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WASHINGTON - Operation Safe Commerce, the federally funded initiative to develop new processes and t

WASHINGTON - The Maritime Administration on Monday awarded a $2.2 million contract to ESCO Marine of

DHL is mulling a cost-saving measure that would shift most of its British information technology ope

A threat to the operations of air cargo and express carriers was lifted Tuesday after a landmark cou

BridgePoint, Inc. a provider of global, multimode supply chain visibility and exception management s

NYK Logistics (OCS) said it has been certified as a participant in the Customs-Trade Partnership Aga

The Panama Canal Authority on Tuesday said it has signed a memorandum of understanding for a strateg

WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security said it will add more than 375 border patrol agents

Sri Lanka on Tuesday was awarded a grant to help develop its port business.Asian Development

Non-vessel operating common carriers are taking aim at a cornerstone of the 1998 Ocean Shipping Refo

A story about the maritime electronic commerce "portal" industry included an incomplete list of carr

Trucking company Yellow Corp. on Tuesday said it would buy rival Roadway Corp. for $966 million in c

What's remarkable about the new Maritime Security Program is the expedited treatment that Congress i

SOURCE: 2002 CIA FACTBOOKArea: About 3.1 million square miles, slightly smaller than the 48

Oliver Evans has been the top cargo executive for Swiss International since it was created in April

NEW ORLEANS - Services were held Monday for Basil John Rusovich Jr., founder and chairman of Transoc

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Natural gas used to be burned off by oil drillers who con

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Business performance management software provider Geac is

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.The Secure Cargo Anti-terrorism Coalition, created to dem

LONDON - TPG, the Dutch global express, logistics and mail group, has complained to European anti-tr

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.It''s 11 years and counting since the United States and M

When it comes to free-trade agreements, a pact between the United States and Australia is the closes

Volga-Dnepr Group has appointed Stan Wraight as executive director of its new 747 scheduled cargo ai

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Enterprise software giant SAP AG announced improvements t

China's southern port complex at Shenzhen handled more than 4.58 million TEUs in the first half of

China could gain control of as much as 75 percent of the U.S. textile and apparel market once quotas

If you're a shipper wondering about possible results from aviation negotiations between U.S. and Eur

Transloading of import goods from containers to trucks has become common, especially at West Coast p

The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection is developing a system that will allow importers to subm

Malaysia's growing southern Port of Tanjung Pelepas plans to expand its container quays to 14 from s

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.What kind of shipment could carry a weapon of mass destru

NYK's wholly-owned subsidiary NYK-Hinode Line, Ltd., said it placed an order for four 20-type ne

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.The Transportation Security Administration is set to begi

After years of emphasis on passenger planes, airlines are adding freighters. Hong Kong's Dragonair p

Despite overall improvement in truck safety trends, a recent three-day North American road check pla

NEW DELHI - Five bidders, including four overseas companies, have shown interest in developing and m

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.The Bekins Co., the Chicago-based transportation and dist

China has eased cabotage regulations to permit foreign lines to ship empty containers between the co

The U.S. trade with Australia and New Zealand did an about-face this year, due primarily to the weak

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.After temporarily putting aside a jurisdictional dispute