A “bomb cyclone” storm brought flooding, landslides and road closures across parts of California and the Pacific Northwest. (WSJ)
Propane prices are skyrocketing heading into the critical winter heating period. (WSJ)
PayPal backed off its takeover of social-media company Pinterest and a multibillion-dollar bet on e-commerce. (WSJ)
Volvo Cars set the price for its initial public offering at the low end of its target range. (WSJ)
Sibanye-Stillwater is in talks to buy two Brazilian mining companies in a bet on demand for metals used in electric-vehicle batteries. (WSJ)
The head of container line Ocean Network Express says supply-chain snarls could last until 2023 without new government investment. (Financial Times)
Long Beach, Calif., eased restrictions on stacking sea containers at off-port storage sites. (Bloomberg)
A Zim container ship lost 40 containers overboard and then caught fire during a storm near Canada’s Port of Vancouver. (Maritime Executive)
Global environmental regulators are focusing on methane emissions from ships fueled by liquefied natural gas. (Lloyd’s List)
Clarkson Research says the global fleet of LNG carriers could surpass the number of very large crude carriers by 2025. (Splash 247)
Prices to lease or buy shipping containers are in sharp decline. (Lloyd’s Loading List)
DVZ reports that A.P. Moller-Maersk is in talks to acquire German freight forwarder Senator International. (Air Cargo News)
Japanese container ship operator K Line is projecting a more than $2 billion pretax profit for the six months ending Sept. 30. (Nikkei Asia)
Passenger airlines are restoring more trans-Atlantic flights in moves that will boost air cargo capacity. (Supply Chain Dive)
Norfolk Southern is suing its employee unions to prevent them from blocking the railroad's Covid-19 vaccine mandate. (Reuters)
Quarterly net income at railcar lessor GATX fell 16.8% to $40.1 million. (Railway Age)
South African wine exporters are rushing to fill a supply gap in China from Beijing’s bar on Australian wine imports. (South China Morning Post)
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