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Air freight soared by 18 percent.

The Swiss global logistics group said the acquisitions have added more than 150,000 tons to its global perishables network.

Several changes seemingly had a positive impact on Chennai’s productivity levels in the last month.

Asia-Russia-Europe spot rates are up more than double year over year.

A 13,200 TEU vessel that is the largest ever to enter the Port of New York and the US East Coast passed under the newly-elevated Bayonne Bridge Monday afternoon.

Higher second-quarter freight demand drove up costs faster than contract rates for J.B. Hunt Transport Services, squeezing the $6.6 billion company's profits.

Terminal consolidation on the US West Coast is set to be much slower than carrier consolidation.

The service will link Northern Europe, the US East Coast, Central America, the Pacific islands, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, and the Caribbean on a weekly basis.

The deep-water Liverpool2 facility is capable of accommodating the world’s largest container vessels and connects road, rail, and canal networks linking directly to the heart of the UK mainland.

The shuttering of many plants for three weeks and more, opposed to the traditional break of one or two weeks, bodes poorly for the country’s third-largest export and its second-largest import.

“The coastal shipping deal will reduce cost as well as time. To us, time is also money.”

In its tight competition with Paranagua for the title of chicken export capital of the world, Itajai will need to be able to handle larger tonnage if it is to succeed.

The project is capable of handling cargo, passenger ferries, and fishing vessels.

On a year-to-date basis, throughput at the top 10 Chinese ports reached 70.4 million TEU.

Nittsu Research Institute and Consulting Inc. has revised upward its fiscal year outlook for growth in Japan’s air cargo trade.

Heavy-lift and project carriers are developing a new market that a few years ago would have been unthinkable — the Northern Sea Route to Russia’s frigid Arctic region.

Canadian lobsters arrived in China in a big way as the country's largest retailer sold and delivered huge numbers of the live shellfish in a test project.

US cotton exporters are anticipating another strong year after containerized cotton exports rose 3.7 percent last year.

Equipment providers in Southern California anticipate a relatively uneventful peak season this year in the largest US port complex.

The peak season spike in US imports from Asia should be just around the corner.

A leaked government report supported by the International Monetary Fund lies at the heart of the matter.

The pace of growth in fiscal year 2017 will accelerate from fiscal 2016.

“As a single qualified applicant was left, the present RFQ [request for qualification] had to be scrapped.”

The EU court was expected to impose a penalty of around 24 million euros.

Spot rates on Asia-Europe have slid for the last two weeks, ignoring a rate increase levied from July 1 and peak season surcharges from some carriers.

A consortium of Chinese investors has made an $11.6 billion offer for GLP, paying a huge premium for the Singapore-listed logistics property developer.

Despite some terminals being seriously affected by the Maersk Group cyber security breach, from a global perspective the impact was short lived.

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The first consignment of US beef to be imported by China in 14 years is just days away from arriving in the country.

The increased shareholding followed the sale earlier this week of the remaining 8.5 million shares in Hapag-Lloyd held by TUI Group.

China's Belt and Road is projected to generate an additional $2.5 trillion in global trade over the next 10 years.

China’s cold chain is growing at a phenomenal rate.

The largest facility in Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is gearing up to host the first vessel from an intra-Asia service recently introduced by a consortium.

The pledge comes as Maersk Line recognizes concern among shippers at booking containers with the carrier while it limps back to a business-as-usual state.

LA-LB container terminals are handling alliance changes and the recent APMT cyber attack with only minor glitches, so truckers are confident they will handle peak-season volumes without significant congestion.

The amount of available warehouse and distribution space in the United States hits a 16-year low.

Some of the largest and most congested US metropolitan areas have shorter last-mile delivery runs on average than smaller cities, a CBRE survey shows.

The Canadian intermodal network has been bulking up as if on steroids.

"It’s not a question of whether you are going to be hacked, [but] a question of when."