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Department is giving exporters relief from tough export control regulations that many companies have decried as an outdated impediment to their ability to export technology that poses lit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

Neptune Orient Lines today announced $1.54 billion of contracts for 10 new 14,000 20-equivalent unit ships, two 9,200 TEUs vessels and upgrades to 10 ships it ordered last year.

CSX Transportation believes its new Northwest Ohio hub will give it a new edge over over-the-road trucking by lowering the cost of transportation for shippers moving goods into the Midwest.

The St. Lawrence Seaway opened this spring with volume up 3.7 percent in the first two months of the season compared with the same months last year.

Six Indian sailors, held captive by Somali pirates for more than 10 months, were freed Monday after a reported $2.1 million ransom payment.

The board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Tuesday approved a restructured lease with the Port Newark Container Terminal that will provide $500 million in private capital investment to

Air Canada’s 3,800 sales and service agents officially struck at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, marking the national airline’s first major strike in 13 years.

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