Australia's Toll Group has agreed to acquire 40 per cent of Tianjin Anda Logistics, a third party logistics service provider in China s rapidly expanding automotive market. The Chinese automotive market is the largest in the world and offers immense opportunities for Toll to leverage our...

The A.P. Moller - Maersk Group's revenue for the period 1 Jan to 31 Mar 2011 has increased by 10% to USD 14.5bn, primarily due to higher container freight rates, container volumes and oil prices. Profit for the period has increased by 82% to USD 1.2bn and was driven by better operational...

Seaspan Corp. said it has accepted delivery of the COSCO Vietnam, an 8,500-TEU containership, from Hyundai Heavy Industries. The new containership is Seaspan's fourth delivery in 2011 and expands the company's operating fleet to 59 vessels. The COSCO Vietnam is on charter to COSCO Container...

Express transportation company FedEx Express is to launch a new intercontinental flight route between the US, the Middle East, India and Europe. The new Boeing 777F service will provide Indian businesses with better international connectivity as well as additional capacity. Aircargo Asia Pacific...

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Hosting IFLN Network's 18th Membership Conference, April 3-6, 2011. The IFLN conference will provide an excellent opportunity for all participants to educate themselves about the latest economic and infrastructure development in Vietnam and provide the IFLN Network...

Weiss Röhlig has launched a new Trans-Siberian container service from the Russian Far East to Russia and Central Asia. The service connects China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and South East Asia with more than 2,000 railway stations in the emerging markets of Russia and CIS countries. The rail head is...

Logistics giant FedEx Corporation says it has temporarily stopped accepting shipments for Tokyo's Narita airport in Japan, while other airlines have begun checking for radiation on aircraft returning from Japan. Other carriers have cancelled services to the country. The FedEx decision was...

The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) is lobbying politicians on the dangers of badly packed, overweight, inadequately secured and mis-declared containers. The ITF is warning politicians, the European Union and other stakeholders of the risks from some containers ahead of an...

China is in negotiations over the construction of a rail link across Colombia to rival the Panama Canal. The 137 mile "dry canal, linking Colombia's Atlantic and Pacific coasts, would make it easier for China to export goods across Latin America and import raw materials such as coal. "It's a...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Containers handled at Sri Lanka's ports fell 1.8 percent to 1.71 million TEUs in the first five...

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

SilkAir, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, will add the 34th destination to its route...