Meanwhile, the Port of Los Angeles signed a partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Center for Global Supply Chain Management to advance the use of technology at ports in order to make them more globally competitive.

On the Shanghai to Northwest Europe trade, rates increased 8 percent since two weeks ago, from $699 per TEU to $755 per TEU, while on the Shanghai to Mediterranean trade, rates slipped 3.1 percent, from $583 per TEU to $565 per TEU.

Atlantic Forest Products, a wholesale distributor of building materials, has signed a long-term lease at Tradepoint Atlantic, a 3,100-acre multimodal industrial site in Baltimore.

The FedEx Corp. less-than-truckload subsidiary has purchased 100 tractors powered by compressed natural gas, and tapped Clean Energy Fuel Corp. to design, build and maintain the unit’s first CNG fueling station in Oklahoma City.

The French President Francois Hollande toured the new distribution center and said it was an example of France’s innovation in the logistics arena.

The Swiss-based third-party logistics provider will handle freight forwarding for cosmetics maker Belcorp in Columbia.

The U.S. government has announced another round of amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations and Export Administration Regulations, further eliminating many long-held U.S. trade restrictions against the Caribbean island nation.

The United States asked the World Trade Organization to set up a dispute settlement panel to examine and put a final end to China’s export restraints on antimony, chromium, cobalt, copper, graphite, indium, lead, magnesia, talc, tantalum and tin.

The refueling station, scheduled for completion in early 2017, will be located at the main entrance of the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal and adjacent to the new Liverpool2 deep-water container terminal, which will have its formal opening next month.