The Hanjin bankruptcy has created a shortage of chassis in Southern California at the busiest time of year for many shippers and their truckers.

Deutsche Post DHL Group will acquire UK Mail Group plc for 242.7m pounds ($315.63m), the company said. DHL said it expects the company's directors to make a unanimous recommendation that UK Mail shareholders accept the offer.

Business intelligence tools allow a company to parse through its data to find the bits most important to its operations. Maybe that means figuring out which carrier is letting it down (or conversely, for a carrier to see if a shipper is unprofitable for it to serve). Maybe it just means going through visibility data to determine whether a perceived chokepoint is actually a problem.

United States transportation and logistics companies added 11,700 jobs for the month in July 2016, according to the latest preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The Global Shippers Forum is calling for container shipping surcharges to be eliminated by 2020.

Dozens of port authorities and marine terminals received port security grants this summer from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but millions of dollars from the $100m program went to local law enforcement agencies and other non-port entities.