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Weak demand for exports from Europe and the U.S.

When the International Longshore and Warehouse Union violently protested the hiring of non-ILWU workers at a Pacific Northwest grain elevator, the union’s East and Gulf Coast counterparts were q

India’s Port of Chennai appealed to container terminal operators, shipping lines and shippers to help ease congestion at the congested southeastern hub.

A tentative agreement between nearly 500 Canadian Auto Workers and Canada’s St.

The downturn in the global air cargo market accelerated sharply in August with traffic shrinking 3.8 p

With container and general cargo volume steady and rising across the Gulf of Mexico, ports are spending much of their time expanding shoreside facilities in anticipation of increased Asian cargo flows

At a time when the U.S. housing market is in its worst condition since home ownership began to boom after World War II, railroads are hauling more lumber in 2011 than they did last year.

The Yangtze River is the world’s third-longest river after the Amazon and Nile, stretching 3,914 miles from the Tibetan Plateau to its mouth at Shanghai.

Shippers looking to lock down capacity are turning not just to carriers, but to each other, and logistics providers are bringing the assets they need to the dock.

The Texas industrial real estate market is booming as shifting global trade patterns and demographic trends make Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston three of the hottest markets in the nation.

When industrial equipment giant Caterpillar announced plans in June to expand into an 850,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Victoria, Texas, the impact resonated across the entire Gulf region.

A U.S.-Canada cross-border dispute simmering since last spring may be on the verge of boiling over.

Galborg Line, which operates a regularly scheduled multipurpose liner service from the U.S.

A large container ship is slowly transiting the Kill van Kull channel on its way to a berth at Port Elizabeth, N.J.

The FedEx trucking division, and the largest U.S. less-than-truckload carrier, reported a $42 million operating profit in the fiscal quarter ending Aug.

Express air shipments may provide heavy lift for FedEx when it comes to revenue, but ground freight is delivering the more solid profits.

The arrival late last month of a China Cargo Airlines freighter at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport was supposed to launch a service aimed at raising the city’s role in global trade.

The record drought in the Southwest this year caused $5.2 billion in agricultural losses in Texas, the Texas AgriLife Extension Service reported.

With the International Longshoremen’s Association contract expiration a year away, some shippers already are starting to explore contingency plans.

Nearly 500 Canadian Auto Workers employees on Friday notified Canada’s St.

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Mitsui O.S.K.

A 16.4 percent jump in exports spurred a 7.3 percent increase in loaded international container volume at the Port of Tacoma in August from a year earlier.

Mediterranean Shipping Co., the world’s second-largest container shipping carrier by fleet capacity, will raise rates from the United States to the Far East, effective Nov. 1.

The Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said its member carriers plan to implement targeted rate increases on export commodities Nov. 1.

CSAV is living an extreme version of container shipping’s recent ups and downs.

Truck drivers are leaving large truckload carriers for other employers at a faster pace, but smaller competitors are keeping more drivers, a survey shows.

International container services partially resumed Friday at Japan’s Port of Sendai, the largest port in the northeastern Japanese region that bore the brunt of the devastating March 11 earthqua

Ace Hardware will invest $14 million in an import re-distribution center for the East Coast near Virginia’s Port of Norfolk.

Ron Widdows, a prominent leader in the global container industry, is leaving his position as group president and CEO of Neptune Orient Lines as of Oct.

The battle over proposed changes to truck driver hours of service escalated on Capitol Hill this week as a group of shipping executives called on key members of Congress to oppose shortening the time

Intra-Asia transport traditionally has been a game played out by sea and air.

Operating a world-class supply chain requires the ability to respond quickly to transformative events, both sudden and expected.

Rail intermodal volume at North America’s major railroads reached the highest weekly level on record, after a 2.8 percent gain in the week ending Sept. 24.

More than two-thirds of truckload carriers plan more use of accessorial charges, adding income from shipping fees to higher rates, Transport Capital Partners said.

Korean container line Hanjin Shipping will launch an Asia-Pacific to West India direct service in late October.

Horizon Lines has delayed for one week its target date for completing a $655 million refinancing that would stave off bankruptcy by the largest U.S. domestic ocean carrier.

Cargo traffic for Asia-Pacific airlines fell 5.8 percent in August as carriers pulled back freight capacity even as the industry’s peak shipping season neared.

Kuehne + Nagel named former carrier executive William F. Rooney this week as its vice president of sea freight for the trans-Pacific.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will apply a general rate increase on the eastbound trade from North Europe to