U.S. retail sales grew a modest 0.3% in November. (WSJ)
China’s growth in value-added industrial output accelerated to 6.2% in November while retail sales climbed a better-than-expected 8%. (WSJ)
Copper prices have risen to the highest level in seven months. (WSJ)
Boeing Co. is considering suspending or cutting back production of the 737 MAX amid growing uncertainty over the plane’s return to service. (WSJ)
Negotiators at the United Nations climate summit failed to agree on a central part of implementing the 2015 Paris accord. (WSJ)
European Union leaders agreed to cut the bloc’s greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. (WSJ)
Uber Technologies Inc. is in talks to sell its food-delivery business in India to a local rival. (WSJ)
Oklahoma City officials may require retailers in a poverty-stricken area to allocate at least 500 square feet of space in stores to fresh food. (WSJ)
California is considering requiring that a portion of new truck sales be electric or “zero emission” vehicles. (Associated Press)
Morgan Stanley says Amazon.com Inc. could surpass UPS and FedEx Corp. in daily packages it handles within three years. (CNBC)
Investment in Hong Kong’s logistics and industrial property declined by more than half in the third quarter of the year. (South China Morning Post)
Chinese-owned recycling companies in Japan are cooperating to tackle plastic waste in the wake of Beijing’s ban on scrap imports. (Nikkei Asian Review)
A U.S. report forecasts apple harvests will rise sharply in the current production year while yields in Europe are falling. (Fruitnet)
Container spot rates from Asia to Europe are rising rapidly. (The Loadstar)
Andy Tung stepped down from his executive role at the Orient Overseas Container Line business his family established 50 years ago. (Lloyd’s List)
Pirates kidnapped 20 crewmembers from a chemical tanker off the coast of Togo. (Splash 247)
Salvors have removed all the fuel from car carrier Golden Ray that capsized off the Georgia coast. (Maritime Executive)
A company believed to be retailer Dollar Tree Inc. plans to build a 1.7 million-square-foot distribution center in Ocala, Fla. (Ocala Star Banner)
XPO Logistics Inc. is closing a distribution center in Hazelwood, Mo., in February and eliminating 166 jobs. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Logistics technology company Turvo Inc. fired co-founder Eric Gilmore as chief executive for expensing $76,120 at strip clubs over three years. (Bloomberg)
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