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Wal-Mart is making progress toward reducing its environmental impact and improving working conditions at supplier factories, the retailer said in its online 2009 Global Sustainability Report.

The Environmental Protection Agency is joining the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development in a partnership linking the agencies’ policies.

Sounding a note of caution about prospects for a rapid economic recovery, Vice President Li Keqiang said Tuesday that China will maintain its relatively loose monetary policy and proactive fiscal poli

CMA CGM added three calls for its three 1,100-TEU vessels in the CAGEMA service linking the East Coast to the Caribbean.

Containerized exports out of the Port of Tacoma grew 6.2 percent in May over the same month last year, a potential signal of recovery at the Pacific Northwest port.

Use of industrial capacity fell to its lowest point ever in May as output of factories, mines and utilities slipped another 1.1 percent from April and fell 13.4 percent below last May’s level.

UPS is giving customers tighter control of their parts inventory with a Web-based system that allows them to choose their own supply chain routing.

Citigroup and the World Bank have launched a $1.25 billion funding facility that will help banks in emerging markets extend financing to local importers and exporters, the banks announced Monday.

Container traffic at Marseilles soared 60 percent in May from a year ago as ocean carriers launched new services.

Net profit for state-owned Shipping Corp. of India fell almost 20 percent to $42.5 million in the January-March quarter of fiscal 2008-09 ended March 31.

Frankfurt airport, Europe's biggest air cargo hub, reported the six month long decline in air freight traffic slowed significantly in May, providing further evidence the global air cargo market has st

Container volume at the Port of Los Angeles declined 16.3 percent in May compared to May 2008, which was about par with the port’s performance since January.

Exports out of the Port of New York and New Jersey fell more than 20 percent for the fifth straight month in April, pushing overall container traffic at the East Coast’s largest port down 17.8 p

A.P. Moller-Maersk is considering an additional 175 layoffs at its iconic Danish shipyard because of a lack of orders.

Diesel prices rose for the sixth straight week, ending with an average jump of 7.4 cents to $2.572 per gallon nationwide on June 15, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Loaded container traffic at the Port of Long Beach fell 22.6 percent in May, but the port showed signs of improvement in its busiest month so far in 2009.

Freight traffic for European airlines fell in April at its sharpest rate yet, a 22.9 percent drop that signaled the downturn for air carriers is getting deeper.

The $521 million expansion at the Cape Town container terminal is progressing well, with the first of four berths to be deepened expected to come on stream in July, Transnet Port Terminals reported on

Manufacturers across the state of New York are still struggling but the outlook for the next six months is improving, according to a closely watched monthly survey.

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Con-way Freight will soon begin offering “truckload-style” pricing for large less-than-truckload shipments by capping rates in an effort to funnel more business into its higher-cost LTL fr

Seaboard Marine said it will launch a weekly fixed day sailing from Brooklyn, N.Y. to and from Colombia. Calls in Colombia include the ports at Cartagena, Barranquilla and Santa Marta.

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority and the Panama Canal Authority signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday that is aimed at increasing all-water container traffic from Asia to Philadelphia

European Union foreign ministers agreed June 15 to extend an anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia until the end of 2010.

Hanjin Shipping became the third major container line in a month to announce it is launching a direct service between Vietnam and the United States.

TNT Express extended its European road service into four former Eastern bloc countries, the company announced Monday, taking a big step toward integrating the entire continent in its expedited network

The long-time advertising director of The Journal of Commerce, P. Robert Potesky, died June 11 after a brief illness at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y.

The Paris Air Show opened Monday with subdued optimism.

When Theo Zwygers went to the podium at a major rail industry conference in Chicago last month, the soft-spoken plastics industry executive hardly looked like a firebrand rising up against the nation’

A bipartisan think tank is calling for sweeping reform of U.S. transportation planning, infrastructure funding and federal oversight — and a highway bill, too.

It took less than 24 hours for Anne S. Ferro’s nomination as the nation’s top truck safety official to become embroiled in the dispute over truck driver hours of service.

Just one year AGO, Michael J. Ward was in the fight of his career as chairman, president and CEO of CSX Corp., parent of one of the four largest U.S. railroads.

Shipper support is building for heavier trucks on U.S. highways.

If surviving the recession is the first priority of trucking companies, the second might be making sure their network operations survive another round of negotiations with customers.

There is one thing President Obama has consistently made known since his campaign days — his feelings about the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, a still-unratified accord he called ``badly flawed’’ wi

Fasten your seat belts, the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler are about to disrupt every aspect of an already-battered North American automotive supply chain.

If breakbulk carriers want to feel depressed, they have reasons: Cargo volume is slowing, rates are down and hard times are spurring competition from container ships and other vessels.

Saddled with contracts to build more ships than they need for the foreseeable future, shipping lines and charter ship owners are trying to cancel orders or at least delay delivery of new ships for as

A warning to shippers, carriers and manufacturers seeing rays of light in commodity prices and the Baltic Dry Index: Beware the false dawn.

There may be some glimmers of hope on the global economic horizon, but they are too early to affect the bottom line of UTi Worldwide, a major provider of global logistics services.