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Eastern Canadian ports plan expansions and new terminals, with an eye on Asian cargo.

Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., said he will fight the trade deal in the Senate, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., hinted the deal could fly in 2017 if controversial language giving corporations the right to challenge a nation’s regulations is removed.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it has postponed the mandatory date for all importers to file certain post-release documents in the Automated Commercial Environment to give all stakeholders more time to prepare their software for the switch.

The Japanese carrier said it will use the funds to invest in its growth, boost the company’s earnings base to increase business competitiveness, and to raise funds for vessel-related facilities.

The chief executive officer of SSA Inc., Knud Stubkjaer, who has over 35 years of expertise in the transportation, terminal operations and logistics industry, received the 2016 Connie Award.

United European Car Carriers, a joint venture between ocean carriers NYK and Wallenius Lines, received the world’s first pure car and truck carrier capable of running on liquified natural gas from Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., NYK said in a statement.

The association has called on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to promulgate rules that require importers of low value goods to bear the same data requirements as shippers of goods over the de minimis level.

Japan’s Kintetsu World Express’ wholly-owned subsidiary, APL Logistics, said its employees are retracting earlier statements they made last week regarding “K” Line’s financial position.

U.S. gross domestic product increased 1.4 percent in the second quarter of 2016, according to the “third” estimate from the Department of Commerce, following a revised increase of just 0.8 percent in the first quarter.

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., has requested the Department of Transportation study potential methods for reducing the combustibility of crude oil trains.