Transportation

Shippers can now book freight loads with the few clicks of a button.

Danish shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk says it will send a cargo vessel through the Russian Arctic for the first time as a result of melting sea ice.

Jet fuel is 36.5 percent higher than it was a year ago, according to industry trade organization the International Air Transport Association.

Little has changed in the two years since Congress prodded airlines to seat children 13 and younger next to an adult family member at no extra cost.

Authorities say a plane that blew two tires during takeoff at a small New Jersey airport will attempt to make an emergency landing at an airport in Massachusetts.

The Latest on a small jet that blew two tires while taking off (all times local): 3:20 p.m.

A federal air marshal was removed from a United Airlines flight in Minneapolis after a flight attendant mistook him for a gun-carrying passenger.

The board of Autostrade per l'Italia says it can build a new, steel bridge to replace the reinforced concrete structure that collapsed last week in about eight months.

The Latest on Russia sanctions (all times local): 10:15 a.m.

Greek ferry companies are urging crews to call off a planned Sept. 3 strike, saying it will leave nearly 200,000 travelers stranded during the busy tourism season with no alternative means of transport.

Malaysia's state news agency has cited Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad as saying that multibillion-dollar China-financed projects have been canceled.

U.S. stocks moved mostly higher in early trading Monday, adding to the market's upbeat finish last week amid signs of progress in resolving the trade dispute between the U.S. and China.

___ US firms to Trump: Don't raise tariffs on more Chinese goods WASHINGTON (AP) — Fishermen off the Alaskan coast.

Germany's transport minister says the country has reliable procedures for checking bridges "that I trust and citizens can trust too."

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says he hopes China will sympathize with his country's fiscal problems as he meets with Chinese leaders after suspending multibillion-dollar Beijing-backed projects in his country.

An audit commissioned by the French government says about 840 French bridges are suffering from serious damages and at risk of eventual collapse.

A Chinese state broadcaster says Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has met with Chinese billionaire Jack Ma at the start of his trip to China.

Semi-truck manufacturers are working through a lengthy backlog of new orders.