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The National Transportation Safety Board launched a team to investigate the breach of a rail tank-car and the subsequent release of 17,000 gallons of chlorine Saturday at a facility in New Martinsville, W. Va.

Enterprise loaded a vessel with the natural gas liquid for the first time at its Port of Houston facility.

The Atlanta, Ga.-based parcel giant announced rate increases for parcel and freight shippers, but the increases will vary by customer.

Syed Vagar Ashraf of Lahore, Pakistan was sentenced to 33 months in jail by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez of the District of Arizona for attempting to export controlled items to Pakistan without a license.

Norm Krehbiel, who has been named the Port of Longview’s new chief executive officer, originally joined the port in 1993 as director of facilities and engineers, and was later named deputy executive director and chief operating officer in 2008.

The $2.1 million project to deepen the port’s main navigation channel was shared between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Joseph F. Sutter, considered within the aviation industry as the pioneering engineer who led the development of the Boeing 747, died Aug. 30 at the age of 95.

A survey conducted by American Shipper revealed that 40 percent of participants believe the most likely outcome of Hanjin’s predicament is that its assets will be liquidated and acquired by multiple carriers.

The ports of Savannah and Brunswick will be closed for operations tomorrow, Sept. 2, 2016, as a result of expected severe weather caused by Hurricane Hermine, which was recently upgraded from a tropical storm to a category 1 hurricane.

Ocean carrier schedule and capacity database BlueWater Reporting constructed a chart illustrating Hanjin’s impact on three separate trades.