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NYK President Yasumi Kudo said the company plans to double sales from logistics operations in future as global vessel overcapacity depresses freight rates in its container and other sea-borne cargo di

U.S. exports of soybeans, coal and petroleum will drive the nation’s trade to expand 95 percent by 2026, as global trade jumps 98 percent in the same period, according to a HSBC report.

A widely followed gauge of U.S. manufacturing unexpectedly contracted in June for the first time in almost three years amid signs of softness in new orders.

The Gotthard tunnel has re-opened almost a month after a landslide forced the closure of the main north-south route for freight trains and trucks through the Swiss Alps.

FedEx plans to buy 19 Boeing 767-300 aircraft, as the parcel giant speeds up its fleet upgrades to offset volatile fuel costs.

Dockwise, the Dutch heavy-lift operator, said it now controls 80.4 percent of the outstanding shares of takeover target Fairstar Heavy Transport.

The U.S. may be stuck in a period of slow growth, but its economy is not in imminent danger of sliding back into recession, an Emory University economist says.

The Department of Homeland Security announced more than $97 million in port security grants for the 2012 fiscal y

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International air cargo traffic dipped 2.2 percent in May from a year ago and contracted 0.4 percent from April in line with deteriorating global economic conditions, the International Air Transport A

Europe’s recession will slow growth in containerized imports and exports through the continent’s northern ports to about one-third the rate of last year, according to the latest Global Por

The London Gateway deep-sea container port and distribution hub will offer rail service across the U.K. on the day it opens in the fourth quarter of 2013.

NOL plans to sell its Singapore headquarters building as part of an ongoing cost-reduction and restructuring program that is producing wide-spread layoffs globally.

Hapag-Lloyd said it will impose a general rate increase on all kinds of container equipment shipped from East Asia (excluding Japan) to ports on the Indian subcontinent.

Are long-term freight contracts reset periodically to reflect variations in spot rate indices the answer to rate volatility?

You’d be hard pressed to find stronger evidence of the shift of freight transportation from air to sea than when FedEx, operator of the world’s largest air cargo fleet, points it out.

Container ship lines say it’s not unusual for their cargoes’ actual weights to be 3 to 7 percent higher than reported weights.

Higher manufacturing output in the Midwest is translating to more trucking jobs.

Shippers and carriers use several spot rate indices to benchmark their contracts.

As ports prepare for a modest spike in cargo volumes during the peak shipping season, ocean carriers, marine terminals, railroads and equipment providers appear to be flush with capacity.

Team Worldwide is struggling with visibility this summer.

For more than two years, shippers have braced for a hard crunch in truck capacity, a blow that seemed inevitable in 2010 as the economy began to recover.

With its first annual profit since 2008 in the bank, FedEx Freight is moving to tighten its less-than-truckload network.

A jury in Longview, Wash., failed to reach a verdict at the weekend in a case in which International Longshore and Warehouse Union President Robert McEllrath was charged with attempting to block a tra

The court-appointed master who is handling a jurisdictional dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at the Port of Portl

The newly-passed surface transportation bill requires freight brokers and forwarder

The final surface transportation bill passed on Friday, providing victories and disappointments for shippers and freight transportation providers.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by owner-operator truck drivers who claimed they were illegally misclassified as contractors instead of employees by one of the Port of New York and New Jersey&rsqu

FedEx and UPS could begin domestic delivery in China if the government grants the parcel giants the go-ahead to enter the multibillion and burgeoning market.

The Federal Maritime Commission’s proposal to create a container rate index for agricultural exports would violate the Ocean Shipping Reform Act’s confidentiality provisions and should be

Canadian Pacific Railway has tapped E.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services is adding a call at the Port of Halifax in July in its Zim Container Service Atlantic, known as the ZCA service.

Negotiators for the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance have completed two days of negotiations that yielded what an ILA spokesman said was “substa

Mediterranean Shipping Co. revamped its weekly service between the U.S.

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India will seek a general rate increase on westbound trade from India to Europe and the Mediterranean.

The 2009 recession changed the trucking industry "fundamentally," forcing deep changes in less-than-truckload and truckload operations, Con-way CEO and president Douglas W.

Royal Mail turned a profit on its core letters and parcels operations for the first time in four years, easing the way for the forthcoming privatization of the U.K.’s state-owned mail group.

Kombiverkehr reported revenue of 430 million euros ($542 million) in 2011, up 11.9 percent on the previous year and just 2 million euros short of its 2008 record, as Europe’s largest multimodal

Once regarded as a necessary evil and a drag on the bottom line, reverse logistics has emerged as a critical capability for third-party logistics providers trying to capture a share of booming seconda

Singapore-based container carrier APL is reorganizing its Subcontinent-Red Sea Express (SRX) Service, effective in July.