Business activity in the eurozone picked up in June for the first time in five months. (WSJ)
President Donald Trump plans to bar many Chinese companies from investing in U.S. technology firms and block additional tech exports to Beijing. (WSJ)
A new agreement among major oil producers pushed crude prices up by the biggest amount in nearly two years. (WSJ)
Bankrupt Gibson Brands Inc. is selling its North American inventory of Philips consumer-electronics accessories for barely more than half the value. (WSJ)
Jacques Saade, who founded the global shipping giant CMA CGM SA, died at 81. (Seatrade Maritime)
Barnes & Noble Inc. expects goods other than books to drive a sales rebound this year. (Bloomberg)
An activist short-seller claims Samsonite International SA is misrepresenting inventories on its balance sheet. (Financial Times)
New York will spend $21 million to turn a CSX Corp. rail yard in Syracuse into an intermodal cargo facility. (Syracuse Post-Standard)
The New York and New Jersey Port Authority is studying expanded freight barge service. (American Shipper)
An oil export facility at Texas City, Texas, handled the first very large crude carrier to call at a state port. (Houston Chronicle)
Amazon will place its first fulfillment center in Alabama, near Birmingham. (Birmingham News)
Japan’s Nippon Cargo Airlines grounded its freighter fleet for a second straight week under urgent maintenance checks. (Air Cargo News)
Container shipping lines are trying to raise prices amid new declines in spot-market rates. (The Loadstar)
Container shipping capacity is growing this year even as orders for new vessels dry up. (Lloyd’s List)
Port directors in Georgia and South Carolina say a regional chassis pool will alleviate shortages of the container-trucking equipment. (Journal of Commerce)
Flatbed trucker Daseke Inc. acquired Texas-based energy industry provider Aveda Transportation and Energy Services. (Commercial Carrier Journal)
A coalition of transportation departments in Western states want to set up a truck-parking alert system along Interstate 10. (Heavy Duty Trucking)
China’s rail freight volumes grew 11.8% in May, the fastest pace so far this year. (Xinhua)
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is expanding its “Rural Taobao” logistics-infrastructure improvement project. (Air Cargo World)
The former head of the U.K.’s Stobbart Group wants to revive the conglomerate by re-merging it with its Eddie Stobbart trucking and logistics spinoff. (The Times)
California-based startup Roambee raised $2 million in new funding to back its internet of things supply-chain technology business. (VentureBeat)
Embattled Chinese electronics supplier ZTE Corp. says it can’t repair a restroom at its Shenzhen headquarters because of a bar on U.S. parts. (South China Morning Post)
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