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Transport and logistics news API

Freight, shipping, aviation, rail and road networks. Pass topic=WB_135_TRANSPORT to filter.

2.8karticles
1477outlets
2per outlet

What does the transport and logistics topic actually cover?

Movement of goods and people, network capacity, disruption and infrastructure investment. Includes both the operational reporting — a port closure, a route suspension — and the longer-horizon infrastructure coverage.

How do I filter news to transport and logistics?

Pass topic=WB_135_TRANSPORT on /search or /stories. Pair with the supply-disruption signal for the operational half and with a country filter for infrastructure planning. Dutch, Singaporean and Gulf outlets lead on maritime freight; the disruption reporting is often earliest in the domestic press of the affected country.

HTTP 
GET /stories?topic=WB_135_TRANSPORT&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out with transport and logistics coverage?

Infrastructure announcements and actual disruption use overlapping vocabulary, so a topic query returns both. If you are monitoring for problems rather than tracking projects, the signal range is what separates them.

Who publishes on it

A split between infrastructure reporting in national and regional press and operational disruption coverage in trade and local outlets. Freight and logistics titles publish at low volume with high information density; general coverage appears once a disruption affects passengers.

In the sample, 1477 outlets carry transport and logistics coverage at about 2 articles each. The busiest is tribunnews.com at roughly 3%, and tribunnews.com, zazoom.it, baidu.com account for about 5% between them. Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.

What it is best for

Best as an early indicator for physical disruption, particularly when paired with a country and the supply-disruption signal. Weakest for long-horizon infrastructure planning, where coverage clusters at announcement and at opening with years of silence between.

Monitoring it over time

Disruption reporting has a very short half-life in general coverage and a long one in the trade press, so the window you choose determines which body of work you see. For operational monitoring, poll frequently on a narrow window; for understanding what happened, query the trade titles over a wide one after the event has resolved. Labour is the disruption source that general coverage handles worst. Industrial action at ports, rail operators and haulage firms is reported as a labour dispute rather than as a logistics event, so a query built around disruption vocabulary misses it entirely until cargo stops moving. Track the labour framing separately for the operators you depend on.

Which signals pair with transport and logistics?

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

HTTP 
GET /search?topic=WB_135_TRANSPORT&signal=transportation&signal_min=0.25

How signals work →

Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

tribunnews.com · zazoom.it · baidu.com · kompas.com · china.com · 163.com · haberler.com · indiatimes.com · inewsgr.com · cfi.net.cn · baomoi.com · drimble.nl

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.