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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., on Thursday will try again to bridge a partisan gap in a push to develop legislation that would implement critical and controversial free trade a

A tanker carrying about 1 million barrels of fuel oil is on fire Wednesday off the coast of Yemen after pirates used a rocket-propelled grenade to attack the ship in the Gulf of Aden.

The Long Beach City Council, brushing off strong opposition from shipping lines and terminal operators, voted to ask the Board of Harbor Commissioners to transfer $16.9 million of harbor revenue to th

Third-party logistics provider Echo Global Logistics expanded in the Southwest by acquiring Advantage Transport, a non-asset truck brokerage firm in Phoenix.

A long-awaited transportation bill will make its debut Thursday when the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee releases a "responsible, multimodal" spending plan likely to c

ABF Freight System won an important victory in its challenge to wage and benefits concessions the Teamsters union granted YRC Worldwide and its subsidiaries.

Owner-operator truck drivers this week sued one of the largest drayage operators at the Port of New York and New Jersey, claiming the company improperly classified them as independent contractors inst

A consortium led by global port-terminal operator PSA International won a contract to build and operate Saudi Arabia’s new container terminal in the Port of Dammam.

With Russia and its regional trading partners preparing for meetings on expanding their Customs Union agreement, logistics operator

DHL is starting a weekly less-than-containerload ocean service from New York Harbor to Durban, South Africa.

French ocean shipping company CMA CGM announced a series of rate increases and peak-season surcharges that will take effect on U.S. services this month and on other trades in August.

Trucking company ABF Freight System will raise general less-than-truckload rates 6.9 percent July 25, the company said Wednesday.

U.S. service industries expanded for the 19th straight month in June but growth slowed from May, the Institute for Supply Management said.

UPS Freight’s Aug. 1 rate hike is likely to set off a round of early general rate increases in the less-than-truckload market, key financial analysts said.

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Bridgestone Commercial Solutions will hike the price of truck and bus tires and tire retreads by 11 percent on average, the company said.

OOCL plans to stop providing chassis on Sept. 1 at six additional port and inland locations in the East and Midwest, including the Port of Charleston, S.C.

Cargo volume moving through major ports in India surged 7 percent during April to June compared with a year earlier, according to preliminary traffic figures released by the Indian Ports Association.

APM Terminals has taken control of the container terminal at Callao, paving the way for a major investment program to boost capacity at Peru’s largest port.

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DHL is dropping its attempt to build domestic express delivery services in China, according to a published report.

Econocaribe Consolidators is introducing a new function on its website that enables shippers to track and trace full containerload shipments in real time through “track and trace EDI” (ele

The U.S.

The average price of diesel fuel fell for the eight time in the last nine weeks, sliding 3.8 cents a gallon to the lowest point since Feb. 28, the U.S.

The Commerce Department is recruiting top-level executives to join a trade mission to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates between Oct. 29 and Nov. 3.

Air freight rates out of Asia slipped back 0.6 percent in May compared to the month before as carriers coped with plentiful capacity, according to the Drewry Air Freight Price Index.

Donald J. Bowersox, one of the pioneers in the science and practice of logistics and supply chain management, died Monday in Traverse City, Mich. He was 79.

Factory orders by U.S. businesses grew 0.8 percent in May, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a report that suggests improving confidence in the economy following a slowdown in the spring.

CMA CGM will launch of a new service this month connecting Asia, the Fiji Islands and New Zealand effective July 18.

Smaller vessel operators could be forced out of Asia-Europe container trade lanes as the deployment of ultra-large container ships puts more pressure on freight rates and the bottom line, according to

Hyundai Merchant Marine will raise rates southbound container shipments from the U.S. to the East Coast of South America effective Aug. 1.

Crowley Maritime is bolstering its logistics capabilities in the Caribbean with the acquisition of Puerto Rico Freight Systems, a company specializing in freight consolidation and less-than-container

A sudden strike by container truck drivers Sunday morning crippled cargo movements to and from the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, a DP World facility in India’s sout

U.S. airlines launched a legal challenge Tuesday to European Union plans to charge foreign carriers

APM Terminals has introduced a barge shuttle service to its Rotterdam terminal to avoid worsening traffic jams caused by construction work on highways circling Europe’s biggest container port.

Swedish shipowner Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines is placing armed guards to protect its vessels from attack by Somalia-based pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

Drewry Maritime Research is forecasting average east-west ocean freight rates will fall 20.8 percent this year from 2010 as the addition of ship capacity outpaces growth in demand.

CSAV is suspending its service between Asia and the Mediterranean amid sharply declining rates on Asia-Europe trade lanes.

United Arab Shipping Company opened its own shipping agency in Pakistan in a joint venture with its erstwhile third party agent, Delta Shipping.

Singapore Airlines Cargo will pay a $48 million fine after agreeing to plead guilty to charges the carrier conspired to fix air freight prices for shipments going to and from the United States.