Air Cargo

Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, reopened for international flights Thursday with the departure of a charter flight operated by Hi Fly, a Lisbon-based airline.

FedEx Freight returned to profitability in its last quarter after completing the merger of its long-haul and regional less-than-truckload operations.

FedEx increased revenue 12 percent in the quarter and 13 percent in the fiscal year that ended May 31, reporting total annual revenue of $39.3 billion.

Germany’s DB Schenker will decide the fate of its underperforming North America domestic transport and logistics business, including restructuring or joint ventures, within two months.

European Union competition regulators launched an investigation into the German government’s financing of Leipzig-Halle airport, DHL Express’s European cargo hub, to ensure it complies wit

The U.S. Postal Service stopped taking mail bound for Canada as a strike by Canada Post workers moved into its second week with no signs that it would end anytime soon.

International air cargo increased 12.0 percent to 44,182 at All Nippon Airways, the 20th consecutive month of growth for Japan’s second largest freight carrier.

The UK ordered UPS, the U.S. parcel delivery company, to stop screening shipments at some of its facilities in Britain because of security concerns.

Air Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement Thursday, just hours after the federal government introduced back-to-work legislation.

The world fleet of freighters will double from 1,760 to 3,500 aircraft in the next 20 years, Boeing says in an upbeat forecast that raises estimates from a year ago on faster growth in the global econ

UPS took another step toward reducing its environmental footprint by installing a rooftop solar array on its Lakewood, N.J., facility, completing a project that will provide a significant portion of t

The Canadian government will legislate striking Air Canada staff back to work if management and the Canadian Auto Workers union do not reach contract agreement within 48 hours from Tuesday evening.

Frankfurt Airport’s cargo traffic fell 7.9 percent in May from a year ago, but the second monthly decline in three months is the result of a statistical blip.

Canada’s national postal service is shut down today because of a company lockout, as Canada Post abruptly sent home its 50,000 workers in what appears to be an attempt to force back-to-work legi

The UK’s Royal Mail reported operating profit slumped 78 percent to $63.6 million in the 2010-2011 financial year from $293 million in the previous 12 months as mounting losses in letters and pa

Air Canada’s 3,800 sales and service agents officially struck at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, marking the national airline’s first major strike in 13 years.

Qatar Airways, the Gulf Arab airline aiming to become one of the world’s top air freighters, said it could bring forward the date of an initial public offering to as early as this year.

UPS Freight is cutting transit times between Western Canada and U.S. markets by at least one day, speeding cross-border shipments from Vancouver.

Canada’s 10-day series of rotating postal strikes mushroomed Monday to 10 cities in seven provinces as a potentially more damaging strike at Air Canada loomed for midnight.

Lufthansa Cargo traffic growth slowed to a “normal” 4.4 percent in May compared with a year earlier from double-digit increases earlier in the year as the impact of reactivating its laid-u

International air freight rates out of Asia edged up to the highest point in six months in April, according to the Drewry Air Freight Price Index, which showed average pricing growing 5.7 percent from

Air France-KLM cargo traffic slipped 1.4 percent in May from a year earlier as higher volume in the Americas couldn’t offset lower shipments on Asia-Pacific routes.

TNT Express launched a dedicated 767 freighter service between India and Europe, claiming the added capacity will consolidate the Dutch company’s market leadership in Asia-Europe express deliver

President Obama is keeping open the option of drawing oil out of the U.S.

Qatar Airways acquired a 35 percent strategic stake in Cargolux, Europe’s biggest all-cargo airline, on Thursday taking a major step toward its goal of becoming one of top players in global air

The International Air Transportation Association named former Cathay Pacific chief executive Tony Tyler to replace Giovanni Bisignani as head of

Freight volume carried by for-hire transportation companies in April fell 1 percent from the previous month but was up 3.7 percent from April 2010, the Transportation Department reported.

DHL Express is adding flights connecting the U.S., Middle East and Asia, dedicating a new Boeing 747-400F to its intercontinental routes.

The Department of Homeland Security, in a move that would be welcomed by long lines of beleaguered travelers, is considering letting most airline passengers go through airport security screening witho

British Airways today agreed to pay $89.5 million to scores of air freight shippers to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit over its involvement in a global cartel that fixed cargo rates.

A DHL Express cargo plane crashed into the sea off the coast of Gabon on Monday, but the four crew members were rescued from the wreckage.

UPS boosted its cargo capacity 50 percent on flights to Central and South America last week, saying it is responding to solid growth in Latin American demand.

The International Air Transport Association scaled back its 2011 industry profit forecast by more than half on Monday, to $4 billion from an estimated $8.4 billion the industry group had projected jus

German logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL purchased Standard Forwarding, a five-state less-than-truckload motor carrier in East Moline, Ill.

Freight transportation employment was virtually flat last month while a closely watched survey of non-manufacturing activity showed a sharp drop in import growth.

The first of 48,000 Canadian postal workers launched a series of rotating city-area strikes in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Friday while their union and Canada Post planned last-ditch meetings for later in the

International air cargo traffic grew 5.4 percent in April but the gain lagged behind rapidly expanding capacity and behind growth in world trade, according to the International Air Transport Associati

China Southern Airlines will buy six 777 freighters in a move to sharply increase the carrier’s reach into the international cargo market.

BAe Systems is selling its commercial aircraft leasing and asset management to the private Fortress Investment Group as the British transportation manufacturer focuses more sharply on its large defens

Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport pulled its planned initial public offering in London saying it is not satisfied with its valuation.