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The Obama administration said Wednesday that it is ready to work with Congress on the approval of free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that have long been stalled by concerns ov

The Danish administrator appointed to oversee The Containership Co.’s financial restructuring is asking the defunct trans-Pacific line’s former customers to pay their obligations under min

Canadian longshoremen ratified a watershed contract that should guarantee labor peace at the country’s Pacific Coast ports for eight years.

Tropical Shipping’s first quarter operating loss widened to $1.2 million from $500,000 a year earlier as shipping volume for the carrier’s Bahamas and Caribbean services declined 9.6 perce

Project and heavy-lift specialist Rickmers-Linie said it is adding four ships to its India-Europe service to take advantage of an expanding market.

Over 300 dockworkers at APM Terminals in the Spanish port of Algeciras on Monday stopped work to protest a wage cut announced by the terminal-operating arm of A.P. Moller-Maersk.

Panalpina Group reported double-digit growth in profit during the first quarter and said it expects air and ocean freight markets to rise 5 to 7 percent this year.

Matson Navigation swung to an operating loss of $7.4 million in the first quarter ended March 31 from a profit of $10.4 million in the same quarter a year earlier, as soaring fuel prices ate up the in

The Drewry Container Rate Benchmark for eastbound trans-Pacific shipping climbed 8.9 percent in the week ending Monday, the second week-to-week increase in the last three weeks.

India’s Adani Group acquired Abbot Point Coal Terminal, a dedicated coal export facility, in Queensland, Australia, from North Queensland Bulk Ports.

A Japanese manufacturer of large-scale power transformers will build a new factory at a Memphis, Tenn., site that will use Canadian National Railway tracks, access to Mississippi River barging and tru

The number of idle container ships is at a 30-month low, with only 71 ships recorded as unemployed, according to a survey of the container fleet by Alphaliner last week.

Surface transportation trade between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico was 11.8 percent higher in value in February than a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

U.S. factory orders rose for the fifth consecutive month in March, driven by a broad-based increase in orders and rising prices for food and oil, the Commerce Department said.

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings saw its net profit fall more than two-thirds in the first quarter amid rising costs and falling military charter revenue, but the freight airline said Tuesday it still exp

Amazon.com plans to build its eighth logistics center in China this year, Chinese officials said Tuesday.

U.S. containerized imports fell 2.5 percent in March, the first year-to-year decline in 16 months, as a weak housing market contributed to a drop in imports from Asia.

Japan's steel exports increased for the second consecutive month in March, topping February’s total by 10.1 percent.

APL’s container shipping volume gained 12 percent year-over-year in the four weeks that ended April 8, but average revenue per container slipped, parent company Neptune Orient Lines said.

Somali pirates released the Sinar Kudus, an Indonesian-flag multipurpose vessel, and its 20 crew members on Sunday after 46 days in captivity, according to Navfor, the EU anti-piracy naval force.

International air freight traffic grew 3.7 percent in March over the same month a year ago despite a decline in shipping in Asia following the Japanese

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The Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association is launching a Chassis Provisioning Information section on the OCEMA Web site to help shippers understand the changes that ocean carriers are making

Retail diesel prices resumed their long upward trend after a one-week lull as the average price at the pump rose 2.6 cents to $4.124 per gallon, according to the U.S.

Transportation acquisition activity reached the heavy haul trucking industry with EZE Trucking's purchase of Bakersfield, Calif.-based Patterson Motor Freight.

U.S. steel imports totaled 2.445 million tons in March, up 32.5 percent from February's weak levels and up 19.1 percent from a year earlier, government data show.

U.S. manufacturing expanded for the fourth consecutive month in April, according to a widely watched index that showed robust exports and an uptick in inventories.

The Japanese Diet enacted a supplementary budget of $48.8 billion for fiscal 2011, which started April 1, after only five days of deliberation held in the midst of the holiday-studded "Golden Week" pe

Carriers and ports notched up their security programs Monday morning following the announcement that U.

Hanjin Shipping took delivery of the fourth in a series of five container ships with capacities of 10,000 20-foot equivalent units.

Horizon Lines said its onetime parent, CSX, agreed to a $3 million annual reduction in charter rates on three ships Horizon leases from CSX.

The maritime shipping world as many in the United States see it can be divided into two parts, one under the jurisdiction of the Jones Act, and everything else.

DSV reported higher first quarter revenue and earnings driven by increased volume at its air, sea and trucking units.

Qatar Airways said it expects to reach agreement in the coming weeks to acquire a 33 percent stake in the largest European all-cargo carrier Cargolux.

Yusen Logistics said its net profit surged 134.4 percent in fiscal 2010, which ended on March 31, from the previous fiscal year to $44.16 million.

Maersk Line announced a general rate increase on Asia-Europe trade lanes as part of what it calls a new "rate restoration initiative."

For shippers and trucking companies, the road doesn’t have to end at the water’s edge.

U.S. and European shippers beware: It’s going to cost a lot more to import goods from Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent through the Suez Canal.

When a federal regulator throws up its hands and admits defeat in trying to pull railroads and key shippers together over a major issue, only one course of action remains: Battle.