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After more than four years of painful delays, prospects for reviving the long-languishing U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement may be getting a significant boost thanks to an unlikely third party: China

Ships in transit off the coast of Japan should stay a minimum of 50 miles away from the Fukushima power plant, according to an advisory fr

Persistent oil prices around $100 a barrel will weaken the global economic recovery and hit hardest the auto, airline, gaming and agricultural sectors, Moody's Investors Service said in a report.

Some Japanese ports and airports affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern part of the country on March

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, responding to growing alarm over the potential for radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plant to enter the U.S.

General Motors said it will suspend production at its Shreveport, La., pickup assembly plant next week because of a parts shortage resulting from the

Air freight rates are rising for loads moving from Japan to the U.S.

Sea Star Line ordered 100 new 53-foot cargo containers for use at its Jacksonville and Philadelphia ports.

In an expansion of its intra-Asia regional network, Evergreen Line is launching a weekly service called the Japan-Taiwan-South China Sea service from March 17.

Canadian third-party logistics company Kelron Logistics is expanding into intermodal rail, launching a North American intermod

The new chairman of Chile's CSAV warned of "negative results" for the first quarter and said the company will seek a $500 million capital increase and to sell up to 49 percent of the company's ports a

Surface transportation trade between the U.S. and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico jumped a record 24.3 percent in 2010, the Transportation Department said.

Maersk Line ships will not enter or pass through an offshore area close to an overheating nuclear plant in Japan, the Danish carrier said Thursday.

FedEx Freight lost $110 million in its most recent quarter, despite an 11 percent improvement in yield as sales increased and truck shipments declined.

Greenbrier Companies took recent new orders to build 4,200 more railcars, most of them double-stack intermodal wells, valued at $325 million.

U.S. steel exports increased 14.2 percent in January from December and were up 11.2 percent year-to-year, led by shipments to Canada, Mexico and other Western Hemisphere nations.

AMB Property is making a significant foray into the Chinese logistics market with a minority stake in a $1.1 billion joint venture.

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FedEx Ground outdistanced its sister divisions at Memphis-based FedEx, increasing revenue 14 percent and operating profit 26 percent in the quarter ending Feb. 28.

FedEx lowered its earnings forecast for 2011 as higher fuel costs and declining demand for domestic service clipped inc

Zim Integrated Shipping Services will seek a general rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe and the Mediterranean, the second GRI this year.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, along with California agricultural exporters, Wednesday urged Congress to approve the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement no later than July 1.

Lufthansa Cargo swung to a record operating profit of $434 million in 2010 from a year earlier loss of $239 million driven by the global economic recovery, booming German exports and cost cuts.

Executives from computer makers and other technology firms show growing concern that the unfolding disaster in Japan can disrupt their glo

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines recovered a vessel, the chartered bulk carrier C.S. Victory, that had been carried away by the massive tsunami that hit Japan last week, the shipping line said Thursday.

Ongoing factory production and shipping problems in Japan from last week's earthquake and tsunami will hit containerized automobile parts

CMA CGM said a containership stormed by Israeli commandos on March 15 and searched for weapons was the "v

Lufthansa Cargo, in the midst of a strong revival in freight business, will add five 777 freighters to its fleet, the German carrier said.

Package delivery giant UPS is elevating the role of environmental sustainability within its operations by creating the post of chief sustainability officer.

New Mexico’s legislature could be poised to exempt Union Pacific Railroad from a locomotive sales tax, to entice UP to build a major intermodal and multi-purpose rail facility just inside the state bo

Online logistics software provider eModal added a chassis control functionality to its intermodal logistics community system.

Great Lakes ports and vessel operators are declaring a state of emergency in protest of proposed cutbacks in maintenance dredging by the Obama administration.

U.S. freight rail lines in 2010 completed their safest year on record by several measures, said the Association of American Railroads based on preliminary government data.

Lawmakers introduced legislation this week to reform the funding of water resource projects.

Home construction, a key driver of freight transportation demand, plunged last month to its lowest level since April 2009 and the second-lowest on records dating to 1946.

-- This story originally appeared on the Web site of JOC's sister publication Breakbulk.com.

TNT Global Express confirmed reports its Italian parcel delivery unit has been targeted by a mafia organization.

The world supply of lithium-ion batteries for chips and power-supply capacitors may be the worst-hit technology industries following last week's e

Supply chain disruptions from Japan's earthquake could force Chinese firms to delay imports of key components, especially for digital prod

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