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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

Canadian National Railway and its locomotive engineers in the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference will send their wage and benefit contract impasse to binding arbitration after failing to negotiate an ac

Major U.S. railroads posted their highest new loadings of chemical cargoes in 2009 during the week ending Dec. 5, a signal of stirring industrial demand.

Congress on Friday pushed off until next year a measure authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, giving up for a third year in a row on a plan the aviation industry has been waiiting

A Matson ship that received major work at a Chinese shipyard may continue to operate in Jones Act service, the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia ruled.

Specialty apparel retailer Charming Shoppes renewed and expanded its contract to use the Web-based data platform provided by GT Nexus for import management.

The National Association of Manufacturers would like to see a more transparent licensing process and more frequent reviews of export control lists, among other recommendations for a new export control

Advance seasonally adjusted estimates of U.S.

Crowley Maritime is starting a third, fixed-day sailing to its “Speed to Market” services from Port Everglades, Fla.

A truck driver strike that could have paralyzed European logistics networks was avoided when French truck drivers and employers reached a tentative agreement on a new contract Dec. 11.

The United States goods and services deficit shrunk 8 percent to $32.9 billion from September to October, the government reported Friday.

Stephen E. Flynn, an expert on transportation security whose profile has grown dramatically amid expanding anti-terror efforts, will become president of the Center for National Policy Jan.

The delivery of one out of every five containerships due for delivery during the last three months was postponed, said the Baltic and International Maritime Council, a shipping association based in De

Kraft Foods took 50 million truck miles out of its global distribution operations through a broad effort to overhaul shipping strategies and make its supply chain more efficient, the food giant said.&

Volga Dnepr, saying demand for outsized freighter aircraft grew 30 percent in the last five years, wants to order 20 new AN-124 project cargo aircraft over the next decade in a strong expansion of mar