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Spain’s new centre right government scrapped a plan to privatize Madrid and Barcelona airports, the country’s two largest cargo hubs, citing market volatility amid Europe’s sovereign

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CSX Transportation extended its strong pricing power into the fourth quarter, giving the freight railroad a $457 million net profit to close a year that saw earnings grow strongly despite diminishing

Atlantic Ro-Ro Carriers launched a general cargo service between the Port of Tampa and the Port of St. Petersburg..

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Workers on the Panama Canal expansion are returning to work Monday after agreeing to new terms with their contractor, ending a six-day strike.

Italian truck drivers kicked off a weeklong protest against higher fuel taxes and road tolls on Monday by blocking highways from the southern container port of Gioia Tauro to the northern industrial c

A new U.S. cabinet department dedicated to trade would give the government a more complete view of trade and the national economy, said a former chairwoman of the International Trade Commission.

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The volume of containers handled by the Port of Savannah in December dropped 1.9 percent year-over year, but the decrease didn’t prevent the Georgia port from hitting an annual record.

Lufthansa Cargo is putting its freighter capacity behind the recovering automobile manufacturing industry.

Oil prices rose for the first time in four days after the European Union on Monday banned oil imports from Iran, increasing fears that Middle East tensions could raise supply chain costs in the short-

A U.S. district judge in Miami on Friday fined a Miami River management company $1 million for recordkeeping violations related to oil pollution in ballast water.

Frankfurt-Hahn airport’s cargo traffic surged 25 percent in 2011 from a year ago, as export shipments at the German airport skyrocketed to an all-time high.

Canadian Pacific Railway signed a 10-year agreement this week with Canpotex to haul the majority of the major potash exporter’s shipments to a terminal in Vancouver.

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India imposed a general rate increase on cargo shipped from the Indian Subcontinent to North Europe and the Mediterranean.

Le Havre handled roughly 7.5 percent fewer containers in 2011 than in the previous year after strikes over labor reforms depressed traffic at France’s biggest container port in the first quarter

Russia’s port of Vladivostok grew container traffic 27 percent in 2011 from a year ago, boosting the Far Eastern gateway’s share of Russian container shipments at the expense of its flat l

The Los Angeles-Long Beach Clean Air Action Plan launched the port industry’s green revolution in 2006, and the improvements some five years later are far beyond what the Southern California por

Logistics managers don’t have a crystal ball, so there’s no way they can foresee the kind of supply chain disruptions caused by random events such as last year’s earthquake and tsuna

American consumers are using their credit cards again, and forecasters expect retail sales and containerized imports to accelerate modestly this year.

There is a growing divide among prominent industry consultants and advisers regarding the anticipated impact, particularly on U.S.

There’s nothing like the threat of “nuclear winter” to spur Canadian Pacific Railway to become more profitable faster than planned.

Friends of the Export-Import Bank of the United States are pushing to get the institution a new charter that would extend its operations through fiscal 2014.

Shippers are getting a taste of what they can expect from a more aggressive and powerful Food and Drug Administration thanks to an agency move to stop orange juice shipments from overseas to test them

Global logistics directors, responding to the wave of supply chain-rattling natural disasters last year, increasingly are looking for ways to hedge against repeat performances if the trend continues t

This could be a battle of big government versus small. At hand is a plan by President Obama to reorganize the federal government to face the challenges of the 21st century.

Amazon.com started in the 1990s as an online retailer catering to consumer needs for music CDs and books.

At Florida East Coast Railway, the fastest-growing business is trucking.

Last fall’s devastating floods in Thailand cost electronics manufacturer Flextronics $100 million in lost revenue in the past quarter and the company expects to lose a similar amount in the curr

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One of the most profitable trucking companies in the nation got a little more profitable in late 2011,despite higher equipment and fuel costs and a tough hiring market.

Locomotive maker GE Transportation, part of General Electric, increased revenue 45 percent in 2011 to $4.9 billion on rising demand for equipment and services.

Refrigerated trucker Stevens Transport is purchasing 1,200 temperature-controlled trailers from Utility Trailer Manufacturing to reinforce its growth plans.

Net orders for Class 8 heavy trucks rose to 30,293 units in December, reversing a decline in November and resuming a positive trend that began in August.

Container throughput at the Port of Halifax in 2011 dropped 5.7 percent year-over-year, largely because three liner services cut or reduced calls to the Canadian terminals this year.

The Food and Drug Administration has cleared 19 international shipments of orange juice tested for an illegal fungicide andreleased 12 shipments into the U.S., but the federal agency said Friday it st

New freighter services that included the launch of all-cargo connections to China helped Singapore Changi Airport to its busiest month for cargo in three years in December and a strong finish to 2011.

A small trucking company is about to get a little bigger with some help from the state of Kentucky.

The recovery in U.S. shipping demand is showing up at Los Angeles International Airport, North America’s largest gateway for trans-Pacific air cargo.