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The Maritime Administration is sending four special-purpose cargo ships and a high-speed vehicle-passenger ferry to help with Haitian relief efforts.

U.S. military forces are leading efforts to punch through sea, air and road bottlenecks slowing the delivery of food and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

CMA CGM on Monday officially appointed Philippe Soulie, former head of French construction group Cnim, CEO of the troubled ocean container carrier.

Flatbed trucking has been flatlining.

Lufthansa is supporting the international emergency operations in aid of the earthquake victims in Haiti. Lufthansa Cargo on Jan.

The 278-foot house barge Crimson Clover arrived Sunday night at Port-au-Prince, the first commercial vessel to reach the port since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Wal-Mart Stores is pursuing new savings in sourcing in ways that could help it wrest more control over inbound freight from its vendors and lower inventory costs.

Deutsche Post DHL is kick-starting the stalled consolidation of Europe’s standard parcel delivery business by leaving the business in the U.K. and France.

The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement is adding another member and changing its governance and management structure to better deal with what carriers say are insufficient trans-Pacific freigh

Ocean carriers’ service cutbacks are forcing shippers to book further in advance and pay higher rates to keep their containers from being left on the dock.

Global trade is recovering as the major industrialized countries slowly climb out of recession. U.S. imports are increasing after months of declines.

At a time when infrastructure is crumbling and resources are depleted, the Army Corps of Engineers needs fresh thinking about the way it manages the inland rivers system, according to a working group

A Surface Transportation Board case involving a new 80-mile rail line in Alaska suggests a potential fissure between the railroad industry’s three key economic regulators even as Congress debate

When heavy snows and frigid weather hit much of the nation in the first two weeks of the year, several states lifted weight restrictions on trucks, some to help endangered crops to get to market and o

With shipments valued in the tens of millions of dollars, Pfizer is no stranger to cargo security, so the pharmaceutical giant is taking part in the Transportation Security Administration’s Cert

Even after 14.5 percent average annual growth in container traffic between 2002 and 2007, the container shipping revolution still has a long way to go in India.

India may be showing sharp growth while the rest of the trading world struggles out of the economic downturn, but it is the one area where the country is lagging that has shippers and logistics operat

Hanjin Shipping and Wan Hai Lines are tightening ranks in the trans-Pacific by establishing a vessel-sharing agreement on Hanjin’s Vietnam-U.S.

For several months, officers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union locals in Southern California have been telling transportation industry gatherings, especially meetings that attract car

After three years of scaring cargo away and fostering an anti-business image with aggressive environmental programs, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have a message for the industry: Reducing y

Crowley Liner Services has agreed to an undisclosed settlement with shippers who filed civil antitrust lawsuits against carriers in the wake of a federal investigation into price-fixing in the U.S.

DAYTON, Ohio — AcuTemp Thermal Systems, a manufacturer of active and passive containers for transporting temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical and biomedical products, and CSafe, a provider of ac

The spot rate for shipping a 40-foot container from Hong to Los Angeles jumped 10 percent in the week ending Jan.

AeroLogic, the joint venture cargo airline of DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo, is adding flights from Germany to the United States and Hong Kong following the delivery of two 777 freighters.

Average global container shipping rates expanded year-over-year in late 2009 for the first time since mid-2008, according to a new report by Drewry Shipping Consultants.

U.S. importers said emergency rate increases the ocean carrier members of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement are putting into effect this month are taking hold across the board.

European Union competition regulators are investigating a controversial plan by German ship owners to share the costs of laying up small container vessels.

Congress will not raise fuel taxes this year to fund transportation construction programs, said a Democratic leader in the House of Representatives.

MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway on Monday announced it will make an initial donation of C$100,000 (US$97,500) to the Red Cross in support of the agency's relief efforts in Haiti.

When a turbine blew out on one of the three multipurpose vessels Expeditors International of Washington chartered to carry project cargo to South Africa, David Steinbach had to scramble.

The International Chamber of Shipping, in an impassioned plea on behalf of ocean trade, on Monday called on governments around the world to launch a stronger, more coordinated effort to wipe out pirac

South American trade integration has been dogged by distrust, but never as much as now.

Intent on reducing carbon emissions and meeting a 2020 deadline for generating 15 percent of its energy needs through renewable sources, the British government is parceling out the right to develop ab

For steel traders, the times are undeniably bad. When asked to describe the market for steel, a Houston steel trader put things this way: “I have just two words: It sucks.”

Forwarders and heavy-lift carriers are jockeying for position as Australia moves ahead with development of its enormous offshore natural gas resources, endeavors that will require massive amounts of p

The rest of the world may be taking a deep breath and daring to hope the recession is ending, but for Australia, the key words seem to be full speed ahead.

A thousand hours of welding to make Chinese-sourced wind components usable? Diverting cargo to Singapore to replace factory coverings not tough enough for a sea voyage?

After a period of booming speculation, the Asian market for oil- and gas-related project cargo was smacked down by the recession.

Indonesia fared better than many of its Asian neighbors during the recession because less than 20 percent of its GDP comes from exports, says Aaron Chen, managing director of BDP Indonesia and senior