Air Cargo

MultiPack, formally Servicios Nacionales Mupa, has trucking, express package and warehousing operations across Mexico.

UPS began daily service from its major European hub in Cologne, Germany, to growing Chengdu, China, as the package-delivery giants expands its reach into inland China.

U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV on Monday called on top U.S.

DB Schenker said Friday it will shut down the U.S.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood repeated his warning that 4,000 Federal Aviation Administration employees will be furloughed Friday night if the U.S.

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Japan’s trade balance swung back into the black in June amid growing signs of a recovery in exports hit hard by the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Kuehne + Nagel expanded its perishable transportation and logistics network by buying J.

The Obama administration and Senate Democrats say Republicans’ attempt to cut rural air service subsidies is risking a Federal Aviation Administration shutdown, jeopardizing thousands of public

Japan Airlines' international cargo volume plummeted 58.5 percent in May as the carrier adjusted to business witho

FedEx Trade Networks, the forwarding arm of FedEx, is trying to expand its reach into ocean shipping with a new forwarding service for products with a flex

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Turkish Cargo, Turkish Airlines’ freight division, began a weekly A310 freighter service between Istanbul and Bud

Debate over a proposal to reduce a U.S. program that subsidizes rural air service is the latest battleground in Capitol Hill’s partisan warfare.

Cathay Pacific Airways cargo traffic fell 5.5 percent in June, the third straight monthly drop at one of Asia’s largest freight airlines.

Semiconductor manufacturers are raising their projections for industry shipments in 2011, forecasting sales will grow 5.4 percent over l

FedEx will increase capital spending 24 percent over the next year, adding $800 million as it replenishes its fleets with new aircraft, trucks and tractors.

European Union competition regulators launched an investigation into public loans to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport

Freight carried by for-hire transportation carriers declined 1.8 percent in May from April to its lowest level since November, the Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Ind

Frankfurt airport’s cargo traffic fell 6.4 percent in June from a year ago due mainly to slightly lower Asian shipments.

Lufthansa Cargo saw tonnage grow 14.8 percent in the first six months of 2011 from a year ago, driven mainly by strong growth in the Americas that enabled the carrier to

Lufthansa Cargo is phasing in lightweight plastic freight containers the airline says will cut its fuel consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

U.K. competition regulators are expected to order airport operator BAA next week to sell London Stansted Airport, the country’s second largest cargo hub, within 18 months.

The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing a civil penalty of $689,800 against FedEx for allegedly violating

All-cargo carrier Cargolux has grounded a Boeing 747-400 freighter after maintenance staff detected a bullet hole in its fuselage.

Air France-KLM’s cargo traffic fell 2.8 percent in June from a year ago as demand weakened amid political turmoil in Africa and the Middle East and the aftermath of Japan’s natural disaste

Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government-owned sovereign wealth fund, rode higher contributions from portfolio companies that include Neptune Orient Lines, PSA International and Singapore Airlines t

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

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

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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.

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.

Pharmaceutical giant Merck is giving UPS a bigger role in its international business, including key emerging markets such as China and Brazil.

China’s Chongqing airport plans to double cargo volume in the coming years as the Western China city advances efforts to become a major center for technology manufacturing.

Global air cargo traffic fell 4 percent in May from a year ago but was up 1.2 percent on April, the International Air Transport Association reported.

Cargo traffic carried by Asia-Pacific airlines fell at the steepest rate in nearly two years in May, sliding 9.8 percent as carriers also reduced capacity for the first time since the end of the globa

Peruvian airline StarPeru is expanding into the cargo business beyond its niche passenger operations with the purchase of a BAe- 146QT freighter for regional shipping customers.