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Procter & Gamble started work this week on a China distribution center the consumer products giant said would be the largest in Asia and an anchor of P&G’s goal to expand domestic and international di

Lufthansa carried 18.7 percent more cargo in August than a year ago, outpacing its main European rivals Air France-KLM and British Airways.

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When the Surface Transportation Board stripped antitrust immunity from truck freight classification in 2007, hope spread that a less adversarial, more cooperative carrier-shipper relationship would em

The UK government Friday said it will press ahead with the privatization of Royal Mail after a report said the com

A sudden spike in business came to the St. Lawrence Seaway, and to U.S. and Canadian wheat producers, in sharply increased wheat exports because of Russia's ban on foreign grain sales.

North America’s largest railroads saw their bulk commodity carloads hit a second consecutive 2010 peak in the week ending Sept.

After three years of enlarging Appalachian Mountain tunnels, Norfolk Southern Railway opened its Heartland Corridor to double-stack operations Thursday between Virginia's seaport area and big Midwest

Shippers can expect expedited general rate increases from less-than-truckload carriers, trucking officials at an investor conference in New York said.

The U.S. goods and services deficit fell 14 percent from $49.8 billion in June, revised, to $42.8 billion, according to a report Thursday from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.

U.S. freight shipments increased slightly in July for the second consecutive month, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. merged its Panama/Med service and the Puma service (U.S. West Coast to Panama) into one single loop.

The Federal Maritime Commission is stepping up its oversight of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement and the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement by ordering verbatim records of their me

Local agents of shipping lines serving India's Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) protested the levy of additional charges on the traffic stranded because the port shut down and imposed restrictio

Japan and India reached a bilateral free trade agreement in Tokyo on Thursday. The pact will eliminate import tariffs on most products traded between the two giant Asian economies within 10 years.

Wal-Mart shifted more of its traffic from truckload to intermodal in its just-completed bidding cycle.

U.S. railroads hauled more bulk railcar loads and intermodal containers or trailers in August than any time since the autumn of 2008, said the Association of American Railroads.

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General Motors selected Comprehensive Logistics to manage global inbound logistics and value-added subassembly processes for its newest compact car, the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze.

The National Association of Manufacturers, a major industrial lobbying group in Washington, D.C., launched an advertising campaign to head off new energy taxes after

Authorities say a fire may have broken out in the cargo compartment of the UPS plane that crashed in Dubai last week, according to published reports.

Railcar manufacturer FreightCar America signed a definitive agreement to buy the business assets of DTE Rail Services, a railcar repair and management firm, from parent DTE Energy for about $23.2 mill

Freight brokers and logistics companies increased sales in the second quarter, despite tight capacity, the Transportation Intermediaries Association said.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide is asking Nasdaq for more time to comply with its minimum share value rule and avoid delisting from the stock exchange.

Maersk Line named Thomas Knudsen as the regional head of its Asia Pacific business based in Singapore, where he will be responsible for the execution of the Danish carrier’s day-to-day operations in S

All Nippon Airways said international cargo volume soared 36.8 percent year over year to 41,354 tons in July, increasing for the eleventh consecutive month.

Crowley Maritime acquired Puerto Rican logistics provider Islandwide Air and Ocean, and entered into an agreement with its sister company, Islandwide Logistics, to provide services such as warehouse m

The inquiry by India's Director General of Shipping found the MV Khalijia-3 was mainly responsible for the coll

Dutch express and logistics company TNT this week launched the first fully electric delivery vehicle fleet in China.

The World Food Programme, a United Nations agency fighting hunger, deployed a global logistics visibility platform from GT Nexus to manage its constantly changing global network.

The Containership Co., which began no-frills service from China to Los Angeles in April, reported a $3 million net loss on $21.2 million in revenue during the first half of its first year.

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The average price of diesel fuel fell for the fourth time over the past week as businesses headed into the busier fall shipping season with fuel prices virtually unchanged from the spring.

Reed Smith LLP said it is expanding its shipping practice through the addition of Lars Forsberg as a partner in the firm’s New York office.

Container volume through Hong Kong rose 9.7 percent in July after growing by double digits in each of the year’s first six months, the Hong Kong Port Development Council reported.

A 24-hour general strike by major trade unions severely disrupted operations at several Indian ports Tuesday.

President Obama said he wants long-term transportation legislation to include a permanent infrastructure bank that can make investments outside regular state formulas, and to put his passenger rail pr