The New York Shipping Association’s reduced assessment will apply to about 60 percent of import containers that move to within 260 miles of the port.
Pulse Canada has asked the Canadian government to postpone the sunset provisions of the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act, which will take effect Aug. 1.
Liner carriers Wan Hai and IAL will launch a service between China and Southeast Asia next week.
The paperless trade solutions provider opened an office in Shanghai, marking its first office in the Chinese market.
The Port of Jacksonville appointed a senior director of facilities development, while Lamar University named an executive director of its new Center for Advances in Port Management.
The Swiss-based third-party logistics provider increased net profits 10.5 percent year-over-year to 169 million Swiss francs for the first quarter of 2016.
Delivery robots designed by Starship and a startup called Dispatch will begin transporting goods from local businesses directly to customers later this year.
U.K. chemical companies’ 50 billion pounds in annual exports may be threatened if Britain votes to leave the European Union as trade agreements will have to be redrawn.
ZIM Pacific Atlantic Service (ZPA) will start in early May and offer connections from the U.S. East Coast to South Korea and China.
Nine shipyards will share $4.9 million from the U.S. Maritime Administration for modernization projects aimed at making them more globally competitive.
Swiss WorldCargo, the air freight division of Swiss International Air Lines Ltd., has entered an agreement with va-Q-tec to provide cold-chain services for its global network.
The freight forwarding and logistics company launched two new less-than-container-load services.
South Korean steelmaker POSCO this spring plans to start building a $19 million wire rod processing plant at the Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville.
The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, Bahri, saw net profits skyrocket 54 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2015 to 612 million Saudi riyal.
Third-party logistics services provider time:matters has expanded its same-day services from Portugal to about 20 destinations across Europe.
The logistics company opened a new 200,000-square-foot cold storage and blast freezing facility in Savannah, GA.
The airport handled 368,000 metric tons of cargo in March, a 1.1 percent year-over-year increase, primarily driven by 5 percent growth in exports and 3 percent growth in transshipments.
A federal factfinding agency’s report said while lifting U.S. trade and travel restrictions to Cuba will inevitably expand exports to the Caribbean country, those opportunities in the medium term may be modest at best.
One year after ports were snarled during ILWU contract negotiations, FMC has yet to receive complaint or petition.
A research ship will search waters off the coast of the Bahamas for a second time in an attempt to locate the voyage data recorder from the vessel, which may have clues on how it sank.
