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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, law enforcement agencies from five European countries, and the European Police Office...

Like favorable winds for a ship sailing out of harbor, bipartisan optimism billows behind Congress’s drafting of a long-delayed port and inland waterways bill.

India’s economic growth slowed to 5.3 percent in the second quarter, its lowest level in nine years, Coface recently reported in its assessment of the country’s fiscal performance.

The European Union said it plans to finalize a free trade agreement with Canada in the “coming weeks” that could boost annual two-way trade by more than $33 billion.

Europe’s imports and exports are expected to decline in the next six months amid concerns that the region’s economy will contract further, according to Global Port Tracker’s North Europe Trade Outlook.

A.R.T. Logistics has opened its global headquarters in Hong Kong.

IJS Global has appointed Tim McKisson as vice president sales in the U.S.

Logistics provider Samuel Shapiro & Co. has named C. Walter Starr the firm's new chief financial officer.

Bremen-based Kieserling Group will merge with logistics service provider Compass Ocean Logistics.

Yusen Logistics will not appeal an antitrust ruling by the Tokyo High Court to the Supreme Court, the Japanese freight forwarder said Thursday.

Automotive logistics specialist Gefco is targeting the lucrative and fast-growing Asian wine logistics market.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ board of directors recently voted to elect Michael Lewis, Rhode Island’s transportation director, as president for 2013.

Logistics, supply chain and freight forwarding company Yusen Logistics recently opened its largest solar power generation system at its warehouse facility in Port Murray, N.J.

The Rhenus group, a European logistics service, recently opened its newly constructed 41,000 square meter logistics center in Frankfurt, Germany.

About 270,200 logistics jobs will be created each year in the U.S. between 2012 and 2018, according to a study from the Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics, a division of the state’s economic development department. But U.S. vocational schools, colleges and universities are only producing about 75,280 formally trained, degreed or certified workers a year qualified for those jobs, the study found.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials board of directors today voted to approve Frederick G. “Bud” Wright as executive director.

Dallas-based package and freight shipping firm Worldwide Express today named Amy Milligan as vice president of marketing and business analytics.

Commercial trucks crossing the U.S. border into Canada have been given a reprieve: The Canada Border Services Agency won’t begin assessing fines or refusing entries to trucks and drivers not meeting eManifest requirements until May.

The Food and Drug Administration has a daunting task ahead: inspecting food imports to keep the U.S. food supply safe, according to a new report by the congressional General Accountability Office.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Coast Guard and representatives from the barge and shipping industries held a press conference in St. Louis on Nov. 16 to discuss government-industry cooperation in managing the Mississippi River...

The recession hit as green warehouse development was taking hold. Now, it’s back.

Commercial warehousing may be a latecomer to the environmental trend, but given the synergies between efficiency and sustainability, shippers, third-party logistics providers and developers are enthusiastically embracing it.

The World Trade Organization on Nov. 16 adopted panel and appellate body reports in the United States' dispute with China about the imposition of duties on U.S. exports of grain oriented flat-rolled electrical steel, according to Ron Kirk, U.S. Trade Representative.

UPS today published new rates for 2013, including an average net increase of 4.5 percent for all UPS air and U.S.-origin international services, and 4.9 percent on UPS ground services, effective Dec. 31.

Changes in European Union trade rules could cause Caribbean countries to lose up to 10 million euros by the end of the decade from falling rum revenues, reported the Overseas Development Institute, a UK think tank on international development issues.

Nicaragua was recently approved for a $39.2 million loan by the Inter-American Development Bank to improve the efficiency and safety of its transportation system.

Germany-based logistics provider Dachser recently opened a branch in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, the company’s fourth South African office.

The IEC System of Conformity Assessment Schemes for Electrotechnical Equipment and Components, which provides conformity testing and certification for the safety and performance of electronic products...

Cordstrap, a cargo securing systems company, recently appointed Brad Tribble as CEO.