Maritime

NTSB says the Navy was unable to locate ship’s mast and its base where voyage data recorder was mounted.

Congress has until the end of the week to reconcile respective long-term federal transportation and infrastructure spending bills from the House and Senate and prevent a shutdown of highway funding.

A permit application to Army Corps of Engineers for a new terminal, which would be located in S.C. just down river from the Port of Savannah, and channel modification study is expected at the end of the fiscal 2015 year.

Ahmad Feras Diri of London was arraigned Friday in the United States on charges that he allegedly conspired to illegally export U.S. chemical laboratory equipment to Syria.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM and its subsidiary lines Cheng Lie Navigation, ANL and Delmas will join Hanjin’s KPI service, which operates between Korea, China, Singapore and Indonesia.

The German port handled 104.6 million tons of cargo during the first nine month of 2015, a 4.8 percent decrease from the corresponding period in 2014.

The Columbia Group of Companies is opening a new intermodal chassis depot in Bayonne, N.J. today, with Trac Intermodal slated be the facility’s first customer.

The German airport handled 88,336 tons of freight in October, a 10.1 percent increase from Oct. 2014.

Nearly half of the 250 bridges observed showed signs of “significant stress and decay,” according to a new investigative report from environmental advocacy groups Waterkeeper Alliance and ForestEthics.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo expressed concerns a project to build a liquid natural gas terminal 19 miles off Long Island could potentially become a target for terrorism, create problems in a storm, and interfere with a proposed wind farm.

Price indexes for both imports to and exports from the United States have now fallen in 10 of the past 12 months, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Rates from Shanghai to Northwest Europe, the Mediterranean and the United States have declined for the past two consecutive weeks.

A DSD Shipping company memo warned employees “could get caught for polluting” if an oily-water separator on the vessel Stavanger Blossom was not fixed, and now three seamen face the possibility of up to 20 years in prison.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM and its subsidiary line Delmas will begin purchasing slots on the transpacific CEN loop, on which COSCO and CSCL provide vessels.

Uruguay is the only foreign country to receive the United State Department of Agriculture’s “Never Ever 3” certification, which requires an open range production system, without the use of antibiotics, growth promoters or animal by-products.

The Northern California port and industrial and logistics real estate developer CenterPoint Properties have begun discussing plans to develop transload and cross-dock facilities on a 20 acre site adjacent to a new rail yard at the Port of Oakland.

The new Country Commercial Guides are prepared by trade and economic specialists at U.S. embassies and consulates to highlight market conditions in each country, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The logistics provider and container terminal operator posted revenues of 868.9 million euros for the first nine months of 2015, a 4.2 percent decline from the corresponding period in 2014.

C.H. Robinson has named new North American Surface Transportation division president, while Crowley has appointed VP for stakeholders relations in Alaska.

The Port of New Orleans handled 537,285 TEUs in the past year through September 2015, surpassing the half million-TEU mark for the first time in any 12-month period, CEO Gary LaGrange said at the 29th Annual State of the Port Address.