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As China goes, so goes Asia.

The centrifugal force of Chinese demand and development along with a slow but strengthening economic recovery, underpinned by rising energy prices, are the currents affecting project cargo carri

TOKYO — With a bankruptcy protection filing looming, Japan Airlines, Asia’s largest air carrier, selected Delta Air Lines over American Airlines as its alliance partner, according to Japanese reports.

The parent of Air China, the largest freight airline in China, will get a $220 million government subsidy to expand its stake in cargo operations, the airline said Monday.

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A shattered distribution network left thousands of Haitians in need this weekend even as tons of food, medical supplies and other relief materials reached the island.

The Haitian government on Friday granted temporary control of the country’s main airport in Port-au-Prince to the United States in an effort to speed earthquake relief efforts, the State Department an

Braemar Shipping Services, the London-based shipbroker and consultant, said Friday its business has been improving in the period since August as most of the world’s major economies have begun to

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Flights into the bottlenecked Port-au-Prince airport were temporarily halted Friday as international relief supplies and workers began trickling into earthquake-devastated Haiti.

Ships ready to aid in the Haiti relief effort on Friday were waiting to load supplies off the earthquake-ravaged country or in various foreign ports as a U.S.

Dry bulk carrier Diana Shipping will pay $50 million for a stake in a new company that will invest in and operate containerships over the next 12 to 18 months.

Universal Truckload Services rolled out of 2009 with three new subsidiaries acquired in December -- a truckload carrier, a freight forwarder and a logistics operator.

The AmericasRelief Team’s Emergency Center has been activated; the Center is staffed to help coordinate the shipping of relief aid to victims of the event.

Global oil demand fell in 2009 and 2008, the first time since 1983 that oil demand has fallen for two consecutive years, according to a short-term energy outlook released this week by the U.S.

Singapore-based heavy-lift crane specialist Hiap Tong signed a joint venture agreement with the Chinese firm Inner Mongolia Wulanchabu An Da Heavy Lift and Transport.

Industrial production increased 0.6 percent in December on the strength of output from gas and electric utilities coping with unseasonably cold weather in much of the nation.

MIAMI, FL, January 14, 2010 – Miami based airline, Amerijet International, Inc. has teamed up with World Fuel Services to donate a relief flight from Miami to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Morehead City, NC – Marines and sailors of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary out of Camp LeJeune began embarkation at the Port of Morehead City today of U.S.

Hanjin Shipping executives and International Longshoremen’s Association officials met this week for the first time since June to discuss staffing requirements for a highly automated container te

FedEx Freight will raise its base rates 5.9 percent Feb. 1, signaling its retreat from a less-than-truckload price war that cut into profits in the second half of last year.

Local agents of container lines serving Mumbai strongly protested a planned 30 percent increase in tariffs.

A panel that brings together rail officials, some of their customers and government officials to help shape U.S.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration command center activated its crisis management center to facilitate information regarding air traffic movements to Port-au-Prince airport.

Hanjin Shipping said it will begin slow-steaming vessels on one of its all-water services from Asia to the U.S. East Coast in mid-January.

The Coast Guard said late Thursday that the Port of Morehead City, N.C., had reopened and normal operations resumed after the Unified Command in charge of cleaning up explosives that spilled at the St

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India will implement a general rate increase on the trade from India to Europe, effective Feb. 4.

(Berlin/Frankfurt, January 14, 2010) On behalf of the "Wings of Help" organization, DB Schenker is organizing the delivery of emergency relief supplies by air freight to the people in the Ha

Hamburg Sud late Thursday christened the final new ship in a series of six identical container vessels of 5,900 20-foot equivalent units capacity each in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Trucking's spot market shot up 11 percent in December from November as freight volumes more than doubled year-over-year, according to TransCore.

The Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy is reducing harmful diesel emissions from vessels, trucks and cargo-handling equipment, according to a report by the Port of Seattle staff.

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The impact on rail operations from heavy winter storms across much of the U.S. Midwest and South last week curbed traffic at major U.S.

FedEx Express introduced its first 777 freighter service from Shanghai, China to the FedEx hub in Memphis, Tenn.

UPS is adding 101 field stocking locations in China to beef up its global service parts logistics network to serve the rapidly expanding industrial needs in that country.

Eastern-U.S. rail giant CSX Transportation is telling employees it will match dollar for dollar any donations they make to the American Red Cross to aid earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

Small railroads across North America started 2010 with traffic near the levels of mid-December but below the recent November peaks, according to the RMI RailConnect index of short lines and regional c

Horizon Lines cut its debt by $38.1 million during the fourth quarter and completed its fiscal year with $28 million less in funded debt than a year earlier, the company said Wednesday.

Retail stores saw a mild recovery in December and a reversal of last year’s downturn in holiday sales.