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Echo Global Logistics appoints new VP of marketing, while Alliance Shippers names VP for Ohio Valley region.

The cases, involve courier and taxi companies that allegedly underpaid workers for their service, are the latest to challenge the traditional owner-operator driver model.

Third party logistics provider Kane Is Able says Volvo breached its warranties and the 3PL is entitled to compensation for the truck that caught fire and six remaining CNG vehicles.

The ocean carrier members of the G6 Alliance will cancel four additional sailings in the Asia to Europe trade, one each on their Loop 4, Loop 5, Loop 6 and Loop 7 services.

Officials in the Chinese city are curbing the movement of petroleum and other chemicals through the port while the investigation into last week’s massive warehouse explosion continues.

Customs workers at Brazilian ports have planned a pay-related, ‘standard operation’ strike in which the minimum permitted numbers of staff will be on duty.

DHL’s new European parcel division said the move is designed to respond to demand for e-commerce deliveries.

The airport attributed the 1.9 percent year-over-year decrease in cargo volumes to a 5 percent year-over-year decline in transshipments.

The $30 million rail entrance project at the Port of Vancouver, designed to increase the efficiency of rail movement through the port, was completed last week.

The airport attributed the growth in cargo volumes in the last 12 months to additional flights added by some carriers to diminish supply chain problems from the backlog at the Channel Tunnel.

The international express parcel carrier opened the DHL Express Melbourne Gateway facility at the Melbourne Airport to better serve regional businesses that operate in and out of Australia.

Investment firm Brookfield Infrastructure Consortium will purchase 55 percent of Asciano Limited in a deal that will value the rail and port logistics provider at approximately $8.8 billion.

Containerized cargo declined last month in L.A., grew slightly in Oakland and spiked in Long Beach as East Coast captures market share.

Business groups are applauding the opening of diplomatic relations, hoping it will lead to commercial opportunities in a new market.

Merger speculation continues as CIOSCO says it is “contemplating a plan on a material event.”

Vessel charterer sees benefits from cost management and stronger U.S. dollar.

Reports allege that hundreds of tons of sodium cyanide were illegally stored at the site of explosion.

Container throughput slipped 6.8 percent year-over-year in the first half of the year to 4.5 million TEUs, which resulted from the port”s sluggish trade with China and Russia, the weak ruble, a drop in oil prices and the economic recession.

Danish carrier will no longer transport chemical that has been blamed for ship fires.

From the late 1960s onward, he represented numerous air freight carriers and forwarders in old fashioned way.