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Turkish Cargo, Turkish Airlines’ freight division, began a weekly A310 freighter service between Istanbul and Bud

Mediterranean Shipping Company and Chilean carrier CSAV entered a vessel sharing agreement to launch a direct co

Debate over a proposal to reduce a U.S. program that subsidizes rural air service is the latest battleground in Capitol Hill’s partisan warfare.

The European Union’s plan to slash ships’ sulfur dioxide emissions will likely result in

The founder of telecommunications company Neustar, Jeffrey Ganek, joined the board of directors of INTTRA, an electronic booking portal for the ocean freight industry.

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Tobias Koenig has a proven business model at Marenave, the shipowning company he listed five years ago on the Hamburg Stock Exchange.

DHL will expand direct less-than-containerload service from Shanghai to Seattle, reducing transit times for LCL shipments by up to four days, the company said.

A weekly Europe-based ocean container index by Drewry Shipping Consultants and Cleartrade Exchange will launch in September, g

Kuehne + Nagel said economic uncertainty made it impossible to forecast the rest of the year even as the worl

Security continues to be a key issue for shippers doing business in Mexico. The rise in cross-border surface trade between the U.S.

The Teamsters union and environmental groups are taking a new tack in their long, so far unrewarding campaign to organize port container haulers.

Uncertainty may pervade the economy recovery and its impact on freight networks, but if railcar and barge builder Greenbrier is any indication, demand is holding up just fine, and getting better.

After securing a $400 million asset-based loan, the last remaining step is the sale of $100 million worth of convertible preferred securities to its lenders, a company official said.

When developers of industrial real estate make a pitch to potential clients, they want to talk to someone in charge of transportation logistics.

When the first Mexican truck in a new cross-border trucking pilot project rolls into the U.S., it will bring an end to punitive Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods.

John Mica has a plan for surface transportation.

In laying a formal petition before federal regulators, heavy freight rail shippers at the National Industrial Transportation League hope to crack open an iron grip major railroads hold on many facilit

For a quick gauge of where truck pricing is headed, check tire prices.

Its wounds still fresh from an earlier-than-expected exit from this month’s women’s World Cup soccer tournament, Brazil faces a quick turnaround when Rio de Janeiro hosts the men’s v

U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., said the U.S.

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U.S. consumer sentiment fell this month to its lowest level since March 2009, reflecting depressed income and low employment levels, a widely watched survey reported.

Corsa Coal began sending trainloads of high-heat metallurgical coal out of its new Somerset, Pa., coal wash plant, generating export shipments for CSX Transportation.

Maersk Line, Ltd., won a multi-year contract valued at up to $126 million to operate and maintain five container and roll-on, roll-off ships for the U.S. Navy.

North Carolina’s Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway will be the exclusive project advisor to Gladstone Development on a recently acquired site developers hope boosts Charlotte's role as a r

U.S manufacturing activity was flat in June, the Federal Reserve said, although utility and mining output pushed overall indust

YRC Worldwide expects its revenue to rise about $600 million this year to $4.9 billion and to report an operating profit of $4.2 million in the second half.

Cathay Pacific Airways cargo traffic fell 5.5 percent in June, the third straight monthly drop at one of Asia’s largest freight airlines.

The maritime industry would be required to slash sulfur dioxide emissions by up to 90 percent at a cost of $3.6 billion to $15.6 billion, under a proposal unveiled by the European Commission on Friday

Two of every five trans-Pacific import containers are booked through non-vessel-operating common carriers instead of directly with container lines, and the NVOs’ market share is growing.

Shipping is picking up steam on the trans-Pacific, but it’s not happening in the direction carriers are accustomed to. Instead, import growth is tapering off as the peak season approaches.

Semiconductor manufacturers are raising their projections for industry shipments in 2011, forecasting sales will grow 5.4 percent over l

Chilean container line CSAV and Mediterranean Shipping will jointly operate four liner services under a new agreement, stepping up ocean carrier rationalization amid overcapacity, slowing cargo d

Pilot Freight Services will open an office in Amsterdam as the U.S. freight forwarder looks to build on strong growth in the international arena with its first full office overseas.

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Although container production is up in the wake of last year’s critical shortages, prices for the boxes have nearly doubled in the last two years and shippers will face an ongoing shortage of th

Imports into the Port of Los Angeles fell 10.2 percent in June from the same month a year ago, throwing a new cloud over the U.S.