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U.S.-flag vessels on the Great Lakes carried 9.8 million tons of cargo in September, a year-over-year drop of 8 percent.

The donation program enables private and government entities to address efficiency problems at local ports of entry that U.S. Customs doesn’t have sufficient funds for through normal appropriations.

USCIB names new director of customs and trade facilitation, while Coastal Cargo Group picks general manager for New Orleans office.

Meanwhile, a Navy tugboat is en route to the last known location of the ill-fated cargo vessel near Crooked Island, Bahamas carrying equipment to search for the sunken remains of the El Faro, including the voyage data recorder.

The ocean carriers’ decision to withdraw the joint Great Sea/AE3 service is due to low demand out of Asia; service to Black Sea will be maintained through transhipment.

The airline said Friday CEO Oscar Munoz had been admitted to the hospital, but did not provide any additional details.

Container terminals at global top-12 cargo gateways are not even using half of their quay crane capacity, so they can’t truly be considered congested, according to CTI port export Andy Lane.

The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, Bahri, posted net profits of 510.3 million riyals for the quarter ending Sept. 30 and 1.25 billion riyals for the first nine months of 2015.

The U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a five-year sentence for Frank Peake, the former president of Sea Star Line, which recently rebranded as TOTE Maritime.

Bill Reinsch, an outspoken proponent of free trade, has announced that he will retire as head of the National Foreign Trade Council in April 2016.

Truckload pricing grew 3.2 percent for the month compared to September 2014, the seventh consecutive monthly increase, according the latest Cass Truckload Linehaul Index.

Cargo throughput at Hong Kong International Airport rose 1.1 percent year-over-year in September to 368,000 tons after six straight months of year-over-year declines.

Year-over-year rates dropped 2.3 percent in September, the ninth consecutive month of declining prices, according to the latest Cass Intermodal Price Index.

Volga-Dnepr Group has signed a finance lease agreement with JSC Sberbank Leasing to acquire two AN-124-100 Ruslan freighters.

The former Odin Seafood dock on the Prince Rupert waterfront is scheduled to be completely demolished by mid-December.

Ocean carriers Maersk Line, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, Evergreen Line, OOCL and Hamburg Sud issued general rate increases.

Spend Management Experts appoints senior marketing analyst, while Bibby Ship Management names deputy managing director for India.

The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will mark up a long-term surface transportation bill this week and send it to the full House for consideration.

   For the second year in a row officials from PortMiami and Port Everglades participated in the TPM Asia Conference in Asia, Oct. 13-15, as business partners rather than competitors.    The two ports are 30 miles apart and vie for ocean cargo from Central and South America, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe. Everglades surpassed […]

   The PortMiami authority is pushing on all doors to find ones that will open new container markets and attract more shippers.    Besides new cargo from Asia, fruit producers in South America and domestic grain exporters, PortMiami officials also say they want to increase the volume of transshipment cargo in Miami and South Florida. […]