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Two Italian ship guards accused of killing two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast in February last year returned to New Delhi on Friday evening, easing a standoff that threatened to strain diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Whether recent legislation that funds the federal government for the next six months will prevent slated furloughs at Customs and Border Protection that could snarl freight traffic at U.S. ports of entry is unclear.

Toll Intermodal has opened its interstate freight forwarding facility in Kewdale, an intermodal hub in Perth in Western Australia.

U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., has introduced the Customs Training Enhancement Bill, which is intended to facilitate the sharing of information between the private sector and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to allow the U.S. government to better identify foreign companies that illegally avoid customs duties.

The Pacific Merchant Shipping Association and International Longshore and Warehouse Union have sent a joint letter to U.S. Sens. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and other officials...

Terreno Realty Corporation, a U.S. industrial real estate company, has acquired an industrial property in Burien, Wash., for about $6.5 million.

Old Dominion Freight Line has updated its expectations for growth in total tons for the first quarter to a range of 4.5 percent to 5.0 percent, compared with the first quarter of 2012...

Two shipping firms based in Germany and Cyprus have pleaded guilty to felony obstruction of justice charges and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships...

The Journal of Commerce and SJ Consulting Group annually rank the largest less-than-truckload carriers by revenue and track the sector’s economic recovery.

Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, and David Vitter, R-La., ranking member of the...

The Port of New Orleans’ board of commissioners has notified AECOM Technical Services to begin the design of the port’s new Mississippi River Intermodal Terminal Project.

The 2013 shipping season at the Port of Duluth-Superior in Minnesota, on the western edge of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system, has kicked off.

Construction has begun on the Pioneer Project, which will expand the New Town transloading facility in North Dakota, increasing rail capacity in the Williston Basin...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun requiring all exporters of U.S. pork to report weekly export sales to the agency’s Foreign Agricultural Service.

Norfolk Southern reported profit in 2012 was $1.75 billion, dropping 8.7 percent from $1.92 billion in 2011.

APM Terminals and its French consortium partners, Bollore Africa Logistics and Bouygues, have been named preferred bidders to operate a second container terminal in the port of Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire.

The European Parliament’s international trade committee has urged the European Union to reinstate Myanmar’s duty and quota free access to the EU market, in support of the European Commission’s proposal to back Myanmar in its reforms.

Three subsidiaries of Euroseas have entered into time-charter agreements for three container ships...

Zim intends to order cheaper and more efficient container ships to replace the five large vessels the Israeli ocean carrier canceled this week.

OOCL will increase rates for westbound traffic from Asia to Europe, starting April 15.

In April, MacAndrews will set up a refrigerated train service linking Murcia with Balboa in Spain, in order to reinforce its current European 45-foot container reefer multimodal service.

DB Schenker Logistics will launch a new service for French wine producers at the ProWein trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, from March 24-26.

The New Jersey Legislature approved and sent to Gov. Chris Christie a bipartisan bill creating specific penalties for cargo theft.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will hike rates for all cargo in its trade from Asia to the eastern and western Mediterranean, North Africa, the Black Sea, the Adriatic, North Europe and Scandinavia (Baltic), starting April 15.

UPS has appointed Cindy Miller as president of its European business and Derek Woodward as president of the emerging markets division, effective April 30.

The trucking industry ended 2012 on a stronger note than expected, with healthy gains in volume, muted increases in pricing and troubling increases in operating costs.

India’s Port of Cochin said it has increased the maximum draft of vessels calling at the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal to 14 meters (about 46 feet) following harbor and channel dredging.

Singapore-based ocean carrier APL plans to increase rates on all containers moving from India to Canada and the U.S., excluding Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, starting April 1.

The port of Yokohama saw its container trade with foreign countries decline 2.6 percent in 2012 from a year earlier to 2,731,231 twenty-foot-equivalent units, according to preliminary figures released by the Yokohama municipal government.

Three new board members have been appointed to the Maritime New Zealand Authority, including Maxine Moana-Tuwhangai, Belinda Vernon and Russell Watson.

At a naming ceremony at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard on Geojoe Island in South Korea, OOCL unveiled its second 13,208-TEU mega-vessel to join its fleet this year.

Despite a “bad” 2012, ocean container lines managed to get freight rates up enough to generate positive cash flows that are bringing them close to break-even. But even when they do start earning a profit again, they are unlikely to order many new ships.

CenterPoint Properties has started construction on a new Ace Hardware build-to-suit for lease, located in Wilmer, Texas.

Performance Team has hired Jim Townsend as its chief information officer.

Japan’s exports to the United States rose for the second straight month in February on a year-on-year basis, increasing 5.7 percent to $10.60 billion, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Ministry on Thursday.