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The Port of Antwerp’s container traffic increased 3.7 percent in the first nine months of 2011 from a year earlier, trailing a 7.5 percent increase in total throughput.

Canadian Pacific Railway is partnering with truck and logistics provider Contrans by using collapsible containers to convert some flatbed-type shipments to double-stack rail intermodal service.

Maersk Line and CSX Transportation signed a contract for the railroad to haul the Danish ocean carrier’s discretionary cargo from APM terminal in Portsmouth, Va., to the Midwest.

Retail sales rose a higher-than-expected 1.1 percent in September, led by a 3.6 percent jump in motor vehicles and parts, the Commerce Department said in a report that buoyed hopes for growth in freig

Russell Gerdin, the son of a truck driver who founded one of the most profitable companies in trucking, died Oct. 15. He was 70 years old.

Japan’s All Nippon Airways’ international cargo volume fell for the first time in two years in August on a year-on-year basis, declining 2.5 percent to 38,125 tons.

Kuehne + Nagel’s earnings grew 1.1 percent in the first nine months of 2011 from a year earlier as the Swiss logistics company boosted ocean container and air cargo shipments in a softening mark

APL appointed Wong Siew Loong regional president of its North Asia business, which covers China, Japan and Korea.

Taiwanese ocean carrier T.S. Lines launched a container service earlier this month that connects the Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), India and the Persian Gulf.

A shipping executive warned exporters to plan ahead for their equipment needs because empty containers will be increasingly difficult to secure during the coming winter and spring.

About a year ago, Daniel J. Vandermeulen and his global procurement team at Mattel huddled with the toymaker’s in-house lawyers.

APL’s container volume fell slightly in September from August, while average revenue per container slipped despite attempts to impose a peak season surcharge recommended by the

Cargo carried by Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair contracted for the sixth straight month in September as demand for

Operators at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport said they are ready to divert flights and close terminals if

The worst monsoon floods to hit Thailand in decades have crippled the country’s international trade as rushing waters prevent workers from reaching their offices, flood warehouses and stall fact

New trade pacts approved by Congress will provide a major boost to help push the U.S. out of its economic malaise, a business trade official told forwarders and customs brokers.

Grain exporter EGT and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union continue to cry out for clarity over the union’s contention that EGT is bound by a working agreement with Washington’

A few years ago, shippers might have considered driver retention a carrier problem.

Although most Japanese producers have recovered at home and abroad from the impact of Japan’s March 11 natural disasters, some such as Honda are still struggling because so many of their supplie

The congressional ‘super committee’ that is supposed to slice trillions in federal spending has a new suggestion from the top two senators on transportation policy:

Policymakers believe creating a network of scheduled roll-on, roll-off services across Southeast Asia can reduce transportation costs and spur economic growth in the region.

President Obama stepped into a simmering dispute between rail unions and most major railroads Oct.

The building blocks of driver retention seem deceptively simple: pay, working conditions, communications and training. But drivers can be lost in the details.

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U.S. GDP is expected to grow by $12 billion as a result of new free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. So why stop now?

The catastrophic events triggered by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami in March that devastated large areas of Japan and killed thousands also had an impact on automotive supply chains world

Canada and the United States have maintained a peaceful border for almost 200 years, but the peace is occasionally broken by a war of words. This is one of those times. On Oct.

The Department of Transportation on Friday approved one Mexican trucking company’s request to operate on U.S.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 1 percent in September, as truck industry fuel purchasing fell back in an indication trucking activity dropped over the summer and into the early fall.

Members of Congress are proposing to require the Maritime Administration to publicize the availability of Jones Act vessels when another agency asks to use non-U.S.-flag vessels.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood ripped into newly elected Republicans Friday for blocking efforts to launch a new infrastructure program, saying they want to keep President Obama from having succe

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange’s announcement to introduce risk management tools to help shippers trade derivatives comes as the Federal Maritime Commission

House Republicans are exploring options to bolster surface transportation funding, perhaps even replacing the current per-gallon gas tax with a new revenue system, said the chairman of the Transportat

Clothing retail giant Gap will close more than 100 of its Gap stores in North America as it expands overseas and increases online sales, the company said Thursday.

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,