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Governments are meeting this week on global fees for cargo ship emissions.

U.S. safety investigators are calling for airlines to inspect Boeing 757s for faulty latches that could prevent evacuation slides from deploying after an accident involving FedEx.

Amazon has restructured its air network to accommodate the need for fewer short-haul package flights and a new clientele of shippers with heavy freight.

The Trump administration is reshaping global trade, and the effects are being felt in the ocean and air freight sectors.

Container traffic at the busiest U.S. import gateway is expected to drop by 10% in the second half of the year.

The Trump administration is ratcheting up regulation of e-commerce shipments from China by removing a pathway for duty-free, expedited entry that critics say has been exploited by drug gangs and counterfeiters to smuggle illegal products into the U.S.

Ocean carrier CMA CGM continues to invest in air cargo. The latest moves include the acquisition of troubled Air Belgium and its logistics subsidiary launching a China-U.S. air charter service.

Trans-Pacific container rates to the United States were narrowly mixed in the latest Freightos index.

BlackRock Chairman Larry Fink says container shipping infrastructure is as critical to the future global economy as data centers and power grids.

A UPS modernization project will require its Portland, Oregon, package hub to temporarily close for more than a year, putting some jobs at risk.

Representatives of ocean carriers and shipbuilding interests testified at a hearing on proposed port fees on Chinese ships.

Gulf Coast ports’ February cargo volumes declined in Houston but rose in New Orleans and Corpus Christi, Texas.

Germany’s DHL Group is acquiring U.S.-based CryoPDP to boost its health care logistics business.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen announced a contract renewal and extension that combined are worth more than $2 billion.

A new tool for calculating import fees for international online orders aims to differentiate UPS from other parcel carriers.

Regulators in China will review the sale of port operations linked to the Panama Canal to a consortium led by a U.S. investor.

Canada’s WestJet is backing out of the cargo business after two years because of a difficult competitive environment.

The Port of Savannah, Georgia, marked the busiest February on record with volume of almost a half-million TEUs.

Uncertainty over President Trump’s plans for more tariffs punctuated a week that saw trans-Pacific container rates fall more than 20% below 2024 lows.

Fight China’s shipping practices and revive U.S. shipbuilding, commenters tell the U.S. trade representative, but don’t punish domestic industry in the global market.