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OOCL, Golden Sea Shipping and Gold Star Line will launch a joint intra-Asia service connecting Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia.

Major Japanese international freight forwarder Kintetsu World Express Inc.’s profit plummeted 42.7 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2013, which started on April 1, from a year earlier to ¥1.364 billion ($14.18 million) on a consolidated basis.

The opening of a new container terminal at Colombo in Sri Lanka, designed to attract transshipment traffic, is unlikely to have a serious impact on the dynamics of liner shipping in the Indian Ocean, analysts say.

New Zealand exporters are operating at a serious disadvantage because of a lack of language and cultural awareness skills, according to a new study.

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners today approved a new port master plan, updating the Port of Los Angeles’s development policies and procedures for the first time in more than three decades.

CEVA Holdings today reported net income in the second quarter of 2013 of $197 million, up from $106 million in the second quarter of 2012.

WASHINGTON — It’s still more than three years away, but completion of Customs and Border Protection’s long-delayed major cargo-processing system appears to be in sight.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released a schedule for completing trade processing capabilities in its automated commercial environment by the end of 2016.

CSX has acquired Eastern Associated Terminal in Tampa, Fla., from Ingram Barge.

Matson reported its net income in the second quarter of 2013 was $20.1 million, up from $7.8 million in the second quarter of 2012.

U.S. Development Group and Gibson Energy have partnered to expand USDG’s crude-by-rail development to Canada, in turn boosting transportation optionality for Gibson’s Hardisty Terminals customers in Alberta.

The volume of containers handled by major ports in India slipped 4.73 percent year-over-year from April to July, the first four months of fiscal year 2013-14, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement.

Schneider National is adding 200 truck drivers in Arizona and opening a facility in Phoenix.

Maersk Inc. has agreed to sell substantially all of the assets of its Bridge Terminal Transport marine drayage subsidiary to an affiliate of Platinum Equity, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm.

Montreal, Maine and Atlantic, the Maine-based railroad whose oil train caused the explosion in July that claimed 47 lives in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today.

Deutsche Post DHL reported its profit in the second quarter of 2013 was €422 million (about US$562.2 million), improving from €196 million in the second quarter of 2012.

A program to require radio-frequency identification tags on trucks serving container terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey will go into effect Aug. 19.

Hapag-Lloyd reported its profit in the second quarter of 2013 was €20.9 million (about US$27.8 million), compared with a net loss of €7.3 million in the same period last year.

The European Commission reported almost 90,000 detention cases were registered by the European Union Customs Union in 2012...

Expeditors International of Washington reported its profit in the second quarter of 2013 was $92.32 million, up 10.0 percent from $83.96 million in the second quarter of 2012.

The Obama administration has vetoed the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ban on the import and sale of some Apple iPhones and iPads...

Domestic flights today resumed taking off and landing at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Kenya, after the facility was damaged and temporarily shut down by a massive fire, CNN reports.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide reported its net income in the second quarter of 2013 totaling $111.9 million, down 2.4 percent from $114.6 million in the second quarter of 2012.

U.S. air cargo imports are facing “sporadic” and “relatively minimal” delays because of heightened national security over terror threats, requiring the double screening of shipments on commercial flights coming from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said the head of the Airfowarders Association.

YRC Worldwide today reported a net loss of $15.1 million in the second quarter of 2013, compared with a net loss of $22.6 million in the second quarter of 2012.

International Airlines Group reported cargo traffic of 468 million metric-ton-kilometers in July, down 8.6 percent from 512 million metric-ton-kilometers of cargo in July 2012.

Nippon Express Co., Japan’s largest international freight forwarder, said its net profit surged 34.4 percent to 6.858 billion yen ($69.62 million) in its fiscal 2013 first quarter, which ended June 30.

Shippers in Asia are shifting as much marginal cargo away from air freight as possible to further cut supply chain costs even though air freight rates ex Asia are now at historic lows, according to leading 3PL executives.

In seasonally adjusted terms, Australia had a goods and services trade surplus of A$602 million (about $541.2 million) in June, an increase of A$95 million, or 19 percent...

Gateway Distriparks Ltd., India’s leading port-based logistics provider, reported a consolidated net income of $4.9 million for its first fiscal quarter, which ended June 30, a decline of 14.7 percent year-over-year.

Non-operating owners of vessels that charter small feeder ships to shipping lines are getting hit hard by the waning of demand for these ships.

Israel’s National Labor Court has ordered the federal government to temporarily halt tenders for the building of two new private ports until Sept. 1 and launch negotiations with unions regarding the process, Haaretz reports.

In June, the U.S. goods deficit decreased $9.7 billion from May to $53.2 billion.

The Port of Baltimore’s public marine terminals handled a record 9.55 million tons of general cargo in fiscal year 2013, from July 2012 through June 2013...

President Obama has signed an executive order, “Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security,” in response to the explosion earlier this year at a fertilizer facility in West, Texas.

The U.K. has issued the highest possible security alert to British shipping companies operating off the coast of Yemen, according to an expert, BigPond News reports.