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ABC appoints VP in Europe and KCS names marketing chief, while GES announces new chief commercial officer.

The port drivers’ seventh strike at Los Angeles and Long Beach in recent years is targeting Pac 9 Transportation in protest over alleged independent contractor misclassification.

Neptune Orient Line, the parent company of ocean carrier APL, said it remains focused on its core liner business.

The derailment of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train spilled more than 35,000 gallons of crude oil just east of Culbertson, Mont., according to an e-mail from DOT official Michael Turnbull.

The World Trade Organization’s Information Technology Agreement was expanded last week to include additional tariff cuts on high-tech trade.

The World Trade Organization on Wednesday announced the expansion of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), which promises to phase out hundreds of tariffs on information technology exports worldwide.

Gov. Brown says the new state report should establish “clear targets to improve freight efficiency, transition to zero-emission technologies, and increase competitiveness.”

The National Transportation Safety Board weighed in on the National Airlines Boeing 747 freighter crash at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan in 2013.

The Belgian port attributed the growth in cargo throughput primarily to increases in the container freight and liquid bulk sectors.

SaaS software provider MatchWerks’ new release allows more options to help shippers and service providers match import and export loads for reuse of containers in supply chains.

Throughput for all main cargo categories at the French port reached 40.4 million tons for the first half of the year, an increase of 6 percent compared with same period last year.

The Chandler, Ari.-based freight broker and exclusive agents’ use of MacroPoint allows third party access to load status, avoiding the need to hire additional staff.

Logistics software provider Descartes’ solution enables U.K.-based Graff Diamonds to integrate EU duty relief program with its customs warehouse procedures.

The airport handled 2.1 million tons of cargo for the first half of 2015, up 0.6 percent from the same period last year.

The port reported a total throughput of 23.37 million tons for the first half of 2015, up 1 percent from the same period the previous year.

“When I was in Maryland we had a different word for that. We didn’t call it misclassification, we called it workplace fraud,” Perez said in an interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” series.

Ocean carriers Maersk Line, MSC, CMA CGM, COSCO and MOL announced general rate increases.

   A maritime financial tsunami is building, and in different ways, it will affect container lines, ports, and shippers.    This commentary focuses on how ports may be affected, since ports are the vital link between liner carriers and their customers. Ports face a big decision with regards to the mega-ships coming on line and whether to invest in upgrading their […]

Container Analytics with Ben Meyer    Port Canaveral, located about halfway down the Atlantic Coast of Florida, this month opened its brand new container terminal. In doing so, however, it became the fourth container-handling port facility on the East Coast of an already crowded state and an even more crowded Southeast U.S. container port market. […]

On Second Thought with Tom Nightingale    Recently, a headline, “Intermodal Surpasses Carload for the First Month on Record,” caught my attention and I thought, “Wow, for what might be perceived as a slow-moving industry, there is definitely change going on around us every day.” The change is evident in what we have seen in […]