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Economists are questioning how long U.S. consumers can maintain their current spending pace in the face of high unemployment, stagnant housing prices and reduced access to credit.

The embattled euro is poised to drop further but the economic impact on North American economies appears to be limited, economists from IHS Global Insight said.

Trucking yield and rates aren't rising as quickly as demand despite a surge in freight volume on highways in the first quarter, according to new figures on the trucking market.

TNT Express Monday launched five day per week air cargo service between Moscow and its main European hub Liege, via Warsaw.

APL Logistics, a unit of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, plans to expand its place in the North American intermodal market with a focus on the link between customers’ international and dom

Kuehne + Nagel contracted to provide road logistics services in Middle and Eastern Europe for Rehau, a manufacturer of polymer-based innovations and systems in construction and the automotive industry

European governments and air navigation service providers must develop more precise procedures to identify ash contaminated air space and allow more flights, said the International Air Transport Assoc

Aerologic, the joint venture cargo airline of DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo, is expanding operations into the United Arab Emirates on a route between Germany and Hong Kong with a connection in the e

Safmarine plans to launch its first direct, fully-containerized service between the Far East, the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa next month.

Charleston’s container volume jumped 28.5 percent in April over the same month last year, marking the fourth straight month of double-digit increases, the South Carolina State Ports Authority re

BP successfully placed a riser insertion tool into the broken pipe that has been leaking oil into the

Driving while distracted is not just a concern on the nation’s highways, as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood unveiled a proposed regulation to target “improper use of distracting electr

President Obama, trying for a third time to get someone to run the Transportation Security Administration, announced Monday he will nominate Deputy FBI Director John S.

Trailer Bridge narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $307,569 from $768,034 a year earlier as the U.S.-Puerto Rico carrier reported increases in revenue and operating income.

Diesel prices fell last week for the first time in seven weeks, sliding an average of 3.3 cents to $3.094 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The watershed Los Angeles clean-truck lawsuit is one step closer to conclusion, with the port stating in its closing arguments that it is exempt from federal pre-emption law because it is a market par

Overall container volume at Germany’s Port of Hamburg slipped 4 percent to 1.8 million 20-foot equivalent units in the first quarter, but loaded containers posted a 1.6 percent increase.

Agility, the Kuwait-based global logistics company, reported first quarter profit fell 52 percent from a year ago and warned future earnings will be hit by the loss of U.S.

Manufacturers in New York say their business improved for the tenth consecutive month in May, according to The Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

Damco, the combined brand of A.P. Moller-Maersk logistics activities, joined the DASH7 Alliance, an international group promoting the use of an advanced wireless sensor networking technology.

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line expanded its international freight forwarding business, opening four regional command centers to guide shipments through its domestic and global networks.

Roadrunner Transportation Services completed an initial public offering, becoming one of a very few trucking and logistics companies to go public in recent years.

The euro weakened to $1.2234, a four-year low against the dollar, and some economists predict it will fall even lower, a development that would help European exports but hurt U.S. exporters.

The container volume handled by Georgia’s ports jumped by 25.6 percent in April, making five months in a row that they recorded double-digit growth.

DP World India took delivery of six rubber-tired gantry cranes that are to be installed at its International Container Transshipment Terminal, the country’s first deep-water transshipment facili

The International Register of Shipping opened an office in Singapore as part of its strategy to expand its worldwide presence.

Airports in Europe, including Amsterdam Schiphol and London Heathrow, reopened Monday after a new wave of shutdowns because of volcanic ash disrupted airline operations and prompted new worries about

Air France-KLM's cargo business is set to report an annual $614 million operating loss this week, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.

Asia-Europe Trade Extends Rally

The Department of Transportation’s policy plans for 2010-2015 would: -- Focus transportation policy on “achieving strategic outcomes” in broader national goals.

When Congress gave the Consumer Product Safety Commission new authority and responsibility over children’s products in 2008 following widespread reports of tainted imports, the agency seemed to

At first blush, it makes sense that start-up carrier The Containership Co. chose the new Port of Taicang as its home base in China, but CEO Jakob Tolstrup-Moller said it was the other way around.

The Department of Transportation keeps saying it wants to “get trucks off the road” in reshaping the nation’s freight and passenger infrastructure.

Nearly a month after an explosion destroyed the BP/Transocean Deepwater Horizon deep-sea drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, oil was still gushing from two leaks in the rig’s shattered well hous

The air shipping industry met a May 1 deadline for screening 75 percent of cargo on U.S.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach spent almost $80 million combined on incentives to get carriers and owner-operators driving clean diesel trucks.

A rail customers’ rally, held at the outset of a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill, was one part reunion and one part backslapping celebration as shippers and their advocates reveled in what they

The sound reverberating from Echo Global Logistics is the boom created by its rocketing sales.

Ports on the Great Lakes, which traditionally handle dry and liquid bulk, breakbulk and project cargo, are looking at a future with containers.

Barely a week after reporting the worst financial results in its four-decade history, freighter operator Cargolux announced its first round-the-world service with an ambitious Europe-Asia-North Americ