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U.K. marine insurer Standard Club has withdrawn coverage for a Russian cargo vessel said to be transporting attack helicopters and arms to Syria.

Forwarder Phoenix International could be the latest company to get swept into a recent whirl of merger and acquisition activity, according to a report.

The International Chamber of Shipping urged Chile to continue to allow ocean carriers to cooperate in rate-setting conferences and consortia.

To Lakshman Achuthan, the question isn’t whether the U.S. economy is sliding toward a new recession, but when one will start, if it hasn’t already.

The fate of the U.S.

U.S. importers are learning just how hard it is to kill federal regulation, even when the agency in charge of implementing a law calls it costly and unfeasible.

U.S. business logistics costs rose at a slower rate last year than in 2010, but remained well below their pre-recession peak, according to the annual State of Logistics report.

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As a developer of warehouse and distribution space in the Chicago area, CenterPoint Properties knows firsthand why the Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency program is so importan

The results of the November elections likely will have more impact on the surface transport bill than the next five weeks of negotiations in Congress before the month-long summer recess.

Michigan and Canada have agreed to build a privately financed bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, two miles upstream from the privately owned Ambassador Bridge.

Third-party logistics providers and shippers aren’t waiting for a full economic recovery to take stock of their warehousing and distribution strategies.

The investigative arm of Congress wants the Department of Homeland of Security to determine the costs and benefits of requiring all-cargo air carriers to report screening data for U.S.-bound freight,

India’s trade deficit narrowed 12 percent in May, the second month of fiscal 2012-13, but both exports and imports fell on a year-over-year basis, the Commerce Ministry reported on Thursday.

Kuehne+Nagel has launched a new customized spare parts logistics hub “solution” for the aerospace industry in Singapore.

Manitoulin Global Forwarding, an international freight forwarder is expanding in western Canada, acquiring Can-Tran International of Leduc, Alberta.

Federal regulators shut down Wisconsin trucker WTSA US Express, the seventh motor carrier ordered off th

Geodis Wilson has opened a new logistics center in southern Vietnam to meet rising demand.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is a hero to advocates of public-private partnerships for successfully negotiating a $3.8 billion deal to lease the Indiana Toll Road.

The idea of using public-private partnerships to build or maintain toll highways and bridges may not be as popular as it was during the Bush administration, when Transportation Secretary Mary Peters c

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Shippers on Wednesday failed to convince members of Congress to scrap legislation requiring all containers be scanned overseas before being allowed into U.S. ports.

Although production of hard-disk drives is rapidly recovering from the catastro

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Federal highway spending in fiscal 2013 would remain the same as the prior year, but there wouldn’t be funding for TIGER grants or high-speed rail, through a bill introduced in the House Appropr

The Cass Freight Index increased in May, despite signs of

DHL Supply Chain has opened a new multi-user warehouse in Indonesia to meet thriving demand for logistics services from the technology sector.

Russia is mulling extending its wide-gauge railroad track to Vienna as part of a plan for a Eurasian land bridge between China and Europe targeted at cargo that currently travels on container ships.

The slowdown in container volumes handled by ports in northern Europe indicates the continent may be slipping into a deeper recession than anticipated, according to the latest North Europe Global Port

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Deutsche Post DHL has been ordered to pay 516 million euros ($645 million

There’s more behind the renewed surge of interest in alternative fuels such as compressed natural gas than the comparatively high price of diesel.

Diesel prices across the U.S. in the week ending May 28 fell to the lowest point since mid-January, and less than a cent from the year’s low.

The European Union and the U.S. have agreed to recognize each other’s air cargo security regimes under a hard fought agreement that took effect on June 1.

Panalpina has started flying the first of two new Boeing 747-8 freighters with a maiden cargo flight from Hong Kong to Luxembourg.

Descartes Systems Group acquired Infodis, a Netherlands-based provider of transportation-management software, in an all-cash transaction for $3.7 million.

Transportation and warehousing added 36,000 jobs in May, the largest gain of any industry in a month when only 69,000 jobs were added to non-farm payrolls, according to

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, architect of one of the largest public-private partnerships in U.S.

Shippers are expected to save time and money through the elimination of rescreening cargo on passenger aircraft traveling between the U.S. and Canada.

In an unprecedented sweep, the Department of Transportation shut down 26 bus operators for numerous safety violations after a year-long federal investigation.