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APL will launch weekly intra-Asia service this month linking China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

Union workers at Navistar ratified a four-year labor pact the company says will improve the operating structure and flexibility of its truck and engine plants.

Teamster employees at YRC Worldwide approved extended wage, benefit and pension cuts to give the financially troubled trucking giant another shot at survival.

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Wanted: 28 candidates experienced in freight transportation, inland distribution and the marine highway system. Where: Washington, D.C. Contact: Maritime Administration.

Trucking operators have long fought calls for new fuel efficiency and emissions standards.

Knight Transportation is defying conventional wisdom in the truckload industry by adding capacity to its tractor-trailer fleet, but it’s doing so with a twist.

Retailers that survived the Great Recession through unprecedented, at times desperate, cost-cutting are transitioning from their slash-and-burn mentality to one of growth and prosperity next year and

There’s some shipping magic in the Magic City.

Walter Arsenault doesn’t buy that organized crime has vanished from the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Implementation of the employee-driver mandate in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan may not begin at the end of 2011 as planned. That appears to be the outcome of a ruling by U.S.

For an office at the heart of the federal government’s effort to harmonize international trade compliance and enforcement, Customs and Border Protection’s Commercial Targeting and Analysis

LONDON — Japan Airlines completed its withdrawal from the freighter business last month, and probably not a moment too soon for the rest of the world’s airlines.

When the Great Recession began, UPS Freight President Jack Holmes sought advice from J.

Don’t tuck the peak season away just yet. Two of the biggest partners in U.S. intermodal traffic expect strong growth in demand to extend well into the fall.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin wants to enlist customs brokers as “trusted partners” in securing the nation’s borders against contraband and weapons of mass d

SHENZHEN, China — China’s government is sending a strong message that it wants to redirect the country’s huge export economy inward, focusing on growth in domestic consumption and in

The U.S.

The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for mail coming out of Yemen this weekend as new details emerged about the movement of explosives in packages bound for the United States.

Law enforcement officials acting on what President Obama called "a credible terror threat," found package shipments with suspected explosives in air cargo networks bound for the United State

UPS and FedEx Express stopped taking all shipments out of Yemen on Friday after a terror alert that turned up suspicious packages in the United Kingdom and Dubai.

The British government on Friday suspended all direct flights between the United Kingdom and Yemen following the discovery of packages which apparently held explosives and originated in the Middle Eas

Cai Lan International Container Terminal, a joint venture between Cai Lan Port Investment Joint Stock Company and Carrix, entered into a loan agreement with a consortium of lenders and plans to move f

A high volume of ballots is likely to extend vote counting in a Teamsters election crucial to the survival of trucking giant YRC Worldwide into the weekend.

China Shipping Container Lines reported third quarter net profit of $322 million as revenue more than doubled to $1.7 billion.

China Cosco Holdings said it had third quarter net profit of $314 million, compared with a loss of $106 million a year earlier, as higher container volume and rates offset weakness in the company’s bu

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The U.S.

New York State Inspector General Joseph Fisch said the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor has been reformed by its current leadership and that a New Jersey lawmaker’s effort to abolish the agenc

The JOC Week in Review for October 29 gives you the highlights of top news stories from this week, and also a preview of the Nov. 1 edition of the Journal of Commerce.

A federal grand jury indicted Ulrich Ogiermann, the president and CEO of Cargolux Airlines International, and his top deputy on criminal charges of conspiring to fix air cargo prices, the U.S.

Japan’s three largest ocean carriers raised their profit forecasts for the next six months as they reported improved results for the July-September quarter.

Commercial truck trailer orders nearly tripled from a year ago in September and rose 19 percent from order levels in August, according to ACT Research.

Shipping Corporation of India substantially increased profit in the second quarter by eliminating losses from its container operations and markedly improving gains in bulk operations.

Soaring cargo demand helped Japan’s All Nippon Airways earn net profit of $162.96 million in the first half of fiscal 2010, the six months to Sept.

CMA CMA added a new import call at Rotterdam on its recently launched French Asia Line service in a move it says will cut transit times between Asia and North Europe.

TransContainer set a price for its forthcoming initial public offering in London that values Russia's largest rail container operator between $1.3 billion and $1.6 billion.

British Airways swung to its first profit in two years in first half of its fiscal year, helped by a 39.4 percent gain in cargo revenue that was driven by a strong upturn in freight pricing.

John Roberts will replace Kirk Thompson as president and CEO of J.B.

The U.S. warehousing sector is in the midst of a moderate recovery, but any sustained and substantive growth is unlikely until the broader economy recovers.