Supply chain

WASHINGTON — New hours of service rules for truck drivers are here to stay following a federal court ruling earlier this month, the president and CEO of the Transportation Intermediaries Association said Thursday.

The Diamond State Port Corp., operator of Delaware’s Port of Wilmington, and Dole Foods have reached an agreement in principle by which Dole will continue to use the Port of Wilmington...

Confusion reigns in China as the transport and logistics industry tries to come to terms with a new value-added tax of 6 percent introduced on Aug. 1.

Vietnam will lift its remaining ban on white offal on Sept. 1, 2013, although it will simultaneously impose several new conditions on imports of the animal product, according to the European Commission.

Expansion of China’s pulp manufacturing capacity in the last five years has resulted in a “dramatic increase” in the importation of wood chips to supply the new paper mills...

Kuehne + Nagel’s board of directors today appointed Detlef Trefzger as its CEO.

Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., next month will introduce legislation that would repeal the controversial harbor maintenance tax and replace it with a user fee to fund harbor dredging and maritime-related intermodal infrastructure projects.

Former U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio, has become the 10th administrator of the Department of Transportation’s Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp.

Identec Solutions has entered into a multi-year alliance with WAM Technologies to expand their refrigerated container monitoring solutions.

Contargo has agreed to buy APM Terminals’ intermodal terminal in Neuss, Germany, for an undisclosed sum.

Allcargo Logistics Ltd., India’s leading international freight forwarder and port-based logistics provider, reported its consolidated net income in the first fiscal quarter, which ended June 30, was Rs. 38.66 crore (about $6.3 million), slipping 32 percent year-over-year.

UPS has expanded its presence in China with the addition of two new contract logistics distribution facilities in Chengdu and Shanghai.

United Nations inspectors have arrived at Panama’s Manzanillo port to examine the North Korean ship carrying hidden military equipment that was intercepted by Panamanian authorities...

The global economy weakened slightly in the second quarter of 2013, mainly driven by declining optimism in Asia and Latin America, although North America showed signs of continuing recovery...

In the second quarter of 2013, the eurozone’s gross domestic product rose 0.3 percent compared with the previous quarter, which was better than expected...

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board today adopted a final rule that will require all rail carriers that submit R-1 reports to begin breaking out expenses for positive train control...

The Border Commerce and Security Council has voiced concerns about U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s plan to fund certain staffing costs through agreements with some border cities.

The federal government needs to better manage, promote and coordinate trade programs so that export resources can be better used to help small and medium-sized business be globally competitive, according to a Government Accountability Office report released today.

The Surface Transportation Board will hold a public hearing this fall related to a petition by The National Industrial Transportation League to modify the board's standards for mandatory competitive switching.

Delegations from North and South Korea will make a last-ditch effort to reopen Kaesong industrial complex later today.

Kewill has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Four Soft, a Hyderabad, India-based software company.

The U.S. and the U.S.-East African Community have agreed to launch formal negotiations on a trade facilitation agreement, according to Michael Froman, U.S. Trade Representative.

OnTrac has decided to expand its San Diego operation to support increased volume.

Kerry Logistics has acquired a majority stake in Cargo Master’s Group, a Mexico-based freight forwarding and logistics company with six domestic offices.

CaroTrans will launch a new direct, weekly less-than-containerload and full containerload export service from Houston to Rio de Janeiro.

The Japanese economy grew 0.6 percent in the April-June quarter from the preceding quarter, or at an annualized pace of 2.6 percent, in real terms, the Cabinet Office said in a preliminary report.

Gulf States Cold Storage has opened a 100,000 square foot cold storage facility serving the Port of Savannah.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today reversed a ruling that turned a price-fixing lawsuit against four U.S.-based Class I railroads into a class action.

Chainalytics has acquired ROCE Partners, a European supply chain management company with offices in Helsinki, Milan and Stockholm.

China’s exports and imports “surprisingly” rebounded in July, offering some hope that the nation’s economy might be stabilizing after more than two years of slowing growth, Reuters reports.

Major Japanese international freight forwarder Kintetsu World Express Inc.’s profit plummeted 42.7 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2013, which started on April 1, from a year earlier to ¥1.364 billion ($14.18 million) on a consolidated basis.

CEVA Holdings today reported net income in the second quarter of 2013 of $197 million, up from $106 million in the second quarter of 2012.

WASHINGTON — It’s still more than three years away, but completion of Customs and Border Protection’s long-delayed major cargo-processing system appears to be in sight.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released a schedule for completing trade processing capabilities in its automated commercial environment by the end of 2016.

The European Commission reported almost 90,000 detention cases were registered by the European Union Customs Union in 2012...

Expeditors International of Washington reported its profit in the second quarter of 2013 was $92.32 million, up 10.0 percent from $83.96 million in the second quarter of 2012.

The Obama administration has vetoed the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ban on the import and sale of some Apple iPhones and iPads...

Domestic flights today resumed taking off and landing at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Kenya, after the facility was damaged and temporarily shut down by a massive fire, CNN reports.