UPS is expanding its premium air freight service into Nicaragua and Honduras, as the parcel giant taps the growing economies that share the U.S. as their top trading partner and are benefiting from nearsourcing. The company said the launch of its day-definite guarantee, door-to-door service,...

? Europe's Channel Tunnel may be opened up to freight and mail services at night, when it sits almost idle. Brussels-based Carex already has run a test train from France into St Pancras, the London terminus for Eurostar Group's passenger express services. It says each train could be configured...

risk The issue of supply chain risk took a high profile at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. At the meeting, senior government figures and industry leaders spoke of developing ways in which economic damage caused by disrupted supply chains could be mitigated....

DHL Global Forwarding this week launched a less-than-container load service between Italy and Kuwait, as the German carrier adds ocean connections to its growing Middle East hub. DHL said the service will improve security and the transit time on the lane from 32 to 27 days by avoiding...

As part of its ongoing launch programme of new services, Yusen Logistics (UK) Ltd has launched a direct weekly LCL (less than container load) service from Shanghai to Southampton. The company stated that the new service is being introduced in response to high levels of demand in the market and...

Logistics major DB Schenker has opened its first branch office in Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. Schenker was one of the first international forwarders to enter mainland China in the late 1970s, with its first representative office opening in Beijing in 1982....

Industry, Trade and Labor Shalom Simchon made the announcement at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Both sides hoped that the zone could be active by April 2012, he said. Simchon met last Sunday with Korean trade minister Kim Jong Hon to discuss the matter. Simchon said before the meeting...

A new container-on-barge service between the ports of Stockton and Oakland, Calif., will give shippers the opportunity to save money by moving containers that are too heavy for highway transit, said Stockton deputy port director Mark A. Tollini. The service, slated to begin February 2012, is...

GEFCO has opened a new route between Latvia and Central Asia that will be used to deliver new vehicles to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and Tajikistan. Vehicles are picked up once a week at Neuseddin, near Berlin, Germany, and transferred by truck to the new GEFCO Baltic depot at Vilnius,...

Hapag-Lloyd has announced a general rate increase effective July 1 for all cargo and container...

IAG Cargo announced that it will be able to offer 40 percent more freight capacity between London...

Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. plans to lease up to 10 new mega-ships from Seaspan Corp., Reuters...

Swiss ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it is raising rates on container shipments from...

Etihad Airways has launched twice-weekly A320 Abu Dhabi-Erbil services, saying Iraq is a key market...

Indian Railways reported freight traffic from April to December 2012 was 735.1 million metric tons,...

Cargolux is launching two new freighter services connecting the U.S. with Australia and the west...

Cargolux has launched weekly freighter service between Atlanta and Munich, routed through...

MARSEILLES shipping giant CMA CGM has inaugurated the world's largest containership of 16,000 TEU...

The Grand Alliance - a consortium of the shipping companies Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL - has...