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China said Friday it was sending a warship to help a COSCO Shipping cargo ship that was attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean near East Africa.

Shipping lines in the eastbound Pacific announced a target Friday of increasing freight rates $400 per 40-foot container to the U.S.

In a big legal victory for the Port of Philadelphia, a federal judge says the Army Corps of Engineers can proceed with plans to dredge 102 miles of the Delaware River to provide the port with a 45-foo

UPS agreed to sell its UPS Logistics Technologies unit to private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

The Federal Railroad Administration is spreading around $50 million in grants to help railroads develop their collision avoidance technologies known as positive train control, with the largest awards

Senators Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., are working to pass a bill to authorize continued operation of the Federal Aviation Administration with a 2011 budget of $17.1 billion befor

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Full screening of all packages on all-cargo aircraft as proposed in Congress would be impractical and highly difficult to implement, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in an interview w

Just three of the seven largest railroads operating in the U.S. added workers in the mid-September to mid-October period, for a net increase of 191 employees in the Class I work force.

Boskalis Westminster raised its 2010 profit forecast as the global economic recovery increases utilization of its dredging fleet and a more vibrant shipping market boosts the Dutch company's harbor to

All terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey will be closed Thursday Nov. 25 for Thanksgiving Day.

The state-owned Shipping Corporation of India will launch a container service between the Indian subcontinent and East Africa, starting at the end of November.

Air cargo trucker Towne Air Freight acquired HBI Freight, one of the largest full-service air cargo and home delivery trucking companies on the eastern seaboard.

International Longshoremen’s Association official Harold Daggett said there’s nothing wrong with off-contract deals that the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor says provide favored d

A London court handed British Airways a key victory Thursday in a civil suit against the airline over cargo price fixing, ruling the case cannot go forward as the UK equivalent of a class action lawsu

Some drayage companies in Southern California are violating the spirit, if not the letter of the Los Angeles and Long Beach clean-truck requirements, and the ports intend to end these practices soon.

Freight volume for U.S. railroads accelerated in the week ending Nov.

The American Trucking Associations petitioned the U.S.

The state-owned Shipping Corporation of India plans to conduct a share sale on Nov. 30 that could raise up to $320 million for buying new containerships and tankers.

Georgia Gov.

Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., introduced legislation Tuesday that would require 100 percent screening of cargo aboard all-cargo aircraft.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the U.S. climbed 0.5 percent in October to 111.3 following a 0.5 percent increase in September and a 0.1 percent increase in August.

Hapag-Lloyd will suspend its weekly Antwerp-New York shuttle service from mid-December in an extended winter program "until the expected market volume returns."

Cash-carrying The Brink's Co. is expanding in Mexico by buying the country's largest secure logistics company, Servicio Pan Americano de Proteccion.

The global container ship order book grew in October for the first time since July 2008 as new orders outpaced deliveries.

Air France-KLM booked a profit on cargo operations for the second successive quarter as revenue soared almost 38 percent above a year ago.

MOL formed a tugboat company in Vietnam in a joint venture with two local companies.

Japanese export ship orders surged 88.5 percent in October compared with a year ago to 675,300 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association.

YRC plans to close 31 terminals in the Midwest, South and East, ratcheting back its total terminal network to about 320 facilities.

Witnesses before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday had a shipload of ideas on how to spend federal money on water resources.

UPS Freight is speeding its cross-border service to Western Canada, extending its two-day and three-day delivery network to the energy-rich region.

A new plan to slash the federal budget deficit through tax hikes and spending cuts also suggests that policymakers find ways to boost spending on transportation infrastructure.

Three YRC Worldwide subsidiaries asked a federal court to toss out ABF Freight System's lawsuit challenging their latest pact with the Teamsters union.

Air France-KLM, Europe's largest airline, swung to a $778 million operating profit in the fiscal second quarter from a $63.5 million loss a year ago on a strong recovery in cargo and passenger revenue

The Port of Long Beach is joining a Calif.-based developer to test zero emission drayage and terminal tractor vehicles.

At least 18 large shippers may pursue their own antitrust cases against U.S.-Puerto Rico carriers instead of joining in a $52.25 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Horizon Lines, Sea

CMA CGM will extend its Black Pearl service from the U.S. in response to growing market demand in the Caribbean and on the West Coast of South America.

Builders began work on new homes and apartments at the lowest rate in a year and a half in October mainly because of a 44 percent drop in starts on multifamily homes, the Commerce Department said.

Container truck drivers at India’s Port of Chennai ended a three-day strike Wednesday morning, allowing the movement of ocean freight traffic to and from the country’s second-largest container gateway

DFDS, the largest north European short sea shipping and logistics company, raised its 2010 profit forecast almost 15 percent following a surge in third quarter revenue and roll-on, roll-off cargo volu