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Truckload freight available on the spot market declined 11 percent in June from the previous month, according to TransCore's North American Freight Index.

Three major ocean carriers covering the trade to and from India plan to impose an emergency congestion surcharge on all import containers handled at the Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), the cou

Canadian trucking giant TransForce is expanding operations in Calgary while strengthening a crossborder corridor linking Western Canada and Texas.

Increased financial turbulence and Europe’s debt crisis will cause global economic growth to slow after a faster-than-expected recovery during this year’s first half, the International Mon

Japanese freight forwarder Naigai Trans Line signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of U.S.

A.P. Moller-Maersk raised its 2010 profit forecast, saying in a statement July 8 that an improvement at its ocean container carrier Maersk Line has been "greater than envisaged."

Negotiations between striking office workers and terminal operators at the Los Angeles-Long Beach ports deteriorated at the end of the first week of the walkout, with the union refusing to budge on it

The third phase of the project to deepen the St. Johns River harbor into Jacksonville is now complete ahead of schedule, the Jacksonville Port Authority said Wednesday.

President Obama said he will push to renegotiate a pair of stalled free trade agreements with Panama and Colombia and will urge Congress to ratify them.

President Obama on Wednesday named three top executives from the transportation and logistics industry to his revitalized National Export Council.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee last week approved legislation intended to hold oil companies accountable for spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster but could have implicatio

Container volume moving through West Coast ports increased 14 percent in the first five months of the year.

Virginia is trying to attract interstate trucking business -- and registration revenue -- by eliminating what it calls duplicative state safety inspections.

Maher Terminals is taking an unspecified stake in a long-planned container terminal Melford International Terminal hopes to build in Nova Scotia.

BDP International, a Philadelphia-based global logistics and transport group, completed the phased acquisition of Spanish logistics firm Euromodal.

Shippers in Canada are paying more to move truckload freight, according to the latest Canadian General Freight Index.

Container shipments from Asia to Europe surged 21 percent in May from a year ago, but eastbound traffic declined for the first time in 2010, according to the latest industry figures.

Weak jobs, housing and consumer spending markets and the fading of government stimulus programs indicate slower U.S. economic growth during the second half of the year, said Nigel Gault, chief U.S.

Truckload capacity is tightening, especially along the West Coast and in parts of the Southeast, Longbow Research says, even as other reports indicate slower growth in demand for trucking services

Air express operator TNT will raise its intra-Europe rates 3.5 percent as part of what the carrier calls a "global yield improvement program."

TNT is adding a second 747-400 freighter between China and Europe, stepping up capacity on routes that are seeing a sharp increase in volume and pricing.

Air cargo volume grew for Japan’s two biggest air carriers in May.

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CMA CGM July 7 announced a series of rate hikes across its global liner network and confirmed a peak season surcharge on the Asia-North Europe route.

The price of diesel fuel fell 3.2 cents last week, the second straight week-to-week slip, to a national average of $2.924 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

YRC Worldwide will have to pay bondholders who refused its debt-for-equity swap $21.6 million next month, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas ruled.

Air freight exports out of Hong Kong soared 51.5 percent in May, pushing Hong Kong International Airport to what appears to be the busiest air cargo month in its history, according to figures released

CMA CGM plans to reach agreement with new investors over a stake in the ocean container carrier by the end of July, the company said as it unveiled sharply higher first quarter profit and revenue.

The severe backlog of container shipments delayed by the lack of vessel space is hiding the fact that peak season demand may be less than forecast, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants’ late

TUI AG expects its 43.3 percent stake in Germany's biggest ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd to generate higher profit than initially forecast due to a "notable" recovery in global container shippin

OOCL on Tuesday named three senior managers to new positions as of Aug. 1.

The Shipping Corporation of India will apply a new general rate increase on cargo moving on its Indian subcontinent-Europe Service (ISES), effective July 11.

Alitalia, Italy's national airline, joined the trans-Atlantic alliance between Air France-KLM and Delta Air Lines.

A shipping consultant estimated ocean container shipments from Asia to the U.S. at 1.23 million 20-foot equivalent units in June, a 32 percent increase on a year ago driven by Chinese exports.

Negotiations through the Fourth of July weekend failed to win an agreement between striking office clerical workers and the employer’s association representing 14 marine terminals and shipping l

Ocean shipping container freight rates likely will return to levels reached before the global economic recession by the end of this year, according to Maersk Line.

Major shipping companies are warning the British government they may re-register vessels abroad due to new rules in the UK on pay for foreign workers.

Negotiators for striking office clerical workers in Los Angeles-Long Beach and their employers bargained all day Saturday but made little progress toward a new contract.

Shipper complaint cases against railroads are piling up at the Surface Transportation Board, despite the latter’s efforts to head them off through mediation.

Commissioner Alan Bersin is on a mission to get his Customs and Border Protection employees and the private sector to see supply chain security and trade facilitation as parts of a whole.