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Emirates Sky Cargo, the freight unit of Dubai-based airline Emirates, boosted first half revenue 48.4 percent from a year ago to $1.2 billion.

BNSF Railway, splitting its CEO and president roles, promoted Carl Ice to president and chief operating office while keeping Matthew K. Rose in the chairman and CEO positions.

UPS announced a 4.9 percent rate hike in January for domestic ground packages and air express shipments in the U.S., the company said Monday.

The average retail price of diesel fuel remained at $3.067 over the last week despite upward spikes in the Rocky Mountain states and in California that pushed the prices there to the highes

The Port of Charleston received its first ship in a joint service between North Europe, the U.S. Gulf and Mexico with the visit of CSAV’s Box Voyager.

Hamburg Sud is adopting the EquipmentRepair system from International Asset Systems to manage its global container maintenance and repair program.

The UK banned unaccompanied freight from Somalia, extending after Nov.

OOCL introduced an application called Mobile Rates of Exchange on Nov. 1 that gives shippers access to inbound and outbound rates of exchange for a particular port from their cell phones.

With more large retail store chains demanding “greener” supply chains, Maersk Line is becoming the first shipping line to receive independent verification of its CO2 emissions data, vessel by vessel.

Breaking with other container lines in the World Shipping Council, the chairman and CEO of Mediterranean Shipping Co. in the U.S.

TNT, the Dutch global express and postal group, reported third quarter earnings fell 24 percent from a year ago on lower mail earnings, higher costs and pricing pressures.

Customs and Border Protection has not yet increased the level of cargo scrutiny in the Port of New York and New Jersey in the wake of the

The Transportation Security Administration deployed a team of inspectors this week to Yemen to help in the screening of outgoing cargo on passenger and cargo airlines.

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British freight forwarders and transport companies warned against a knee jerk reaction to the discovery of

ABF Freight System is suing the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and three YRC Worldwide subsidiaries over the latest round of labor concessions at YRC.

The Obama administration's top counter-terrorism official says authorities want to look more closely at the September crash of a UPS freighter in Dubai, although investigators in the Middle East say i

Manufacturing growth accelerated in October as new orders and production surged to push the PMI index up 2.5 points to 56.9 percent, according to the nation's supply executives in a report on business

Truckload operator USA Truck reported a profit for the second straight quarter, though its net income slipped by a third from the second quarter to $586,000.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will start charging a higher bunker adjustment factor next month on all cargo it carries on its Capricorn Service from Southeast Asia to Australia and New Zealand.

Hanjin Shipping, which operates five Asia-North Europe loops jointly with CKYH, said it will skip one loop in January and plans to skip more voyages on the other four loops to adjust capacity to lower

The port of Marseille is clearing a backlog of more than 60 ships after dockworkers at the Fos-Lavera oil terminal ended their month long strike over working conditions.

Japanese forwarder Yusen Logistics said its net profit surged 756.4 percent in the six months ending Sept. 30 from a year earlier to $26.4 million as economic recovery in Asia outpaced sluggish U.S.

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.

The U.S.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

There’s some shipping magic in the Magic City.

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

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

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.

Ralph P.