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USDA Announces Fair Practices Rule to Protect Farmers' Rights

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) announced Wednesday updated regulations intended to protect the rights of farmers.

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New Logistics Center in the Works at Incheon International Airport

A new logistics center and facility for handling perishable cargo will begin operation at the Incheon International Airport in September 2018.

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Amazon’s Plan to Sell Alcohol from Scottish Base Approved

Amazon has been granted a provisional premises license, allowing the online retail giant to sell alcohol from its Scottish fulfillment center.

Asahi Adds Anheuser-Busch Brands to Inventory in $7.8 Billion Deal

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Asahi Group agreed to a $7.8 billion deal Tuesday to buy a group of Central and Eastern European beer brands from Anheuser-Busch InBev, in the latest brand shuffle for the rapidly consolidating brewing business.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Asia Maritime Pacific Announces Merger with Sono Shipping

The merging of Hong Kong bulker firm Asia Maritime Pacific (AMP) with Sono Shipping officially took affect Wednesday.

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Port of Charleston to Build $40 Million Rail Facility in Dillon

The South Carolina Ports Authority hopes to open the $40 million cargo hub including a container storage area, a chassis yard, operations and maintenance facilities and cranes to transfer cargo between trains and trucks served by railroad operator CSX.

The inland port in Dillon will start out much smaller - 35,000 cargo boxes in its first year - but is expected to handle 220,000 containers within 20 years.

BNSF, KC Southern Combine on New Intermodal Service from Chicago to Mexico

BNSF and KCS will offer a new intermodal service connecting major industrial and consumer markets in Mexico with key U.S. cities.

BNSF and KCS will offer a new intermodal service connecting major industrial and consumer markets in Mexico with key U.S. cities for a new option for shipping freight to Mexico or shipping freight from Mexico.

Proposed Great Lakes Freight Line Official Predicts up to 85 Daily Trains

The project is being proposed to serve the six Class 1 railroads going through Chicago, though two have said they will not participate and none of the remaining four have said they would use the freight line if it was constructed.

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New Warehouse Construction, Lower Vacancies Continue to be Fueled by E-Commerce

E-commerce demand appears to be taking a bite out of the retail construction and shifting it to the logisitics sector, wit 53 million square feet of new logistics space delivered by developers in the third quarter was the second-highest quarter on record.

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Domestic Intermodal Traffic Not Enough to Save Sector From 3Q Declines

Intermodal Association of North America (IANA)

The domestic container business experienced gains of 3.3 percent in the third quarter, which kept the overall Intermodal volume loss to 4.6 percent.

The Midwest-Northwest corridor's traffic rose 3 percent, dominated by containers. However, all other corridors posted declines, ranging from 0.8 percent in the Northeast-Midwest and Trans-Canada lanes, to 11.2 percent in the South Central-Southwest corridor. Midwest-Southwest volumes, which are the highest, dropped 5.3 percent.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Ocean Alliance Announces 'Day One' Plans

The proposed network will operate 40 services on the East-West trades with around 100 ports of call and almost 500 port pairs when it begins operations in April of 2017.

Members of the Ocean Alliance announce the signing of an agreement, called the Day One Product.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Joint Georgia-South Carolina Port Project Reaches First Milestone

Georgia Ports Authority

The idea is to have the first phase of the new terminal operating in a decade when container capacity at the ports in both Charleston and Savannah begins running out.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a public notice that it plans to prepare a draft environmental impact statement on the proposed terminal in Jasper County on the South Carolina side of the river.

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