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UPS has a new national master package contract, but Teamsters in many regions threw up roadblocks by voting down key supplemental agreements and a UPS Freight contract, forcing a new round of negotiations.

The new extension to Container Terminal 2, operated by DP World at Jebel Ali Port in the United Arab Emirates, has officially opened with the arrival of the...

Container tonnage at the Port of Houston Authority rose 10 percent year-over-year in May and 9 percent year-to-date, totaling 8 million tons...

Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates moved 209,985 metric tons of freight in May, increasing 11.9 percent from 187,638 metric tons in May 2012.

Paranapanema, a refined copper producer in Brazil, is switching its domestic shipments from trucks to ocean freighters after 15 of its truck loads were hijacked in 2012...

Penny Pritzker was sworn in today as the U.S.’s 38th Commerce Secretary.

DHL Freight, the road freight division of Deutsche Post DHL, is launching a global lead logistics provider service under the new brand name “GreenLink.”

Horizon Lines has issued six requests for pricing to U.S. shipyards and six RFPs to foreign shipyards for a project that will convert the power plants on two of its steam turbine cargo vessels to modern diesel engines capable of burning conventional liquid fuels or liquefied natural gas.

Volumes for used Class 8 trucks in North America slid in May, driven by the retail market declining 4 percent month-over-month...

Maher Terminals reported a “system outage” temporarily interrupted traffic at its Port of New York and New Jersey terminal this morning, resulting in heavy backups of trucks.

Exel has plans to establish a new $38 million distribution facility in the River Walk Business Park in York County, S.C.

WASHINGTON — The approach the U.S. House of Representatives takes in tackling the long-delayed Water Resources Development Act over the coming months could signal how the chamber will deal with the next federal surface transportation bill.

The Canadian railway industry’s freight commodity loadings in April rose 11 percent compared with the same month in 2012 to 30.2 million metric tons, according to Statistics Canada.

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development has completed its markup of the fiscal year 2014 appropriation bill...

World production of apples for the 2012/2013 season is expected to rise 2 percent compared with the previous year to a record 67.5 million metric tons...

United Waalhaven Terminals and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have reached agreement on the construction of a new quay on Bunshotenweg in the Netherlands.

Hapag-Lloyd and OOCL have decided to suspend calls at Charleston, S.C., from the Gulf Mexico Express Service in order to improve schedule reliability to and from Mexico and the U.S. East Coast.

FedEx Trade Networks, the freight forwarding arm of FedEx, has established new operations in Dublin as part of its ongoing expansion initiative.

Austrian Post has reached an agreement with the owners of the Turkish parcel service provider Aras Kargo to acquire a 25 percent stake in the company.

Russian Railways and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation to modernize railways and related infrastructure in Russia.

Wallenius Lines has ordered two post-Panamax car carriers at the Tanjin Yingang Shipyard for delivery in 2015 and 2016.

The Mississippi River’s rising water levels will force the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to shut down multiple locks on the shipping waterway for the second time this month, from central Iowa to central Missouri, CNBC reports.

INTTRA, an e-commerce shipping platform, has appointed Gary Ito as CFO.

UPS has confirmed that members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have approved a national master contract, which covers about 235,000 full- and part-time employees in various divisions. The contract was set to expire on July 31, , and contract coverage has now been extended through July 31, 2018. the agreement covering UPS Freight employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and some local agreements will require additional negotiation.

Greece is mulling bringing forward the sale of the country’s main ports, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, and the state railway, to cover a shortfall in its privatization budget.

Evergreen Line has launched two new services, the ISC-Bangladesh Service and the Intra-Gulf Service, to enhance its network in the Indian subcontinent and the Persian Gulf.

Construction has started on the Dominican Republic’s first logistics center, Caucedo Logistics Center, which is a joint venture between DP World and the Caucedo Development Corp.

Yang Ming Marine Transport’s board has unanimously elected Hermann Yu as president and chief operations officer, succeeding Robert Ho.

Unprecedented trends in technology, demographics and infrastructure are transforming global supply chains across retail, industrial and logistics real estate sectors...

J.A. Billipp Co., a property and building developer, has teamed up with land owner Webber Properties to develop air cargo and other aviation-related facilities on 36.8 acres located near the north end of Ellington Airport in Texas.

World coffee production for 2013/2014 season was forecasted at 146 million bags, down 4.4 million bags from the previous year...

Penske Truck Leasing has ordered 100 compressed natural gas Freightliner Cascadia tractors.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ union members at UPS Freight, UPS’s less-than-truckload unit, have voted to reject a five-year contract proposal that was already approved by the company and union leadership.

Ministers from the member states of the European Free Trade Association — Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland — have signed two separate free trade agreements with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Costa Rica and Panama, in order to strengthen bilateral economic ties and promote cross-border trade and investment.