Maritime industry groups are concerned that the 2017 fiscal year budget request from the Obama administration will hurt progress made by ports on infrastructure and the environment.

Container carriers have offered to publish binding actual rates a month before they go into effect, according to a recent report from Reuters news service.

Ports covered by the Global Port Tracker report are expected to handle 8.8 million TEUs throughout the first half of 2016, a 4.5 percent increase from the corresponding period in 2015, according to the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

In container volumes alone, the German port experienced a 9.3 percent year-over-year decline to 8.8 million TEUs, which primarily resulted from lower volumes handled to and from China, Russia and Poland.

Third-party logistics services provider Roadrunner Transportation Systems has expanded its less-than-truckload presence in Texas with new offices in Dallas and Houston, and has taken over another facility in Memphis, Tenn.

Although activity slowed slightly in the fourth quarter, total deal value for mergers and acquisitions in the transportation and logistics sector spiked 206 percent from the same 2014 period, according to a new report from PwC US.

Rather than pursue a potentially damaging proxy fight to install new leadership, Canadian Pacific is asking NS shareholders to urge the company’s board to “engage in good faith discussions with CP.”

The Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven should be handed over to BLG Logistics at the end of 2018 or beginning of 2019, according to bremenports Managing Director Robert Howe.

Aljex Software names VP of business development, while Rico Logistics appoints e-commerce logistics director.

The U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday determined that domestic industry is harmed by imports of certain uncoated paper from Australia, Brazil, China, Indonesia, and Portugal.