Air Cargo

Air France-KLM’s cargo traffic in May rose 8.7 percent from a year ago, led by a double digit increase on its Americas network.

Hong Kong International Airport said a 47 percent surge in exports in April pushed the airport to its largest monthly cargo volume in more than two-and-a-half years, extending a strong resurgence in s

The National Mediation Board rejected a request by the Teamsters union to release UPS aircraft mechanics from negotiations, which would have set the stage for a strike in 30 days.

Global air cargo volumes surged 26 percent in the first quarter from a year ago and revenue grew as much as 40 percent, the International Air Transport Association said.

Freight tonnage at Los Angeles Airport grew 28 percent in April from a year ago, but volume slipped slightly from the month before, signaling the rebound at the country’s largest trans-Pacific a

Moya Greene, chief executive of Canada Post, has been appointed the new chief executive officer of the UK's Royal Mail.

With public budgets stretched thin, governments should be doing more to encourage private investment in needed infrastructure, the CEO of Neptune Orient Lines told an international panel of transport

South Korean regulators, expanding a global investigation against price fixing in the air freight industry, announced nearly $100 million in penalties against 19 airlines for allegedly conspiring on c

Lufthansa Cargo and Austrian Airlines created a joint subsidiary to market the whole freight capacity of both airlines in Austria.

International air freight traffic grew 25.2 percent in April, the slowest monthly expansion so far in what has become a banner year for the expedited shipping industry, the International Air Transport

Expeditors International of Washington says its air freight tonnage soared 49 percent in April, growing faster than the 18 percent gain in the freight forwarder’s ocean volume.

Canada will phase in 100 percent screening of air cargo under a new program that will include some US$90 million of funding to improve security for shipping at the country’s airports.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James L.

Cabin crew workers at British Airways walked out Monday after the Unite union and Europe’s third largest airline broke off negotiations on the weekend without resolving disputes over cost cuttin

The global economic crisis reduced greenhouse gas emissions from transportation industry sources worldwide, but that reduction isn’t expected to last long.

The UK's new government revived controversial plans to partially privatize Royal Mail, the state-owned postal company.

Air France-KLM is freezing its freight capacity despite rising global demand in a bid to boost margins following record annual cargo losses of $545 million.

When a shipment absolutely, positively has to arrive no later than yesterday, what do shippers do? First they pray . . . then they call an expedited trucking company.

Expedited trucking is a premium service, commanding a premium price. But that price might not be as high as shippers think, carrier executives said.

LONDON – British Airway's cargo revenue slumped more than 18 percent in fiscal 2009/10 from a year ago as the carrier booked its biggest operating loss in more than twenty years.

Air freight has regained some of the ground it lost during the recession but faces difficulty for at least the next two years, David Hoppin, managing director of transport and logistics analyst MergeG

Cargo traffic for Asia-Pacific airlines grew 32.1 percent in April as carriers expanded capacity at the sharpest rate yet to meet recovering demand in the region, according to the Association of Asia

UPS planned to begin the first furloughs of pilots this weekend under what the company calls an “unfortunate, but necessary” cost-cutting measure to scale back its air express flight opera

The U.S. Postal Service is overhauling its mail and shipping structure, merging the expedited and ground operations into a single Shipping Services group.

Oil spill-fighting equipment from Singapore, China and the UK and a team of salvage specialists from the Netherlands, all on aircraft charters coordinated by UK-based Chapman Freeborn, arrived in New

TNT Express Monday launched five day per week air cargo service between Moscow and its main European hub Liege, via Warsaw.

European governments and air navigation service providers must develop more precise procedures to identify ash contaminated air space and allow more flights, said the International Air Transport Assoc

Aerologic, the joint venture cargo airline of DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo, is expanding operations into the United Arab Emirates on a route between Germany and Hong Kong with a connection in the e

Airports in Europe, including Amsterdam Schiphol and London Heathrow, reopened Monday after a new wave of shutdowns because of volcanic ash disrupted airline operations and prompted new worries about

Air France-KLM's cargo business is set to report an annual $614 million operating loss this week, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.

The air shipping industry met a May 1 deadline for screening 75 percent of cargo on U.S.

Barely a week after reporting the worst financial results in its four-decade history, freighter operator Cargolux announced its first round-the-world service with an ambitious Europe-Asia-North Americ

Revenue shot up 58 percent in the first quarter at ground and air carrier Express-1 Expedited Solutions, rising to $31.6 billion, as the economic recovery fueled sales.

Climate and energy legislation proposed May 12 by Sens.

Air cargo workers could have a new path through the credentialing jungle if Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration follow through on recommendations by Customs&rs

Kintetsu World Express, Japan's second-largest international forwarder, said its net profit surged 31.4 percent in fiscal 2009, which ended on March 31, to $49.4 million.

Con-way Freight is expanding its international partnership with TNT to bring trans-Atlantic freight to Miami and Los Angeles.

Freight airline Cargoitalia will take its third MD-11 aircraft from a conversion company in June but the carrier said Wednesday it will delay use of the plane in scheduled service for three months.

Air Transport Services Group intends to buy three extended-range 767-300 aircraft and convert them to freighters in a purchase aimed at adding new scale to its plane leasing operations.

International cargo volume at Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways surged in March on a year-on-year basis, according to figures released by the two biggest Japanese air carriers.