FASA

Wilhelmsen Ships Service warned shippers and carriers that counterfeit products for reefer containers could contain a “dangerously unstable cocktail of gases.”

Group of 7 ministers meeting in Berlin Tuesday issued a declaration outlining specific actions to promote worker rights, improve working conditions and employ environmental protections in global supply chains.

Annualized turnover rates at large truckload fleets grew, while turnover at smaller fleets fell to its lowest level since the third quarter of 2013, according to the most recent figures from the American Trucking Associations.

The railway reiterated its full-year earnings per share guidance despite expectations that coal volumes could drop as much as 10 percent in 2015, leading to a $450 million impact on revenues.

Shipment volumes and expenditures both increased from the previous month as shippers prepared for the upcoming holiday season, but still lagged behind 2014 figures, according to the latest Cass Freight Index Report.

September marked the seventh straight month in which box volumes exceeded 210,000 TEUs as the mid-Atlantic port continued to receive a portion of cargoes shippers have diverted from West Coast gateways to avoid congestion issues.

Grains and oilseeds will be loaded on vessels for transport to inland and port terminal operator’s facilities on the St. Lawrence River and then to around the world.

The VetOpps bill (H.R. 3739) will allow qualified Veterans Administration doctors to perform medical exams required by the Transportation Department to obtain a commercial driver’s licence.

The port’s container freight and liquid bulk volumes rose in the first nine months of 2015 compared to the same period in 2014, but breakbulk volumes dropped due to increasing containerization of fruit and a decline in conventional handling.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority and Kloosterboer are investing in Rotterdam Cool Port on the City Terminal site, which ceased operations at the beginning of the month.