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In the current volatile freight rate environment on the major east-west trade lanes, shippers and carriers are slowly beginning to negotiate long-term contracts linked to various rate indices, but the

U.S. containerized exports in February rose 9.6 percent from a year earlier, driven by strong gains in paper and paperboard, building materials and refrigerated goods, PIERS data show.

Rotterdam’s container traffic declined 4 percent in the first quarter of 2012 from a year earlier to 2.8 million 20-foot equivalent units as fewer Asian imports were shipped to Europe’s bi

Hamburg Sud’s revenue grew 7 percent in 2011 from a year ago to $6.64 billion, driven mainly by a 9 percent jump in the German container and bulk carrier’s box traffic to 3.1 million 20-fo

Drewry Research and CargoSmart are joining forces to publish a wider range of key performance indicators aimed at helping importers and exporters to benchmark their ocean carriers’ service level

Hapag-Lloyd will impose a new round of general rate increases on its East Asia services, starting May 15.

Netherlands-based logistics provider CEVA is extending its Asian cross-border road freight services to include less-than-truckload services.

China’s export sector has not turned recessionary and will recover later this year on the back of strong U.S. demand, according to Todd Lee, chief economist for IHS Global Insight China.

More than three dozen customers of Sea Star Line and Crowley Liner services have filed a triple-damage antitrust lawsuit against the carriers, their parent companies and a former company official.

Diesel prices across the U.S. fell for the second time in three weeks, slipping 2.1 cents in the week ending April 16 as oil prices inched up.

U.S. exporters and importers will be able to better tap the growing Colombian economy starting May 15 when the free trade agreement between the two countries takes effect.

United Arab Shipping Co. has concluded a $150 million financing deal that includes a seven-year senior term loan facility with Burgan Bank’s corporate finance group.

The launch of electronic products by manufacturers such as Samsung and Apple gave a significant boost to air freight exports from Asia in March.

Emirates SkyCargo has doubled freighter capacity on its service between Dubai and Australia.

Container volumes at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach bounced back strongly in March following a weak Februar

Frankfurt airport handled 11 percent less freight in March than a year ago as a night flight ban aggravated the impact of a weak global economy on Europe’s second largest cargo hub.

U.S. intermodal rail shipments in the week ending April 7 rose 1.1 percent year-over-year and fell. 4.7 percent from the previous week, according to the Association of American Railroads.

The TT Club, a mutual insurer of transport and logistics risk, reported a 90.6 percent drop in net income on Monday to $1.2 million last year from $12.8 million in 2010 (which included income from pri

The House is expected to vote Wednesday on another 90-day funding extension for surface transportation programs, giving members the option to begin conferencing with their Senate counterparts.

Kuehne+Nagel’s first quarter profit slumped to $73.5 million from $167.5 million a year ago as the

Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, the legendary Danish shipowner who helped build Maersk Line into the world’s biggest ocean container carrier, died today. He was 98.

Ocean carriers are preparing a fresh round of rate hikes on the Asia-Europe trade, taking advantage of stronger-than-expected cargo growth and a resilient spot market to move out of the red.

India’s Tariff Authority for Major Ports ordered a 12.23 percent reduction in tariffs levied by Chennai International Terminals, a PSA International facility.

Abu Dhabi Terminals saw volume rise 47 percent year-over-year in 2011, reaching 767,713 20-foot equivalent units.

Japan’s All Nippon Airways Co. (ANA) said that its international cargo volume soared 24.5 percent in February from the same month of last year to 42,470 tons.

Evergreen Line said it will charter 10 ships with capacities of 13,800 20-foot equivalent units.

All it took was the March 25 shutdown of a single North Sea oil platform to boost Brent crude oil prices $1 a barrel.

When the gavel finally came down on convicted scam artist Kulwant Singh Gill on March 28, it came down hard.

After a mighty bluster in the run-up to negotiations for a new contract at East and Gulf Coast ports, the tone and rhetoric from the nation’s second-largest longshore union and its management co

Booming natural gas production isn’t just giving the truck industry extra loads to haul.

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Purfresh Inc., which provides ocean transportation and supply chain management technologies that optimize the quality and safety of fresh produce, has added personnel to its Latin American operations.

TNT Express has started a service it says will simplify and secure the international movements of pharmaceutical products such as vaccines and insulin that require strict temperature control.

Rail Logistics-Cold Train and Interstate Distributor forged a partnership in which Cold Train will use a dedicated fleet of trucks from Interstate Distributor for short-haul drayage service to and fro

Swiss freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel has introduced a new product for the pharmaceutical and health care industry.

Refrigerated equipment manufacturer Klinge has introduced a lower-cost version of its blast freezer container, which quickly freezes cargo to minus-76 degrees.

The outlook for growth in profits improved for North American public refrigerated warehouse companies in the second half of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010, according to the latest Financial

The Georgia Ports Authority added 20 refrigerated container racks at the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal.

The Port of Wilmington, Del., handled 5,084,478 tons of cargo last year, up 26 percent from 2010, and achieved the highest general cargo tonnage throughput since the port’s 1995 acquisition by t

Family Dollar Stores plans to add about 1,000 items to its stores this year, including more frozen breakfast, lunch and dinner meals.