BlueWater Reporting

Global professional services company Accenture will acquire the corporate advisory and aviation consulting business of Seabury Group.

Chaos in the ocean shipping industry has led to a winter of shippers’ discontent as freight transportation managers scramble to determine how carriers will meet their transportation requirements after several carrier mergers and acquisitions took place.

Gene Seroka, executive director at the Port of Los Angeles, said 2016 was an “epic” year, and in 2017, the port will focus on improvements in process management, information technology and land use.

The new president immediately put the world on notice that his administration will combat unfair trade practices, which many interpret as a return to protectionism.

Just 10 percent of longshoremen requested by terminal operator employers came to work on Friday, bringing vessel operations to a near standstill at the Northern California port, according to port spokesman Mike Zampa.

Capacity in the major east-west trades leveled out during fourth quarter 2016 as merger and acquisition announcements continued to filter into an already unstable market, according to the latest quarterly World Liner Supply Report from BlueWater Report…

However, FMC Commissioner William P. Doyle, who voted against the amendment, said it is beyond the scope of the Shipping Act and harmful to the U.S. tugboat industry.

Washington law firm Akin Gump said Kevin J. Wolf, who most recently served as the Commerce Department’s assistant secretary for export administration, joined its international trade practice.