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The government of Spain signed an agreement with aircraft manufacturer Airbus and Iberia Airline to develop aviation bio-fuel and the means to produce and deliver it to the industry.

Savage Companies and Kansas City Southern have entered into a joint development agreement as the companies look to take advantage of dev

TUI confirmed it is talking with potential investors about the sale of its stake in German ocean container carrier Hapag-Lloyd but did not reveal their identities.

Israel kicked off the long awaited privatization of the nation's state-owned sea ports by seeking bids to operate the Red Sea port of Eilat.

Container traffic through India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru reached an all-time high in fiscal 2010-11 ending March 31, buoyed by a strong turnaround in the country’s foreign trade.

Crowley Maritime is restarting the second weekly service to Haiti from the Dominican Republic and South Florida.

Global ocean container traffic reached an all-time high of 560 million 20-foot equivalent units in 2010, driven by surging volume at Chinese ports, according to Alphaliner.

A senior official at CMA CGM says the world's third-largest container line will not participate in a freight rate

The Commissioner of Customs feels the partnership between his agency and the private sector has done a good job in extending cargo security beyond the borders, but more must be done to streamline the

Onyx Investments, an Omani government-owned sovereign wealth fund, took a 15 percent stake in Hapag-Lloyd, an official at the parent company of Onyx said on Monday.

Diesel prices climbed 4.4 cents last week to a national average of $3.976 per gallon, the highest level in two and a half years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Paragon Shipping unveiled plans to raise almost $200 million through an initial public offering of shares in its recently established container ship unit Box Ships, Inc.

Dachser, the German global logistics services provider, increased 2010 revenue 19 percent, or $858 million, from the previous year to $5.4 billion, driven by a strong performance in ocean and air carg

Intermodal transportation giant Hub Group acquired Exel Transportation Services, a $717 million third-party logistics company, from Deutsche Post subsidiary Exel.

The United Kingdom's Freight Transport Association unveiled a standard maritime contract on Monday the shipper-focused group believes can bring more structure to shipper-carrier relationships that hav

Germany's Deutsche Bahn, Europe's biggest rail operator, posted double digit revenue and earnings growth in 2010 as its freight and global logistics units recovered strongly from the deep economic slu

Pessimism has grown among Japanese firms over future business conditions in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit th

"K" Line, which already owns 50 percent of German heavy-lift carrier SAL Group, reached agreement to acquire the remaining 50 percent by the end of June.

Standing before a group of shippers last week, Rep. John Mica didn’t even wait for the first question to finish before he shot back a definitive answer.

APL’s container volume increased 12 percent in the four-week period from Feb 12 to March 11 compared to the same period last year, APL parent Neptune Orient Lines reported Monday.

Pacer International named Daniel L.

Japanese and foreign shipping firms urged the Japanese government to take further action to minimize the effects on their business of radiation fears amid the

Horizon Lines expects to default on its debt covenants this year, a development the company’s accountant says raises “substantial doubt” about the largest U.S.

The intermodal market is heating up so much that rate increases could be the strongest in a decade.

Transportation management software delivered under the software-as-a-service umbrella is evolving as next-generation hybrids and cloud computing delivery models enter the marketplace.

The issue of data ownership is an obstacle to broader acceptance of cloud-based collaborative TMS models.

Hours-of-service restrictions and CSA 2010 aren’t the only issues motor carriers are dealing with.

As chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep.

Once colleagues in Congress, Rep.

The Port of Baltimore will get a leg up on many East Coast competitors next year when the new berth at the port’s Seagirt Marine Terminal opens two years ahead of schedule.

For shippers, the search for truck capacity is like playing dominos.

When leaders of the 21 nations in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meet in Honolulu this fall, the U.S. hopes they will reach agreement on some of trade facilitation’s oldest issues.

When the 2008-09 global economic and trade recession sent ocean shipping freight rates for U.S. imports of Asian goods spiraling, it drove several carriers to the brink of bankruptcy.

The trans-Atlantic shipping business is the epitome of a mature market.

Just when a new crop of entrepreneurs is looking for ships to operate in U.S. domestic maritime service, one of the federal government’s main ship financing assistance programs is dying.

Caterpillar, the $42 billion equipment manufacturing giant, aims to cash in on an increasingly strong recovery in third-party logistics by selling a portion of its $2.2 billion Caterpillar Logistics S

YRC Worldwide named veteran executive Phil Gaines senior vice president and chief financial officer of its nationwide less-than-truckload subsidiary, YRC Inc.

The House on Friday approved a bill to authorize operations of the Federal Aviation Administration, bringing closer to final passage a long-delayed measure the airline industry says is needed to moder

A consortium led by APM Terminals, the terminal-operating division of A.P.

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