The Port of Long Beach reported May container volume totaling 583,588 20-foot-equivalent units, up 17.2 percent compared to the same month last year and the highest monthly container volume since October 2010. Monthly exports, which increased 13.9 percent year-over-year to 147,073 TEUs, were...

The Port of Los Angeles saw container volumes drop 12.9 percent in May, continuing the trend at the nation s busiest container port this year. Volume fell to 636,851 TEUs during the month, including a 12 percent drop in loaded import cargo (to 326,114 TEUs), and a 16.3 percent drop in loaded...

ART Logistics has started a new sea-rail service connecting Southeast Asia with Central Asia The new service connects Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand with Central Asia. Cargo is moved by sea from the ports of Jakarta, Port Kelang, Bangkok, Haiphong, Keelung and Singapore....

North Carolina s Port of Wilmington will now offer shippers direct access to Manzanillo, Panama, and Puerto Moin, Costa Rica, in addition to Puerto Cortes, Honduras, and Santo Tomas, Guatemala, in northern Central America, via vessel calls added by Maersk Line to its weekly South Atlantic...

KAZAKHSTAN national railway, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), and global terminal operator DP World have signed an agreement to manage and develop of Aktau seaport on the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea at the free economic zone called the Khorgos-Eastern Gates. Aktau port is the only sea port...

Indian Railways reported freight traffic from April to December 2012 was 735.1 million metric tons, increasing 4.5 percent from 703.8 million metric tons during the same period in 2011. In December 2012, the state-owned railway handled 88.2 million metric tons, rising 1.6 percent from 86.8...

A record volume of cargo has passed through New Zealand s South Port for the second consecutive year, reported The Southland Times. The Bluff-based port's performance figures for the 2011-12 financial year showed an after-tax profit of US$4.86 million, a slight decrease on last year's result of...

Containers handled at Sri Lanka's ports fell 1.8 percent to 1.71 million TEUs in the first five months of the year, though there was recovery in transhipment volumes in May, official data show, reported Lankan Business Online. In May transhipment container volumes rose 9.8 percent to 266,668...

Logistics major DHL Supply Chain has launched full truck load (FTL) services in Kolkata, reported The Hindu. Increasing supply chain complexity and changing customer requirements prompted the company to start FTL services here. The company has so far launched this service in Mumbai, Ahmedabad,...

Container traffic at major ports in India tumbled 4.5 percent year-over-year in the first half of...

Container traffic at Savannah and auto shipments at Brunswick, Ga., posted double-digit increases...

THE US Port of Virginia says it has just experienced its second best month on record for general...

DHL launched a direct less-than-container-load service connecting Cochin, India, to Europe, North...

s Deutsche Bahn and the Chinese Ministry of Railways want to cooperate more closely on rail freight...

China's aviation industry will lose around US$1.5 billion in revenue in 2012 as a result of...

In response to its growing customer base in the energy sector, CEVA Logistics will further expand...

The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) is lobbying politicians on the dangers of...

TURKEY saw air cargo increase 11.8 per cent in September to 266,000 tonnes year on year, rising to...

Air New Zealand will increase capacity on some North American and Asia services from November in...