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A Wayne County judge in Detroit on Thursday ordered the Michigan Department of Transportation to take over and complete a project to link two interstate highways with the Ambassador Bridge.

Standard & Poor’s downgraded CMA CGM’s debt to B- from B+, citing concerns over the French ocean carrier’s liquidity position in the coming months.

The mood among maritime industry executives gathered in Long Beach last week for the 12th annual Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference was unusually positive given last year’s lackluster performance

CMA CGM imposed a general rate increase on westbound cargo moving on its Epic service from India to North Europe and the Mediterranean, the French carrier’s second GRI in a month and the third t

The game of musical chairs in the Pacific Northwest will continue this summer when Grand Alliance carriers NYK Line, Hapag-Lloyd and Orient Overseas Container Line leave the Port of Seattle and move t

While a long-term transportation bill faces an uncertain future in the House, sponsors of a measure to spend all Harbor Maintenance Tax revenue for dredging harbors and channels are exercising other o

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House Speaker John Boehner appears to have given up hope of resuscitating the ailing House surface transportation bill after he said Thursday he would take up the Senate’s two-year bill once it

Canadian Pacific Railway said it would further tap the Bakken crude oil boom this summer by opening a North Dakota hub initially capable of handling 35,000 barrels daily.

Qatar Airways will expand its global bellyhold and freighter network via its Doha hub later this year.

Air France-KLM’s cargo unit swung to a $79.2 million loss in 2011 from a $19.8 million profit in 2010 amid a global glut of capacity and reduced traffic on major routes.

Lufthansa, Europe’s second-largest airline, swung to a net loss of $17 million in 2011 from a $1.5 billion profit in 2010 as losses from the ongoing sale of U.K-based BMI weighed on the German c

The recent arrest and jailing of two Italian armed ship guards by Indian authorities drew a sharp protest from the Italian foreign ministry.

Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL, coming off a year in which net profit fell by half because of a onetime charge related to the sale of its Postbank banking unit, forecast higher revenue and profit f

Retail supply chains are no longer just multimodal, they’re multi-channel, and that’s adding layers of fulfillment complexity for shippers, a retail industry study finds.

Federal officials on Wednesday announced the opening of two offices to expedite the investigation into shippers believed to be illegally exporting high-technology goods or military hardware that requi

The Senate could pass a transportation bill quickly whenever Senate leaders agree to a package of amendments for debate, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Wednesday.

Mayors from throughout the U.S.

Maersk Line will launch a container service connecting the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and East Africa, starting in early April.

Industrial law firm Wilcox Savage is expanding its maritime practice in the port city of Norfolk, Va., adding attorneys Christopher A. Abel and Leonard L.

CMA CGM swung to a net loss of $30 million in 2011 from a $1.6 billion profit in 2010 but the French ocean carrier said cost savings and lower ship charter rates will return it to the black this year.

Panalpina swung to a profit of $139.7 million in 2011 from a 2010 loss of $28.6 million as the Swiss logistics and forwarding giant enjoyed organic growth across all regions and product divisions.

Manufacturers are looking for lower-cost sourcing locations as China’s wages rise well above those in other emerging markets.

Hapag-Lloyd is seeking a series of general rate increases on East Asia services, as part of a new rate restoration program.

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett warned of a possible ILA strike if the union can’t secure acceptable terms in a new contract.

Multiyear contracts indexed to freight rates are slowly starting to catch on in global trade lanes as a means of creating stable and predictable rates for shippers and ocean carriers.

Smith Electric Vehicles expanded its line of commercial trucks, introducing the Newton Step Van at the NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis Tuesday.

Nearly 200 mayors joined the chorus of local officials and businesses urging Congress to enact multiyear surface transportation legislation while the turmoil over the subject swirled on Capitol Hill T

India’s Tariff Authority for Major Ports ordered a 27.85 percent reduction in tariffs currently levied by Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal, a DP World facility in the Port of Jawahar

The less-than-truckload transportation industry grew 11.6 percent in 2011, pushing total U.S. LTL revenue past $30 billion for the first time since the recession.

CEVA Logistics’ earnings grew by 9.9 percent in 2011 year-over-year to $421 million on cost cuts and improved efficiency, as revenue rose one percent to a record $9 billion.

Air cargo volumes in the Asia-Pacific region fell nearly 13 percent in January compared to a year earlier.

Just four months after launching its Daily Maersk liner service in the Asia-Europe trade, Maersk Line says it could expand the highly popular “conveyor belt” offering to other trade routes

The port of Liverpool will start construction early next year on a $480 million, deep water container terminal with an initial 500,000 20-foot equivalent units-a-year capacity.

With dozens of federal agencies having some degree of involvement in the cargo clearance process, importers are crying out for a single government portal at the border.

Exporters are complaining about inaccuracies in ocean carriers’ electronic data that expose shippers to costs and delays.

The Federal Maritime Commission has agreed to give shippers and carriers more ability to manage rate risk in service contracts through a new rule allowing contracting parties to agree to rates based o

Container ship lines will struggle to achieve profitability while attempting to manage capacity that’s expected to rise faster than cargo volume, and the result may be more rate volatility and s

The economies of scale that are driving carriers to replace their fleets with mega-ships will result in the consolidation of shipping lines or in the reduction of competition on customer service, acco