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UPS Freight expanded its door-to-door less-than-truckload service in Mexico and shortened transit times in Canada in a move to solidify its market position in anticipation of a stronger economy.

International express carrier TNT said steep declines in volume for its premium transport business stabilized during the first quarter and improved somewhat at the end of March.

An ad hoc coalition of 140 manufacturing, food and agricultural organizations sent a letter to President Obama urging him to quickly resolve the cross-border trucking dispute with Mexico.

The World Bank, the European Commission, Britain, and the African Development Bank pledged $1.2 billion to upgrade infrastructure and improve trade in eastern and southern Africa at a conference on th

Cargoitalia will launch its challenge to foreign airlines that have cornered Italy's air cargo market in the past three months with a new freighter service between Milan and New York in early May.

Somali pirates hijacked the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama and its crew of 20 American crew members early Wednesday morning off the coast of Somalia.

Trucker YRC Worldwide, announcing a new series of cutbacks and charges in its troubled business, said Tuesday tonnage at its national less-than-truckload declined 29 percent in the first quarter.

Freight traffic for Europe’s airlines plunged a record 21.1 percent in the first two months of 2009 as the business “has all but collapsed,” the Association of European Airlines said

OTTAWA — Canada is disputing the 10 percent duty slapped on some United States imports of Canadian lumber, said Trade Minister Stockwell Day only hours after the decision April 7.

OTTAWA — Canada gave the automobile companies General Motors and Chrysler, and suppliers to them, some further financial assistance April 7, and said the country must face the possible bankruptc

As he settles in as the new head of the Surface Transportation Board, the changes that Francis P. Mulvey brings may be more of emphasis than direction.

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services renewed and expanded upon its agreement with GT Nexus.

Etihad Crystal Cargo, a division of Etihad Airways, earned Cargo 2000 certification. It is the first carrier in the Middle East region to do so.

The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations could be concluded within eight months after concluding preliminary agreements on industrial tariffs and agriculture subsidies, World Trade Organizati

Third party logistics provider C.H.

CMA CGM profit dropped by almost 87 percent to $124 million in 2008 from $966 million in 2007 as freight rates plummeted on all of its major trade lanes.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J.

The new head of the Surface Transportation Board wants to fix some of the agency's creaky infrastructure.

London -- Germany's Deutsche Post emerged as a potential bidder for a stake in Royal Mail, boosting the UK government's attempt to partially privatize the state-owned postal company.

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Deutsche Bank and INTTRA announced April 6 that they have launched a partnership to drive new efficiencies and cost savings in the $260 billion ocean container shipping industry.

Enterprise software giant Oracle, looking for more business from shippers and logistics providers, released the latest version of its Transportation Management software, known as version 6.0.

London - Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest scheduled cargo carrier, reported freight traffic tumbled 19.2 percent in March from a year ago, nearly double the decline at close rival British Airways.

A Detroit congresswoman has proposed cutting off federal funding for a bi-national group that wants to build a new bridge across the Detroit River.

Debt rating agency Standard & Poor’s took railroad operator Kansas City Southern off its CreditWatch list, after the company’s Mexican subsidiary privately sold $200 million in seven-y

American Trucking Associations president Bill Graves told U.S.

APM Terminals on Tuesday named veteran supply chain executive Charles Menkhorst regional vice president for Africa, the Middle East and India.

Maersk Line, pressing its effort to boost depressed ocean rates, announced price increases Tuesday for eastbound freight service from Northern Europe, North Africa and Mediterranean to the Middle East

When the Environmental Protection Agency last week declared an offshore zone to control air pollution from ocean shipping, it was one of those rare occasions when everyone from the American Lung Assoc

The U.S. and Canada will take another look at stationing customs officers in each other’s country to clear goods before they arrive at the border.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority named Paul McClintock to the newly created position of senior vice president and chief commercial officer.

The average retail price of diesel fuel last week rose seven-tenths of a cent to $2.228 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The American Trucking Associations asked the U.S.

Canada’s West Coast made the country’s first bow to the United States’ new Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.

Shipper, trucker and environmental groups registered their support for the Truck Emissions Improvement Program unveiled by the Port of Tacoma.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services swung to a $322 million loss in 2008 from a year-earlier profit of $23 million on higher fuel bills, a write off for reduced ship values and reduced fourth quarter car

FedEx cut 1,000 jobs worldwide in an attempt to save more than $1 billion in costs as the global economy reduces freight volume in nearly every region.

Illinois is paving a road to economic recovery, one pothole, street and bridge at a time.

Pirates in the Indian Ocean hijacked a German containership and attacked a Zim ship as part of a stepped-up campaign against shipping in the region.

Led by British Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, representatives from 23 British companies made a one-day trip to Baghdad and Basra, Iraq on Monday.