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APL will launch a weekly direct container shipping service linking Ho Chi Minh City to the U.S. West Coast in as little as 15 days.

Prices paid to producers of finished goods in April shifted up slightly from the previous month after widespread declines.

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority has extended the bidding deadline for its proposed South Harbor container terminal project, near Colombo, from May 19 to June 16.

The recession is pulling planes out of the air and airlines are consequently using far less jet fuel.

AeroLogic, the new cargo airline jointly owned by Lufthansa Cargo and DHL Express, has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777 freighter.

Great Lakes trade in the commodities that fuel North American industry is being hit hard by recession and some 30 U.S.

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Democratic leaders on the Senate Commerce Committee are calling for what might be called a shift away from highway freight transportation by 2020.

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The head of maritime operating giant China Shipping says broad industry indicators suggest the ocean container market will improve in the second half of 2009.

Profit at Express-1 Expedited Solutions fell 99 percent to $5,000 in the first quarter as a result of falling surcharge revenue and excess capacity.

Japan's Nippon Cargo Airlines, a subsidiary of Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, resumed flights between Tokyo and New York for the first time in nearly 10 months.

Japan's two largest airlines saw their international cargo volumes nosedive in March amid the deep global economic downturn, according to their monthly reports.

Jim Ritchie, CEO of YRC Logistics, will leave the company at the end of May.

London - Eimskip, Iceland's ailing container shipping and refrigerated logistics company, is selling a majority stake in Containerships, the Finnish short sea box carrier.

United States Steel named Thomas Kelly to succeed John C. Pranaitis, the retiring managing director-transportation and president of Transtar, the company's transportation subsidiary.

The massive Southern California international trade economy will decline further in 2009 before registering a modest gain next year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Economic D

New Jersey Teamsters officer Fred Potter has been named director of the union's port division, which has been attempting to organize harbor truck drivers at U.S. seaports.

The Long Beach City Council voted unanimously to support a port project to combine two older container terminals into a single, 350-acre facility with a capacity of about 2 million TEUs per year.

High speed rail and a major Interstate highway project in Texas head up a list of the top 100 infrastructure projects in the United States released this week by CG/LA Infrastructure.

Shipping goods may not be a game but the growing business of handheld games should provide strong expansion in shipments this year, according to a new forecast.

The volume of freight transportation services in the United States in March dropped 3.3 percent, as measured by the Freight Transportation Services Index of the U.S.

April retail and food service sales dropped 10.1 percent to $337.7 billion, according to the adjusted advance estimate released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

A still positive Chinese market helped offset the general gloom of the global downturn for logistics provider Dachser in fiscal 2008.

Canadian National Railway vowed to cut the number of long delays at road crossings caused by train operations over its newly acquired Chicago-area short line, and did just that.

DFDS, a leading short-sea shipping line, reported earnings fell 44 percent in the first quarter of 2009 from a year ago as freight volume fell by as much as twenty five percent on its north European r

Trade between the United States and India dropped 23.47 percent in value to $8.2 billion during the first quarter of 2009, compared with $10.69 billion during the same period last year.

Dock workers at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru called off their two-day strike on Tuesday, following tense negotiations between port management and union leaders.

The port of Baltimore received a 10-year extension on special city zoning aimed at protecting its industrial viability, the Baltimore Business Journal reported.

YRC Worldwide warned it may not reach its second quarter earnings requirement as the fragile financial standing at the nation’s largest heavy-freight trucking company seems to be getting shakier

A federal forecast for weak grain output this year could push up commodity prices and spur farmers and grain elevators to release more from their stockpiles to put into railcars for shipment to market

The Coast Guard issued an anti-piracy security order for U.S.

Freight airline Air Transport Services Group shrugged off the large loss of revenue from downsizing DHL business to nearly triple its net profit to $11.1 million in the first quarter.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is canceling a controversial Bush administration plan to reduce congestion at New York-area airports by auctioning slots to airlines.

A. P. Moller-Maersk today announced the promotions of three of its executives in the management of Maersk Line and Safmarine, its container and breakbulk subsidiaries.

Used truck pricing is still down “double digits” year-over-year with no sign of improving due to overcapacity in the truckload market, according to a Wall Street analyst.

Lufthansa Cargo's freight traffic fell 26.7 percent in April from a year ago as slumping German exports triggered further steep declines on its key Asia/Pacific and Americas routes.

Warehouses and transportation companies in California are facing the most aggressive environmental regulations this ecology-minded state has ever experienced, and every link in the international suppl

The United States’ largest manufacturing group says the country’s deepening deficit suggests the economic downturn has further to go.

Rail transport at Rotterdam has broken through the one million TEUs barrier for the first time, taking market share from trucks and barges and improving the modal split at Europe's biggest box port.