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Port Houston Maintains Tonnage Growth in Q3

Port Houston recorded sustained growth in August, with total tonnage across its public terminals up 5 percent, following a record-setting July. The port’s container terminals saw 370,430 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, in August, up 1 percent from the same month last year. Year-to-date container volumes reached 2.93 million TEUs, also up 5 percent over 2024. In August, loaded import containers increased 4 percent year-over-year, while loaded export containers rose 5 percent, ... [+]

DP World, Hapag-Lloyd Extend Santos Pact

DP World, a global logistics and supply chain supply chain giant, agreed to a 10-year extension of its long-term agreement with shipping line Hapag-Lloyd for operations at the Port of Santos. To meet growing demand, DP World advances its port capacity expansion plan to enable the handling of new volumes and ... [+]

DHL Names Asmussen to Corporate Affairs Post

DHL Group has named Maike Asmussen as executive vice president for corporate public affairs at DHL Group, effective Jan. 1, 2026. She succeeds Volker Ratzmann, who is retiring at the end of the year. Asmussen, who will report directly to CEO Tobias Meyer, is currently chief political officer for science science ... [+]

CSX Corp. Names Linde Veteran Angel CEO

CSX Corp. said Sept. 29 it has named former Linde CEO Steve Angel as president and CEO, and a member of the board. He succeeds Joe Hinrichs, who has departed from the company after three years at the helm. Angel, with more than 45 years of experience leading large, public companies, ... [+]

Bek Succeeds Thomsen as Blue Water CEO

Thomas Bek, a 29-year veteran of Blue Water, is succeeding CEO Søren Nørgaard Thomsen, who is leaving the transport and logistics group after seven years. There has been significant development at the Danish transport and logistics group since 2018, when Thomsen took over as CEO, Blue Water said in a release. ... [+]

UP, NS to Create US Transcontinental Railroad

Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. on July 29 announced an agreement to create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad, connecting more than 50,000 route miles across 43 states from the East Coast to the West Coast, linking about 100 ports within it’s the combined network. Named the Union Pacific Transcontinental ... [+]

US Grain Exports Grow 9% Despite China Tariffs

U.S. seaborne grain shipments improved 9 percent in the first half of 2025, despite retaliatory tariffs that caused U.S. grain exports to China to plummet 57 percent in the same period, said BIMCO, the Danish shipping association. The first half result was driven by stronger maize exports, said Filipe Gouveia, shipping ... [+]

Georgia Ports Container Trade up 8.6% in FY 2025

The Georgia Ports Authority’s fiscal year 2025 was its second-busiest year on record, with container volume reaching 5.7 million twenty-foot-equivalent units, an 8.6 percent increase, or 400,000 TEUs compared to fiscal year 2024. The growth shows continuing strength in Georgia’s logistics trajectory. The ports’ busiest year was fiscal year 2022, when ... [+]

Hanseatic Global Terminals Launches Latam HQ

Hanseatic Global Terminals said it has launched Hanseatic Global Terminals Latin America, the brand’s first-ever regional expansion and a significant step in the company’s mission to strengthen its global terminal network and enhance service offerings worldwide. With this launch, the Hapag-Lloyd subsidiary, founded in 2024, has located its regional headquarters is ... [+]

Port of Palm Beach Takes Expansion for Granite

The Port of Palm Beach has signed a new lease agreement with Thalle Construction Co. and SAB Solutions that will increase inbound shipments and diversify the port’s cargo profile. Effective August 1, the companies will lease two acres along the port’s southwest perimeter to support the import of granite aggregate. The ... [+]

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