Air Cargo

The battle over the employment status of drivers at FedEx Ground moved to Massachusetts this week as 31 current and former drivers sued the carrier, alleging improper classification.

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings announced a loan agreement with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China that the freighter operator said signals a stronger focus on business ties to Asia.

Air freight forwarding grew at nearly triple the rate of ocean forwarding in the first half of 2010, a sign of volatile swings in capacity following last year’s contraction in shipping volume, a

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Indian exporters of machine parts, foodstuffs and other commodities scrambled to find an air freight option after a major accid

UBM Aviation, a sister company of The Journal of Commerce, acquired the Manchester, UK-based Route Development Group for an undisclosed sum.

Etihad Airways took delivery of the first of two A330-200 freighters Aug. 9. A second is expected in October.

UPS launched a new service that enlists the U.S.

As Japan Airlines, the country’s largest air carrier, moves away from cargo flights, Japan’s second largest airline, All Nippon Airways, is gaining a large share of the recovering market.

Around 90 percent of customers using powered refrigeration to ship temperature-sensitive air freight are moving high-value pharmaceutical or health care products, according to Envirotainer CEO Thomas

The cargo expansion at Air France-KLM slowed down sharply in July as freight traffic inched up 1.7 percent from a year ago and slipped 3.5 percent from the month before, the European carrier group rep

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Kintetsu World Express, Japan's second-largest international forwarder, reported net profit surged 292.4 percent in the April-June period from a year earlier to $13.69 million.

Cargolux is making a weekly flight to Riyadh. The frequency expands services to Saudi Arabia in addition to the carrier’s twice-a week service to Dammam.

The Transported Asset Protection Association recognized the DHL Express hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport for meeting the group’s standards for cargo security.

Swiss logistics group Panalpina reported higher second-quarter volume, rates and operating profit but posted a net loss after setting aside $123 million for an expected settlement of a U.S.

FedEx Trade Networks, an ocean and air freight forwarding subsidiary of FedEx Corp., opened offices in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Hamburg and Frankfurt, Germany, boosting worldwide expansion plans la

Freight traffic at Los Angeles International Airport grew 25.1 percent in the first half of the year, but the tonnage growth slipped back in June in a sign that the air cargo recovery is leveling off.

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings more than tripled its net profit to $32.8 million in the second quarter on strong demand for chartered aircraft in the resurgent global air cargo market, the freighter ope

Deutsche Post reported sharply higher second quarter profit and raised its full-year forecast because of higher profits at DHL, which CEO Frank Appel said has become the company’s “growth

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Dutch postal and express group TNT announced it will separate its mail and express businesses by the start of next year.

Soaring air and ocean freight shipping pushed net profit at Expeditors International of Washington up 67 percent to a record $90.3 million in the second quarter, the forwarder said Monday.

Nippon Express, Japan's largest freight forwarder, suffered a net loss of $24 million in the April-June period, compared with a net profit of $26.24 million a year earlier.

More than halfway into a year that’s been a seller’s market for freight transportation of all kinds, the surge in ocean container rates may be losing steam.

Delta Air Lines will pay a $38 million fine to settle charges that the cargo business it bought with Northwest Airlines took part in a global conspiracy to fix air freight prices, the U.S.

Japan’s All Nippon Airways said Friday that its group revenue from its international cargo operations soared 94.5 percent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier to 20.0 billion yen.

British Airways will add three 747-8 freighters, Boeing’s latest-generation aircraft, to its fleet, dramatically scaling up its capabilities in a cargo business that expanded more than 36 percen

The Express Delivery and Logistics Association will host an air cargo pavilion at the National Industrial Transportation League’s TransComp, its annual conference, the groups announced Friday.

Major Japanese international freight forwarder Yusen Air & Sea Service said that it posted a net profit of 1.163 billion yen ($13.4 million) in the April-June period on a consolidated basis, compa

Average air freight prices out of Asia fell 10.3 percent in June from the month before as airlines brought capacity back into the growing international market, according to the latest Drewry Air Freig

Congress is headed toward the 15th extension of authorizing legislation for the Federal Aviation Administration since the law expired in September 2007.

South African antitrust regulators called for seven airlines to be fined 10 percent of their annual local revenue for fixing fuel surcharges and freight rates for cargo flown in and out of the country

American Airlines will pay $5 million and provide evidence to shipper attorneys to settle a civil complaint that the airline took part in a conspiracy to fix cargo prices.

Lufthansa, Europe’s second largest airline, reported a record profit of $187 million on its cargo operations, driven by surging freight volumes on its Americas and Asia/Pacific networks and inte

World trade by sea, land and air will grow by 8.1 percent in 2010 after declining by 7.2 percent last year, according to a forecast published by IHS Global Insight.

Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods dropped 1 percent last month, the second straight monthly decline and the largest drop since August 2009, the Commerce Department said.

Deutsche Bahn, the German railway and logistics group, boosted first half profits by over 26 percent from a year ago driven by a 40 percent surge in rail freight volumes and significantly higher air a

Global air cargo traffic jumped by 26.5 percent in June from a year ago and remains 6 percent above the pre-recession peak of early 2008, the International Air Transport Association said.

Air France-KLM swung to a modest operating profit in its fiscal first quarter from a steep year-earlier loss, excluding the impact of an Icelandic volcanic, eruption due to a strong recovery in cargo