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Bertram Rickmers has offered to give up control of Rickmers Holding.

The battle for market share in India's northwestern hinterland will heat up further in the coming months.

The move is seen as another step in an ongoing campaign to reform the country's port and shipping network.

More information is beginning to come in on the mounting vessel delays at Shanghai's Yangshan port.

If it gets regulatory approval, a futures market for truck freight rates, based on DAT data, could help shippers mitigate pricing risks as the market gets more volatile.

Brazilian President Michel Temer is following through on a promise to privatize Brazilian port authorities.

Grimaldi is enhancing a service it began in 2015.

New Delhi’s interest in Trincomalee could be a response to China’s growing influence in the Indian Ocean.

The fight underscores how explosive the petition is becoming.

Poor conditions are exacerbating the challenges brought about by the new alliances at the port of Yangshan off the coast of Shanghai.

The digital innovation “will give rise to a new generation of freight trains.”

Competition among ports in the region is heating up.

Terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey will mark Earth Day by using low emissions yard tractors and cargo-handling equipment.

Facing tougher customer demands and more supply chain complexity, shippers increasingly want and need to collaborate with transportation partners. It doesn't happen overnight.

"It’s a new market presence for our company.”

This week’s windmill-blade shipment was the first of three booked through Longview this year.

Overall throughput increased 1.5 percent.

ClearMetal believes AI and machine learning integrated into its software can retool the industry by offering more accurate container passage predictions.

Shippers and freight forwarders were increasingly dissatisfied with container lines through 2016.

European airlines accounted for half of the increase in global air cargo traffic to a five-year high in 2016.

Transport and logistics services providers in India are disappointed and bewildered at government changes to a controversial tax.

The largest cranes at the ports of Kobe and Osaka can now serve ships with 22 rows and 18 rows of containers, respectively.

J.B. Hunt’s less optimistic outlook could be an early indicator of what to expect from Class I railroads and trucking companies’ first-quarter earnings to be released over the next several weeks.

Prologis says first US port-adjacent, multi-story distribution facility in Seattle could be followed by others in major port cities.

XPO Logistics won victories over the Teamsters in elections at two facilities, but the union won a vote in New Jersey.

Shippers and logistics operators at recent conferences didn't expect a massive capacity crunch to follow the rollout of an electronic logging mandate this year, but truckers warned there will be an impact.

Spot rates in eastbound Pacific continue single-digit decline.

If negotiations fail, it would be the second nationwide stoppage at major ports in two years.

Modest, sustained, and earlier-than-usual rate increases this spring in the spot market should be a canary in the coal mine for shippers with longer term contracts.

Carriers in most cases have kept the rate on the West Coast that they charge their largest customers above $1,000 per feu container.

There was only a slight upward movement of spot rates on Asia-Europe, according to the SCFI.

Former Long Beach harbor commissioner and current FMC member will return to Southern California to become executive director of Port of Long Beach.

The operator of the Port of New York and New Jersey’s first ever terminal gate appointment program is expanding the 4-month-old pilot initiative.

Knowledge is power in contract talks, shippers at the NASSTRAC conference say.

The northeast Brazilian port of Suape is seeking developers of what could become the country’s most valued container terminal.

Container traffic at the port of Rotterdam grew 8.8 percent in the first three months of the year, the biggest ever quarterly increase.

Kuehne + Nagel signs agreement with Alibaba to send goods by sea, rail, and truck.

Knight-Swift merger, Schneider public offering, seen triggering more truckload acquisitions, consolidation, and soon.

Seattle and Tacoma are operating more efficiently and profitably since they formed the Northwest Seaport Alliance.