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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a case that should clarify what laws apply when international shipments are damaged in transit within the United States.

SHENZHEN, CHINA -- The president of container line APL said despite recent growth in volume and rates, the ocean carrier industry faces far-reaching structural change unless shipping demand turns upwa

Refrigerated trucking operator Marten Transport earned 43 percent less in the third quarter compared with a year ago as the truckload market became unusually harsh due to lower volume, excess capacity

Evergreen Line on Wednesday announced rate increases on the westbound trade from the Far East and the Indian Sub-Continent to Europe and the Mediterranean.

SHENZHEN, CHINA -- The head of J.P.

London -- BAA, the world’s biggest airports company, reached agreement to sell London Gatwick, the UK’s second largest airport, to Global Infrastructure Partners for $2.5 billion.

Implementation of the government's Transportation Worker Identification Credential has generally been smooth, but industry representatives would still like more clarity in the national security progra

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing swung to a third quarter loss of $1.6 billion compared with a profit a year ago of $695 million, the company reported Wednesday.

ABF Freight suffered an operating loss of $14 million in the third quarter, which was an improvement on the loss of $25 million in the second quarter.

Evergreen Line said Tuesday that while it plans to order 100 new ships at some point, it has no plans to place the orders in 2010.

The officers and crew of the Maersk Alabama, who fought off a pirate attack earlier this year, will be presented with an Honored Seafarers plaque at the 40th annual United Seamen's Service Admiral of

Canadian National Railway’s net income slid 16.5 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier to $439 million, on an 18 percent drop in revenue to $1.758 billion.

Through cost cutting and a pair of key acquisitions, non-asset based third party logistics company C.H.

Trade and transportation organizations are applauding the settlement between the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations of a lawsuit involving the port's clean-truck program.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority Board on Tuesday adopted an update to its strategic plan that will refocus marketing efforts for the Port of Charleston on its harbor depth.

Port of Tacoma Executive Director Timothy J.

Hyundai Merchant Marine will increase freight rates for the trade moving on its services from China to India and Pakistan.

A driver pre-employment screening program offered by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration fulfills a long-sought goal of the American Trucking Associations.

Dramatically lower freight rates bit deeply into revenue and profit for trucking and intermodal giant J. B. Hunt Transport Services.

Kuehne & Nagel expects air and ocean freight volumes to rise in the fourth quarter, even as it reported a 10 percent drop in third quarter earnings.

The Federal Railroad Administration issued a “preliminary national rail plan” as required under a 2008 law to give some structure to developing passenger train service alongside the freigh

Truckload carrier Werner Enterprises earned a profit of $18.99 million on revenue of $429.3 million in the third quarter.

Overcapacity and depressed truckload rates put a dent in revenue and profit at Heartland Express during the third quarter, but the company continued an extensive overhaul of its tractor fleet as it po

The retail price of diesel jumped an average of 10.5 cents to $2.705 per gallon last week, in the largest increase since a 14.6-cent surge in the week ending June 8, according to the U.S.

Maersk Line and the three carriers that belong to the New World Alliance, APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine and MOL, on Tuesday said they will cut the capacity and services they share on the trans-Atlantic

Israeli ocean carrier Zim Integrated Shipping Services said it is close to getting final approval for a financial restructuring.

Japanese export ship orders sank for the 12th consecutive month in September on a year-over-year basis, tumbling 75.5 percent to 543,500 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Exp

Forwarder UTC Overseas opened a new office in Tullamarine (Melbourne), Australia.

OOCL’s third-quarter revenue fell 42.3 percent to $948.9 million as its container volume dropped by 16.7 percent from the same quarter last year, the Hong Kong-based carrier said Tuesday.

The Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations settled a trucking industry lawsuit against the concession requirement in the port’s clean-truck program, the port announced Monday,

In a major reversal of their colleagues, a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Canadian National Railway said its trains blocked roadway crossings eight times during September when trains stopped for 10 minutes or more along the suburban Chicago rail line it recently acquired.

Kuehne + Nagel will plan, implement and manage the future logistics locations in Europe for global construction technology provider Hilti.

The mayors of New York and Newark, N.J., surprised the trucking industry – as well as the bi-state port authority – by announcing on Sunday their support for a clean-trucks program that wo

Container volume declined at the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles in September, but the contraction was only slightly worse than historical seasonal variations, said analyst J.P.

Aviation authorities in Vietnam granted Trai Thien Air Cargo a license to provide air cargo services in the country, according to Vietnamese press reports this week.

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Marking its 10th anniversary, the FedEx Express hub at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris opened its expanded facilities last week.

CMA CGM wants to delay the delivery of 49 ships it has ordered and is scheduled to receive within the next three years, its CEO Rodolphe Saade said Monday.