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Hamburg Sud and Alianca will raise bunker surcharges on their east coast Americas trade routes by US$25 per TEU, starting from the beginning of August, the Shipping Gazette reported.

In a significant step that will help speed freight movements in the country, Indian Railways announced plans to operate container trains with fixed schedules and assured transit times.

The mounting losses incurred by the global transportation industry have claimed another victim: Daewoo Logistics.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said Wednesday that Russia has sent signals that it might still pursue a unilateral bid to join the World Trade Organization.

The Port of Marseilles is considering acquiring a minority stake in a private container terminal in a bid to end a long-running dispute with dockers over labor reforms.

Evergreen Marine said today it plans to reduce the size of its global container fleet by a sixth over the next four years as it sees no clear signs of an economic recovery.

Freightliner Truck, the largest heavy truck maker in North America unveiled a natural gas-powered Class 8 tractor June 7 aimed at the port, drayage and utility markets.

Shipping lines in the eastbound Pacific announced a huge rate increase effective Aug.

Milan Express and New Century Transportation formed a “Lightning Alliance” to speed less-than-truckload freight from the Midwest and Southeast to the Northeast.

Qantas Airways on Tuesday became the fourth carrier to be convicted in a four-year price-fixing conspiracy involving air cargo exported from Canada.

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) announced on Tuesday that it will initiate quasi-judicial hearings to review its earlier antitrust decisions against five international freight forwarders.

The European Commission will launch a 3 million euro (US$ 4.2 million) program aimed at improving public awareness of the shipping industry and boosting recruitment.

Maersk Line plans to cut the number of berths it leases at Kaohsiung Harbor in southwestern Taiwan because of dwindling business, a harbor official told the Taipei Times.

So-called “cap and trade” legislation passed in the House and pending in the Senate has “created a new threat to American manufacturing,” the president of the American Institute for International Stee

Mediterranean Shipping Company will expand its Golden Gate Service between Asia and the U.S. East Coast to provide connections to and from India via Singapore and Salalah.

Air France-KLM, Europe’s biggest cargo airline, said freight traffic was stable in June for the second month after falling sharply since the final quarter of 2008.

Russia and China want to look into the gradual development of a new reserve currency for the global financial system, top Kremlin economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich told the press Monday on the eve of th

Container traffic at the Port of Marseilles-Fos declined by 1 percent in the first five months of the year to 363,762 TEUs, after a 13 percent increase to 286,863 TEUs in east-west container throughpu

The CKYH Alliance will start direct service between Vietnam and the U.S. East Coast in the middle of August by adding Ho Chi Minh City to the current AWE-4 service.

Agility Defense & Government Services has been awarded a one-year option on the U.S.

President Obama plans to nominate Christopher P.

President Obama nominated Daniel R. Elliott III, an associate general counsel at the United Transportation Union, to become the next chairman of the Surface Transportation Board.

Ocean carrier executives in the eastbound trans-Pacific were not quite ready to break out the champagne in late June, but they appeared pleased that freight rates had finally hit bottom after a long s

The Panama Canal Authority will open bids on July 8 from three competing global engineering groups to build a third set of canal locks.

After taking little significant notice during six years of deep and detailed negotiations to bring international maritime shipping law into the 21st century, the European Shippers’ Council sudde

Although trade financing is becoming easier for exporters to access, many major transactions are still frozen because of financing trouble, said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organization for

MOL has streamlined its Pacific Southwest Express service and is offering the industry’s fastest direct service – 15 days – from Vietnam to Los Angeles.

The Port of Rotterdam has reached agreement on the location and construction of an intermodal terminal that will transfer hundreds of thousands of containers each year from trucks traveling on congest

Dockworkers at India’s Port of Haldia called off their strike on Monday, following negotiations between local authorities and union leaders.

Customs authorities at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru issued new regulations to ensure strict implementation of container scanning at the country’s busiest box gateway.

Terra Firma, a leading British buyout firm, is reported to be preparing a bid for Australia-based Babcock & Brown Infrastructure’s PD Ports unit, the U.K.’s third-largest ports operato

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CMA CGM China and CMA CGM Hong Kong Shipping will switch to CNC’s international liner services from the Agnès CHONG group as of Aug. 1.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned Monday that more governments may try to impose protectionist trade measures in the months ahead if the global economic recession continues.

Hapag-Lloyd, responding to reports that mounting losses are crippling the carrier's finances, denied today it is in talks with the German government for state financial assistance.

Freight traffic at major U.S.

Despite faint signs that parts of the freight industry are bottoming out or even picking up after a long slide, don’t look for bunches of “green shoots” to push through the tracks.

The Obama administration’s WTO complaint against Chinese export practices is welcome news, because more balanced trade with China is essential for achieving a sustainable economic recovery.

Is the trucking industry’s fuel tank three quarters empty or one quarter full? And is there enough fuel in that tank to get struggling motor carriers through the recession?