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The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) on April 30 announced the beginning of direct export service at Boston Autoport.

Kansas City Southern, the only North American Railroad with large-scale operations in both the United States and Mexico, says the swine flu outbreak had not been affecting rail operations up to May 1.

A flailing freight market took a weekly gauge of short line traffic to its lowest level of the year, but some cargoes still managed to hit their highest totals of this spring.

The Houston Ship Channel will receive more than $98 million of the $4.6 billion in federal economic stimulus money that Congress gave the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency announced this week.

Looking to focus more on cargo business in the downturn, A.P.

Maersk Line, expanding its bid to raise prices, posted a series of rate increases today on its service from Asia to Latin America that will take effect on June 1.

Cargo traffic at London Heathrow Airport, Europe&rsquo;s third-largest freight airport, fell 14.6 percent in the first quarter compared to last year despite a slight improvement in business in March.<

A closely-watched manufacturing index jumped 3.8 percentage points in April, its highest level in eight months and a new sign the steep decline in the American economy is easing.

Orders, shipments and inventories of manufactured goods all declined in March, lengthening the downturn to the longest stretch of consecutive monthly decreases since the U.S.

Mexico today began a five-day shutdown of all nonessential government services and business as the country tries to halt the spread of the swine flu virus.

Covenant Transport lost $5.5 million in the first quarter, approximately $2.3 million less than the same period a year ago, due to weak freight demand.

Carriers in the Asia-Australia Discussion Agreement announced plans to raise their bunker surcharges for cargo moving from China and Hong Kong to Australia.

APM Terminals said Friday it will participate in the consortium led by Bollor&eacute; Africa Logistics that has a contract to develop a new deepwater container terminal at the Port of Pointe-Noire in

In a concession to financially pressed shipping lines, the Panama Canal Authority will cut back some tolls and fees while giving carriers greater flexibility in reserving movements through the canal.

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The General Council of the World Trade Organization voted unanimously on Thursday to reappoint Pascal Lamy, the WTO's director-general, for a second four-year term beginning this September 1.

CMA CGM (America) named Mj Dornford as vice president, marketing.

GAC Shipping appointed Clarence Chan as its senior marketing manager, shipping services, for greater China, effective immediately.

A majority of the attendees at The Journal of Commerce's 9th annual Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference don't foresee an economic recovery for at least another year, according to live poll questions ask

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American Commercial Lines, one of the country&rsquo;s largest barge operators, posted a net loss of $5.5 million for the first quarter as the company sold fewer barges and the demand for river transpo

Lufthansa lost $58.2 million in a first quarter that saw overall revenue dive more than 10 percent from last year and cargo traffic fall 21.3 percent, the German airline announced Thursday.

Crowley Maritime met all of the rolling federal deadlines up to April 15 for terminal and port workers and more than 1,000 merchant seamen who obtained the Transportation Workers Identification Creden

Profit at heavy-duty truck engine maker Cummins fell 96 percent to $7 million in the first quarter on sales of $2.4 billion, down 30 percent from the same period in 2008, as lower demand for equipment

Customs and Border Protection is looking at alternative ways of calculating the timeliness of security information that importers are obligated to file before their cargo is loaded aboard ship.

The Mexican government will shut down private business, including factories and transportation operations, for five days starting Friday as the country tries to halt the spread of the swine flu virus.

For one week, at least, freight traffic at major U.S. railroads was clearly better, across a range of categories.

Kansas City Southern, parent of the smallest U.S. Class 1 railroad and a Mexico rail unit that once supplied nearly half its revenue, lost $7.5 million in the first quarter.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Russia intends to oppose "protectionist" policies of the European Union.

Federal Maritime Commissioner Harold J. Creel Jr. announced Wednesday that he would leave the commission at the end of his term on June 30.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico plummeted a record 30.9 percent from February a year ago to $47.9 bi

Cosco Pacific, the terminal-operating arm of Cosco Holdings, said Wednesday its first quarter profit fell 34 percent as the global economic slump led to an 8 percent drop in cargo traffic.

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Trinity Industries, the largest supplier of railcars in North America, earned $34 million in the first quarter but not thanks to its car sales.

All Nippon Airways group posted its first full-year net loss in six years in fiscal 2008.

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The Grand Alliance, which already has a vessel-sharing agreement with Zim Integrated Shipping Services on its Atlantic Express Service (ATX), agreed to charter slots in the service to Hamburg S&uuml;d