Transport and logistics news API

What this covers

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.

Querying it

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.

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

What catches people out

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.

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.

Signals that pair with it

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.

• signal_transportation
• signal_supply_disruption
• signal_trade

GET /search?topic=WB_135_TRANSPORT&signal=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.