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Air Transport Services Group’s subsidiary ABX Air completed a lease agreement with its principal customer, DHL.

Evergreen Line and China Shipping Container Lines have agreed to pool their assets on four different trade lanes by sharing slots and vessels starting this month.

London -- Container ship charter rates are still falling despite the onset of the peak shipping season, as ocean carriers continue to trim capacity amid stagnant cargo volume on key deep-sea liner tra

The New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund is seeking two months worth of pension fund contributions from YRC Worldwide and is threatening to take legal action if not paid.

Customs and Border Protection should delay implementation of the Importer Security Filing rule until the World Customs Organization has had time to review its compatibility with the SAFE Framework sec

Key Democratic senators have an agreement on a “robust” package of legislation to remove antitrust exemptions now enjoyed by freight railroads and reform the Surface Transportation Board t

The Institute of Supply Management's Manufacturing Index pushed up 2.7 percentage points in May, the fifth straight monthly improvement in a closely-watched report that showed growing signs that

The steep slide in air freight business showed new signs of leveling off in April as tonnage at Los Angeles International Airport fell at its slowest rate in six months.

In an effort to accelerate India's recovery from the global recession, the newly elected United Progress Alliance government in New Delhi will attempt to sign free-trade agreements with both South Kor

The first deep-water container terminal serving Vietnam's southern commercial hub opened Friday, clearing the way for direct service to the United States to begin this week, APL said.

A powerful shippers’ lobby, the National Industrial Transportation League, threw its weight behind a Senate bill to strip freight railroads of a limited antitrust immunity.

Maersk Line plans to upgrade its MECL1 and MECL2 services that cover the trade between the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent and the United States East Coast.

The Shipping Corporation of India will revive a vessel sharing agreement for India-Europe service that fell apart as a result of the downturn in trade volumes.

Frankfurt airport is ending short time working at its cargo unit amid signs the six month slump in freight traffic is bottoming out.

For anyone wondering if shippers and cargo carriers could work together toward common goals, the Freight Stakeholders Coalition is a rare example of idealism in public policy.

North American railroads are relatively unique in that they operate on rights-of-way that are generally privately owned.

It is still early, but the signs aren’t looking good.

For shipping lines plying the perilous seas off the Somali coast, risk management begins long before vessels enter the Indian Ocean or the Gulf of Aden.

A warning to any importers expecting the Obama administration to issue a last-minute reprieve from the regulations known as “10+2”: It’s not going to happen.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood sees a strong need to improve the country’s freight infrastructure, but the administration won’t back a higher fuel tax to pay for the work.

U.S. exporters looking to recover from the drubbing delivered by the global recession may find relief in China’s massive $585 billion economic stimulus program.

Undeterred by the GLOBAL RECESSION and declining container volumes, China is moving forward with its ambitious port development program.

Pointing to a blizzard of faxes and e-mails from airlines promising special pricing, Gloria Whittington said, “When an airline offers free pizza for every five shipments tendered, you know air freight

Truckload executives say volumes are firming and rates stabilizing. Less-than-truckload and rail executives say demand is weak. And shippers expect volumes to decline further.

Plans by General Motors and Chrysler to close a combined 1,900 dealerships are the latest bad news for car-hauling trucking companies hurt by problems in an industry decimated by high fuel prices last

The marine terminal operating industry is perplexed by the deal Ports America struck with the Port of Oakland in March.

The sharp fall in fuel prices that helped prop up marginal trucking operators for eight months came to an abrupt halt in March, and after two months of increases, some of those carriers must choose be

After months of delay and behind-the-scenes planning, Congress may be set to act on some major legislative goals of frustrated railroad customers.

For shipping lines plying the perilous seas off the Somali Coast, risk management begins long before vessels enter the Indian Ocean or the Gulf of Aden.

For ship owners negotiating the release of a hijacked ship, its crew and cargo, the actual ransom is just the beginning of what likely will be a much more expensive, drawn-out and complicated journey.

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Amid its more publicly anticipated expansion project, the Panama Canal Authority is also modernizing and upgrading the existing waterway to streamline operations and increase capacity.

NYK Logistics Americas said today it has opened its newest reverse Logistics facility in Spartanburg, S.C. to handle returns of merchandise from retail customers in the area.

The Port of Charleston will get another weekly call by Mediterranean Shipping Co.

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When the 343 short line railroads that report to RMI’s RailConnect Index said their total loads rose by 2,031 units in the latest week, they may have punched through a low-hanging cloud.

Talks between at least two Senate staffs, representing different committees with separate legislation in the works to alter the freight railroads’ relationships with shippers and communities, co

Material handling technology specialist Intelligrated acquired rival FKI Logistex Group for $40 million.

Retail sales fell and unemployment increased in Japan in April. In Europe, the pace of the declining economy grew even faster in May.

The Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust, one of approximately 20 separate multi-employer pension plans to which YRC contributes, has referred its 10 YRC accounts to its attorneys for collect