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International cargo volume at Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways surged in March on a year-on-year basis, according to figures released by the two biggest Japanese air carriers.

At a time when vessel space in the trans-Pacific is at a premium, carriers value those customers that accurately predict their slot requirements and then meet those commitments throughout the life of

CLEVELAND, Ohio – TMW Systems announced today the appointment of Ray West as Vice President and General Manager of its Nashville, Tenn.-based Innovative software business.

Ron Widdows, president and chief executive officer of NOL Group, and John Hemingway, chief executive officer and president of SSA Marine/Carrix, have been chosen as recipients of the 2010 Connie Award

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CMA CGM reached agreement with five South Korean shipyards that were building its orders for 42 new containerships to postpone delivery of 30 vessels that had been scheduled for delivery in 2010 throu

BNSF Railway did not get much satisfaction in fighting a major coal rate judgment against it by the Surface Transportation Board, as the U.S. Court of Appeals largely backed the STB decision.

Demand for new trucks and other equipment is rising as the economy improves and capacity tightens, surveys by two vehicle market research firms report.

Online mail transactions increased 13 percent in 2009, adding to the gains the U.S. Postal Service is seeing in an ambitious effort to cut the postal carbon footprint.

Steel plants, coming back from recession along the Great Lakes basin, are causing a marked shipping increase through the St.

Supply chain software company RedPrairie acquired SmartTurn, an inventory and warehouse management software developer.

Westwood Shipping Lines on July 11 will inaugurate a monthly service linking Portland, Ore., to calls in six ports in Japan and South Korea, providing direct container and bulk service for exporters i

Inventories held by wholesalers rose for a third straight month in March while sales increased even faster, the Commerce Department reported.

UPS and its long-time local service partner P&T Express formed a joint stock company to invest in facilities in key commercial and industrial centers across Vietnam.

Automotive and hardware retailer Pep Boys will pay $5 million in civil penalties under a settlement in what the Environmental Protection Agency says is its largest case ever involving imported vehicle

Intermodal trucker J.B. Hunt Transport Services will buy more than 5,000 heavy trucks from Navistar over the next five years.

Air Transport Services Group reported a 35 percent decline in net profit in the first quarter, to $7.2 million, as the cargo airline restructured operations under new agreements with DHL and flight cr

Lufthansa Cargo boosted freight traffic by 13.8 percent in April from a year ago despite a five-day shutdown of its Frankfurt hub.

YRC Worldwide will have a "global solution" to mounting pension and financial obligations within a few months, Chairman, CEO and President William D.

Fraport Group, the owner of Frankfurt airport, Europe's biggest air cargo hub, reported first quarter operating profit rose 12.4 percent from a year ago driven by strong growth in freight traffic and

CMA CGM and Maersk Line plan to launch a new weekly service in time for peak season, reflecting the recovery in demand on one of the world’s largest trade lanes.

Germany's Deutsche Post DHL, the global mail and logistics group, reported first quarter operating profit soared over 80 percent from a year ago driven by strong growth in its express, ocean and air f

Hyundai Intermodal, a unit of Hyundai Merchant Marine, will switch from Norfolk Southern to CSX Transportation as its eastern-U.S. railroad partner beginning June 1.

Global semiconductor sales, which helped lead a decline in technology shipping in the last two years, are set to rebound strongly with growth of 30.6 percent this year, the iSuppli market research gro

Train dispatchers in Canada for Canadian National Railway have ratified a three-year labor contract that goes back to 2009.

The national average price of diesel fuel grew for the sixth straight week, climbing half-a-cent to $3.127 per gallon, the highest price in 18 months, the U.S.

Damco rolled out a new Kewill forwarding system to manage air and ocean shipments, including multimodal, between Asia and Europe.

In a victory for labor attempts to organize transportation workers, the National Mediation Board said it will now determine a majority in a unionization election based on the votes cast and no longer

A consortium of Hanjin Shipping, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Yang Ming Line and United Arab Shipping Company will launch a container service between Asia and Southern Europe, starting at the end of May.<

Container ship charter rates are rallying strongly, growing an average of nearly 27 percent for some vessels in the past month, as ocean carriers scramble for extra capacity amid a strong rebound in c

In a stark sign of the cloud rising fuel costs are casting over the trucking industry, truck stop operator TravelCenters of America says its net loss grew 56 percent in the first quarter to $41.2 mill

Container traffic between China and the British Columbia port of Prince Rupert soared in the first quarter of this year, up 87.3 percent from the same period last year, the Prince Rupert Port Authorit

London Thamesport took delivery of a new ship-to-shore gantry crane manufactured by Zhenhua Port Machinery Company of Shanghai.

Hanjin Shipping lost $118 million in the first quarter ended March 31, down from the $191 million loss it suffered in the first quarter last year, and substantially lower than the $239 million it lost

A four-story, 100-ton containment dome, or cofferdam, arrived at the oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday, and by Friday afternoon crews had lowered it to within 200 feet of the ocean floor,

Buoyed by five straight months of increased consumer spending, domestic shippers and carriers are &ldquo;cautiously optimistic&rdquo; about the economic recovery.

Intermodal rail is extending its reach into areas of the supply chain long dominated by trucking, and not just over-the-road long-haul truckload carriage.

A new federal report on freight transportation calls on the departments of Agriculture and Transportation to favor a &ldquo;systems-based approach&rdquo; to U.S.

From its inception two years ago, the American Trucking Associations&rsquo; challenge to the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program drew sharp rhetoric in Southern California over whether the respon

-- National transport planning should look more at the interlocking network, instead of each mode separately, since farm goods, coal and other rural shipments need a systemwide approach to reach marke