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About 250 pilots are on strike today against ABX Air, grounding flights for Amazon and DHL Worldwide Express, approximately 75 flights have been canceled at start of peak holiday shipping season.

Tokyo - An earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck Tuesday off the coast of Fukushima prefecture in Japan, a tsunami warning for waves of up to 10 feet has been issued.

Although there is plenty of organic matter that could potentially become oil over the next few million years, it is likely that humans will one day see the end of black gold as we know it.

Especially with Black Friday around the corner, it’s not too late to get your product to store shelves in time for Friday, November 25, 2016, thanks to the swift performance of air cargo service.

Retailers are working hard to prepare for the crowds of consumers who are excited to jumpstart their holiday shopping on Black Friday. Transportation and logistics professionals are in the thick of it, too.

In an increasingly interconnected world, where trade is a core component of economic activity, creating a more seamless global supply chain is now vital, however, a new generation of tech-savvy freight forwarders may be creating just the right amount of disruption the industry needs to improve synchronization.

FedEx has thrived behind the growth in e-commerce, but the problem for FDX stock is that XPO Logistics is quickly becoming a big name in the e-commerce space.

Crowley's Corporate Emergency Management Team continues to monitor Hurricane Matthew, which remains a major Category 3 hurricane on its way to Florida and the East Coast.

The economic impacts of the Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy are unclear, but seeing as how an 8-day strike in California ports skewed economic data for months and that Hanjin handled 8% of US Pacific trade, we're guessing there will be some economic effect.

After two years on the job, Port of Long Beach’s CEO Jon Slangerup abruptly announced he would step down as head of the nation’s second largest port, effective Oct. 31.

The bankruptcy of the Hanjin shipping line has thrown ports and retailers around the world into confusion, with giant container ships marooned and merchants worrying whether hundreds of tons of goods being carried by the Korean company will reach shelves.

With the advent of Cloud-based instant quotation and booking systems, some shippers may begin to question the utility of traditional freight forwarders. Indeed, there is potential to see an industry-wide decoupling between these “data-unified” freight forwarders and the less profitable “data-fragmented” players.

A plan jointly released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would put a cap of anywhere from 60 to 68 miles per hour on vehicles over 26,000 pounds.

The Obama administration today issued aggressive new emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, new rules that are expected to achieve better fuel efficiency and a bigger cut in pollution than the version first proposed last year.

With the help of three experts in the freight transportation and logistics markets, we take a closer look at the current dynamics of the truckload brokerage business.