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Lawmakers last week filed in the House a bill to authorize $60 million in loan guarantees for merchant ship construction under the Maritime Administration’s Title XI program.

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Nineteen U.S. states had more than $1 billion in export sales to China last year, according to an annual survey by the U.S.-China Business Council.

The International Monetary Fund says the world economy is recovering from the global crisis better than expected but at different speeds in different parts of the world.

After two months of relative stability, the spot rate for shipping a 40-foot container from Hong Kong to Los Angeles climbed 6 percent to almost $2,000 per FEU in the week ended April 19 as the scarci

Companies that outsource production and turn warehouse and distribution functions over to wholesalers may reduce operating expenses, but they are also making it easier for cargo thieves to invade thei

The Obama Administration will consolidate licensing, control lists and data systems to bring a “Byzantine” export control system into a single office, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said T

Europe's airline industry lurched back to life Wednesday as carriers put planes back into the air after being grounded for nearly a week by a volcanic ash plume from Iceland.

Container traffic at Chinese ports reached an all time high in the first quarter of the year, driven by a strong rebound in the nation's foreign trade.

Truckload carrier Heartland Express is detecting the first stirrings of a long-anticipated economic recovery.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it has revised its outlook on eastern-U.S.

When Amtrak’s “Heartland Flyer” passenger train runs through cattle country in the next year from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas, it will be testing a 20 percent biodiesel blend

Container throughput at the Port of Halifax increased by 41.4 percent to 99,450 TEUs from the same quarter last year.

Boeing flew its second 747-8 Freighter to Palmdale, Calif., on Monday to expand flight tests for the advanced aircraft.

Hapag-Lloyd will implement a general rate increase for cargo moving on its services from the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia to New Zealand.

Amtrak is calling for Congress and the Obama administration to shape a new multiyear surface transportation bill that is “revolutionary, not evolutionary” in funding the growth of an inter

Demand for air charters on key routes to and from the Middle East, North America and worldwide has exploded since the shutdown of much of Europe’s air space following last week’s volcanic

The Port of Charleston’s container traffic increased by 24.4 percent in March compared to a year earlier, for the third month in a row of year-over-year volume increases.

The Federal Maritime Commission issued a warning on Monday of an email scam involving a bogus lottery solicitation.

Customs and Border Protection is setting up the ACE Business Office to work out the needs of the Automated Commercial Environment.

Europe’s three largest cargo airports – Frankfurt, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam Schiphol – reopened Tuesday after a five-day shutdown.

FedEx resumed flight operations at its European hub in Paris as the carrier and other express airlines began to work on clearing out the shipping backlog left by the shutdown of airspace under a cloud

CMA CGM took delivery Tuesday of the CMA CGM Figaro, a new containership with a nominal capacity of 8,500 20-foot equivalent units, built by Samsung Heavy Industries at its shipyard in South Korea.

Hamburg Sud said Tuesday that its 2009 revenue dropped 28 percent from the previous year to $4.3 billion as the volume of containers it carried fell 13 percent to 2.3 million 20-foot equivalent units.

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Cargolux and forwarder Panalpina shifted the European leg of the “Dixie Jet” chartered trans-Atlantic freighter to Spain this week because of the volcanic ash cloud that has closed a large

Credit evaluator Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its outlook for Union Pacific Railroad to “positive” from “stable,” given the recovery under way in freight busi

The average price of diesel rose half a cent last week to $3.074 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

North American rail freight customers of locomotive builder GE Transportation are reducing the number of train power units they have stored as freight activity grows, GE officials said.

Workers at ABF Freight System will give up 15 percent of their wages but retain full pension benefits under a tentative concession plan approved today by local Teamster leaders.

European officials on Monday created three air zones to allow some flights in and out of the continent isolated since Thursday by volcanic ash in the air.

More than 140 inland waterways operators, shippers and trade groups are backing a bold proposal that would more than double the Army Corps of Engineers’ spending on construction and rehabilitati

Heavy truck orders rose 28 percent year-over-year in March to 11,285 units, following stronger than anticipated sales in February, ACT Research reported today.

Fife, WA - April 15, 2010 -- American Fast Freight, Inc. (AFF) announces the promotion of Sharon Pagan to Director, Sales - Eastern/Midwest Region.

Daimler Trucks North America and the United Auto Workers reached agreement on contracts covering employees at three U.S. plants.

While the latest container trade data suggests container shipping may have entered a real recovery phase, Drewry Shipping Consultants cautions that comparisons with the depth of the recession in 2009

Chilean carrier CSAV has launched a weekly North China-U.S. East Coast service that will operate via the Panama Canal.

Recovering financial and labor markets caused the Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index, a gauge of future U.S.

British Airways said it is seeking financial compensation from the European Union and the UK government for the closure of European airspace following the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallaj

United Parcel Service is meeting the air traffic ban in Europe by rerouting as much cargo as it can. Flights from Asia are stopping in Istanbul, Turkey, where freight will be transferred to trucks.