The ARC Advisory Group has released a Global Service Provider guide to supplier selection.

U.S. vessel imports are down 5 percent from January but up 15 percent from February of 2012, even with one less day this year. The total twenty-foot-container (TEU) count was over 1.4 million and total shipments were over 720,000. February imports have not reached this level for four years, which is a similar stat to what we saw in January. It appears that import levels are indeed reverting back to the numbers seen before the recession.

Bollore SA, an investment company controlled by French billionaire Vincent Bollore, is competing to expand its African unit to operate five more port terminals and is eyeing similar growth in Asia and Latin America.

Maersk Line, the world's biggest container shipping company, will stop plying through the Panama Canal to move goods from Asia to the U.S. east coast as bigger ships help the company move it profitably through Suez Canal.

Keppel Logistics Pte Ltd. (Keppel Logistics), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd, (Keppel T&T), has leased a two-hectare site for 30 years from JTC Corporation to develop an air logistics hub in the eastern part of Singapore.

A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S (MAERSKB), owner of the world's largest container-shipping company, plans to add more vessels to its Singapore base after making the city-state its biggest hub after the headquarters in Denmark.

The logistics services provider Logwin has doubled its storage capacity near Barcelona, with a new warehouse that opened at the end of February.