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Global forwarder DB Schenker will increase U.S. domestic rates effective March 1, the company announced Wednesday.

Surface trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico grew for the fifth consecutive month in October and showed improvement in the rate of dec

An attorney with experience in criminal prosecution as well as administrative law became an administrative law judge for the Federal Maritime Commission this week, the agency announced.

Dubai-based shipping and logistics operator GAC merged and expanded its operations in the United Kingdom at the start of the year, saying integrating various divisions will provide a stronger service

Sweden’s Björk.Eklund Group acquired a majority of the companies comprising Norway’s largest independent logistics network, Norwegian Transport Network Group.

A.P. Moller-Maersk said Wednesday that its tanker division, Maersk Tankers, stopped calling at ports in East Africa because of the danger of pirate attacks in the area.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. increased its stake in breakbulk operator Gearbulk Holding Ltd. from 40 percent to 49 percent.

The American Trucking Associations filed its final response brief with the U.S.

The first stage of an 86 percent increase in toll rates for trucks went into effect Tuesday on the U.S. side of the Blue Water Bridge, the third busiest U.S. international commercial land crossing.

DP World, the world’s fourth-largest terminal operator, said it will seek a listing on the London Stock Exchange as the company tries to boost investor perception of its value at a time when its

The new board of directors of CMA CGM will meet for the first time on Jan.

DB Schenker, the German global freight forwarder, won a $500 million contract to provide worldwide and national transport for Australia's giant Gorgon gas project.

The three-member Surface Transportation Board now has Francis P. Mulvey serving as its vice chairman, under an annual rotation. He replaces Charles D. Nottingham in that role.

Norfolk Southern Railway’s large coal loading port terminal is back to normal at Norfolk, Va., and the railroad on Jan. 5 lifted its “force majeure” declaration on coal moves.

A "systematic underbuy" of heavy trucks is tightening truckload capacity and eventually will push rates higher, R.W. Baird & Co. analyst Jon A. Langenfeld said.

Retail diesel prices surged last week across the country, soaring an average of 6.5 cents to $2.797 per gallon, less than a penny off the highest level in more than a year, according to the U.S.

Unionized port and dock workers in India called off a threatened indefinite strike that was to start at midnight on Monday, averting potential work stoppages at the country’s major maritime hubs

Container traffic moving through West Coast ports increased 3 percent in November compared to November 2008, marking the first monthly year-over-year increase in 2009.

De Post-La Poste, Belgium's national postal operator, acquired a majority stake in MSI Worldwide Mail, a U.S.-based mail and parcel delivery company.

Operational and design changes in global aviation and marine transportation could reduce growth in greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50 percent by 2050, according to a new report from the Pew Cent

Fresh from winning the bondholders it needed to complete its debt-for-equity swap, YRC Worldwide is preparing to take the swap to its shareholders for their approval.

DHL sold its domestic parcel service in the United Kingdom to the Home Delivery Network, the company said Tuesday, extending DHL’s move toward international and logistics services.

Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction, Korea’s fifth-largest shipyard, plans to cut its shipbuilding workforce by at least 30 percent to help overcome a management crisis arising from a world

Wal-Mart Stores plans to squeeze billions of dollars out of its supply chain this year by purchasing more goods direct from manufacturers, cutting out third-party suppliers.

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Aegean Marine Petroleum announced Monday it is buying Verbeke Bunkering, which supplies bunker fuel in the Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam region, the world's second largest bunkering market.

Freight traffic at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport slumped by almost a fifth in 2009.

A closely watched measure of U.S. domestic shipping grew on a year-over-year basis for the first time in two years in December, inching upward 1.9 percent.

The active capacity of the world's 20 largest ocean container carriers shrunk by 2.4 percent over the past year, but there was relatively little change in their global market shares.

Environmental groups are suing the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations, claiming a settlement involving the port’s clean trucks program is illegal and should be thrown out.

A potential shut-down of the Port of Oakland by harbor truck drivers was averted Monday when the California Air Resources Board pledged to give truckers $11 million in grant money so they will be able

The Port of Montreal is seeing 2010 in with expectations of “a gradual but slow recovery” after a traffic decline unusual in recent years began to stabilize in the final months of 2009.

Federal regulators will start hearings around the country this month on plans to rewrite controversial hours-of-service rules for truck drivers.

Horizon Lines said it switched terminals in Oakland to the terminal operated by Ports America to handle cargo moving through Oakland between the U.S. mainland, Hawaii, Guam and Micronesia.

The Intermodal Association of North America has named industry leaders Stephen Branscum of BNSF Railway and David Howland of Schneider National as chairman and vice chairman for 2010.

States won a limited reprieve in December in their struggle to preserve the amount of federal funds they can authorize for transportation projects, and they could add $12 billion if the Senate acts qu

Privately owned logistics company Syncreon purchased Illinois-based NAL Worldwide Holdings for an estimated $35 million.

Buffeted by a major winter storm that socked much of the Appalachian coal mining region in the week of Christmas, major U.S.

Swiss WorldCargo said it will launch daily flights between Zurich and San Francisco in early June, effectively doubling freight capacity between its European cargo hub and the U.S. West Coast.

U.S. manufacturers carried their expansion into a fifth consecutive month in December, according to a monthly survey by the Institute for Supply Management.