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Spot rates on the Asia-Europe and Mediterranean trades continued their downward spiral this week, even as container shipping lines wearily prepared to hit the market with the second general rate increase this month on Sept. 20.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. has acquired a 45 percent stake in the Trieste Marine Terminal as the 2M Alliance positions itself to capitalize on a European Union infrastructure initiative known as the TEN-T.

Finland’s ports and rail freight trains are at a standstill as workers participate in the biggest nationwide strike since 1993 to protest the government’s latest austerity measures.

An educational trainee who worked his way up to head of customer service at Maersk Line South China will now lead operations at the North China division of the top global container line.

Hapag-Lloyd is reportedly aiming for a stock market listing in mid-November that could value the German ocean carrier at around 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion).

As retailers gear up for this year’s peak holiday shipping season, consumers are looking to them for one thing: more options, according to a new Pitney Bowes survey.

Florida’s ports of Jacksonville and Manatee will begin handling direct imports of select cold-treated produce from South America next month, bringing new business to the Sunshine State and cutting logistics costs for produce shippers.

The third-party logistics provider Transplace has acquired M33 Integrated for an undisclosed sum, the latest acquisition taking the industry by storm and one that will beef up the Texas-based company’s chemical handling capabilities.

U.S. shippers say they are having a harder time shifting freight from the roads to intermodal rail, but those that have already done so say they are sticking with rail service.

Household spending in the U.S. and European Union will revive flagging container shipping demand in the second half, a chief shipping analyst at BIMCO said.

Siem Car Carriers, a Norway-based car carrier, has agreed to pay a $135,000 penalty under a compromise agreement with the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission.

Container volume growth at the Port of Charleston slowed to 4 percent last month, following several months of double-digit increases and reflecting difficult comparisons with a then-record August 2014.

China, Japan, and South Korea are expanding an initiative aimed at sharing information, particularly warnings of danger, following the deadly explosions that rocked Tianjin port last month.

UTi Worldwide has shaken up management in its ailing air freight forwarder division.

The deadlines for federal rules requiring U.S. truck drivers to use electronic logging devices and prohibiting shippers, brokers and motor carriers to break safety rules have been pushed back a month until Oct. 30.

Low U.S. fuel prices give the trucking industry a window of opportunity to convince elected officials to increase the gasoline tax and dedicate the revenue to rebuilding the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, trucking executives said this week.

The seven-year U.S. economic recovery is getting "long in the tooth," Chicago Federal Reserve Bank economist William Strauss said, but there's life in the "tortoise" yet.

The world’s container ship capacity has just broken through the 20 million 20-foot-equivalent units barrier after carriers set a new record for the shortest time to add one million TEUs to the fleet, according to Alphaliner.

China will pass the U.S. and become the world’s largest apparel market by 2019, according to a forecast by market researcher Euromonitor that compared the industry performance in the world’s two largest economies.

China’s two largest port operators Cosco Pacific and China Merchants Holdings (International) and a third investor have paid close to $1 billion for a controlling stake in a Turkish container terminal, marking the latest giant investment in the mainland’s ambitious One Belt, One Road trade strategy.

Independent truckers ended a more than week-long protest that ground Toronto area cargo deliveries to a near-halt after they said transport companies agreed to raise their wages.

U.S. Northeast consumers’ growing appetite for e-commerce is cooking up a “red hot” industrial real estate market around the Port of New York and New Jersey — a trend great for developers and pricey for shippers, the head of an industrial real estate trade association said Wednesday.

U.S. freight shippers enjoying an unusual period of “loose” capacity shouldn’t get complacent, speakers at the 2015 FTR Transportation Conference here warned.

The Hub Group has tapped a consultant to its board of directors and a former executives who has filled multiple roles as president and COO, replacing Mark Yeager who abruptly left both positions in August.

Weak demand in the less-than-truckload market and higher-than-expected operating costs in its ground segment spurred FedEx to trim down its earnings outlook for 2016.

Officials of the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance said they’re committed to trying to work out East and Gulf coast port labor contract that would extend to 2025.

Russia’s AirBridgeCargo Airlines is pulling further ahead of its troubled European rivals as it continues to post double digit increases in traffic month after month.

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has signed a partnership agreement with China Southern Cargo spanning the carriers’ global networks.

Russia’s economic downturn is largely responsible for a flat third quarter peak season on the Asia-North Europe trade, forcing ocean carriers to apply more permanent reductions in capacity, according to Drewry Maritime Research.

Amid shaky Brazilian business confidence, the country’s agriculture and livestock minister is trumpeting the near completion of dozens of contracts worth nearly $2 billion with importers in 14 countries.

astman Chemical is avoiding hundreds of 300-mile round truck trips a month to the Port of Charleston by loading them at the inland port in Greer, South Carolina.

Volume-based toll reductions for container lines that regularly deploy large vessels through the expanded Panama Canal will make the canal route from Northeast Asia to the U.S. East Coast highly competitive with West Coast and Suez Canal routings, a Panama Canal Authority executive said.

Big container ships are necessary and here to stay, so marine terminals, ocean carriers and cargo interests must cooperate to ensure that logjams at ports, a Maersk Line executive said.

India’s global merchandise exports tumbled 20.7 percent year-over-year in August, the ninth straight month of declines, even as the Narendra Modi-led government continues to roll out new schemes to stimulate trade and economic growth.

Mundra International Container Terminal, a major gateway for India’s northwestern hinterlands, this week celebrated the first ship call of the Far East-Middle East, or FM3, service, a fixed-day, weekly intra-Asia loop by Maersk Line.

The U.S. Postal Service has become the latest national postal organization to partner with Alibaba as the Chinese e-commerce giant aggressively expands its global cross-border delivery network.

Cathay Pacific and sister carrier Dragonair reported flat growth in air cargo during August as the Hong Kong-based airlines limp into the slack period before what is hoped will be a last-quarter peak season.

Certain shippers tapping southbound U.S.-Mexico intermodal services offered by Schneider National won’t have to wait on protracted clearance processes at the border, thanks to new streamlined customs processes announced Tuesday.