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DHL Supply Chain, the logistics unit of Germany’s Deutsche Post, plans to add 10 transportation hubs in China by the end of this year to meet increasing demand for domestic shipping.

UPS will continue to deliver new cars to dealers under an extension of its logistics contract with Ford Motor Company.

Project and heavy lift carrier Intermarine’s 8,000 deadweight-ton Industrial Dart delivered GE wind blades to the Port of Wilmington, Del., this week.

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru unveiled plans to acquire four super post-Panamax rail-mounted quay cranes in a bid to improve productivity and boost container handling at the state-owned termi

Consumer confidence, as measured by the The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index, retreated in June after two months of strong gains. Respondents to a survey of 5,000 U.S.

Aries Maritime Transport sold the Ocean Hope, a 1989-built container vessel, to an unrelated third party for a net price of $2.3 million.

The European Shippers’ Council reaffirmed its opposition to the Rotterdam Rules and fired back at supporters of a new international cargo-liability convention.

Kansas City Southern started receiving the first of 27 yard locomotives and road switcher units that have gone through a re-power upgrade that cuts fuel use and emissions.

A train carrying liquefied petroleum gas derailed and exploded just before midnight Monday outside the seaside resort of Viareggio, Italy.

A record 300,000 TEUs of container ship capacity is set to be scrapped this year as ocean carriers and charter ship owners face a growing mismatch between supply and demand for tonnage.

The average price of diesel fuel dropped back eight-tenths of a cent to $2.608 per gallon last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The owners of a Las Vegas-based import business face possible jail time and federal penalties for distributing tainted pet food ingredients from China.

By a majority of 4 to 2, the U.S.

CSX is committing to cut its carbon dioxide emissions 8 percent by 2011 under a voluntary federal environmental program, the railroad said Monday.

DAL Deutsche Afrika Linien announced weekly southbound sailings from Marseilles to the main ports of South Africa beginning July 1.

The days of a harbor truck driver’s cursory inspection of an intermodal chassis should be gone with the implementation of “roadability” regulations published by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admini

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expanding its incentive program to get ocean shippers to use rail, offering $25 per container for new business booked on the authority’s ExpressRail sy

Up to 40 hooded people swinging axes and iron bars attacked the offices of the Port of Marseilles Authority June 29 in what appeared to be a major escalation of a long running dispute over container h

Although truckers hauled less freight in May compared with the same month a year ago, the contraction was the best year-over-year result in three months, and tonnage actually increased compared with A

The Transportation Security Administration deployed two canine teams to enhance explosives detection at Orlando International Airport air cargo facilities.

Short line railroads have posted their best three weeks of freight volume since March, suggesting a mild pickup may be under way after traffic slumped severely in the spring.

The Shipping Corporation of India announced plans to upgrade its SCI-Middle-East-India-Liner-Express Service, effective in July.

Container carrier Hamburg Sud’s Australia/New Zealand service recently delivered three Erickson Air-Crane heavy lift helicopters to the Port of Oakland.

Antwerp Stevedoring International loaded breakbulk steel for Swedish steel manufacturer SSAB from its new all-weather terminal at the Port of Antwerp for the first time this week.

Freight traffic for Asian airlines fell 18.6 percent in May from the same month last year, but the business showed signs of life with a slight improvement from the month before.

Matson Navigation reached a tentative four-year contract with its offshore unions after a brief strike affected some operations on the West Coast over the weekend.

Japan and the United States signed a pact on Friday to mutually recognize their respective trade security and facilitation programs.

London – Forth Ports, the UK’s last publicly traded ports company, forecast improved first half profits at its seven ports with strong roll-on, roll-off traffic offsetting a decline in con

European barge operators have called for tax breaks, lower port charges and increased investment to counter a slump in inland waterway traffic.

Containerized exports through WEST COAST PORTS plummeted 21 percent in the first four months of 2009 from a year earlier, but problems don’t end there for trans-Pacific exporters.

FedEx has been expanding out of its air express industry roots into trucking and other areas, in part to move with its customers up and down the range of shipping decisions.

The road ahead for the country’s largest trucking company is looking rockier than ever despite a reprieve from the Teamsters union and its major pension fund.

WATERLOO, Iowa — Dan Sabin stands atop a levee next to the Cedar River and recalls the dark days a year ago when it looked like his Iowa Northern Railway was losing a fight for its very existence agai

National Retail Systems is finding new ways to make money.

HONG KONG — The mood in South China is not upbeat, but it isn’t despondent either. It is hunkered down, awaiting further developments. Battered as they’ve been by the drying up of U.S.

Like NASCAR drivers when the green flag is waved, container lines raced to start direct services this month from Vietnam’s newly dredged deep-sea port of Cai Mep to the U.S. West Coast.

Trans-Pacific trade for ocean carriers used to run on entirely different currents from the rest of the world.

Truck traffic across the Canadian border is lighter these days, but the list of security rules that cross-border truckers and their shipper customers must obey has grown longer.

Maersk Line will launch a nationwide chassis pool, pushing forward the evolution of the U.S. intermodal industry.

Expanding capacity at the busiest commercial crossing point on the U.S.-Canada border was never going to be simple, given the unusual management situation at the site.