Shipping-industry groups are asking a California court to halt plans by the Oakland A’s baseball team to build a stadium at the city’s port. (WSJ)
New U.S. orders for manufactured goods slipped 0.5% in February, the first monthly decline in 10 months. (Dow Jones Newswires)
Shanghai extended Covid-19 lockdown measures that have disrupted shipping and manufacturing operations. (WSJ)
U.K. financial regulators is reviewing last month’s breakdown in nickel trading through the London Metal Exchange. (WSJ)
Global coffee products supplier Westrock is going public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company. (WSJ)
Car rental agency Hertz will buy up to 65,000 electric vehicles over five years from Swedish auto maker Polestar. (WSJ)
A backup of container ships off the Shanghai and Ningbo ports has grown to 140 vessels. (Lloyd’s List)
Officials will remove nearly 5,000 containers from the Ever Forward in a new effort to refloat the vessel stuck in the Chesapeake Bay. (WJZ)
Clarkson says prices for new vessels at shipyards are rising at the fastest pace in two decades. (Splash 247)
Vietnamese steelmaker Hoa Phat is building a factory to expand into sea container manufacturing. (The Loadstar)
Incoming APM Terminals chief executive Keith Svendsen says he is on the lookout for acquisitions and investments to back “moderate growth.” (ShippingWatch)
PSA International acquired the Ceres container terminal at Canada’s Port of Halifax from Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha. (Port Technology)
BNSF Railway says it is moving to improve service to agriculture shippers following complaints to federal regulators about Class I services. (Progressive Railroading)
Autonomous middle-mile delivery operator Gatik will work with ChargePoint to build electric-vehicle charging stations across North America. (Transport Dive)
Alaska Airlines has canceled dozens of flights amid a dispute with its unionized pilots. (Seattle Times)
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