columbia.

The international transportation and logistics company opened a new office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.