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Supply chain risks can be categorized into five groups: operational, social, natural, economy and political/legal, according to Patthira Siriwan, senior project manager for supply chain development in

Recessions, floods, strikes, export restrictions, quality control, commodity shortages and product complexity — supply chain risk comes in all shapes and sizes.

Two private equity groups have acquired a controlling interest in the world's largest owner-lessor of marine containers Triton Container International.

The TCP Paranagua Container Terminal received a call this week by the Maipo, the largest vessel ever to call at Brazil's third-largest container terminal.

International Consolidated Airlines Group, formed from the merger of British Airways and Spain's Iberia, boosted cargo revenue more than 28 percent above the combined figure for the partners in fourth

U.S. authorities say a Saudi national arrested in Texas for allegedly plotting terror attacks was caught shipping explosive chemicals through domestic trucking networks.

CMA CGM swung to a net profit of $1.63 billion in 2010, from a year earlier loss of $1.4 billion, driven by higher cargo volume and freight rates and cost cuts.

Horizon Lines said it is in discussions to sell its logistics unit and expects to report lower fourth quarter results next Thursday.

Horizon Lines agreed to plead guilty and will pay $45 million in fines for antitrust violations in the Puerto Rico trade.

NYK Line plans to increase its trans-Atlantic freight rates on cargo moving in both directions as of April 1.

A federal judge in Baltimore on Wednesday fined a Greek ship management company $2.4 million and imposed two years probation for violating federal oil-pollution laws.

New customers and higher shipping volume pushed total revenue to $426.4 million at Echo Global Logistics in 2010, a 64.3 percent increase over the previous year.

The Coast Guard is proposing changes in regulations to clarify the requirements for rebuilding Jones Act ships at U.S. shipyards.

Norway's Green Reefers, a refrigerated cargo ship operator, reported fourth quarter 2010 pre-tax losses widened to $24 million from $18.7 million a year ago on historically low spot freight rates, fla

Mediterranean Shipping Company announced a general rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe and the Mediterranean, the second GRI this year.

The UK port of Southampton received government approval for a $130 million project that will enable it to handle the largest container ships.

Container shipowner Seaspan said it is negotiating to order up to 10 new ships that would carry up to 10,000 20-foot equivalent units each and have “an innovative design that focuses on improving load

The Commerce Department said a 27 percent spike in commercial aircraft sales pushed total durable-goods orders up 2.7 percent in January, but orders for other long-lasting manufactured goods declined.

United Arab Shipping Co. plans to move its U.S.

Short line operator RailAmerica had a fourth-quarter profit of $17.9 million, up from a $6.9 million loss in the final period of 2009.

UPS is expanding its Preferred LCL Ocean Freight Service to 10 additional Asian ports, thus taking on a bigger role as NVO.

In a 7-2 ruling that could affect how states levy taxes on inland transportation carriers, the U.S.

Advocates of the unionization of harbor truck drivers opened a new line of attack with a bill in the California Legislature that would define drayage truck drivers as employees of the companies that a

All Libyan ports and terminals have been temporarily closed amid violence in the North African country, CMA CGM said on Wednesday.

OOCL is joining CMA CGM’s India-Pakistan-Europe service as of April 1.

Japan and Mexico reached terms on which to revise their free trade agreement to further liberalize bilateral trade.

Japan posted its first trade deficit in 22 months in January as the cost of oil drove up imports.

French carrier CMA CGM will seek a general rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe, as part of what it calls a new rate restoration program.

APM Terminals boosted earnings 60 percent in 2010 from the previous year as profit from the disposal of a stake in China's Yantian terminal outweighed the loss of global market share.

Spot rates on a key trans-Pacific container route dipped 6 percent this week, their second consecutive weekly decline since the Lunar New Year, amid signs of market instability, Drewry Shipping Consul

Four Asian carriers plan to launch all-water bi-weekly service from Asia to the East Coast of South America, adding capacity on the trade route they already serve with a weekly service.

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CSX Transportation began operating its large, new intermodal terminal at North Baltimore, Ohio, which will be the western anchor of its National Gateway doublestack corridor.

Political turmoil in the Middle East threatened world supplies of oil and pushed the price of crude oil up 6 percent in a single day’s trading Tuesday. Retail diesel prices in the U.S.

Clarence L. Werner, the founder of Werner Enterprises, is stepping down as chairman of the $1.8 billion trucking company. Werner, a former truck driver, founded the carrier with one truck in 1956.

German ocean carrier Hamburg Sud on Monday christened the Santa Isabel, the second of 10 sister ships, each with a capacity of 7,100 20-foot containers.

Norfolk Southern Railway is ordering 1,500 high-capacity coal hauling railcars from FreightCar America, in an order valued at more than $100 million.

The seven major freight railroads reduced employment on their U.S. lines by 1,096 workers from mid-December to mid-January, the second straight cut after trimming 642 jobs the month before.

The decline in vacancy rates for logistics real estate will accelerate this year as resurgent demand outstrips slow growth in supply, an industrial real estate firm said in a report on market trends.

Expeditors International of Washington boosted its net profit 40 percent in the fourth quarter to $96.5 million, capping a strong recovery year that saw the forwarder improve its operating profit 42 p