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TOTE Wins $2.2B Bid to Manage Navy LSPs

TOTE Services has been awarded a contract valued at up to US$2.2 billion to serve as Vessel Construction Manager (VCM) for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ Medium Landing Ship (LSM) program, extending a commercial-style shipbuilding management model previously used on the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel program. The contract, awarded by the Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Maritime (PAE Maritime), covers vessel construction management services for as many as eight Medium Landing ... [+]

IATA Data Tracks Airlines’ Evolving Network

Airlines continued to modernize their fleets and expand global air transport in 2025, according to the International Air Transport Association's annual World Air Transport Statistics, underscoring long-term shifts that influence passenger networks and the belly cargo capacity supporting international freight. The annual statistical review, based on ... [+]

Inflation Fails to Dent Small Business Outlook

Small business confidence was little changed in the second quarter, but the stability masks growing pressure from inflation and a pullback in investment plans, according to the latest U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index. The quarterly index registered 66.5, compared with 67.0 in the first ... [+]

Global Confidence in US Falls, Pew Research

The U.S. is increasingly viewed abroad as an unreliable partner whose foreign policy gives little consideration to other countries’ interests, adding another layer of uncertainty to an international trading system already strained by tariffs and geopolitical conflict. A Pew Research Center survey of 42,151 adults in ... [+]

Container Spot Rates Soften as Peak Eases

FBJNA’s Container Market Signals – Spot container freight rates showed their first broad signs of easing this week as early peak season demand moderated and carriers continued restoring capacity, according to weekly market updates from Drewry and Xeneta. Both indexes reported declines on the major Asia-U.S. ... [+]

Galveston Cargo Berth Wraps $106M expansion

The Port of Galveston has officially opened its new cargo berth at the West Port Cargo Complex, marking the completion of a US$106 million expansion designed to accommodate growing roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro), breakbulk and project cargo volumes. The new 1,410-foot berth at Pier 39-40 welcomed its first ... [+]

CMA CGM to Pay $1.4B for FedEx Supply Chain

CMA CGM Group has agreed to acquire FedEx Supply Chain from FedEx Corp. for an enterprise value of US$1.4 billion in a transaction that will significantly expand the North American contract logistics operations of its CEVA Logistics subsidiary while establishing a long-term commercial relationship between ... [+]

Documentation Errors Continue to Vex Hazmat

A new industry benchmarking study suggests hazardous materials transportation continues to be challenged less by a lack of regulatory knowledge than by routine operational mistakes involving documentation, labeling and packaging. The Focus on Safety: Benchmarking the State of the Hazmat/Dangerous Goods Industry study, conducted by J.J. ... [+]

USMCA Enters New Era as Tariffs Reshape Trade

Five years after the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement took effect, the trade pact has entered a new phase. What began as a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement has become the framework underpinning North American manufacturing and freight movement just as tariffs, industrial policy ... [+]

 The Decision Before the Shipment

Editor's Note by Gary Burrows for FBJNA's July-August issue, available soon There was a time when the logistics decision was relatively straightforward. The cargo was ready. Capacity was available. The rate was acceptable. The shipment moved. Those decisions were never simple, but they were largely transportation decisions. Increasingly, they ... [+]

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