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Hong Kong-based Li & Fung says it is restructuring its distribution network in China to meet the fast-growing demand for consumer goods even as rising costs pressure the retail products company&rs

Maersk Line is forecasting double-digit growth for its Asian shipments of palm oil, sugar and rice to Africa this year as demand for food commodities surges in frontier markets, an executive said on F

Even as it announced plans to order five big new containerships, Hanjin Shipping said it will suspend its Asia-Europe NE5 service in early July.

International air cargo increased 12.0 percent to 44,182 at All Nippon Airways, the 20th consecutive month of growth for Japan’s second largest freight carrier.

The UK ordered UPS, the U.S. parcel delivery company, to stop screening shipments at some of its facilities in Britain because of security concerns.

Some shippers and port executives in Southern California, assessing trans-Pacific shipping prospects at the start of the peak season, say they believe cargo volume will increase mo

Maersk Line in July will implement a peak-season surcharge for cargo shipped from India to the U.S., Guam and Canada.

The head of the trade group representing state transportation departments said he expects key committees in Congress to approve legislation in July for a multi-year funding plan for highway and transi

Air Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement Thursday, just hours after the federal government introduced back-to-work legislation.

The world fleet of freighters will double from 1,760 to 3,500 aircraft in the next 20 years, Boeing says in an upbeat forecast that raises estimates from a year ago on faster growth in the global econ

The Commerce Department is giving exporters relief from tough export control regulations that many companies have decried as an outdated impediment to their ability to export technology that poses lit

U.S. steel exports declined 9.3 percent in April from March and 8.8 percent year-to-year, the Commerce Department said.

Imports at the nation’s largest container ports are expected to remain flat through July before picking up when the annual peak season for holiday shipments begins later this summer, the Nationa

Construction of homes and apartments increased 3.5 percent in May from the previous month but was down 3.4 percent year-to-year, the Commerce Department said.

The Port of Doha, Qatar, plans to award contracts to build the first phase of a new container complex in the gas-rich Persian Gulf state in November.

Less-than-truckload carriers are broadly dissatisfied with LTL pricing models, but not at all optimistic about changing to a new method for matching prices to freight.

Canadian National Railway will sell “substantially all of the assets” of Illinois Central RailMarine Terminal near New Orleans to Raven Energy.

Hanjin Shipping is teaming up with NYK Line to renew its Far East-Middle East Express service starting from early July.

Vessel operator and owner Diana Containerships on Thursday added a sixth ship to its fleet of containerships for hire.

APL Logistics, looking for greater efficiency matching international and U.S. domestic transport, will deploy its own fleet of 53-foot containers in the North American domestic intermodal market.

Global Ports plans to raise up to $572 million from an initial public offering in London that would value Russia’s largest port operator at $2.4 billion.

UPS took another step toward reducing its environmental footprint by installing a rooftop solar array on its Lakewood, N.J., facility, completing a project that will provide a significant portion of t

Combined container import volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach grew 4.8 percent year-over-year in May, slower than the growth rate the month before and behind the 5.1 percent increase in

Vessel calls at U.S. ports increased 13 percent last year as the country recovered from the worst recession in decades, the Maritime Administration said Wednesday.

A private investment group is spending $150 million to take over ownership of freight broker Express-1 Expedited Solutions and installing lead investor Bradley S. Jacobs as the chairman and CEO.

Maersk Line parent A.P. Moller-Maersk postponed a planned bond issue worth up to $1.44 billion because of poor market conditions, analysts told Reuters on Wednesday.

The Canadian government will legislate striking Air Canada staff back to work if management and the Canadian Auto Workers union do not reach contract agreement within 48 hours from Tuesday evening.

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A key weekly measure of trucking capacity rose last week to a near three-year high, indicating the availability of truckload equipment continues to tighten.

Frankfurt Airport’s cargo traffic fell 7.9 percent in May from a year ago, but the second monthly decline in three months is the result of a statistical blip.

Canada’s national postal service is shut down today because of a company lockout, as Canada Post abruptly sent home its 50,000 workers in what appears to be an attempt to force back-to-work legi

The volume of containers handled by major ports in India grew a mere 1 percent year-over-year in the first two months of fiscal 2011-12, the Indian Ports Association said Wednesday.

Emirates Shipping Line is joining the Middle East Express Service operated jointly by Cosco Container Lines and Orient Overseas Container Line.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, racing to elevate the Bayonne Bridge, is “working towards a date of 2016” to complete the complex engineering project and clear a path for la

The UK’s Royal Mail reported operating profit slumped 78 percent to $63.6 million in the 2010-2011 financial year from $293 million in the previous 12 months as mounting losses in letters and pa

Container ship line CMA CGM appointed Michel Sirat, a longtime executive in the energy industry, to group chief financial officer.

Average diesel prices across the United States edged upward 1.4 cents a gallon in the week ending June 13, ending a five-week slide that has pushed fuel prices back below $4 a gallon in most of the co

The Broward County Board of County Commissioners Tuesday authorized Port Everglades’ staff to begin talks with the Florida East Coast Railway toward development of an intermodal rail transfer fa

The Port of Corpus Christi Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved funding for the port’s $15.5 million share of the cost of extending the La Quinta Ship Channel and restoring the ecosystem,

Canada this week lifted all import restrictions on Japanese foods, which were imposed on April 1 in the wake of the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Jap