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The Los Angeles Harbor Commission voted Wednesday to rehire former port executive director Larry Kel

The Homeland Security Department's independent investigator has concluded that federal inspectors of

Lufthansa's cargo division and mail and logistics giant Deutsche Post agreed to deepen their coopera

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Beaverton, Oregon-based Digimarc signed an agreement with

Indonesia's long-neglected eastern island of Sulawesi is bolstering its maritime capacity, with a ne

Boeing delivered Japan Airlines International's first 747-400 freighter Wednesday.The purcha

Because of challenges to U.S. freight mobility, the "trilogy" of water, rail and highway systems sho

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.UTi Worldwide acquired contract logistics provider Unigis

Hamburg S?d on Wednesday announced a series of new regional management appointments.Norbert

LONDON -- European Union competition regulators today said container shipping lines should no longer

LOS ANGELES -- After struggling most of this year with system congestion, crew and equipment shortag

WASHINGTON -- The National Retail Federation on Tuesday urged the Bush administration to reject peti

United Parcel Service has announced plans to hire at least 100 pilots during the next year.A

BAA, the world's biggest airport operator, said it handled over 13 percent more cargo in September t

Airfreight carrier Cargolux said it will raise its fuel surcharge as of Oct. 26 to reflect rising co

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of apparel, textile and labor groups announced Tuesday that they have file

Three weeks after he resigned from the Port of Los Angeles amid withering criticism, former Executiv

Some 120,000 Canadian federal public servants went on strike today, including those at U.S. border c

Kuehne & Nagel, the Swiss-based global transport and freight forwarding group, and Singapore's SembC

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.ProLogis has leases or letters of intent for its multi-te

The assessment at the Port of New York and New Jersey was increased from $2 per vehicle to $3.50. Th

LOS ANGELES -- The vessel backlog in the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach reached another record level

Malaysia's southern Port of Tanjung Pelepas handled almost 3 million TEUs in the first nine months

ViaSat Inc., a supplier of satellite, encryption, and other wireless communication products, has ent

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Logistics services provider Universal Express is purchasi

Exel plc said Monday it had acquired the logistics business of Bodenor S.A. of Santiago (Bodenor), o

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.UPS opened its new operations centre in Kwai Chung. Locat

Albert Cernadas, executive vice president of the International Longshoremen's Association, has beco

Vastera, the provider of trade management technology, announced that it has signed an agreement to e

Sea Containers Ltd. said its board at its Oct. 5 meeting decided to divide the company's transport d

Buoyed by surging sales to China, the U.S. agricultural sector is expected to produce record high ex

U.S. manufacturers continue to complain that China's fixed currency-exchange rate of 8.28 per dollar

You're sitting at your computer, ordering a book online to send from the U.S. to a friend in France.

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Quote of the week: "Where domestic LTL stops and air frei

Lufthansa, the world's largest scheduled freight airline, today said it carried 14.3 percent more ca

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Monday afternoon approved legislation that will repeal an export subsidy

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Grain shippers in Iowa can put on some weight. With a hug

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.An owner-operator group plans to take automotive logistic

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Montreal-based Transforce is lengthening its reach into t

on driving time could raise trucking costs and reduce productivityThe debate over hours of s