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Chinese investment in African infrastructure is rising, fueling increased trade, particularly breakbulk cargo, between China and Africa and opening new doors for forwarders and carriers.

Doing business in Africa is not for the risk-averse. Before wading in, smart companies should heed the lessons Panalpina learned after operating for 54 years in Nigeria.

From where Marc Schweiger sits, mining will be the next big thing in Africa.

While energy-related heavy-lift equipment is the dominant cargo moving into West and Central Africa, the mix is becoming more diversified. So are the carriers.

Old and new Africa hands know the potential pitfalls of doing business in the sub-Sahara, with the exception of South Africa, are myriad.

The global economy may be crawling ahead at a snail’s pace, but for many U.S.

Africa’s 53 countries are typically grouped into five regions, according to the African Development Bank:

Where will the world’s next quantum leap in development occur? What region has the most potential, and the most work to be done?

The news is out: Asia is leading the upturn. The U.S. will follow in 2010, but Europe will lag. There’s less news these days on the breakbulk front about Africa and other emerging markets.

QINGDAO, China — It was an unusual sight to be sure: the heads of the six major West Coast container ports together with representatives of the two Western railroads on a stage together, proclai

Q: We sent a load via a small motor carrier with which we’d dealt before. We’d had no previous problems with this carrier.

In recent years, as domestic air cargo capacity dried up and freighter operators such as Kitty Hawk went belly up, the air cargo trucking sector went from strong to stronger.

Annual Christmas sales are always huge events for freight-hauling industries.

Swift Transportation chief Jerry Moyes, turning aside downbeat views of the transportation economy, said the truckload giant is seeing gains in shipping and improving balance between supply and demand

Trucking companies complain of too many tractor-trailers chasing too little freight, and carriers such as Swift Transportation, the nation’s third-largest truckload carrier, are scouring excess

Truckload carrier operations gained some momentum in the third quarter, thanks to a pickup in shipments and cuts in capacity.

For several years, the Surface Transportation Board has been confronted with issues surrounding merger and acquisition premiums paid in most of the recent major transactions involving railroads.

After a year of relative stagnation, merger and acquisition activity in the logistics sector may be about to pick up.

Nick Halper, director of export at Paper Tigers, is a happy U.S. exporter right now. Wastepaper shipments to Asia are fairly strong.

Shippers and carriers have one less problem to worry about next year.

If this were a boxing match, the bout would be stopped for excessive bleeding.But it’s not, and for the liner operators issuing their latest round of financial reports, the suffering will contin

Seven months after the dramatic Navy rescue of Capt.

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Even as President Obama unveiled plans to hold a “jobs summit” to help fight the nation’s 10 percent-plus unemployment rate, concern was festering over how his administration has app

An importer of heavy machinery is consistently underbid by a rival importer when they compete for sales contracts.

A U.S. federal grand jury last week indicted Kuwait-based logistics company Agility on charges it defrauded the U.S.

Logistics service providers in the Middle East suffered a slowdown after the global economy plummeted last year, but their pain was not nearly as intense or as long-lasting as what their colleagues el

The good news about Importer Security Filings, says Customs’ Richard DiNucci, is that more importers are filing all the time and the filings are getting more accurate.

November 20, 2009 – Boca Raton, Fla.

In just over three months, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin enforcing the Importer Security Filing, or 10+2 rule, but for many shippers, the deadline may have already passed.

David Outperforms Goliath Among 3PLs, Brokers

Logistics provider Damco is starting a less-than-container-load service from the United States to Latin America, the company said Monday.

Hapag-Lloyd is on track for a further loss in 2010, one of its largest stakeholders said on Sunday.

UPS announced an effective 4.9 percent rate increase for all parcel and express services for 2010 on Friday, exceeding the price increases set earlier by rival FedEx.

Unhappy Chicago suburbs will get independent review of Canadian National Railway’s reports on the impact of the railroads's operations there, the Surface Transportation Board said Frid

The Surface Transportation Board approved an equipment-pooling plan at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for a group of motor carriers operating in the Clean Truck Coalition.

Ports America won a contract to operate Baltimore’s Seagirt Marine Terminal under a 50-year lease that commits the company to build a container berth with 50-foot water depth.

HSH Nordbank, the world’s biggest ship financier, doubled loss provisions at its shipping unit to nearly $1.5 billion in the first nine months of the year.

A new study by the Federal Railroad Administration says Class I freight railoads boosted their fuel efficiency by 21.5 percent from 1990 to 2006, aided by adoption of more fuel-efficient locomotives a

The House struck a blow for barnacle health this week when it passed legislation banning the use of a chemical known to cause them harm.