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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.

New orders at Hyundai Heavy Industries fell 61 percent in 2009. The world’s largest shipbuilder forecasts lingering effects from containership overcapacity through this year.

Two reports on Chinese manufacturing showed production at the country’s factories surged in December, pointing to a full recovery in 2010.

DP World, the global container terminal operator, on Jan.

Maersk Line announced Monday it will implement a general rate increase on westbound dry cargo moving from South Asia and the Middle East to destinations in North Europe and the Mediterranean.

Hamburg Sud said Monday it will apply a general rate increase to all containerized cargo moving from the United States and Canada to Europe as of Feb. 15.

Chicago’s multi-layered plan to revamp rail connections in the city and region just checked its $13.1 million McCook Connection off its list, improving links between several freight carriers and

Weak economy and all, FedEx celebrated a record day in its express division on Dec.

With their striking orange-on-black color scheme, Schneider Regional trucks are the reverse image of Schneider National’s familiar black-on-orange units.

Ship owners and managers and others in the industry launched a new trade association at the Baltic Exchange in London on Monday with a broad mandate to represent and promote the health and medical int

European ocean carriers may be hurting, but they’re not finding any haven from the recession in Europe’s ports, where 2010 is already shaping up as a make or break year for some oper

If drayage operators had any question that polluting trucks have no future in California, clean-trucks plans implemented at the port and state levels at the start of the new year should dispel a

CMA CGM’s new $500 million line of credit will buy the company time to rebuild its finances, but the world’s third-largest container line already is reconstructing its business.

Cynicism is growing among many shippers besieged with notices of freight rate increases that note ocean carriers are seeking to maintain services.

Container handling came to a standstill Monday at France’s seven largest ports as dockworkers staged the first of two 24-hour strikes to protest government reforms of box terminal operations.

As a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Stephen E. Flynn was an outspoken critic of U.S. supply chain security policy.

It took all of 2009 to get a landmark rail regulatory overhaul bill through the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

Ongoing battles over proposed cap-and-trade legislation and efforts by ports to gain more control over harbor trucking will carry over into 2010.

The supply chain executive suite is looking pretty green for 2010, but it isn’t because of the color of money.