The Southwestern Louisiana port will move forward with dredging its west barge basin after the port authority’s board approved a $1.3 million dredge contract with Coastal Dredging Co.

The cargo operation of Delta Air Lines expanded Pharma 4 to eight additional destinations, giving it 49 pharma stations worldwide, in addition to nine approved facilities in Europe that are operated with partner airlines.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added Rahman Zeb Faqir Muhammad, Hizb Ullah Astam Khan, and Dilawar Khan Nadir Khan to its Specially Designated Nationals list.

Danish shipping giant A.P. Møller-Maersk narrowed its overall loss to $1.16 billion for 2017, a year in which it divested its energy businesses and acquired container carrier Hamburg Süd.

Michael Watson, who became an associate administrator in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, was promoted from a deputy position in which he was overseeing Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services.

The position has remained vacant since David Mills left the post at the end of the Obama administration.

The requests from the European Union and China for consultations on tariffs from the United States on solar cells are the first step in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute process and follow similar requests by Taiwan and South Korea.

Following a Senate Finance Committee meeting with President Donald Trump, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is clearing the way for a committee vote on nominations for the U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization and a deputy U.S. Trade Representative.

The logistics software provider, which has made fast inroads into the food producer and commodity trading markets, will now offer users tools to quickly assess carrier metrics.

Total U.S. rail volumes were relatively steady in January 2018, as a 3.4 percent year-over-year decline in carloads was offset by a 3.5 percent increase in intermodal traffic, according to the latest data from the Association of American Railroads (AAR).