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U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s 2016 West Coast Trade Symposium will be held May 25-26 in Phoenix, Ariz.

   Registration has opened for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s annual Trade Symposium, which was canceled in October due to the government shutdown. The event will be held March 6-7 in Washington.    CBP is calling the meeting its “East Coast Trade Symposium,” leaving open the possibility it will hold a similar event later in the […]

   U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin accepting registrations for its East Coast Trade Symposium today at 1 p.m.    The registration page can be accessed here.

COSCO Pacific Ltd. re-designates executive director and vice chairman, while “K” Line nominates managing executive director, outside directors, and supervisory board members

   The April 27 AS Daily news report included a mistake in the name of Ryder’s TranSync product.

The project will enable third-party logistics provider SEKO to expedite the availability of rates, improve their accuracy since prices are coming directly from UASC in CargoSphere’s cloud-based platform, and reduce staff hours in the process.

The National Transportation Safety Board hopes to recover the voyage data recorder and use it in the agency’s investigation into why the TOTE Maritime general cargo vessel sank last fall, claiming the lives of 33 crew members on board.

Jim Newsome, director of the South Carolina Ports Authority, is arguing for weighing containers at terminals to meet new international safety rules, but the Port of Long Beach says using on-site scales for that purpose is too much of a challenge.

Meanwhile, the ocean carrier alliance members reconfirmed their current cooperation scheme on east-west trades until the end of March 2017.

The outgoing director of the Georgia Ports Authority told a conference in New Orleans this month that port infrastructure can’t be used in a proprietary manner as ship sizes increase at United States ports.

The canal authority will conduct a lottery on Friday to select which of its top 15 customers will be in the spotlight with the historic first passage through the Central American waterway’s new, expanded locks.

Pier 80 in San Francisco, Calif. could handle up to 150,000 automobiles annually as well as other sorts of roll-on/roll-off and breakbulk cargo, the ocean carrier said in a recent interview with American Shipper.

Managed transportation services provider Ryder System leverages JDA’s TMS but wraps around it BI tools and a unique user interface to differentiate in the competitive market.

The Eden Prairie, Minn.-based third-party logistics provider posted a net income of $119 million on revenues of $3.1 billion for the first quarter of 2016.

Canadian National Railway increased net income 13 percent year-over-year to C$792 million (U.S. $627.53 million) in the first quarter of 2016 earnings on revenues that fell 4 percent to C$2.96 billion compared to the same 2015 period.

At $56.9 billion, the March deficit in goods was the smallest since February 2015 and lower than the median forecast of $62.8 billion, based on estimates from economists in a Bloomberg survey.

UPS pilots have elected not to cross the picket line of ground handlers at the Cologne Bonn airport in Germany.

Shipment volumes grew 1.4 percent during the month, but expenditures declined 1 percent from February, according to the latest Cass Freight Index Report.

The government said it will take more active steps to help the nation’s shipping and shipbuilding industries, suffering from oversupply and slowing demand, to reduce debt and weather a global slump.

However, the temperature-sensitive truckload carrier’s operating revenues inched up 0.4 percent year-over-year for the quarter to $161.9 million, despite significantly lower fuel surcharges.