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Boeing predicts the Asia Pacific region will become the world’s largest aviation market over the next 20 years, investing more than $1 trillion in new airplanes.

If a recovery is truly under way in the freight sector, it is yet to translate into a steady upturn in the number of transportation jobs.

Malaysia Airlines Cargo launched service to Narita International Airport, Japan’s busiest air freight hub.

The antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice said it would not challenge the joint venture of seven U.S.

The International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Air Transport Association will create two Web-based products under a commercial agreement to facilitate the implementation of danger

The retail price of diesel fuel fell 2.7 cents in the first week of September to reach a national average of $2.647 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

A strike that threatened to disrupt operations at major ports in India was averted after the government agreed in principle to a new five-year wage contract.

Lufthansa Cargo's freight volume fell 1.1 percent in August from a year ago, ending several months of double digit declines.

Descartes Systems Group, which provides logistics software as a service online, has enhanced its Global Freight Exchange to provide tighter, real-time integration with air carriers, the company announ

Kuehne + Nagel, one of the world's largest logistics companies, announced that it will provide integrated logistics services in Russia for the Benetton Group, Italy's largest apparel maker, and one of

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Container throughput in the port of Hong Kong fell to 5.2 million 20-foot equivalent units in the second quarter of 2009, down 17 percent from the same quarter last year as the global recession cut de

Air France-KLM said its cargo traffic was stable in August for the fourth month running after steep falls earlier in the year.

Trade and economic activity for Canada and the United States may be picking up after months of decline but there is little sign of that yet on the St. Lawrence Seaway.

The Beluga multi-purpose heavy lift project carriers Fraternity and Foresight reached their Siberian destination of Novyy Port on Monday and have begun discharging the plant modules they carried from

Imports into Hong Kong International Airport grew for the first time this year in August, the airport’s top cargo handler said Wednesday in a new sign of improving stability in a battered Asia a

Trucking and warehouse executives in California urged the state tax commission to refrain from raising taxes on diesel fuel and gasoline.

The chief economist for the National Retail Federation said in a report released Tuesday that figures suggest “the recession is ending,” and she forecast a growing economy in the second ha

Losses sustained by liner companies hit more than $6 billion in the first six months of the year, according to AXS-Alphaliner.

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The Danish Shipowners' Association said its members did not want to see any direct subsidies of their hard-hit industry nor any bending of European competition rules that ban cartel-like activity.

Japan's two largest airlines saw the deep slump in their international cargo operations ease in July, their monthly reports show, amid growing hopes for a global economic recovery.

Agility, the Kuwait-based provider of logistics services, has been awarded a four-year contract to provide local and global forwarding, transportation and customs clearance services for RasGas, the la

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru issued a decree calling on all vessel operators to ensure strict compliance with the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, a global anti-terror leg

Short line operator RailAmerica said its first half 2009 profit rose to $19.2 million from $4.8 million in the same period in 2008, suggesting a surge in in demand in this year’s April-June quar

The Chinese economy is expected to grow 7.8 percent this year while the global economy is likely to drop more than 2.5 percent, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said in its Trade

Goldman Sachs is about to become the biggest shareholder in Eurotunnel, the company that operates the undersea freight and passenger rail tunnel between the UK and France.

The port of Rotterdam Authority said its first half earnings fell nine percent from a year ago as traffic fell and fewer ships visited Europe’s biggest ocean cargo hub.

Evergreen Line will extend its peak season charge for the westbound trade from the Far East and the Indian subcontinent to Europe and the Mediterranean.

The CMA CGM Group will restore freight rates in the North Europe to Asia and the Middle East or Red Sea trades, effective Oct. 1.

Green Reefers, a leading reefer ship-owner, blamed fierce competition from cargo hungry container carriers, for losing money in the seasonally strong second quarter.

Air France announced it will cut its cargo capacity by fifteen percent and eliminate 1,500 jobs to cut costs amid steep falls in freight traffic.

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East side, west side, congestion is choking traffic all around New York City.

If Congress decides to restructure harbor trucking this fall and expose the industry to unionization by the Teamsters, it will do so with eyes wide open.

It’s electrifying. New York City is switching to electric on a variety of vehicles, from heavy trucks to compact cars, to scrub smoke and soot from its skyline.

U.S. railroads are riding a tailwind generated by federal stimulus programs but need to beware: That tailwind may turn out to be a gust that can’t be sustained.

As far as dockside labor is concerned, east is east and west is west. At least that’s how it’s been for 30 years.

After younger union members in Charleston and other South Atlantic ports formed the Longshore Worker’s Coalition more than a decade ago, then-ILA President John Bowers criticized the group for trying

Although the International Longshoremen’s Association shares many of the same employers with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, no one is proposing that the Atlantic-Gulf agreement be id