Business

Triton Container International and TAL International Group have agreed to a merger, creating the world’s largest lessor of intermodal shipping containers with a combined fleet of nearly 5 million 20-foot equivalent units and revenue earning assets of $8.7 billion.

Kentucky hasn’t had a tolled road in 69 years, but that will change in a big way in 2016.

Ryder System Inc. announced that it would provide True Value Co., a wholesale hardware cooperative, with professional drivers, vehicles, maintenance, routing and scheduling services through a dedicated-transportation agreement.

Vancouver-based Westport Innovations Inc., which engineers natural-gas engines and vehicles, announced a restructuring of its board in preparation for the previously announced merger with Fuel Systems Solutions Inc., which provides natural-gas transportation, infrastructure and industrial products.

Factory output increased in October for the first time in three months as producers turned out more construction materials and motor vehicles.

Component supplier Accuride Corp. announced three top executive appointments to support its planned expansion as a supplier of wheel-end products to the global commercial vehicle industry.

Shipments rose 3% last month at Savannah, Georgia, the nation’s fourth-largest container port, as shipment growth continued at the second-busiest port on the Atlantic Coast, the Georgia Ports Authority reported.

Amazon.com Inc. has a new, expensive-to-reach target in its quest to sell everything to everyone: last-minute holiday shoppers.

The cost of living excluding food and fuel rose again in October after picking up the prior month, showing inflation edging closer toward the Federal Reserve’s goal.