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Indian container port Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) said trucks carrying export containers “without proper documents” are causing congestion.

South Sudan has been designated as eligible for benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act.

Ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd is planning to raise rates from the Indian subcontinent...

Colombia-based Tampa Cargo, a subsidiary of AviancaTaca Holding, has taken delivery of the first of four new A330 Freighter (A330-200F) aircraft.

The government of the United Kingdom is mulling accelerating the privatization of Royal Mail to as early as 2013.

The planned merger between Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg-Sud is long overdue...

Watco Railroad Company Holdings has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the stock of Ann Arbor Railroad.

UPDATED, 7 p.m. EDT, Friday The union and waterfront employers agreed to extend the ILA master contract through Feb. 6, preventing a threatened strike at ports from Maine to Texas.

The Port of Baltimore’s Seagirt and Dundalk public marine terminals will be open Saturday for the delivery and receipt of cargo if no agreement is reached...

Matson Inc., has signed a definitive agreement to acquire assets formerly owned by Auckland, New Zealand-based Reef Shipping.

The intra-Asia trucking market retains huge growth potential if inefficient border processes and excessive bureaucracy can be improved, according to one leading logistics executive.

Grain terminal operators in the Pacific Northwest notified the International Longshore and Warehouse Union that they will implement at 6 a.m. Thursday the employers’ final offer that was rejected by the union over the weekend.

Representatives of the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance have accepted a federal mediator’s invitation to meet this week in a last-ditch effort to head off an ILA strike at East and Gulf Coast ports.

Hapag-Lloyd is advising customers to avoid delivering reefer exports to inland locations...

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has acquired Direct Connection Transportation...

Shipping lines in the eastbound trans-Pacific have a sound strategy for negotiating viable service contracts with beneficial cargo owners as they enter the new year. It remains to be seen if they can implement their plan.

East and Gulf Coast ports are clearing cargo from marine terminals in preparation for next week’s threatened dockworker strike as a negotiating standoff continues.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union workers in the Pacific Northwest are voting Friday and Saturday on a proposed grain handlers contract that could determine whether the dockworkers remain on the job or are locked out by international grain companies.

Short-line and regional railroad company Genesee & Wyoming said Thursday that the U.S. Surface Transportation Board has approved its application to control RailAmerica and that company’s railroads, effective Dec. 28, 2012.

Reform of liner regulations in the Asia-Pacific is set to take its first major step next year when the New Zealand government is expected to withdraw antitrust immunity from international shipping services.