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The Panama Canal Authority has issued a notice to Vinci Construction Grands Projets to start building a bridge on the Atlantic side of the canal.

Container lines could earn nearly $5 billion this year, but only if demand meets projections.

Despite carriers’ attempts to pull capacity from east-west trade routes, weak cargo volumes are limiting their to hike freight rates for any sustainable period.

Business development and shipping consulting company Moore Stephens International recently reported that banks will exert more control over the shipping industry in 2013.

Econocaribe has appointed John Kamada as manager of its U.S. West Coast region.

The Port of Baltimore’s Seagirt and Dundalk public marine terminals will be open Saturday for the delivery and receipt of cargo if no agreement is reached...

TT Club, the Port Equipment Manufacturers Association, and cargo-handling association ICHCA International have published recommended safety standards for container yard...

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.

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

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.

Representatives of the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance resumed negotiations today...

Container trailer operators on Dec. 15 called off a three-day strike at the APM Terminals facility in India’s Port of Nhava Sheva...

The perennial shortage of containers in the U.S. Midwest is beginning to hamper the export operations of precisely the kind of small companies that President Obama’s National Export Initiative aims to encourage.

Shanghai is the most popular port of call for the largest container ships...

Container trailer operators serving the APM Terminals facility in India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) launched an indefinite strike...

When the Panama Canal’s third set of locks opens sometime in mid-2015, it won’t be the last time the Panama Canal Authority expands the canal, former administrator Alberto Aleman Zubieta says.

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett won authorization from ILA delegates to call a strike if a bargaining impasse isn’t settled before the union’s contract expires Dec. 29.

The 2012 U.S. corn crop is high quality and improves upon last year’s good marks across a range of test factors, despite the worst drought in decades this year...

The Retail Industry Leaders Association and National Retail Federation have urged the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance to reach...

Striking workers from the Office Clerical Unit of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63’s and employers at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have reached a tentative deal on a new contract, ending the strike that has crippled operations at the two ports since last week.

Dutch heavy lift shipping company Dockwise have rejected a 682 million euro ($887 million) takeover offer from Boskalis

Troy Container Line has expanded and relocated its Charlotte, N.C.-based import office to another part of the city to provide extra space for staff.

Fort Smith, Ark.-based freight transportation company ABF Global Supply Chain Services is now serving Europe and Turkey with ocean transport...

Dordrecht, Netherlands-based Trifleet Leasing, a tank container lessor, has appointed Blue Service as its agent to develop markets in Czech Republic and Slovakia for tank container leasing.

The arrival in Long Beach of Mediterranean Shipping Co.’s Fabiola earlier this year, with a capacity of 12,500 20-foot-equivalent container units, followed by MSC’s even-larger 13,798-TEU Beatrice, signaled a profound challenge to California’s container ports.

Memphis-based heavy lift and heavy transportation company Barnhart Crane & Rigging recently opened three new branch offices in Charleston, S.C.; Owensboro, Ky., and Richland, Wash., continuing...

Boskalis Westminster today made a 682 million euro ($887 million) offer for Dockwise.