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CMA CGM will launch of a new service this month connecting Asia, the Fiji Islands and New Zealand effective July 18.

Smaller vessel operators could be forced out of Asia-Europe container trade lanes as the deployment of ultra-large container ships puts more pressure on freight rates and the bottom line, according to

Hyundai Merchant Marine will raise rates southbound container shipments from the U.S. to the East Coast of South America effective Aug. 1.

Crowley Maritime is bolstering its logistics capabilities in the Caribbean with the acquisition of Puerto Rico Freight Systems, a company specializing in freight consolidation and less-than-container

A sudden strike by container truck drivers Sunday morning crippled cargo movements to and from the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, a DP World facility in India’s sout

U.S. airlines launched a legal challenge Tuesday to European Union plans to charge foreign carriers

APM Terminals has introduced a barge shuttle service to its Rotterdam terminal to avoid worsening traffic jams caused by construction work on highways circling Europe’s biggest container port.

Swedish shipowner Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines is placing armed guards to protect its vessels from attack by Somalia-based pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

Drewry Maritime Research is forecasting average east-west ocean freight rates will fall 20.8 percent this year from 2010 as the addition of ship capacity outpaces growth in demand.

CSAV is suspending its service between Asia and the Mediterranean amid sharply declining rates on Asia-Europe trade lanes.

United Arab Shipping Company opened its own shipping agency in Pakistan in a joint venture with its erstwhile third party agent, Delta Shipping.

Singapore Airlines Cargo will pay a $48 million fine after agreeing to plead guilty to charges the carrier conspired to fix air freight prices for shipments going to and from the United States.

Audiovox Electronics’ Pat Moffett is willing to stand behind his commitment to deliver cargo to his carrier in time to fill the slot he’s reserved.

Those large blue boxes with the familiar APL logo that started appearing on U.S. highways and railroads in May aren’t ocean containers, though it’s tough to tell the difference.

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach face the conundrum of having to run up to five night and weekend gates each week to prevent gridlock in the harbor, all while losing money every day they o

There’s an odd disconnect in Washington these days — even odder than usual — on how, and how much, to invest in transportation infrastructure.

Exporting companies are starting to see the fruits of the Obama administration’s effort to streamline and modernize the outdated export control system.

Customs and Border Protection is short-handed.

For Lucas Oil, a private fleet is more than a means of transportation. It’s also a rolling laboratory.

When you’re already battling historic floods on several rivers at once, any new rain surely pours.

Despite signs of a cyclical slump in container shipping, a bull market is developing for construction of large, fuel-efficient ships.

When Lucas Oil transportation chief Marty Martin needs a truck, he usually doesn’t call a trucking company. He goes out to his dock or calls one of his own drivers.

One reason Seaspan chose Chinese shipyards to build its next generation of big ships was that South Korean shipbuilders were slow to offer more fuel-efficient designs.

The industrial commodities sector that fuels factory production is sending worrisome signs to a global shipping business concerned with whether the economy is passing through a proverbial soft patch o

Excess capacity may be building on the high seas, but it evaporates quickly once freight reaches dry land. Unlike container shipping lines, U.S.

After blocking Southern California port expansion projects for seven years and forcing ports to address air emissions health risks, the Natural Resources Defense Council is turning its attention to Ca

For ocean carriers, the disquieting chatter began in early spring. All the new capacity they had delayed taking delivery of during the 2008-09 recession was coming due.

Manufacturing growth in the United States accelerated in June for the first time in five months, according to the Institute of Supply Management’s PMI report, bolstering hopes that a spring slow

Container shipping line APL is building an intermodal container terminal in Joliet, Ill., to strengthen its transcontinental network in the United States.

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Container imports at the Port of Seattle fell back 27.8 percent in May from the same month a year ago in a broad decline in international shipping at Pacific Northwest ports.

UPS Freight will take a 6.9 percent general rate hike Aug. 1, a move that could signal a stronger across-the-board increases in less-than-truckload pricing.

Panalpina, the Swiss global forwarder and logistics group, vowed to outperform market growth in air and ocean freight and logistics, achieve a “remarkable” increase in productivity and hit

Locating close to customers often is more important than tax and financial incentives in choosing distribution facilities, shippers told The Journal of Commerce Inland Ports conference in Chicago this

The Gartner research group raised its projection for global IT spending this year, saying the industry is absorbing the impact of Japan’s natural disasters and now will grow 7.1 percent in 2011.

Hapag-Lloyd announced a steep hike in its “war risk surcharge” on all cargo moving to and from

Inventory management has a dark secret: Forecasting isn’t only worthless; it also exacerbates the very problem it was designed to solve.

Ken Kowal is one of a small but growing number of logistics professionals wired into social media.

Freight forwarder Leschaco named Mark Malambri president and CEO of the Germany-based company’s U.S. operations.

NYK Line is extending its plan to phase out chassis services, dropping the equipment provision in Oakland and Minneapolis for import and export merchant haulage bills of lading.