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NEW ORLEANS - Ports from Texas to Louisiana shut down Wednesday ahead of advancing Hurricane Lili, a

NEW ORLEANS - Ports from Beaumont, Texas to New Orleans remained shuttered today as Hurricane Lili w

WASHINGTON - Rep. John Boozman, R-Ark., told members of the House Republican Conference Wednesday mo

Fruit importers are beginning to make alternative plans for routing cargo to their customers because

LOS ANGELES - The line of vessels waiting to get in to West Coast ports got longer Tuesday with no a

U.S. shippers are closely monitoring developments on the West Coast, but say the port shutdown has n

Trade groups are urging President Bush to use "all means necessary" to get terminal operators and un

LOS ANGELES - A federal mediator said West Coast waterfront employers and the International Longshor

Northwest Airlines is reporting a sharp increase in demand for airfreight capacity from customers wo

LONDON - European Union governments have approved plans to take their acrimonious dispute with South

In a defeat for maritime interests in the nation's largest port complex, Los Angeles-Long Beach, Cal

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will spend $350 million to expand the Howland Hook Mar

NEW DELHI -The India-Pakistan-Bangladesh-Ceylon conference of ocean carriers is increasing the bunke

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Teekay Shipping Corp. said that it has entered into agreements to purchase four new Aframax vessels,

The International Air Transport Association has delayed implementation of its proposed new formula f

Guangzhou, the capital of China's dynamic southern Guangdong province, is shifting development to ma

A meeting of West Coast waterfront employers, dockworkers and federal mediators ended almost before

The shutdown of West Coast ports has resulted in a lot of new inquiries from freight forwarders abou

President Bush isn't ready to order West Coast terminal operators to end their lock-out of union doc

American Airlines Cargo announced Tuesday that its flight-specific service is now available from new

California Gov. Gray Davis, as expected, signed a bill that would impose a $250 fine on a marine ter

LOS ANGELES - As the shutdown of West Coast ports extended into Tuesday, union dockworkers dropped a

Copyright 2002, Traffic World MagazineAfter years of denial, ocean carriers are finally ackn

Copyright 2002, Traffic World MagazineAvnet Electronics Marketing introduced a new supply-ch

Copyright 2002, Traffic World MagazineAspen Technology is not for sale. The company issued a

DHL Worldwide Express has appointed Martin Larson as its new vice president of sales for the U.S.

Shipowners looking to divert containerships from shuttered West Coast terminals may receive a less-t

LOS ANGELES - Waterfront employers Sunday night extended the lock-out of union longshoremen that has

Copyright 2002, Traffic World MagazineThe dissident Teamsters for a Democratic Union, always

The Customs Service's proposal requiring cargo manifests to be submitted 24 hours before a ship sail

The conventional thinking has been that radio-frequency identification technology won't gain widespr

Last winter, trans-Pacific carriers bet wrong. Worried about excess capacity, they signed their bigg

Trans-Pacific container lines' plan to raise freight rates next year by $700 per FEU, or up to 50%,

At ceremonies in New York and Newark Friday, New York Sen. Charles Schumer and New Jersey Rep. Rober

Copyright 2002, Traffic World MagazineHong KongHow do you ignore the 800-pound shipm

Copyright 2002, Traffic World MagazineFor e-marketplaces the last two years or so have been

Copyright 2002, Traffic World MagazineA new transportation relationship is emerging between

Waterfront jurisdictional disputes between unions are common. Different unions have contracts with i

Hickler Named CEO Of APL Logistics: Hans Hickler, chief information officer of the Neptune Orient Li