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Fesco and BLG Logistics established a Russo-German auto logistics joint venture at the port of St. Petersburg to handle imports into Europe’s fastest-growing car market.

The capital of Bangladesh is not associated with huge air cargo volume, but, in April, Lufthansa Cargo entered the market with a weekly MD-11 freighter operating from Dhaka to Frankfurt via India.

Salvage crews battling to contain the environmental damage from the stranded ship Rena leaking oil off New Zealand were unable to resume pumping out fuel Thursday.

“K” Line is starting a new weekly intra-Asia service that will run between North China and Southeast Asia.

CSAV is reconfiguring its two services from Asia to Mexico and West Coast of South America and Central America, the Andex Services Sling 1 and Sling 2.

International containerized trade through Japan’s Port of Yokohama declined 6.3 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier to just less than 1.4 million 20-foot equivalent units,

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J.B. Hunt Transport Services stayed well ahead of a slowing economy in the third quarter, increasing its profit 32 percent from a year ago to $68.7 million.

Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he won’t stay on the job for another term, nor will he run for public office, according to the

U.S. factory activity continues to grow in an unsettled economy but at a slower pace, the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI said in its quarterly survey of the manufacturing outlook.

Freight carried by for-hire transportation providers posted a month-to-month gain of 0.4 percent in August, reaching its highest level since July 2008, the Transportation Department reported.

North America’s major freight railroads hauled 2.1 percent more intermodal traffic than a year earlier in the week ending Oct. 8, while bulk carload traffic grew 3.3 percent.

FedEx Ground opened a $100 million sorting and distribution hub in North Carolina Wednesday that will speed package deliveries in the Southeast.

The Virginia Port Authority is expanding its market for discretionary container shipments into the Southeast and the Midwest through two new rail services.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he thinks Congress will pass an “infrastructure program” by the end of this calendar year.

Japanese containerized cargo exports will slow to 0.2 percent in fiscal 2011, which started on April 1, after growing 9.2 percent the fiscal year previous, said a Japanese research firm.

South Carolina’s refusal to grant a permit to deepen the Savannah River is just a bend in the river, say Georgia Ports Authority officials, not a blockade.

North American intermodal traffic is hitting all-time weekly highs but the biggest railroads are raising caution flags about how the freight business will fare in coming months.

The rail peak season is under way for intermodal and some other cargoes, and the heads of major railroads have been preparing for months.

A recession forecast from the Economic Research Cycle Institute could point to a slump in rail freight volumes in coming months based on past correlations, says analyst Matthew Troy of Susquehanna Int

Logistics services company Transplace is expanding from its trucking base into intermodal rail by merging with intermodal marketer Celtic International.

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Federal, state and municipal agents said three containers were detained for improper placards among the 252 containers and tanks checked during two days of intensive inspections this week at Horizon L

The port-terminal authorities at Chennai, India’s second-largest container gateway, temporarily suspended export cargo movements and scaled back vessel handling as congestion at its two marine t

SHENZHEN – Lufthansa Cargo CEO Karl Ulrich Garnadt says the carrier remains committed to an expansion plan at Frankurt Airport despite the “major setback” from a court that banned ba

Frankfurt airport in September handled 5.3 percent less freight than a year ago and London Heathrow’s cargo traffic shrunk 3.7 percent, highlighting the accelerating slowdown in the global air c

Cargolux has loaded cargo onto its first 747-8 freighter and will take over a second aircraft Thursday, after settling a

A chartered Mediterranean Shipping Co. container ship that foundered on a reef in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty is expected to break apart in next few days,

DB Schenker said its new daily rail container service between Germany and China, starting in late November, will more than halve the transit time of sea transport.

Congress on Wednesday passed free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

With cargo volumes moving through the Alameda Corridor in Southern California still recovering from the 2008-09 recession, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been called upon to cover the co

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Horizon Lines said it will raise rates on its U.S. shipments to China on Nov.

The CEOs in President Obama’s advisory jobs council are pushing for big federal investments in transportation networks and energy systems, and creation of a national infrastructure bank.

Containerized imports at the Port of Los Angeles were flat in September compared to last year and slipped slightly from August, all but leaving the peak shipping of 2011 as a bust.

India’s Shipping Ministry denied that state-owned Shipping Corporation of India is in the midst of a financial crisis, requiring the national carrier to freeze its fleet expansion plan.

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica said “a national infrastructure bank is dead on arrival in the House,” after some senators proposed pairing the bank portion

Celadon Group purchased a 6.3 percent stake in rival truckload carrier USA Truck for $4.7 million, raising the prospect of a merger between the competitors.

CSX Transportation said it has completed nearly a third of federally aided track clearance projects so that doublestack container trains can move between its new intermodal hub in northwest Ohio and a

Spot rates for container shipments from Hong Kong to Los Angeles fell below $1,500 per 40-foot-equivalent unit for the first time since January 2010, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants’ we