The VetOpps bill (H.R. 3739) will allow qualified Veterans Administration doctors to perform medical exams required by the Transportation Department to obtain a commercial driver’s licence.

The port’s container freight and liquid bulk volumes rose in the first nine months of 2015 compared to the same period in 2014, but breakbulk volumes dropped due to increasing containerization of fruit and a decline in conventional handling.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority and Kloosterboer are investing in Rotterdam Cool Port on the City Terminal site, which ceased operations at the beginning of the month.

The Northern European airport handled 39,533 tons of cargo for the month, an increase of 1.6 percent from September 2014.

The multipurpose Gulf Coast port signed a two-year agreement with the Central Ohio River Business Association to strengthen commerce between the two regions.

CEVA Logistics established an agreement with Fintyre, an Italian distributor of replacement tires, who will use the third-party logistics company’s TyreCity in Somaglia Italy to provide warehousing activities for its stock buffer products.

Chief U.S. District Court Judge Gregory K. Frizzel sentenced former chief executive James Douglas Pielsticker to serve seven and one-half years in prison and pay a fine of $21 million for conspiracy to defraud the United States, bank fraud and tax evas…

The derailment of a CSX train carrying Bakken crude, which resulted in a fire that forced the evacuation of hundreds of area residents, was caused by a defect that was missed on two separate inspections, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.

Cargo volumes passing through the Central American gateway in the 2015 fiscal year increased 4.3 percent compared to fiscal 2014, according to the Panama Canal Authority.

Exports helped drive record throughput in September at the Port of Long Beach, but were the main reason the Port of Oakland experienced a 4.8 percent drop in container volumes.