The rate management and outsourced logistics services provider will use INTTRA’s eVGM capability to allow customers to comply with the July 1 container weight mandate.

Representatives from Chanel Fragrances and Beauté, Ericsson, Sandvik Machining Solutions, Marine Harvest RMT and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries have joined the association’s Shipper Advisory Committee.

The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index rose 9.8 percent since last week to a reading of 577.81, as rates from Shanghai to both Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean jumped 36.6 percent and 21.8 percent, respectively.

Struggling South Korean shipbuilder STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. on Friday filed for receivership with the Seoul Central District Court amid mounting debt and continued losses.

The Commerce Department this week said it will impose antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of corrosion-resistant steel products from China, India, Italy and South Korea, as result of its investigations.

The company plans to accept the weights that clients provide as certified, but if clients are not able to provide the certified weight, it will weigh the cargo on their behalf.

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Mario Cordero said one of the items that has been on his agenda since becoming chairman in 2013 is to have a better funded and better resourced Federal Maritime Commission.

SSA Marine’s Oakland International Container Terminal will make appointments mandatory for the majority of containerized import pick-ups in order to shorten lines at terminal gates and speed up cargo delivery to customers.

The fiscal year 2017 Energy & Water Development Appropriations bill was defeated in the House Thursday.

The Baltic Exchange Ltd. entered into exclusive talks with the Singapore Exchange Ltd., following an “attractive” proposal from the Asian bourse.