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Qatar Airways, the Gulf Arab airline aiming to become one of the world’s top air freighters, said it could bring forward the date of an initial public offering to as early as this year.

UPS Freight is cutting transit times between Western Canada and U.S. markets by at least one day, speeding cross-border shipments from Vancouver.

Overall retail sales fell in May for the first time in 11 months but the decline was less than expected and due largely to a sharp drop in auto sales, government data show.

The Bank of Japan upgraded its assessment of the domestic economy for the first time in three months, as the country is making progress in efforts to restore supply chains disrupted by the March 11 tw

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Most major economies are showing signs of "a mild loss of growth momentum" in the next few months, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is raising its freight rates on all export containers shipped from Portugal to the U.S. as of July 7.

The Baltic and International Maritime Council, the world’s largest private shipping organization, elected Yudhishthir Khatau of India as its new president.

The laid-up container ship fleet fell to its lowest level since August 2008 and is still shrinking as ocean carriers activate idle tonnage, Alphaliner reported.

The head of PierPass gate operation at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports says the only pressure on capacity marine terminals comes when large numbers of truckers want to pick up or drop off contain

Canada’s 10-day series of rotating postal strikes mushroomed Monday to 10 cities in seven provinces as a potentially more damaging strike at Air Canada loomed for midnight.

CSAV’s volume of transported containers increased 6.8 percent in May over April, but the average revenue per container declined.

Container throughput in India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) fell nearly 2 percent year-over-year in the April-May period, the first two months of fiscal 2011-12, the port authority sa

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Japan’s Sumitomo Warehouse said today that its wholly owned subsidiary, J-WeSco, signed a contract to acquire a 100 percent stake in Westwood Shipping Lines, a U.S.

Chilean carrier CSAV said Monday it will suspend its Asiam service from India, Southeast Asia and China to the U.S.

Greek dockworkers will join a 24-hour general strike June 15 to protest fresh austerity measures imposed by the Socialist government under pressure from international creditors.

Intermodal services provider Hub Group acquired Domestic Transport, a Pacific, Wash.-based drayage company that delivers containers in the Pacific Northwest.

Container ship owner-charterer Seaspan took delivery of the first of new eight containerships with capacities of 13,100 20-foot-equivalent units.

Container ship line APL says the fast-growing U.S.

After acquiring the regional trucking operator USF for $1.37 billion in May 2005, YRC Worldwide Chairman, President and CEO William D.

Logistics technology provider Descartes Systems Group is acquiring software specialist Telargo to add new mobile information capabilities to trucking operations systems.

Horizon Lines is extending for another week its deadline to line up commitments for $350 million in secured senior notes, a key part of the

Now that negotiations with the Teamsters union, lenders and others with a financial stake in the company are largely completed, YRC Worldwide’s most crucial negotiations may be with its shippers

House Republicans introduced a bill to reword the Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act of 2007 with such changes as the measurement of lead content.

Proposed changes to export rules that would eliminate post-departure filing on all but a select number of agricultural shipments are raising the ghosts of battles on trade facilitation vs.

When the deal to sell the Port of Galveston’s facilities to an investor group of Hutchison Port Holdings and Carlyle Group fell through in April, the port and financial adviser BMO Capital Marke

A little acquisition by a very big company sent a jolt through the U.S. trucking industry on June 1.

The threat level is rising along with the water along the Mississippi River, endangering two-thirds of U.S.

Just 1,401 20-foot equivalent units separate Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping at the top two spots in The Journal of Commerce rankings of the Top 40 Import Container Lines for the first quarter

Shippers and carriers are complaining about a Puerto Rico Ports Authority plan to require electronic imaging of every domestic container and trailer arriving from the U.S.

With one of North America’s most dramatic bridges as a backdrop, Michigan Gov.

The peak-season surcharge carriers intended to impose in the eastbound Pacific beginning June 15 is a casualty of the soft patch in the U.S. economy.

Horizon Lines says it has found a way out of a financial crisis triggered by the company’s guilty plea and fine for price-fixing in the Puerto Rico trade.

The Port of New Orleans and the terminal operator owned by Mediterranean Shipping Co.

The Port of Houston doesn’t have to wait for the opening of the Panama Canal’s larger locks in 2014 for the arrival of bigger post-Panamax ships.

Slow-steaming by container ship lines is thickening the fog of war between shippers and carriers over bunker fuel surcharges.

Just when new monthly reports on U.S.

In less than 10 years, China will be crisscrossed by a national highway system 53,000 miles long that will cover all the country’s cities with populations of 250,000 or more, all logistics parks