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Hapag-Lloyd, Germany’s biggest shipping line, is seeking to raise $500 million from the sale of new shares this year as it presses ahead with an initial public offering even as the Chinese economic slowdown and a rout in Volkswagen shares sparked turmoil on stock markets.

Swift Transportation Co. said its third-quarter and full-year results will lag analyst forecasts and its own profit guidance because of costs from past accidents and weaker freight volumes in the fourth quarter.

Weekly U.S. intermodal rail traffic rose 0.6% from the same period last year after declining 13.3% the prior week, the Association of American Railroads reported.

Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Andrew Cuomo of New York want the federal government to pay half of a $20 billion commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

A U.S. watchdog office urged Congress to empower regulators to extend a Dec. 31 deadline for freight and passenger railroads to adopt new safety technology that could prevent major derailments and other deadly crashes.

XPO Logistics’ dramatic bid to snatch up trucking capacity by acquiring Con-way Inc. for $3 billion could spawn similar acquisitions by non-asset-based companies, forcing rival less-than-truckload carriers to reassess their strategy and step up their game, LTL leaders said.