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Discovery Communications will buy Scripps Networks for close to $12 billion, tying together two powerful stables of TV shows ranging from Animal Planet to the Food Network.

Poland's Port of Gdansk and PKP CARGO SA signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Romania's Port of Constanta and CFR Marfa within the Three Seas Initiative.

Three tech giants dominate their industries. When is big too big?

With its mega-acquisition of Whole Foods, the retail behemoth moves to suck the value out of yet another market, writes Douglas Rushkoff.

A surge in Amazon.com Inc. shares Thursday morning in advance of the online retailers earnings report briefly propelled founder Jeff Bezos past Bill Gates as the worlds richest person.

Antwerp Port Authority announced a pilot project for secure and efficient release of containers from the terminal based on blockchain technology.

Last year, three states in the Northeast New Jersey, New York and Connecticut landed in the top five places people were moving out of fastest, according to 2017 data from United Van Lines. The cost of living across the region is among the highest in the nation and three of the five most expensive

The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the ruling of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service of Russia (FAS) regarding the competition charges to Novorossiysk Port

Russian container ports volume keeps growing in 2017. In H1 2017 they handled 2.26 mln TEU, surpassing the data of the same period in 2016 by 15,3%.

Chinese port operator China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPort) has announced the acquisition of an 85% stake in Hambantota Port at Sri Lanka for USD 974 mln.

Ripple, a cryptocurrency based out of San Francisco, has risen in value by huge amounts.

Apple is never satisfied with just one supplier, and that rings especially true when that supplier also just so happens to be its arch rival. Apple is already taking steps to decrease its dependency on Samsung, and perhaps someday even move away from Samsung entirely as a display panel supplier.

China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) won the ideas competition by Hamburg Port Authority with the project to construct a new container terminal.

Noatum Valencia Container Terminal gets a EUR 100 mln investment in its equipment to increase the capacity and allow mega vessels of over 20,000 TEU call it

Soaring lumber prices poses problem for home builders, buyers.

Charles Hoskinson, cofounder of Ethereum, told Bloomberg that initial coin offerings will spell disaster for the cryptocurrency.

The dollar fell to a 10-month low on Tuesday, bearing the brunt of a selloff triggered by another setback to U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda and scaled-back expectations for another rate hike at Federal Reserve this year.

Peel Ports Group has officially announced today Liverpool2 expansion project - Phase 2, involving investment in the equipment and port infrastructure.

COSCO Shipping aggressively invests in ports and logistics hubs worldwide, one of its latest investments is Khorgos dry port in Kazakhstan.

Swift competitor Ripple has grown its network to include nearly 60 validator nodes for ensuing the accuracy of the network.