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Alaska Airlines is supporting the 100 Million Mask Challenge with its freighter capacity.

Carriers slash even more ocean services in bid to prop up rates as demand crumbles.

The Trump administration is working to accelerate deliveries of medical supplies from overseas to address shortages at healthcare facilities around the U.S., but doesn’t want American companies to export any protective gear to other countries.

Qatar Airways has deployed more full freighters and passenger aircraft in cargo mode to multiple markets, including India.

The Justice Department said joint logistics operations among five American medical supply distributors to provide protective medical gear to virus hot spots does not violate antitrust law.

Airlines face a long drought in business and are scrambling to cut costs and raise money, but there’s no guarantee all of them will survive.

Tanker shares fall back as crude-oil prices surge. What comes next?

Bob Costello expects many trucking companies to go out of business before the economy recovers from the recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Airlines are in survival mode and could permanently rid themselves of older aircraft in effort to help financial recovery.

Mayor taps Gene Seroka to locate and deliver medical supplies critically needed during coronavirus pandemic.

Despite COVID-19 concerns, the Port of Alaska and ocean carriers calling Anchorage insist that ships loaded with containers will continue to arrive on schedule.

Dealing with a crisis requires innovation and Delta Air Lines doing that on several fronts. Now it is switching gears and making face shields for hospital workers.

A pilot’ union says airlines need to be held more accountable for protecting cockpit crews from the coronavirus, but at the corporate level all airlines appear to be taking health guidelines very seriously.

No one was prepared for the global shipping disruption caused by COVID-19, but Mike Meierkort said Damco’s resiliency program is “the closest thing to having a playbook.”

Arrested Pacific Harbor Line locomotive driver apparently thought the Navy hospital ship was not at the Port of LA to do good.

Coronavirus will inevitably infect more seafarers. How ports respond will be pivotal.

Atlas Air and National Airlines are handling relief missions for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it will do its part to keep imports of medical gear flowing efficiently into the country.

Freight forwarders “luv” Southwest Airlines, but it remains to be seen if they’re ready to charter an entire airplane versus using regularly scheduled passenger flights.

FIATA questions the reasonableness of assessing demurrage and detention charges against shippers and forwarders during pandemic.