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French ocean carrier CMA CGM rejected a capital injection from Qatar Holding and will search further for outside investors.

CMA CGM christened its gigantic flagship CMA CGM Christophe Colomb in ceremonies in Le Havre July 12.

Larger trucking companies appear more optimistic than smaller competitors about their ability to get access to credit, but most carriers expect lending to stay tight.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials on Thursday released a report identifying 55 “urgent” capacity projects to improve freight movement.

When your truck is stuck amid seemingly endless rush hour traffic snarling the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, delivering freight in the middle of the night starts to make sense.

Just when importers and exporters were beginning to feel it was safe to ship through Los Angeles-Long Beach, office clerical workers at the nation’s largest container complex went on strik

The sleek new tractors deployed by Con-way Freight not only warn drivers if they’re following another vehicle too closely, they signal confidence in the economy.

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Importers who last fall vastly underestimated the outlook for global transportation demand this year are having an equally difficult time determining how strong and how long the rally will be.

With the deadline for proposed truck driver hours-of-service rules less than a month away, highway safety groups are calling for a dramatic reduction in the time truckers may spend behind the wheel.

The Federal Maritime Commission may lack the legal authority to order ocean carriers to increase capacity, but it still can be a force in helping U.S.

The Waterways Council and its allies are keeping up the pressure to change the Army Corps of Engineers’ infrastructure investment plans.

The freight surge of 2010 is nearing its end, an economic forecaster says.

Rail service between the U.S. and Mexico is resuming after closures because of flood damage caused by Hurricane Alex.

Rail shippers faced with growing ancillary and penalty charges levied by carriers received some relief in Canada from the federal government, which now requires that their complaints to the Canadian T

Tensions increased in the strike by office clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports on Friday as the union picketed a third employer and withdrew its previous wage and benefits proposa

CMA CGM said it will extend its Black Pearl Service between ports on the East Coast of North America and the Caribbean to two new ports in Northern South America as of July 16.

Orient Overseas Container Line effective Aug. 1 will increase its freight rates by $250 per TEU on shipments from Southeast Asia to Australia.

OOCL said Friday that it will put a surcharge on all cargo moving through the Port of Montreal as of July 19 because “reduced water depth negatively affects the loadable capacity of each sailing

Inventories held by U.S. wholesalers rose for a fifth consecutive month in May while sales fell for the first time since March 2009, the Commerce Department reported.

Hanjin Shipping is moving to identify and isolate the 5,900 containers it leases from container lessor Unitas to protect its customers against any disruption from its legal dispute with Sumitomo Mitsu

Mexico may expand the list of U.S. products facing billions of dollars in punitive tariffs unless the Obama administration proposes a cross-border trucking program.

Container traffic at major ports in India for the first quarter of fiscal 2010-11 increased by an impressive 17 percent over the same period last year, according to the latest traffic data released by

Truck traffic between the U.S. and Mexico this week skirted flood waters from the Rio Grande with little or no disruption, federal agencies reported.

Maersk Line confirmed that it is postponing by two weeks the implementation of the increase in the peak season surcharge on Asia-Europe cargo that it announced on June 15.

Toll Holdings, the Australian transport and logistics group, will pay around $127.5 million to acquire two UK freight forwarders, WT Sea Air Group and Genesis Forwarding Group.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM and APM Terminals, the Danish port operating company, traded stakes in container terminals in Dunkirk, France, and Mobile, Ala.

Continental Airlines Cargo withdrew from the GF-X booking portal after a detailed business review.

Lufthansa Cargo handled 19.5 percent more freight in June than a year ago and boosted revenue by 25.1 percent, easily outpacing its closest European rivals Air France-KLM and British Airways.

Hapag-Lloyd said Friday that Roland Kirch, a member of its executive board and director of development, markets and works, left the company at his own request on June 30.

Hapag-Lloyd will seek a general freight rate increase on all cargo moving on its services from the Indian subcontinent to Australia.

Fiscal reforms, strong commodity exports and a growing role in global markets have made South America more resilient to economic shocks like the 2008-09 recession, and set the stage for recovery in tr

A U.S. appellate court Thursday upheld regulations governing the treatment of wood packing material in international commerce.

Port Corpus Christi named Dennis J. DeVries as its director of finance as of July 1.

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CMA CGM plans to gradually phase out providing chassis to truckers at terminals throughout the United States on a schedule starting on the East Coast in October and ending on the West Coast in March o

Responding to complaints from harbor truckers in Los Angeles-Long Beach about delays and long lines at marine terminal gates, the terminal operators are forming a working group to study the issue.

Intermodal container volume for North American railroads reached its highest level in nearly three years in the week ending July 3 as overall intermodal loads soared 36.6 percent over the holiday-shor

DHL launched direct less-than-container-load services connecting India’s largest container port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) to Los Angeles.

Cargo-handling operations at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were normal on Thursday as the waterfront arbitrator began taking testimony in a formal hearing on the validity of a strike by offi