American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier Group will deploy the roll-on/roll-off vessel Aida as the seventh United States-flagged ship in its fleet.

The Israeli ocean carrier says changes to its management structure and business groups should make ZIM more agile and attentive to customer needs.

Executive Director Chris Lytle says the Port of Oakland is “deeply disappointed” with the action today by the joint terminal venture between Ports America and TIL, which says the reorganization is part of its “operational wind down” at the port.

Longshoremen at the port returned to work Monday after a wildcat strike employers called “extremely disruptive” to operations and retailers said reminded them of the labor issues this time last year at West Coast ports.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has asked that trucks not be sent to terminals after dockworkers reportedly walked off the job Friday morning.

The United States Chamber of Commerce says the next item on the nation’s trade agenda should be a bilateral free trade agreement with Brazil.

United States GDP grew just 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, while durable goods orders continued to fall, according to the most recent estimates from the Department of Commerce.

Although rates from Shanghai to Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean have tumbled for four straight weeks, rates from Shanghai to the United States inched back up from last week.

Meanwhile, the truckload and logistics carrier announced Gary L. Werner will retire from his position as vice chairman and a member of Werner’s board of directors, effective Feb. 12, 2016.

The Houston, Texas-based tank barge operator posted net earnings attributable to Kirby of $226.7 million on consolidated revenues of $2.1 billion for 2015, year-over-year declines of 19.6 percent and 16.3 percent, respectively.