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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will outsource operations at its distribution facility near Knoxville, Tenn., to DHL Exel Supply Chain in a logistics restructuring that will include laying off about 186 w

Richard Lawrence, who covered international trade for The Journal of Commerce in Washington for more than 30 years, died Monday after a prolonged illness. He was 82.

Swift Transportation raised the stakes in its initial public offering this week to $1 billion as it launched a stock sale first announced in August.

A new implementing accord for a $12.9 million grant, just signed by the U.S.

SeaFreight Line will launch a weekly fixed-day service to Costa Rica and Nicaragua in December.

TNT said Thursday it plans to sell its air express business, completing the breakup of one of the world’s largest transportation companies in a move that could shake up the competition in the ve

The Cass Freight Index for shipments expanded 2.8 percent in November from the month before as the key measure of domestic shipping demand recovered from a brief downturn.

Vitran is selling off most of its truckload assets for $5 million to focus on its core less-than-truckload and logistics business, the Canadian-based company said.

Same-day carrier Dynamex accepted a sweetened acquisition offer of $238 million from Greenbriar Equity Group, turning down a rival offer from an unnamed suitor.

CMA CGM cut the amount of carbon emitted by its fleet of containerships 15 percent in the last five years, the ocean carrier said Wednesday.

Wal-Mart, Walgreen, Unilever, Del Monte and Kraft are among an expanded list of shippers that have asked to be excluded from a $52.25 million class-action settlement for price-fixing that carriers in

The World Shipping Council and International Chamber of Shipping are calling for international regulations to require all loaded containers to be weighed at the marine terminal before they are stowed

Effective Dec.

The final report by President Obama's deficit commission stuck with a plan offered earlier by its co-chairs to hike federal fuel taxes 15 cents a gallon but included a number of recommendations that c

For the second time this year, the public marine terminals at the Port of Baltimore handled more autos in one month than in any other month in the port’s history.

The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index spot rate for shipments to the U.S.

Aramex launched a sea-air route from China to Europe, using Vancouver, B.C., as a transit hub.

Hanjin Shipping confirmed it plans to introduce a new AWE service, the AWE-6, from Asia to the U.S. East Coast via the Suez Canal next year.

Expansion in the manufacturing sector slowed in November, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index, which slipped to 56.6 from 56.9 a month earlier as factory inventories

CMA CGM announced rate increases and new peak season surcharges that will take effect in the next month or two on several of its trade lanes.

U.S. companies added 93,000 jobs in November as small businesses hired more workers than at any time since December 2007, ADP Employer Services said in a monthly report

South Korea ordered two Japanese air carriers to pay a total of about $4.8 million in fines for violating South Korea's anti-trust law in their international cargo operations.

Container terminals in Asia and the Middle East generally achieve more intensive use of their resources, including berths, cranes and land, than European or North American terminals, according to a re

European transport commissioner Siim Kallas on Thursday will ask transport ministers from the EU's 27 member states to consider proposals to tighten air cargo security, including stricter conditions o

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is advising its customers this week of a series of rate increases and changes in various surcharges that will take effect within the next month.

The Port of Seattle Commission authorized the 2011 budget that includes nearly $500 million in capital projects.

Financial industry lobbyist Nicholas E. Calio will replace James C. May as president and CEO of the Air Transportation Association, the group representing the airline industry in Washington.

More than 400 owner-operators drove their trucks in a massive protest convoy on Highway 91 outside of Vancouver last Friday.

A Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship collided with a Dutch-flagged chemical tanker during a storm on Monday in the Black Sea and sank, leaving five sailors missing, according to government officials in S

Singapore Airlines Cargo agreed to plead guilty to a charge of fixing air cargo rates on shipments to and from the U.S. between 2002 and 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice said Nov. 30.

The Senate Tuesday morning passed by a 73-25 vote a bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration added authority to keep contaminated food out of the food chain.

Retail prices for diesel fuel fell an average of nine-tenths of a cent last week to $3.162 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Container truck drivers at India’s Port of Cochin Monday night launched an indefinite strike, halting cargo movements to and from India Gateway Terminal, which is managed by DP World.

Consumer confidence in the economy rose to a five-month high in November despite concern over jobs and overall business conditions, a private research group reported.

Trade using surface transportation between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico totaled $68.3 billion in September, up 19.3 percent from a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

Lufthansa Cargo said it needs six more freighters with the capacity of an MD-11 by 2015 to keep pace with rising global cargo demand.

The Tokyo District Court Nov. 30 approved a state-backed rehabilitation plan for bankrupt Japan Airlines.

The Federal Maritime Commission in 2011 will focus on the "Three Cs," containers, contracting and capacity, according to Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr.

Smaller trucking companies and expedited carriers are asking a federal court to stay a portion of the federal CSA 2010 safety initiative set to take effect next month.

Ocean container carriers are set to earn an all time high profit of $13 billion in 2010 after posting a record loss of $15 billion a year ago, a leading analyst forecast.