Omaha, Neb.-based Class I freight railroad Union Pacific is combining its Wichita service unit leadership with its Kansas City, Fort Worth and North Little Rock units and reassigning three management positions to other locations, the company said.

Exports from China increased 16.4 percent from the previous year in March, while imports grew 20.3 percent, reversing a rare trade deficit in February, according to recent data from the country’s General Administration of Customs.

Federal Maritime Commissioner Mario Cordero will be appointed executive director of the Port of Long Beach, where he served as a harbor commissioner from 2003 to 2011.

Fellow Hamburg-based containership owners Leonhardt & Blumberg and Buss Shipping have agreed to form a new joint ship management venture that will sport a fleet of 55 feeder-size vessels, the firms said in a joint statement.

The new freighter service between Madrid and Basel will accommodate Switzerland’s growing pharmaceutical sector and will utilize IAG Cargo’s Constant Climate product during transport.

The addition of Detroit as its 13th office gave the customs brokerage company a physical presence on the Northern U.S.-Canada border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the number of counterfeit merchandise seizures in Puerto Rico for the first two quarters of federal fiscal year 2017 increased by over 300 percent year-over-year.

The opening signaled the official start of the APL Logistics Oman SAOC joint venture to develop Oman as a regional logistics hub.

The liner shipping industry will see “profound change” in the next two decades, as macro-economic & demographic shifts are altering trade patterns, industry consultant Lars Jensen said in his book, Liner Shipping 2025 – How to survive and thrive.

The wife of a seafarer who perished when the cargo ship El Faro sank in October 2015 near the Bahamas is asking Congress to establish new regulations aimed at preventing similar tragedies.