Ever find a bargain online, only to realize that the cost of shipping doubles how much you’ll pay? Shipping-and-handling sticker shock accounts for about 30 percent of all online shopping cart abandonment, but prior research into the effects of surcharges has been inconsistent. Why do consumers sometimes pay attention to additional fees – such as when buying from a catalogue or on a phone bill – and sometimes just accept them?

M.M. Warburg & Co KGaA, a Hamburg-based bank, said it represents a German investor group that wants talks with TUI AG about its Hapag-Lloyd shipping line.

The billion-dollar project to deepen the shipping channels into the Port of Melbourne has stirred deep controversy.

A study by an industry group representing tanker operators says carbon dioxide emissions from the global shipping industry have risen dramatically.

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that it has shipped its two millionth Internet Protocol (IP) set-top box. The milestone was reached just five months after the shipment of its one millionth IP set-top box.

Dutch researcher Joris van den Berg has developed a mathematical model to predict the movement of sand waves. Sand waves are formed by an interaction between the tidal current and sand. They are larger than sand ripples on the beach but smaller than sandbanks. Sand waves largely determine the shape of the sea floor in the southern part of the North Sea.