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The European Shippers’ Council, which represents freight transportation interests in Europe, has held a meeting to respond to anti-competitive developments in the shipping liner market.

Nova Scotia’s Halifax Port Authority board of directors has renewed Karen Oldfield’s contract as president and CEO for a five-year term, effective Jan. 1, 2013.

The National Retail Federation and more than 100 national and state associations today sent a letter to President Obama to urge the administration to ensure that an International Longshoremen’s Association strike does not occur.

China is on track to produce more corn than rough rice for the first time in history, according to the U.S. Grains Council.

Supply chain management company CEVA Logistics has entered into a joint venture in Vietnam with longtime partner Indo Trans Logistics Group.

Crowley Maritime Corporation today announced additional organizational realignments within its shipping and logistics team, effective Jan. 1, including the appointment of Nelly Yunta to vice president of sales...

Port operator Yildirim has acquired RotaPort, a port in Korfez, Turkey, located about 80 kilometers (about 50 miles) from Istanbul.

Transportation marketplace uShip.com has closed an $18 million round of Series C financing with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to extend the development, sales and marketing of uShip’s commercial freight platform...

French competition regulators fined SNCF, the state-owned rail company, 61 million euros ($80.5 million) for preventing new companies from entering the freight market following liberalization in 2006.

Changi Airport Group, manager and operator of Singapore Changi Airport, will increase air cargo rebates in the face of continuing air freight headwinds, the company said in a written statement.

Dockworkers at Charleston refused to unload a ship for about two hours...

Det Norske Veritas and Germanischer Lloyd today announced they are merging to create the world’s biggest ship classification society, accounting for nearly 18 percent of the global fleet.

Rhenus Revival, a freight forwarding subsidiary of logistics company Rhenus Group, has moved its Stuttgart branch to Fellbach, which are both in the Baden-Wurttemberg state of southern Germany.

The average confidence level expressed by respondents in November’s Shipping Confidence Survey, conducted by accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens and based on 450 responses...

With contract negotiations at an impasse, International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett has directed ILA locals to prepare for a Dec. 30 strike at East and Gulf Coast ports.

Laden container volume at the Port of Oakland fell 4.6 percent in November year-over-year and 8.2 percent from October, to 190,556 20-foot-equivalent units.

OOCL recently announced changes to Israel terminal-handling charges and rate increases for Canada's trans-Pacific westbound trade.

Somali pirates took five Indian sailors hostage after attacking a German oil tanker off the southern coast of Nigeria.

Produce importer Sol Shipping Services has entered a five-year agreement to operate a five-acre marine terminal at Port Everglades in Florida.

Nashville, Ind.-based transportation forecaster FTR Associates’ Shippers Conditions Index for October was -5.0, improving nearly two points from September.

The Jacksonville Port Authority’s board of directors today unanimously named Roy Schleicher as interim CEO, filling the vacancy created by the departure of A. Paul Anderson.

The Stifel Nicolaus Logistics Confidence Index, a monthly survey of international shippers and forwarders measuring European-based trade lanes, conducted by Stifel Nicolaus Transportation & Logistics Research Group...

The Saint Lawrence Seaway handled 5.1 million metric tons (about 5.6 million tons) of cargo shipments in November, increasing 11 percent year-over-year.

Dutch shipbuilding company Damen Shipyards Group today acquired ship repair yard Arno Dunkerque, located in the Port of Dunkirk in France.

Air and ocean freight provider Logwin today opened a new office in Shantou, China, a growing port city located near Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Xiamen.

Eight European container ports handled 12.5 percent of the total TEU throughput...

Transporeon and Ticontract, two Transporeon Group companies specializing in e-logistics solutions, has opened a new joint headquarters in Singapore.

Railcar maker The Greenbrier Companies’ advisors have engaged in discussions with Carl Icahn and his associates regarding an acquisition of Greenbrier by American Railcar Industries...

FedEx Freight increased its profit 90 percent from a year ago as less-than-truckload revenue and freight demand climbed in the three months that ended Nov. 30.

Eight container ports in the Americas handled 8.7 percent of the total TEU throughput...

FedEx today reported its income in the second quarter, ending Nov. 30, was $438 million, dropping 12 percent from $497 million in the same quarter last year.

Russian intermodal container transportation company TransContainer reported rail container volume in the first nine months of 2012 was 1.1 million 20-foot-equivalent units, rising 10.2 percent year-over-year.

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals, which handles cargo at Hong Kong International Airport, has been fully meeting the new Transportation Security Administration requirement that became mandatory on Dec. 12.

Crowley Maritime Corp.’s liner services division has named Tony Otero as vice president of Caribbean services.

The South Carolina Ports Authority reported that the Port of Charleston handled 125,780 20-foot-equivalent units in November, up nearly 12 percent year-over-year.