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Japan's trade surplus with the rest of the world narrowed for the first time in 15 months in August as imports grew faster than exports, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Minist

Maersk Line is increasingly serving Africa and South America with direct services from Asia as quickening economic growth in emerging markets forces the world's largest ocean container carrier to adju

Standard & Poor's raised the rating on Zim Integrated Shipping Service's bonds four grades to BB+ following its return to profit in the second quarter of 2010.

The American Trucking Associations at the weekend filed its formal appeal with U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

In the first progress report on its ambitious National Export Initiative, the Obama administration rapped a solid base hit, but business leaders are looking for home runs.

The Port of Los Angeles’ timetable for implementing the employee-driver concession requirement in its clean-trucks plan starts next year, but the harbor trucking industry in Southern California

Any trucking industry appeal of a ruling for the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan will hinge on whether a court believes the country’s largest port is run not only by a government agency bu

Nearly three-fourths of rail shippers want Congress to pass a regulatory reform bill, according to a Wall Street analyst’s survey, and many shippers say they might consider filing their own chal

The recovery in industrial real estate is like a building only half completed: The framework for improved business is there, but no one is ready to declare the job done.

At the start of 2007, FedEx Freight was on a roll.

That loud buzz you heard from Washington was the shipping community stirring over the prospects of a bill that would all but abolish ocean carriers’ antitrust immunity.

Warnings of an impending shortage of drivers may be spreading through the trucking industry and its shipping customers, but there’s no sign of the problem at the central Pennsylvania headquarter

Someone forgot to tell importers that the peak shipping season was already over.

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

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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.