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Orient Overseas Container Line effective Aug. 1 will increase its freight rates by $250 per TEU on shipments from Southeast Asia to Australia.

OOCL said Friday that it will put a surcharge on all cargo moving through the Port of Montreal as of July 19 because “reduced water depth negatively affects the loadable capacity of each sailing

Inventories held by U.S. wholesalers rose for a fifth consecutive month in May while sales fell for the first time since March 2009, the Commerce Department reported.

Hanjin Shipping is moving to identify and isolate the 5,900 containers it leases from container lessor Unitas to protect its customers against any disruption from its legal dispute with Sumitomo Mitsu

Mexico may expand the list of U.S. products facing billions of dollars in punitive tariffs unless the Obama administration proposes a cross-border trucking program.

Container traffic at major ports in India for the first quarter of fiscal 2010-11 increased by an impressive 17 percent over the same period last year, according to the latest traffic data released by

Truck traffic between the U.S. and Mexico this week skirted flood waters from the Rio Grande with little or no disruption, federal agencies reported.

Maersk Line confirmed that it is postponing by two weeks the implementation of the increase in the peak season surcharge on Asia-Europe cargo that it announced on June 15.

Toll Holdings, the Australian transport and logistics group, will pay around $127.5 million to acquire two UK freight forwarders, WT Sea Air Group and Genesis Forwarding Group.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM and APM Terminals, the Danish port operating company, traded stakes in container terminals in Dunkirk, France, and Mobile, Ala.

Continental Airlines Cargo withdrew from the GF-X booking portal after a detailed business review.

Lufthansa Cargo handled 19.5 percent more freight in June than a year ago and boosted revenue by 25.1 percent, easily outpacing its closest European rivals Air France-KLM and British Airways.

Hapag-Lloyd said Friday that Roland Kirch, a member of its executive board and director of development, markets and works, left the company at his own request on June 30.

Hapag-Lloyd will seek a general freight rate increase on all cargo moving on its services from the Indian subcontinent to Australia.

Fiscal reforms, strong commodity exports and a growing role in global markets have made South America more resilient to economic shocks like the 2008-09 recession, and set the stage for recovery in tr

A U.S. appellate court Thursday upheld regulations governing the treatment of wood packing material in international commerce.

Port Corpus Christi named Dennis J. DeVries as its director of finance as of July 1.

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CMA CGM plans to gradually phase out providing chassis to truckers at terminals throughout the United States on a schedule starting on the East Coast in October and ending on the West Coast in March o

Responding to complaints from harbor truckers in Los Angeles-Long Beach about delays and long lines at marine terminal gates, the terminal operators are forming a working group to study the issue.

Intermodal container volume for North American railroads reached its highest level in nearly three years in the week ending July 3 as overall intermodal loads soared 36.6 percent over the holiday-shor

DHL launched direct less-than-container-load services connecting India’s largest container port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) to Los Angeles.

Cargo-handling operations at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were normal on Thursday as the waterfront arbitrator began taking testimony in a formal hearing on the validity of a strike by offi

Chilean carrier CSAV will launch a weekly container ship service at the end of July to connect north and central China with South Africa.

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.