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The hard-fought agreement between Hanjin Shipping and the International Longshoremen’s Association on reduced staffing requirements does more than clear the way for work on a new terminal in Jac

Commercial trailer orders rose 2 percent from July to August, and were up 55 percent from a year ago, ACT Research reports.

The World Shipping Council elected Kenji Mizushima, CEO of NYK's Global Liner Management Division, to its board at its semi-annual meeting in September.

Locomotive builder GE Transportation said it signed the largest locomotive delivery deal in Brazil’s history as Brazilian rail operator MRS Logistica agreed to buy 115 units with an option for 100 mor

Dubai Airports reported a 21.5 percent increase in August cargo traffic to 198,543 metric tons handled compared to 163,427 metric tons in the same month last year.

After more than a decade of manufacturing outsourcing by Western companies and slow but steady economic reform by Beijing, China is the United States’ second-largest trade partner and appears to

Canada’s ports and inland road and rail networks operate under a very different regime from those in the United States.

A stimulus-type grant fund of $600 million at the Department of Transportation has drawn nearly 1,000 applications from states totaling $19 billion in aid requests.

Cargo traffic for Asia-Pacific airlines grew 25 percent in August over the same month a year ago, the Association of Asia-Pacific Airlines reported, the lightest year-over-year growth this year.

Germany's DB Schenker Rail launched a project to create a Europe-wide system to supply and control rail freight transport aimed at boosting the industry's share of the maritime container market.

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India plans to spend an estimated $4 billion on fleet expansion over the next five years.

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Trans-Pacific container lines formed a 16-member shipper advisory board to discuss solutions to problems that provoked complaints by exporters of agricultural goods and other commodities.

The railroad industry is urging Congress to block an Obama administration move to permanently allow Maine a

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J.

FedEx Freight is studying a price increase of its own after YRC's general rate increase this week, Presi

Rep. James L.

The number of workers employed by for-hire trucking firms has grown steadily since February, but is still lower than it was a year ago and far smaller than payroll numbers two years ago, an analysis o

The top U.S.-owned freight railroads never before hauled as many intermodal containers as they did in the week ending Sept. 18, said the Association of American Railroads.

Dutch airline Martinair Thursday confirmed it will focus completely on air freight and discontinue passenger services at the end of 2011.

The Department of Transportation’s push to complete infrastructure stimulus projects led it to pay out $6 billion over the summer to reimburse states for completed work, nearly a third of the amount t

World Airways, a subsidiary of Global Aviation Holdings, extended into 2011 a contract to provide two MD-11 freighters to Etihad Crystal Cargo.

FedEx Express is expanding and adding Saturday delivery to its FedEx First Overnight service.

DHL launched its EXPRESS 10:30 service in South Korea. The premium door-to-door delivery service guarantees the arrival of shipments by 10:30 a.m. the next business day.

A private research group’s index of U.S. leading indicators rose in August more than forecast, suggesting a continued slow expansion of the economy.

DB Schenker Logistics expanded its network in southeastern Europe with the opening of a logistics center in Pardubice, near Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic.

An Indianapolis holding company says it will keep the chairman of OIA Global Logistics in place after buying a majority stake in the company, but LDI named a new CEO to run the business.

A.P. Moller-Maersk Thursday said it completed a five-year $6.75 billion syndicated revolving credit facility before an existing facility matures.

Swiss International Air Lines Chairman Rolf Jetzer, 59, died Sunday after suffering heart failure while hiking in the mountains.

Brambles, the Australian pallet supplier and documents management company, acquired Zurich, Switzerland-based Unitpool, an independent provider of pooled cargo containers and pallets for airlines, for

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide raised its tariff rates at national carrier YRC by 5.9 percent Sept.

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners on Sept.

The Federal Maritime Commission Bureau of Trade Analysis is preparing a list of questions for shippers, carriers and intermediaries in connection with its study of the effect of removing European carr

The summer doldrums in freight activity led some major railroads to cut their U.S. employment while others added jobs, so that their overall workforce fell slightly from mid-July to mid-August.

Greek lawmakers Wednesday voted to reform the nation's protected trucking industry as striking drivers clashed with police and blocked key highways on the tenth day of a nationwide walkout.

A resurgent automobile industry helped push vehicle imports through the Port of Baltimore to 250,515 units during the first eight months of this year, a 72 percent increase from a year ago, the Maryla

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released an updated Clean Air Action Plan that sets even stricter goals for reducing toxic air contaminants than were contained in the original CAAP of 2006.

The International Group of P&I Clubs, the subject of a European Commission antitrust investigation, is not a cartel, said the chief executive of a New York-based protection and indemnity club.

Lufthansa appointed Christoph Franz chairman and chief executive officer and named Karl Ulrich Garnadt to head the cargo business in a series of management shifts at Europe's second-largest airline.