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As a developer of warehouse and distribution space in the Chicago area, CenterPoint Properties knows firsthand why the Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency program is so importan

U.S. importers are learning just how hard it is to kill federal regulation, even when the agency in charge of implementing a law calls it costly and unfeasible.

When APL books an import load from Asia to an inland destination such as Chicago, Dallas or Kansas City, the container line’s logistics experts immediately look for loads to fill the emptied con

The results of the November elections likely will have more impact on the surface transport bill than the next five weeks of negotiations in Congress before the month-long summer recess.

Through all its fits and starts, perhaps no other North American intermodal service has been discounted quite like short-sea shipping has.

U.S. business logistics costs rose at a slower rate last year than in 2010, but remained well below their pre-recession peak, according to the annual State of Logistics report.

Strong growth in trade between the U.S. Gulf region and the Caribbean, Central and South America is more than making up for weakening volumes to and from recession-battered Europe.

Don’t look for DP World to build or buy new container terminals in the United States anytime soon. That’s not sour grapes over the 2006 rebuff by xenophobic U.S.

Michigan and Canada have agreed to build a privately financed bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, two miles upstream from the privately owned Ambassador Bridge.

A dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and an electricians’ union over a handful of refrigerated container jobs has slowed container operations at the Port of Portland

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Frankfurt airport’s freight traffic slumped 10.3 percent in May from a year ago as Europe’s second largest cargo hub continued to suffer from

The Panama Canal Authority is moving to cut carbon emissions in the environmentally sensitive watershed zone around the canal by encouraging sustainable use of its forests.

The closing down of Streamlite, a parcel consolidator, on Thursday could provide more business to UPS and particularly FedEx, according to a Stifel Nicolaus analyst.

APM Terminals has taken a 25 percent stake in a project to expand capacity at Ningbo, China’s third-largest container port that involves a $500 million investment by Denmark’s A.P.

Cathay Pacific Airways saw a double-digit drop in cargo and mail tonnage shipments last month.

Malaysia Airlines and its cargo division MASkargo have agreed to pay a multimillion-dollar penalty for their role in fixing prices on routes from Indonesia to Australia in the early part of the last d

Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby will invest RM1.4 billion ($144 million) in its Chinese port operations over the next three years.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will implement a new bunker adjustment factor on all container shipments from the Far East to both coasts of the U.S. as of July 1.

Singapore-based container carrier APL imposed a peak-season surcharge on cargo shipped from India to the U.S., effective June 15.

If the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach experience congestion during the peak-shipping season this fall, it won’t be due to insufficient infrastructure or marine terminal capacity, Southern C

Third-party logistics providers and shippers aren’t waiting for a full economic recovery to take stock of their warehousing and distribution strategies.

Intermodal shipments on major U.S.

Container volumes at the Port of Long Beach declined 7.23 percent in May compared to May 2011, with imports dropping 9.15 percent and exports down 0.83 percent.

OOCL announced three changes in its management team on Thursday.

Container volumes at the Port of Los Angeles inched up in May along seasonal trends. Imports increased 2.7 percent compared to May 2011, and exports were up less than 1 percent.

Arkansas Best, parent of less-than-truckload operator ABF Freight System, is acquiring non-asset carrier Panther Expedited Services for $180 million.

The investigative arm of Congress wants the Department of Homeland of Security to determine the costs and benefits of requiring all-cargo air carriers to report screening data for U.S.-bound freight,

U.S. steel exports in April rose 13.6 percent year-over-year but posted their third consecutive month-to-month decline, government statistics show.

Average spot rates on the Asia-Europe trade slipped slightly this week for the sixth week in a row, reflecting the growing amount of new capacity that is being deployed and of

The idle container fleet has dropped by 47 percent in the last three months as freight rates continue to increase, BIMCO said Thursday.

Bulgaria has issued a tender for the sale of the state-owned railway company BDZ’s cargo operation.

India’s trade deficit narrowed 12 percent in May, the second month of fiscal 2012-13, but both exports and imports fell on a year-over-year basis, the Commerce Ministry reported on Thursday.

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services on Thursday lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on CMA CGM’s debt to “CCC plus” from “B minus”, saying its liquidit

Kuehne+Nagel has launched a new customized spare parts logistics hub “solution” for the aerospace industry in Singapore.

APM Terminals has named Ben Vree executive chairman of its European operations, which account for 36 percent of the A.P.

Rising transportation costs and tight truckload capacity are creating more opportunities for intermodal rai

Truckload rates shifted into lower gear in May, rising only 5 percent from a year ago and staying basically flat from April, according to Cass Information Systems.