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A U.S. House committee rejected a proposal to exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act

Gate automation at terminals in the Chennai Port will increase productivity.

Hyundai Merchant Marine on Friday said it had reached an agreement with shipowners to secure lower charter rates.

France’s Bolloré Group signed a contract with the Southeast Asian state of Timor-Leste to build the country’s primary international seaport.

CMA CGM takes yet another major step toward its NOL acquisition.

Competition in the soft market means lower domestic intermodal rates for shippers today, but a peak season turnaround — when volumes are expected to accelerate back to 2015 levels — could end historically low pricing.

Ports, shippers and politicians from the Brazilian state of São Paulo are lobbying the government to appoint a technocrat to the country’s national port administration.

In what is possibly the most counter-intuitive development so far in this year’s unconventional trans-Pacific peak-shipping season, carriers have announced the suspension of two Asia-U.S. services.

The Port of Oakland’s 83,969 laden 20-foot-equivalent export containers marked the highest monthly total since October 2014, according to the port’s website.

An International Maritime Organization call for countries to exercise regulatory leniency has added to shipper confusion and is the latest harbinger that disruption will hit many of the world’s ports in three weeks.

CMA CGM has agreed to form a joint venture with Singapore-based PSA.

Details were still scant Thursday as to the exact problem that occurred. The port authority had yet to respond to a JOC.com request for specifics.

Online container freight rate management company Xeneta has compiled a list of the reasons why shippers are most likely to leave their current container line.

Europe’s top terminal operators and equipment manufacturers are accelerating moves to help shippers comply with a new international regulation.

U.S. exporters moving goods out of the Port of New York and New Jersey are getting a better understanding of how terminals at the largest U.S. East Coast gateway will handle the new SOLAS rule.

APM Terminals Pipavav, or Gujarat Pipavav Port, has completed an expansion program to boost its container-handling capacity.

Shippers have been told by another carrier of the steep cost of non-compliance with the new container weighing regulations.

A mega-fireboat is dedicated to protect mega-ships in Long Beach.

The largest container terminal in the Northwest Seaport Alliance has stated its position on SOLAS VGM generation.

The Port of Virginia has closed its Virginia International Gateway terminal to inbound truck traffic.

Shipyard, maritime and labor interests have criticized an Alabama congressman’s proposal to exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act’s requirements for U.S.-flag shipping between the island and the U.S. mainland.

Orient Overseas Container Line will offer to weigh containers — at a steep cost — for shippers.

The U.S. Justice Department has indicted an executive for his role in roll-on, roll-off cargo price-fixing.

Trans-Pacific carriers are beginning to phase in their new deployments for the peak-shipping season.

Container terminals in Brazil are hashing out pricing policies for enabling shipper compliance with an international container weight rule that enters force July 1.

Latin America’s demand for polyethylene, the key raw material for plastics production, is forecast to rise sharply.

CentrePort in the New Zealand capital of Wellington is pushing for a deepening project despite shipper recommendations.

Container volumes at India’s major public ports are growing steadily after a sluggish performance last fiscal year.

Like their U.S. counterparts, Canadian exporters know some but not all of the details of how individual container terminals will cope with a new international container weight rule.

Containerized imports are expected to spike in the fall.

The spring freight bounce fell flat for the Phoenix-based trucking company.

Motor carrier offers SOLAS-aimed weighing service, believed to be the first in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The Panama Canal Authority will determine whether its third set of locks where leaks were found are functional.

Canadian National Railway announced Tuesday that chief executive officer Claude Mongeau will step down at the end of June, just months after returning to the railroad’s helm following treatment for a throat tumor.

India’s port regulator has tentatively allowed Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust to charge tolls for truck cargo, but the matter is not yet settled.

United Arab Shipping Company is the latest container line to choose Inttra to help comply with a new international container weighing regulation.

A leading Chinese construction and trading company has acquired a controlling stake in Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

Shipping Corporation of India has teamed up in a vessel-sharing arrangement with a domestic short-sea ship operator.

Southeast Asia’s infrastructure is emerging as a major beneficiary of China’s Belt and Road initiative.

A new automobile shipping processing operation will open at a site adjacent to the Port of Baltimore.