Christmas came late for some FedEx customers this year as the company scrambled to handle inclement weather in the Midwestern United States and record e-commerce orders.

Some fines are targeting roll-on/roll-off firms for alleged price fixing in the transportation of automobiles, while others are aimed at container companies for reported issues with tariff filing.

Container rates from Shanghai to Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean inched up last Friday compared to the Dec. 18 reading, while rates to the United States remained flat.

The European Shippers’ Council says shippers want to know how to practically work with guidelines put in place by new International Maritime Organization regulations regarding container weights, which go into effect next July.

United States gross domestic product expanded at an annualized rate of 2.0 percent in the third quarter of 2015, according to the third estimate from the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The U.S.-owned and operated marine solutions, transportation and logistics company took delivery of the second of the four LNG-ready, Jones Act product tankers from Philly Shipyard, Inc. last week.

In an annual survey conducted by the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, shippers from the Netherlands ranked “reliability of booking” as the most important service concern.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the United States in October exported more ethanol to China than in the previous 10 years combined.

The cargo handling agent in Hong Kong handled 2,242 full freighters in November, an increase from the previous monthly record of 2,232 full freighters set in November 2014.

The refrigerated trucking specialist opened a $5 million multi-temperature storage facility in Yangon, Myanmar.