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Commerce Secretary Gary Locke used a July 28 visit to the UPS Global Operations Center in Louisville, Ky., to woo U.S.

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.

The Port of Le Havre plans to build a new multimodal terminal that will act as a transfer platform for the transshipment of containers and trailers between rail and barge.

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.

Startup ocean carrier Hainan P O Shipping is asking the Federal Maritime Commission to grant the same exemption to the Controlled Carrier Act that the FMC gave to three other Chinese carriers in 2004.

Sea Star Line is the third carrier to agree to a multimillion-dollar settlement of a class-action civil antitrust lawsuit alleging price-fixing in the U.S. mainland-Puerto Rico trade.

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

Senate legislation introduced Tuesday would suspend the 100 percent scanning requirement for marine containers in favor of a “more reasonable” risk-based approach, until scanning technolog

Canadian Pacific Railway had a 23 percent rise in net income from the second quarter of 2009, to $162 million, while revenue grew 20 percent to about $1.2 billion.

Unionized truckers in India called for an indefinite strike starting at midnight on Aug. 5 that threatens to disrupt freight movements across the country.

Old Dominion Freight Line doubled its net profit in the second quarter to $21.5 million on the strongest growth in tonnage the less-than-truckload carrier has seen in two years, the company said Wedne

Greek and Chinese ship-owners are the most active buyers of second-hand container vessels as the crisis in container shipping attracts non-traditional operators to the sector, according to Alphaliner,

Third-party logistics operator C.H.

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

Norfolk Southern Railway’s second quarter net profit surged 59 percent to $392 million, the railroad said, while revenue rose 31 percent from a year earlier to $2.43 billion.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines says one of its oil tankers may have been attacked Wednesday near the Strait of Hormuz, the major Middle Eastern transit point for much of the world’s oil.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood came under fire Tuesday from House lawmakers over infrastructure financing, taking heat from those for and against raising taxes to pay for hig

A bill introduced in the Senate on Monday would continue the congressional call to scan 100 percent of ocean containers, but includes a small change in language that could make the idea more feasible.

London – European Union competition regulators unconditionally cleared a planned merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines that will create the world’s largest airline.

Maersk Line expects to return the Charlotte Maersk to service in August after repairs are made to the container ship that caught fire this month in the waters near Malaysia, the carrier said.

Containerized imports at the Port of Seattle exploded last month, increasing 93.3 percent compared to June of 2009.

The first draft of a new rule on the time truckers may spend behind the wheel was sent to the White House July 26 for what’s expected to be a three-month review.

Kansas City Southern, the smallest of North America’s Class I railroads, powered back from tough recession financials to post a $37.4 million profit for the second quarter that was up 527 percen

CMA CGM said it took delivery of the CMA CGM Leo, the fifth in a series of 12 vessels that will be delivered between 2010 and 2011.

Shipowner Diana Shipping said Tuesday its recently established container ship unit, Diana Containerships, chartered out its first two box vessels.

A U.S. District Court ordered YRC Worldwide to hand over the names of all black employees who worked at its Chicago Ridge facility from 2004 through 2009.

Americans' confidence in the economy declined sharply in July for the second straight month, according to a widely watched index released Tuesday.

A Lufthansa Cargo MD-11 freighter crash landed Tuesday as a fire broke out in the cargo compartment while the plane was on approach Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia.

DP World said it handled 23.7 million 20-foot equivalent container units at its 50 operating terminals in the first half of 2010, an increase of 16 percent on the same period last year and ahead of th

Valley Stream, New York (July xx, 2010): Jaguar Freight Services Ltd., a leading international freight forwarder serving a full range of business customers and shipping requirements,

Negotiators for the Office Clerical Unit of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 and employers at the Los Angeles-Long Beach remained in talks on local issues Monday while cargo handli

Diesel fuel prices jumped an average of 2 cents a gallon in the past week across the United States, ending a month-long drop in mid-summer energy costs, the U.S.

Belgian billionaire financier Albert Frere is in negotiations with CMA CGM to acquire a stake in the heavily indebted French ocean container carrier, according to media reports.

The Port of Los Angeles earned 2010 American Association of Port Authorities awards in the areas of information technology, communications and environmental management.

Orient Overseas Container Line, adding to a growing list of surcharges to compensate for port congestion in the Indian sub-continent, said Monday it will apply port congestion surcharges on shipments

YRC Worldwide’s stock price is climbing, rising 30 cents since hitting a low of 11 cents a share July 7, after weeks of being hammered on Wall Street.

Truckers in Greece are striking over a plan to introduce new trucking licenses.

Singapore Airlines reported a US$44.1 million operating profit for its cargo business in the quarter ending June 30, with strong improvement in volume and pricing bringing the freight operations back