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Charleston media are speculating that the South Carolina State Ports Authority narrowed its search for a new chief executive down to James Newsome, the president of Hapag-Lloyd (North America).

DHL Global Forwarding Japan launched direct less-than-container-load services connecting Tokyo and Yokohama to Chicago.

As Union Pacific Railroad feels out today’s freight market and plans for when it might pull out of its downturn, Chairman, President and CEO James R. Young is cautious.

The westbound movement of agricultural products is outperforming general merchandise, and the U.S.

FedEx is going after UPS directly in an aggressive new campaign the express carrier launched Tuesday against efforts to make the company a more ready target for unions.

Qantas will launch an Australia-New Zealand air cargo service this month with a 767 freighter operation leased from U.S.-based Air Transport Services Group, the airline announced Tuesday.

Ocean carrier MOL launched river barge service from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to bring containers via the new deep-water terminal in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, to the United States.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are on track to achieve many of the environmental goals in their clean-trucks program almost four years ahead of schedule, thanks to an aggressive strategy for

Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest cargo airline, said its freight traffic stabilized in May after steep declines over the past six months.

Japanese carrier MOL has refuted a report by Reuters that it is considering “spinning off” it container division.

Indian Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan called for speedy execution of various port capacity expansion projects in a bid to boost the country’s infrastructure sector.

Future transportation policy will break down the Department of Transportation’s “Stonehenge” structure — restructuring a group of monoliths — Rep. James L.

Infusing cash to keep the Highway Trust fund afloat at the end of fiscal 2009 is a matter of payback, Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., said Monday.

Retail diesel soared 14.6 cents to $2.498 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Not since the panic of last June have prices shot up so fast.

The Port of Long Beach can “live with” a court order limiting its ability to impose concession plans on the harbor trucking industry, but will fight to keep what it considers key elements

UPS and the Independent Pilots Association averted an immediate furlough of 300 UPS pilots through voluntary cost-cutting programs identified by the IPA that could save $131 million over the next thre

Big shippers are throwing their weight behind legislation allowing heavier trucks on federal roads as a way to boost carrier productivity, save fuel, and cut transportation costs.

Maersk Line will increase rates on services from the Far East to Europe on July 1. In July and September, rates will go up on services between Europe and the Middle East and South Asia.

At a time when federal support for high-speed rail is grabbing headlines, the nation needs to pay more attention to its ports, says the head of one of the nation’s largest container ports.

In an effort to revive the long-delayed Doha Round of global trade negotiations, U.S.

Leaders of the 19-nation Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa said Monday that they are ready to launch a customs union to facilitate the free movement of goods in the region.

The corporate owner of a Korean-flag bulk carrier will pay a $2.2 million fine for violating U.S. oil pollution laws, the Justice Department announced Friday.

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said its composite leading indicator for the OECD area rose in April, reaching 93.2 compared with a revised 92.7 in March.

The volume of container traffic handled by the Port of Hong Kong dropped 20 percent in the first quarter to 4.6 million TEUs, according to statistics published last week by the Census and Statistics D

MOL said last week it is considering spinning off its container shipping division and selling it to a non-Japanese shipping line as one option to turn around the loss-making business.

Companies that prepared for the recession by coordinating their supply chain divisions with departments that manage engineering and marketing are in the best position to emerge stronger than ever.

The world's airlines will collectively lose $9 billion in 2009, almost double the forecast less than three months ago, according to the International Air Transport Association.

Japan's two largest airlines saw their international cargo volume fall in April on a year-on-year basis amid the deep global economic slump, according to their monthly reports.

The California Air Resources Board is prepared to help the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach subsidize purchases of low-emission trucks, but CARB does not want the ports’ clean-trucks fees to be a h

Leif Holm-Andersen, director of transportation and logistics at Arrow Electronics, has been using freight payment software for several years, and he wouldn’t dream of going back to old-fashioned proce

Each year, an estimated 150 million invoice transactions are processed in the ocean shipping sector, with the average cost ranging from $20 to $60 per invoice.

West Coast waterfront employers are bracing for a 30 percent increase in the assessments that fund longshore benefits programs, unless last-minute deals can be worked out with the union and federal re

Companies that prepared for the recession by coordinating their supply chain divisions with departments that manage engineering and marketing are in the best position to emerge stronger than ever.

Weak pricing in the less-than-truckload market isn’t deterring carriers from building density to cut transit times and use service to win business in a shrinking market.

Transporting refrigerated cargo is becoming an oasis for motor carriers that are finding it hard to make money hauling other kinds of freight.

All that talk about the economy starting to turn around has a lot of rail industry officials scratching their heads, and wondering when they will be able to count on any strengthening in shipments tha

The Federal Maritime Commission is at the eye of a bitter dispute over whether split routing, as practiced by Global Link Logistics, is legal.

Given less pressure on capacity and a focus on high-speed rail, goods movement advocates are unlikely to get everything they want out of the upcoming five-year reauthorization of the nation’s highway

Liner shipping executives are raising their glasses to American wine drinkers, for they make up about the only consumer market where demand has not plummeted for imports from the Mediterranean.