House lawmakers and port authorities want the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to allocate more new personnel to ports, allowing for cargo and cruise passengers to be cleared faster for entry.

Non-vessel-operating common carrier American Fast Freight has acquired Global Transportation Services, an international freight forwarder, customs broker and logistics services provider.

The Packer Avenue Marine Terminal at the Port of Philadelphia will receive two new super post-panamax container cranes, which are expected to arrive and become fully operational in late 2017.

The Obama administration’s “open data” rules, which were released about three years ago to open the public to federal government data, included a mandate that federal agencies create APIs so software developers could have better access to the federal data.

Beware of forwarding and logistics providers that downplay the impact of new technology in the industry, but also don’t bet on established forwarders going quietly into the night.

The monthly index, which portrays confidence levels in ocean freight and airfreight markets, was still below the neutral 50-point mark in June, indicating a tough market for forwarders.

A division of Norfolk Southern Corp. has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to resolve allegations of race-based hiring discrimination.

Combined United States carload and intermodal cargo volumes fell 6.3 percent for the month compared with June 2015 and 7.4 percent for the half of 2016, according to data from the Association of American Railroads.

The Northern California port’s new near-dock rail facility received its first train, which transported animal feed from the Midwestern United States for export to customers in the Far East.