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North America’s short line railroads saw traffic in all categories fall 21.1 percent from a year earlier in the first eight weeks of 2009.

The Transportation Security Administration has passed the 1 million milestone in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program.

DHL, the world's leading express and logistics company, said on Tuesday that senior financier Taketo Yamakawa will become the new head of DHL Express Japan, effective on April 1.

London – The cargo unit of Alitalia, Europe’s seventh largest air freight carrier last year, is about to be sold, the bankruptcy administrator of Italy’s national airline said.

Unionized port and dock workers in India have agreed to defer their indefinite nationwide strike plan that was scheduled for March 10, temporarily averting disruptions at the country's major gateway p

Short line operator Genesee & Wyoming said February freight traffic on railroads it held a year ago fell 6.4 percent, although the company’s new acquisitions lifted total volume.

Con-way is trimming wages, salaries and benefits across its entire employee base to save costs during the deepening recession.

Evergreen Marine, Wan Hai Lines and Yang Ming officially opened two container terminals in ceremonies in Taipei today.

The Teamsters union and several safety advocacy groups are petitioning the Obama administration to tighten its stance on trucking hours of service rules.

Maersk Line took steps March 9 to seek increases in freight rates on several more of its trade lanes.

Exports of construction equipment from the United States increased 20 percent in 2008 for a total of more than $20.7 billion, according to an industry report.

Railroads felt left out of the massive stimulus bill that Congress and the Obama administration negotiated.

London – Frankfurt airport, Europe’s biggest air freight hub, on March 9 will cut hours for around 500 cargo workers amid steep and accelerating declines in traffic volumes.

London -- The head of Royal Mail accused rival TNT Express, front runner to buy a stake in the UK mail company, of trying to poach its logistics customers ahead of a planned privatization.

The global economy will shrink this year for the first time since World War II, the World Bank said Sunday, making it harder for poor and developing nations to access needed financing.

London – Goldenport Holdings, the London-listed container ship and bulk carrier owner, on March 9 reported net income in 2008 gained 50 percent from a year ago on a near 25 percent rise in reven

London – Lufthansa, Europe’s second largest airline, idled four freighters as part of a plan to cut capacity by 20 percent amid an accelerating decline in traffic across its global network

A Chinese subsidiary of Japan's Yusen Air & Sea Service opened a bonded warehouse at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China to improve local logistics services, the company said.

RedPrairie, a company that provides supply chain optimization technology, enjoyed the twentieth consecutive year of growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2008.

India’s Port of Mumbai announced plans to extend concessions on container stuffing and de-stuffing charges for a further period of one year ending March, 2010, following appeals from shipping li

NYK Line (North America) on March 9 announced a number of senior management changes in its U.S. corporate structure.

There’s another stimulus plan under way in Louisiana and Mississippi, where two new federal efforts are trying to help New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast recover from the powerful 200

London -- Maersk Line will idle as many as twenty five medium-sized container ships in 2009 as cargo volumes decline, the head of the world’s biggest ocean carrier said.

UPS Freight cut transit times in Michigan and Wisconsin, including next-day service between new direct points linking Chicago, Minneapolis and Milwaukee.

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Kuehne + Nagel said Monday it will take over J. Martens Holding, a Norwegian logistics provider to the oil and gas industry.

A leading freight transportation analyst warned March 9 he is cutting his volume and earnings estimates under a “deep recession, no recovery” U.S. forecast for all of 2009.

Hamburg Sud is cutting capacity in the trade between the Mediterranean and the east coast of South America due to what it called deteriorating market conditions.

OOCL is launching on March 9 an Internet-based service that enables customers to choose the ocean service they need, book space for their cargo online and track their cargo’s movement through th

To the extent that weekly rail shipment reports are one of the earliest, up-to-date signs of the health of the economy, the patient is still in a lot of trouble.

For LTL carriers needing cash to bolster operations in a declining economy, the sale and leaseback of truck terminals, even to competitors, could prove beneficial.

It’s taken more than two years, but Debra Pluchino just hit a breakthrough with one of the largest shippers on Long Island, scoring an agreement to run test shipments because they’re not s

Teamsters drivers and dock workers returned to work at Oak Harbor Freight last week, days after ending their five-month strike against the Auburn, Wash., less-than-truckload carrier.

Shippers are rushing to cut costs in a deepening economic downturn, but some logistics industry experts say companies with balance sheets built for survival should look past quick cutbacks and focus o

Change is coming to the Department of Homeland Security, and it doesn’t necessarily begin with security.

Railroads felt left out of the massive stimulus bill that Congress and the Obama administration negotiated.

Teamsters drivers and dock workers returned to work at Oak Harbor Freight last week, days after ending their five-month strike against the Auburn, Wash., less-than-truckload carrier.

The unpopular clean-trucks fees that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began collecting in mid-February could end within a year if motor carriers continue to finance the purchase of environmenta

Ocean freight rates in the trans-Pacific will fall this year, although not as steeply as they have in the Asia-Europe trade, where some spot rates have hit zero.

West Coast ports face a backlash from trans-Pacific carriers and a diversion of services if waterfront employers and labor leaders don’t work together to resolve skyrocketing costs in pension an