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Although overall cargo tonnage through the port inched up a modest 1.7 percent in 2017 from a year prior, container tonnage rose 10.9 percent.

Short-line and regional railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming has entered into a strategic partnership with short-haul and drayage trucking platform provider Cargomatic.

Pioneering Sea-Land executive John R. Pyron was tasked in 1968 with convincing American shippers to use the country’s first commercial container service in the transpacific, and the company and trade never looked back.

The White House and the United Kingdom yesterday released similar statements condemning Russia for perpetrating the June 2017 cyber attack that affected operations at Maersk Line, APM Terminals and FedEx, among others.

The Chinese e-commerce giant has entered into agreements with investors – including Hillhouse Capital, Sequoia China, China Merchants Group, and Tencent, among others – for the financing of its supply chain and distribution subsidiary, JD Logistics.

The European Union’s international trade in goods surplus narrowed 28 percent to 25 billion euros (U.S. $31.1 billion) last year, as a 7.7 percent increase in exports was offset by 8.2 percent import growth.

Textainer Group Holdings Ltd. and CAI International both improved profits in 2017 compared to the prior year.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Procter & Gamble will work to prevent counterfeit P&G products from entering the country, with the company donating testing devices to determine product legitimacy.

Pure Collection, a Harrogate, England-based cashmere apparel retailer, reportedly sent a large portion of the illicitly shipped merchandise to customers in Maine.