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Japanese export ship orders sank for the 14th consecutive month in November on a year-on-year basis, tumbling 23.5 percent to 404,190 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Export

The U.S. Postal Service cut to 170 the number of stations and branches it is reviewing for possible shutdown as it seeks to cut costs by consolidating offices.

The Environmental Protection Agency is sending $13 million to the Army Corps of Engineers to help prevent the voracious Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes at Chicago through the barge canal syst

The decline in diesel prices took a sharper turn in the week ending Dec. 14, the sixth consecutive week of falling prices. According to the U.S.

MOL in January will increase ocean freight rates in two phases for all refrigerated cargo exported from the United States and Canada to Asia, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

Roadrunner Transportation Services is connecting its Midwest markets with the West Coast by acquiring Bullet Freight Systems and its logistics unit, Caliber Logistics.

Already low less-than-truckload rates are falling further as truckers become “incrementally more aggressive," Longbow Research says.

Marine terminal and shipping industry executives applauded the latest relief program that will save Port of Los Angeles tenants about $25.7 million in the coming year.

Hapag-Lloyd co-owner TUI on Monday rejected the latest bid by its biggest shareholder John Fredriksen, the Norwegian shipping tycoon, for a seat on the TUI supervisory board.

The year long decline in Asia-Europe container traffic is slowing and freight rates are rising, according to the latest figures from ocean carriers.

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Fitch Ratings expects modest volume improvements in 2010 for the U.S.

Lufthansa employees brought the airline’s operations at its Frankfurt Airport hub to a stop Monday as the Lufthansa Cargo Corporate Works Council staged a special meeting to oppose the airport&r

British Airways cabin crewmembers plan to launch a strike against the airline next week in a dispute over wages and job cutbacks.

Lufthansa is launching fresh legal action against night flight restrictions at Frankfurt airport which it claims threatens the existence of its freight business.

The St. Lawrence Seaway had one of its toughest seasons in 50 years, but its Administrator for the United States says "the worst is over."

Jordan’s Aqaba Container Terminal on Monday unveiled plans for a $235 million terminal expansion project centered on the 1,509-foot extension of its berth, which will increase annual container t

The United States and Japan have a new tentative agreement on an “open skies” aviation treaty that would give UPS new freedoms to add air service in competition with FedEx.

Federal payouts for construction projects authorized by the Department of Transportation under the stimulus law reached $6.818 billion by Dec. 4, DOT reported.

YRC Worldwide faces a fresh challenge from the federal government, which filed a third lawsuit claiming the company's nationwide less-than-truckload carrier, YRC, discriminated against black employees

It’s been a rough year for ports along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Forest products and steel, key cargoes for most of the region’s traditionally breakbulk ports, were in free fall.

While other truckload carriers are laying up trucks to wring extra capacity out of their networks, Con-way Truckload is shifting capacity to its potentially more profitable short-haul service.

YRC Worldwide is edging closer to bankruptcy as it struggles to save a debt-equity swap with bondholders and stabilize its finances.

Ten years ago, violent protesters almost shut down Seattle when that city played host to the World Trade Organization’s Third Ministerial Conference, training the spotlight on globalization.

Philadelphia’s long-term future as a deep-water container port hangs on a court battle that will determine the outcome of a quarter-century effort to dredge the Delaware River deep enough

Many of the European banks that traditionally have financed shipbuilding are quitting the business, leaving a troubling gap in the financial underpinnings of the business.

Surviving in the hyper-competitive harbor drayage industry has always been difficult, and a proliferation of clean-air programs has upped the ante for port truckers even more.

Maersk Line is gaining traction with its U.S. chassis pool, and momentum is building for a new structure to manage the critical intermodal truck equipment across the country.

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President Obama gets it: Federal spending on infrastructure is a good way to stimulate job growth in the still-weak economy.

The Grand Alliance ocean container shipping venture will add Vietnam to its Asia East Coast Express service next month, joining the rapid buildup of international transportation connections to the cou

Union Pacific Railroad packed more unit trains of agricultural products in November than ever in its history, with 400 all-crop trains topping the previous high of 381 in October 2006.

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Descartes Systems Group plans to spend about $43 million in cash to acquire Belgian logistics software company Porthus and gain a bigger foothold in Europe.

Cost is hardly the only factor for shippers considering outsourcing all or part of a private fleet.

One factor spurring fresh consideration of outsourcing private fleets to dedicated fleet operators is the proliferation of environmental regulations on trucks.

For years, when a trailer door closed at a private fleet, another opened in dedicated contract carriage.

While private companies and government researchers look at ways to efficiently scan ocean cargo containers, the National Academy of Sciences is studying whether the Department of Energy, which deploys

There is a serious delay at the container screening line.

Box Ship Fleet Growth Hits 10-Year Low