Air Cargo

Active CC Boxes has opened a depot Frankfurt, Germany, to handle its Kodiak™ reusable shipping containers, cutting repositioning costs for shippers and the company.

Air freight prices out of Asia plunged 31.9 percent year-over-year in December to their lowest point in 15 months, according to the

Air chartering company Chapman Freeborn said it expects increased demand for aircraft to evacuate foreign nationals from Egypt in the coming days.

Nippon Express, Japan's largest freight forwarder, said its net profit plunged 21.9 percent in the first nine months of fiscal 2010, which started in April, from a year earlier to $123.2 million.

TNT, the Dutch express delivery and mail company, warned severe weather, strikes and integration costs will shrink its fourth quarter 2010 operating profit by around $62 million.

Global air cargo traffic surged by over a fifth in 2010 from the previous year, driven by a rebound in international trade, the International Air Transportation Association said.

Cargo traffic for Asia-Pacific airlines grew 24.2 percent in 2010 in a strong rebound that pushed freight business to a new record far beyond the pre-recession levels, according to the Association of

A big gain in domestic package business along with tight cost controls drove UPS to its strongest profit in four years in 2010, a $3.49 billion net profit that was 62.1 percent better than the year be

Yusen Logistics boosted net profit 125 percent year-over-year to $34.9 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2010 with the absorption of NYK Logistics.

Cosco and its Piraeus Container Terminal management will work with the Athens International Airport to build sea-air business by speeding up cargo connections between the Greek seaport and the airport

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is gathering international support for an all-modes "trusted shipper"

Japan's All Nippon Airways swung to a net profit of $457.3 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2010, compared with a net loss of $428.1 million a year earlier.

Freighter operator Southern Air named Robert L.

It’s not quite 2008 again, but heads up: After two years of relative stability, transportation fuel prices are creeping back up, raising costs across the supply chain and concerns that the heavi

Cargo volume at London Heathrow Airport tumbled 9.4 percent in December as a series of winter storms and tougher year-over-year comparisons halted the airport’s year of strong gains in freight handlin

Ocean World Lines, an NVOCC subsidiary of freight transportation and logistics provider Pacer International, opened an office in Szczecin, Poland.

Korean Air, the world’s largest international freight airline, said Thursday its cargo revenue grew 1.9 percent in 2010 to $863 million, and it will meet the improving market with increased capacity i

Cargolux said Wednesday it will appeal the European Union’s $109 million fine for participating in an international price fixing cartel, making the all-cargo carrier the second airline to formal

The U.S. Postal Service saved $5 million in 2010 by reducing energy, water, solid waste to landfills and petroleum fuel use.

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings will add two 747-400 freighters to its agreement with DHL Express, sharply raising capacity on trans-Pacific routes.

An explosion that ripped through a baggage claim area at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on Monday killed at least 35 people,

The Transportation Security Administration wants to complete a network of international agree

Singapore Changi Airport reported an 11 percent increase in freight tonnage in 2010 over the previous year. That still left cargo volume at the major Asia gateway behind pre-recession levels.

Cargoitalia, the Italian all-cargo airline, will launch an MD-11 freighter service between Milan and Atlanta on Feb. 2.

Japan's All Nippon Airways said its international cargo volume rose for the 15th consecutive month in November, soaring 29.2 percent on a year-on-year basis to 45,659 tons.

House Republicans are wasting no time asserting their new majority on transportation programs.

Patrick R. Donahoe Jan. 14 took the oath of office as the 73rd Postmaster General of the United States. He vowed to return the U.S.

Growth in personal computer shipments worldwide slowed down sharply in the fourth quarter, expanding 3.1 percent over the year before, under growing competition from other media devices, according to

The Frankfurt Airport in 2010 racked up a record tonnage of cargo, which increased 21.5 percent to 2,231,348 metric tons, its parent FRA said Friday.

Australian airline Qantas will pay $26.5 million to a group of U.S. importers to settle a lawsuit over its role in an air freight pricing cartel.

Cargo tonnage at Memphis International Airport grew 2.3 percent in November as slowing volume for FedEx Express helped give the airport its lightest month for cargo in nine months.

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited broke previous tonnage records in 2010 even as growth slowed in the third and fourth quarters, the company reported Wednesday.

Cargo traffic at Hong Kong International Airport grew 7.1 percent in November over the same month the year before amid signs that capacity was growing far ahead of demand.

World Courier opened a logistics service office in Guangzhou, the third wholly foreign-owned office in China for the cold-chain logistics specialist.

Joe Cutrona, who led the association representing small parcel shippers for two tumultuous decades of change in the U.S. transportation world, died on Christmas Day at his home in Naples, Fla.

Freight traffic at Los Angeles International Airport fell 2.6 percent in November, the first decline the major trans-Pacific gateway has reported in 15 months.

Cargo traffic at the Air France-KLM airline group grew 2.1 percent in December, the slowest year-over-year growth rate since July, the European carrier said Monday.

It would be hard for the global air cargo business to grow any faster in 2011 than it did last year.

Apparel was at the forefront of the low-cost, outsourced manufacturing revolution, and the business of making shirts in South Asia and sweaters in Central America only got cheaper in recent decades, h

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