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Container volume at the Port of New York and New Jersey in 2011 rose nearly 4 percent year-over-year, breaking the annual record set in 2007 before the start of the global economic downturn.

Container ship owner-charterer Box Ships reported fourth quarter net income of $5.6 million, bringing the Athens-based company’s profit to $13 million since its spinoff from Paragon Shipping in

TNT Express rejected an unsolicited takeover offer of roughly $6.4 billion from UPS, but the Dutch delivery firm said discussions with the parcel giant are ongoing, according to reports.

Caterpillar plans to build a manufacturing plant in Northeast Georgia — equally close to the ports of Savannah and Charleston — to make small tractors and mini hydraulic excavators.

OOCL on Friday said it will raise freight rates on containers moving on the eastbound backhaul leg from North Europe to Asia as of March 15.

Swift Transportation, the nation’s largest truckload carrier, will pay $4 million to the Port of Los Angeles to settle a dispute related to the port’s clean trucks program.

Maersk Line’s new direct service between Indonesia and Australia is a major coup for the port of Tanjung Priok, which handles more than half of Indonesia exports but has struggled to attract mai

Hapag-Lloyd imposed a general rate increase on the Indian subcontinent-Europe trade lanes, starting March 1.

Employers across the U.S. are struggling with a paradox: Despite high unemployment, they’re having a tough time hiring the right person for the right job.

The so-called Millennial Generation, with its native fluency in digital technology and natural aptitude for multitasking, could have been made for logistics.

Maersk Line said it is cutting vessel capacity on the Asia-Europe route by 9 percent in a bid to boost flagging freight rates and restore profitability but vowed to defend its market share on the worl

Federal regulators are still squeezing orange juice imports, stopping shipments at the U.S. border or ports and testing samples for an illegal fungicide.

Moody’s Investors Service boosted its outlook for Swift Transportation to positive from stable as the nation’s largest truckload carrier rebuilds its business.

A study by a Rhode Island legislative commission said development of auto import-export cargo, offshore wind farms, container feeder services and breakbulk shipments could increase jobs, income and st

Logistics provider Performance Team is opening a container transloading facility at the Port of Charleston to transload cargo from ocean shipping containers to trucks for distribution to customers thr

Southwestern less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines will test 15 natural gas-powered Class 8 Peterbilt tractors in Houston and Galveston, Texas.

U.S. shippers have been relatively unaffected by the European Union’s 2008 decision to outlaw liner conferences, according to a two-year Federal Maritime Commission study released Thursday.

Industry groups including shippers and trucking companies are urging New Jersey legislators to reject union-backed bills that would require owner-operators hired by drayage and parcel companies to be

Chilean carrier CSAV has issued $412 million in new stock to complete a $1.2 million capital increase that is a key element in the company’s restructuring.

St. Lawrence Seaway officials expect strong traffic in the 2012 navigation season, starting March 22, as foreign demand for North American iron ore and coal grows.

The Port of Long Beach began 2012 on a down note, with containerized imports in January declining 5.5 percent and exports 8.2 percent lower year-over-year.

The port of Hamburg boosted container traffic 14.2 percent in 2011 from a year ago, consolidating the port's position as the second-largest container hub in Europe.

Mediterranean Shipping began offering a bill of lading for both imports and exports to and from the Port of Richmond, Va., which was

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A quarterly global survey says the world’s economic climate has begun to improve after two quarters of decline but remains significantly below its long-term average.

Spot freight rates on the westbound Asia-Europe trade dropped by 3.2 percent this week from the week before as the euro crisis continues to depress demand and vessel overcapacity blunted carrier effor

Shipping Corporation of India’s third quarter net profit fell 40 percent from a year ago to $15.12 million, as the state-owned ocean carrier’s rising operating expenses offset a revenue ga

Star Reefers swung to a $124 million net loss in 2011 from an $89,000 profit a year ago, as the Norwegian refrigerated ship operator was hit by record low freight rates and increased competition from

Containerized imports at the major U.S. gateways will decline in February, but volumes will pick up in the spring, according to the Global Port Tracker.

Requests to Department of Transportation for infrastructure loans in fiscal 2013 outpaced supply nearly 107-to-1, as Congress and President Obama push to increase funding for the agency’s progra

UPS recently acquired Kiala, a Brussels-based provider of goods bought on the Internet, as the parcel giant attempts to tap growing e-commerce in Europe.

New customers, higher truck freight volumes and significant rate hikes pushed revenue at Echo Global Logistics up 41 percent last year to $602.8 million.

Containerized traffic at the Port of Los Angeles increased more than 5 percent year-over- year in January, as a ramp-up of Asian manufacturing ahead of the annual Chinese New Year celebration boosted

Excess vessel capacity and rate wars will doom liner efforts to hike rates on Asia-Europe services, said several shippers and forwarders.

The Indian Supreme Court's recent rejection of DP World’s appeal to review its rejected tender offer for a yet-to-be-built container terminal at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) clears

Facing shaky support for his surface transportation bill, House Speaker John Boehner said he will delay the vote on the $260 billion, five-year package until after President’s Day's recess, acco

Hapag-Lloyd‘s operating profit in 2011 declined 83 percent to $133 million from $770 million in 2010, but the German carrier bucked an industry-wide trend as one of the very few ocean lines to c

U.S. poultry and egg exports jumped 17 percent to a record $5.1 billion in value last year, as shipments of chicken and turkey hit record levels.

CMA CGM Group and IBM formed a partnership to develop a information technology unit to support the French carrier’s operations and reduce its costs.

CSAV lost $1.24 billion last year, including $959 million on continuing operations, but the Chilean carrier said its deficit narrowed during the fourth quarter and that a restructuring is starting to