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Patty Senecal, a former trucking industry executive and spokeswoman for the warehousing and goods movement industry in California, was hired as manager of Southern California operations for the Wester

Maersk Line will start imposing a $10 fee for “no-shows” on every container that shippers book for export on one of its trans-Pacific services that does not show up at the ports of Los Ang

A number of Asian carriers significantly trimmed the number of containerships they own over the last 15 months as they sought to reduce exposure to the fragile liner shipping markets, according to Alp

Intermodal services firm Pacer International is replacing its chief financial and commercial officers as it continues a transition in its business plan after major shifts in 2009.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood tapped 10 leading analysts representing the freight industry, state highway agencies and academia to advise his Department on data it gathers.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico soared 19.5 percent from January 2009 to January 2010 in the largest

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The U.S. Postal Service on Monday announced it would seek to reduce delivery service to five days a week as a means of cutting into a deficit that’s projected to reach $238 billion by 2020.

Rail and construction industry supplier L.B. Foster bought key bridge-building assets of Interlocking Deck Systems International for nearly $7 million.

FedEx Express today unveiled plans to test its first all-electric parcel delivery vans, plugging two of four test trucks into its Los Angeles-area fleet in June.

Malaysian cargo airline Transmile is adding Singapore to its regional services with six-times-weekly freighter flights to Singapore Changi Airport.

Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong-based conglomerate, is looking to acquire more terminals for its ports business, seeking bargains in the global shipping sector, as it focuses again on its core busine

APM Terminals, which operates or is building 50 container terminals around the world, plans to standardize the equipment at those terminals and at new ones under construction to reduce costs and impro

Global air cargo traffic surged 26.5 percent in February from a year ago, and North American and Asian carriers booked even stronger growth, the International Air Transport Association said.

Ship charter company Danaos swung to a $16.2 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2009 from a $23.8 million profit a year ago but reported stronger demand for larger vessels since the beginning of 20

Teamsters General President James P.

The Tampa Port Authority added 15 acres to its 25-acre container terminal, which now includes 2,100 feet of berth, three rail-mounted gantry cranes and a 100-ton mobile harbor crane on a 43-foot-deep

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Air freight traffic at Los Angeles International Airport jumped 26.6 percent in February over the same month a year ago as business at the United States’ main gateway for trans-Pacific air cargo

Slipping an average of seven-tenths of a cent across the country, the price of diesel ended a five-week climb at $2.939 per gallon Monday, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Kansas City, Mo., March 29, 2010 – Kansas City Southern (KCS) (NYSE: KSU) has announced the promotion of Warren K.

SANTA FE SPRINGS, California ¬ Weber Distribution, a leading third party logistics and supply chain management provider for more than 85 years, announced today that it has hired Jeff Harding as bu

Increased truckload freight demand is showing up in surging trailer sales, says ACT Research.

Con-way Freight and TNT are expanding their trans-Atlantic partnership to include shipping U.S. exports to Europe, targeting freight shipments weighing more than 150 pounds.

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is preparing to launch e-commerce operations in China and Japan as part of a global effort to increase its online presence, the Financial Times reports.

Union Pacific Railroad “will continue to generate core price increases of roughly 4-6 percent over the next few years,” said stock analyst Lee A. Klaskow of Longbow Research.

Safmarine said it is reintroducing the ME 3 shipping service between the Mediterranean and West Central Asia.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, the joint Swedish-Norwegian roll-on, roll-off carrier, is expanding its ocean services from North America to the Middle East due to a strengthening of demand in the reg

A.P. Moller-Maersk aims to cut operating costs by $500 million this year, it said in a company newsletter published on Monday.

European Union regulators cleared a joint venture between Luxembourg-based Euroports and DP World for a new container terminal in the port of Liege.

Middle East-based Simatech Shipping, Evergreen Line and Wan Hai Lines will launch a joint container service linking the Indian Subcontinent and East Africa, effective in May.

Neptune Orient Lines said Monday the volume of containers carried by its container line APL and the average yield per container both climbed during the four weeks from Feb.

Boskalis Westminster of the Netherlands, the world's biggest dredger, sealed a $1.55 billion takeover of Smit Internationale after acquiring 90 percent of the marine service company's shares.

Duisport, the operator of the world's biggest inland port at Duisburg, Germany, booked record revenue for the second year running in 2009.

All the ocean terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey will be closed on Friday, April 2, because of Good Friday, which is an International Longshoremen’s Association holiday, the Port A

Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding predicted in Russia Sunday that the container line is "about to break even" as ocean freight rates jump, and predicted demand will be in the upper end of its f

Criminal elements are becoming increasingly creative in using the internet to pull off cargo thefts throughout the supply chain, law enforcement detectives told a meeting of Harbor Truckers for a Sust

President Obama named Alan D. Bersin to be U.S.

Neptune Orient Lines formed a new wholly owned subsidiary called Triton Shipping in Singapore to arrange financing for two new vessels with capacities of 10,000 20-foot equivalent units that it ordere

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