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GT Nexus appointed Léo Apotheker to its board of directors.

Timothy A. Wicks resigned his post as president and chief operating officer of YRC Worldwide today to return to his former employer, United Healthcare.

Lufthansa Cargo carried 26.4 percent more freight in March than a year ago, outpacing its main European rivals Air France-KLM and British Airways, which booked single digit increases.

LONDON ---Emerging markets offer the best opportunities for trade and investment by the container industry in this year’s slow-growth environment, according to Richard Mitchell, chief commercial

Most cargoes on small railroads slid in recent weeks to the lowest volume since the snowstorm-socked period ending Feb. 20, according to RMI’s RailConnect index.

LONDON -- Europe-based shipping industry analyst group Seabury projected Tuesday that global ocean container trade will grow about 11 percent this year over 2009 despite a stronger showing early in th

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics won the contract to manage vehicle processing and outbound yard management at Honda’s plant in Lincoln, Alabama.

The number of laid-up container ships above 5,000 20-foot equivalent units capacity has shrunk to the lowest level in over 14 months, largely due to slow steaming.

The U.S. trade deficit widened in February as rising imports of consumer and industrial goods offset a small increase in exports, the Commerce Department said.

International cargo climbed 24.3 percent for Japan Airlines and 66.5 percent for All Nippon Airways in February, according to figures released by the two biggest Japanese air carriers.

The chief executive of ship leasing company Seaspan says pain from the global trade downturn likely has not been deep enough to bring needed consolidation and efficiency to the container shipping indu

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will raise prices on U.S.-South America trade lanes next month, taking this year’s rate increases to new markets, the carrier announced Monday.

Electronics giant Sony will change the way it manages shipping contracts, adding quarterly reviews to its annual agreements after unprecedented volatility in international container shipping rates ove

ABF Freight System agreed to an independent review of its finances as it seeks concessions from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Fuel marketers and resellers Monday urged Congress to restore a biodiesel tax credit that expired at the end of 2009, depressing production and raising the price of biodiesel.

The United States and Mexico moved closer to a new cross-border trucking agreement with plans for a "working group" to consider "next steps" toward reviving cross-border trucking.<

Large increases in the last two weeks brought the average price of diesel to $3.069 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Canadian Pacific Railway reached a tentative agreement with its track workers in Canada.

Customs and Border Protection will continue its layered strategy for supply chain security while continuing to look for ways to carry out Congress' mandate to scan all inbound containers, Deputy Commi

CSAV Norasia will expand the coverage of its independently-operated India-Middle East-Europe Express Service, effective in early May.

INTTRA, an electronic booking service for container shippers, launched the first ocean freight invoice transmitted via INTTRA eInvoice, its new electronic invoice presentment and payment platform.

U.S. companies will spend more than anticipated on information technology this year, as demand for communications equipment spurs purchasing, a Forrester analyst said.

Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, watched U.S. and Spanish customs officials screen U.S.-bound containers as she toured the port of Barcelona on April 10.

LONDON-- A senior executive at Maersk Line said Monday the carrier expects the strong shipping growth early this year to slow down in the second half of the year because volume has outpaced gains in r

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Department of Transportation&rsquo;s inspector general are targeting &ldquo;significant weaknesses&rdquo; in the explosives shipments over

Florida Governor Charlie Crist and Congresswoman Kathy Castor, D-Fl., presided over the official ground-breaking ceremony in Tampa on Friday for the Interstate 4/Selmon Expressway Connector project, w

The recently created Containership Company will launch its inaugural trans-Pacific "Great Dragon" service on Saturday with the first sailing from the Taicang International Gateway in Jiangsu

Freight brokers are studying whether they can help correct a steep imbalance in transportation equipment availability that is hurting efforts of U.S. exporters to get goods to overseas markets.

The global logistics chief for Duty Free Shops is calling on freight brokers to straighten out gray areas in liability which he says leave his company too easily exposed to injury claims by independen

The U.S. Postal Service is in the midst of what may be its deepest restructuring since the most familiar delivery operation in the United States first put its letters on airplanes.

Ship Capacity Set to Jump

In the latest sign of the Obama administration&rsquo;s commitment to inland waterways, the Department of Transportation is launching a formal marine highway program to be funded through dedicated gran

With the large global shipping lines hesitant to bring capacity back to the trans-Pacific, 2010 could be the year of the niche carrier.

Port privatization hasn&rsquo;t been easy in France. Frequent strikes, coupled with the global recession, were the sort of one-two punch that could have knocked down many ports for years.

From one end of the country to the other, shippers of the largest grain crops &mdash; soybeans, wheat and especially corn &mdash; are gearing up to fill the supply chain needs of late 2010 and 2011.

In what may be an initial step toward changing how the federal government invests in freight infrastructure, the Department of Transportation is convening a large board of industry and academic econom

The trucking industry shrank rapidly last year, as the worst financial crisis in decades eliminated billions of dollars in freight revenue and erased years of growth at many carriers.

Knight Transportation is considering the potential acquisition of a fellow truckload carrier that generated about $450 million in revenue last year.

Home Depot, the nation&rsquo;s largest home improvement retailer, is considering increasing its flow of discretionary cargo through West Coast ports, and the increase could be considerable.

Maritime industry consultant Jon DeCesare is waiting for executives in Los Angeles and Long Beach to start using the words &ldquo;cargo friendly&rdquo; when describing the role of their ports in the t