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Maersk Line said it will implement previously announced rate hikes on the trans-Atlantic trades in the second half of the year despite a recent improvement in market conditions.

A.P. Moller-Maersk agreed to sell its UK supermarkets business to U.S. retailer Wal-Mart for $1.1 billion, continuing a disposal of non core operations to focus on shipping and energy.

Danaos cancelled an order for three container ships at a South Korean shipyard, the NYSE-listed container charter shipowner confirmed Thursday.

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.

Speed and location data collected from approximately 650,000 trucks is being used to pinpoint congestion hotspots nationwide and could play a key role in infrastructure planning and funding.

LONDON – A European shipowner canceled an order for three container ships because it could not finance the $300 million contract with a South Korean shipyard.

The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay may one day develop a container terminal that can handle the 8,000-TEU class vessels that are common now in the trans-Pacific trade, but a channel-deepening p

Evergreen Line and China Shipping Container Lines are teaming up to start a trans-Pacific service later this month linking Los Angeles and Oakland with central and northern China.

Orders for big-ticket goods rose 2.9 percent last month, largely because of a jump in demand for commercial aircraft, the Commerce Department reported.

A vessel coming in from the Gulf of Mexico requested inspection and cleaning Tuesday before entering the Mississippi River, the first time that’s happened since the oil spill that has been sprea

The U.S. Export-Bank is backing a $1.7 million loan for railroad equipment supplier Holland L.P. to sell two in-track welding systems to a customer in Brazil.

The senior Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Tuesday he expects Congress will take up a comprehensive surface transportation bill in January, dimming any faint p

Economic activity is growing faster than expected but the sovereign debt crisis and overheating in emerging markets pose increasing risks, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development sai

Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines and Russia’s Far Eastern Shipping Company are doubling the frequency of their joint service between Japan and Russia.

Work rules spelled out in contracts between owner-operator truckers and drayage companies may not provide the legal grounding to maintain the truckers’ status as independent contractors at U.S.

Net orders for heavy-duty trucks shot up 91 percent in April, as fleets began placing orders for trucks compliant with 2010 federal emissions rules, ACT Research said.

U.S. third-part logistics providers suffered a 16 percent drop in revenue last year but are bouncing back at double digits this year, according to Armstrong & Associates.

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.

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American consumers this month regained more confidence in economic prospects, The Conference Board reported.

CSX Transportation is finally reopening for overnight service a 200-mile Tennessee rail line between Nashville and Memphis, which had been closed since severe storms at the start of May and caused CSX

Ceva Logistics, the global supply chain management company, reported strong growth in first quarter profit and revenue driven by cost controls and gains in contract logistics.

The World Shipping Council appointed John Butler as its general counsel.

Hapag-Lloyd plans to implement general rate increases for cargo shipped from North America to ports in the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East, effective July 1.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James L.

Teamsters at ABF Freight System rejected a 15 percent wage cut by a solid majority, sending the less-than-truckload carrier and union back to the negotiating table.

Fifteen of 22 industry groups contributed to last year’s 2.4 percent drop in U.S. GDP, the government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis reported.

Five Somali men appeared in a Dutch court May 25 charged with the attempted hijacking of a merchant ship in Europe's first trial of suspected Somali pirates.

The idled container ship fleet shrunk by nearly one million 20-foot equivalent units in the past six months as ocean carriers launched new services to keep pace with rising cargo demand in the summer

The average price of diesel across the country fell 7.3 cents per gallon, the second straight weekly drop and the sharpest decline since March 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Monday.

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

Only 30 percent of the motor carriers that received subsidies from the Port of Los Angeles to purchase new trucks are on track to meet the port's minimum requirement for using the vehicles in port ser

The Teamsters union and YRC Worldwide said they will form two joint labor-management committees to discuss the trucking operator's participation in union pension funds and "ways to enhance YRCW's

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

Canadian Pacific Railway is raising by about $66 million the amount it plans to spend on capital improvements this year, for a new spending program that ranges between $708 million and $756 million.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard A.

The Coast Guard would be authorized to provide technical assistance and lend or lease equipment to ports to help them comply with the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code under terms of

The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy-setting arm last week increased its projections for U.S. GDP growth.

Japan's Shinwa Kaiun Kaisha and Nippon Steel Shipping signed an agreement to merge on Oct.1, creating a bigger shipping firm with annual revenue of about $1.43 billion.

Truckers serving India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru called on DP World to take immediate remedial measures to ease congestion at its Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal.