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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.

CSAV said it secured a $90 million 12-year loan from Germany’s DVB bank to complete the financing of the last two container ships out of a total of seven ordered from the Samsung Heavy Industri

APM Terminals, the global ports operator, is set to unveil an investment of more than $500 million in a new container terminal in China,

As trucking capacity tightens, shippers are increasingly concerned about their ability to get goods to customers on time, logistics executives said Wednesday.

The ailing global air cargo industry got a little help from the semiconductor s

APM Terminals, on a crane-buying spree, Tuesday ordered 31 ship-to-shore spre

Greece’s Box Ships Inc.

Five carriers announced plans to reconfigure the slings of their joint service to meet peak-season demand on the trade between Asia and the West Coast of Mexico and South America.

China has warned it might impound European aircraft if the European Union penalizes its carriers for not complying with its carbon emissions program.

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Descartes Systems Group said it will acquire substantially all of the assets of Integrated Export Systems and IES Asia for about $35 million in cash.

Average spot rates on the eastbound trans-Pacific trade surged 20 percent this week as carriers put a peak-season surcharge into effect on June 10.

Japan’s All Nippon Airways Co. said that its international cargo volume grew for the third consecutive month in April on a year-on-year basis, rising 1.7 percent to 44,936 tons.

Mediterranean Shipping Company has joined other liner operators in seeking a general rate inc

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Virginia in May jumped by 12.6 percent to 178,584 20-foot-equivalent units from the same month last year.

The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance are scheduled to resume negotiations when the ILA’s wage scale committee meets on June 27-29 in Delray Beac

Containerized imports will increase gradually during the summer months and are projected to rise sharply in September and October, according to the Global Port Tracker published by the National Retail

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach on Aug.