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The Transported Asset Protection Association has presented a plan to the European Commission for increasing the number of secure parking locations for commercial trucks and their drivers in order to reduce cargo theft.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Landstar System, Inc. posted a net income of $36.3 million on revenues of $788 million for the third quarter of 2016, year-over-year declines of 7.8 percent and 6.4 percent, respectively.

Integrated logistics provider Agility opened a distribution park near Ghana’s main port, and has plans to build more logistics parks across Africa.

VesselsValue Senior Analyst William Bennett found the companies will own 36 percent of the world’s open hatch/gantry fleet by deadweight tonnage and 30 percent by value.

Calgary-based Class I railway Canadian Pacific posted a net income of $347 million Canadian (U.S. $266.4 million) in the third quarter of 2016, a 7.4 percent increase from the same 2015 period, on revenues that fell 9.4 percent to C$1.55 billion.

A new Visibility Benchmark Study from American Shipper also found that third-party logistics companies have a major problem delineating their cost to provide visibility to shippers.

The Icelandic shipping company has acquired 90 percent of the forwarding company Extraco Internationale Expeditie B.V. in the Netherlands.

The illegal narcotics were discovered in a container on board the 4,253-TEU Kota Lukis, which was docked at the Port of Manzanillo, Mexico, Singapore-based Pacific International Lines confirmed in a statement.

The seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index equaled 132.7 for the month, down 5.8 percent from August and 0.7 percent compared with September 2015, the first year-over-year decline of 2016, according to American Trucking Associations.

The White House said Tuesday that China has ended tax exemptions that had unfairly benefited the country’s domestic manufacture of certain types of aircraft over equivalent imports.