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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.

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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.

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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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.