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CMA CGM recently launched the Citrus Express, a seasonal service to transport citrus exports from Turkey and Egypt to Russia.

CMA CGM recently announced the reshuffling of its Asia-Mediterranean services, including the removal of its Turkey Shuttle, effective Nov. 8.

The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners intends to crack down on executives that spend port money improperly.

China's softwood log and lumber imports declined 19 percent year-over-year in the first eight months of 2012.

SANY America said today it is launching container reach stackers and empty-container handlers for port, rail and intermodal cargo use in North America.

America’s six state maritime academies will receive an additional $2.3 million, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration announced recently.

Shipping company Hyundai Merchant Marine will no longer offer refrigerated services from the U.S. East Coast to Asia, starting Jan. 1, 2013.

The two major Canadian railroads and shippers are on track for a clash over legislation regulating service agreements likely to be introduced in Ottawa this fall.

A federal mediator said negotiations on a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract would resume this week following “good progress” in five days of talks that ended Saturday.

J.B. Hunt’s 15 percent year-over-year jump in intermodal revenue in the third quarter appears to be mostly because of volume growth — not pricing.

Customs broker Livingston International acquired Norman G. Jensen, a Minneapolis-based customs broker.

Freight rail company Genesee & Wyoming reported September traffic of 79,239 carloads, down 5.2 percent year-over-year.

August goods exports were $128.5 billion, a $2.1 billion decrease from July; and goods imports were $187.8 billion, a $0.7 billion decrease, announced the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis...

Panalpina Group’s air freight volumes are expected to be weak in the third quarter of 2012, negatively impacting the company’s preliminary earnings...

The Port of Virginia handled 182,318 20-foot-equivalent units in September, up 11 percent compared with September 2011 and the port’s eighth consecutive month of growth...

Direct ChassisLink, Inc. will become a participant and chassis contributor to Consolidated Chassis Management, LLC’s Chicago and Ohio Valley Consolidated Chassis Pool and Gulf Consolidated Chassis Pool...

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering opened a new office in Hong Kong yesterday, expanding its on-board courier services after acquiring Euro Express Ltd...

Global regulations requiring the traceability of food products back to their origins are building momentum in the U.S. container trades, on both import and export shipments.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $30 million in grants to reduce emissions from existing diesel engines...

Year-to-date cargo shipments were 25.1 million metric tons from March 22 to Sept. 30, basically flat compared with the same period in 2011, reported the St. Lawrence Seaway today.

U.S. manufacturing growth will continue to soften for the next three to six months, according to a Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation survey released today.

Global PC shipments are likely to decline in 2012 for the first time in 11 years, according to IHS iSuppli, the technology arm of economic forecaster IHS.