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A bipartisan Senate bill aimed at defending businesses from fraudulent freight brokering schemes is being backed by independent truckers and freight brokers.

The Port of Albany, N.Y., said its replacement and extension of a wharf to provide an on-dock rail connection for project and heavy-lift cargo is on schedule for completion next year.

Maersk Line is telling its customers to expect a shortage of container availability for exports out of Asia lasting through the peak season.

FedEx Freight's losses more than tripled in the fiscal year ending May 31, as steep price discounting in 2009 cut deeply into its earnings, despite market share gains.

Royal Boskalis Westminster, the world’s biggest dredging company, won a contract to help build a sand berm to protect the Louisiana coastline from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Output at U.S. factories, mines and utilities rose 1.2 percent in May, led by a third straight monthly increase in manufacturing, the Federal Reserve reported.

Panama’s Cabinet Council on Tuesday approved the Panama Canal Authority’s proposed toll increases, which will result in tolls on container ships rising nearly 14 percent when they tak

Norway's Wilh. Wilhelmsen raised $228 million from a global share sale ahead of a listing of its ocean car shipping and logistics units.

FedEx’s net profit reached $419 million in the quarter ending May 31 following a loss a year ago and the company said Monday it expects a recovering global economy and stronger pricing to push e

Although the volume of containers passing through the Port of Rotterdam dropped by 10 percent in 2009, the share of container volume transshipped through the port rose to 30 percent from 28 percent in

Expiration of a federal tax credit for buyers caused U.S.

“K” Line acquired a 51 percent share in the U.S.-based logistics service provider Air Tiger Express Companies.

Economic growth in the U.S.

The Federal Maritime Commission on June 23 will review preliminary findings in its fact-finding on vessel capacity and equipment availability for U.S. shippers.

Charleston’s container volume climbed more than 22 percent in May over the same month last year, with 68,238 pier containers handled, about the same as in April.

Truckload capacity is tightening in the U.S. Southeast at a greater rate than other portions of the country, according to Longbow Research.

APL Ltd. was chosen as the top carrier for the second consecutive year in the Agriculture Transportation Coalition's annual survey of ocean carrier performance.

Pollution from port activities in Long Beach dropped as much as 52 percent in 2009 compared to 2005, according to the port’s latest inventory of pollutants such as diesel particulate matter, nit

Transcore's North American Freight Index slipped 3.2 percent in May from the previous month, after rising 25 percent and 44 percent month-to-month in April and March.

Congress is looking at ways to remove corporations’ liability limits in disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Journal of Commerce-ECRI Industrial Price Index fell last week for the sixth consecutive week, reaching its lowest point since mid-February and signaling a slowing of industrial production.

The Containerization & Intermodal Institute said Tuesday it will present the 2010 East Coast-based Connie Awards to J. Russell Bruner, Chairman and CEO of Maersk Inc., and James I.

The Port of Salalah appointed Shiva Dean to the position of chief commercial officer.

Container carrier APL entered a vessel-sharing agreement with Hapag-Lloyd, CMA CGM, NYK Line and Orient Overseas Container Line on the India-America-Express Service, effective this month.

Cargo handled at leading French port Marseilles Fos through May reached 36.6 million metric tons -- up 6 percent on the first five months last year – with container throughput contributing a 16

The House Transportation subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation will hold a hearing Thursday on the influx of foreign-flag vessels in the Gulf of Mexico oil clean-up operation.

Container traffic through Chinese ports hit an all-time monthly high of 12.44 million 20-foot equivalent units in May as the nation's foreign trade surged by nearly 50 percent from a year ago.

Two men were arrested and a third was found dead Monday at the Wando Welch Terminal at the port of Charleston after they stowed away in a cargo container from the Dominican Republic, according to news

The fifth consecutive week of falling diesel prices brought the national average down 1.8 cents in the week ending June 14 to its lowest point since the middle of March at $2.928 per gallon, the U.S.

Growth in basic bulk commodities is driving an increase in barge and rail traffic at the Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville, one of Indiana's three Ohio River ports.

YRC Worldwide revised a credit agreement to borrow additional money, the company said Monday, as the trucking operator said it expects a pre-tax profit in the second quarter but that higher spending i

The U.S. Export-Import Bank and the government of Vietnam signed an agreement June 14 that would offer $500 million in Ex-Im financial backing for sales of U.S.

OOCL said Monday it will extend and upgrade its intra-Asia KTX3 service as of June 27 with new calls at Singapore, Jakarta and Port Kelang, and increased frequency to and from Jakarta.

OOCL said Monday it is increasing freight rates as of July 15 for cargo it transports from Northeast Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea) to Australia.

A federal jury in Richmond, Va., convicted two New York handbag importers in what the Department of Justice says is “one of the largest counterfeit goods prosecutions in U.S.

Barges boosted their share of container transport to and from Rotterdam’s hinterland last year while rail lost three years of growth.

Canadian National Railway and container facility operator TSI Terminal Systems inked what they called a “supply chain collaboration agreement” aimed at improving turnaround times for conta

Frankfurt airport's cargo traffic hit an all time high in May after climbing nearly 40 percent from a year ago, driven by soaring shipments from Asia.

Ryder System said Monday it won a patent for the supply chain management systems and methods behind its Logistics Release shipping optimization process.

OOCL said Monday it launched a new technology called Mobile Vessel Tracking that enables shippers to search and track any OOCL vessel using their mobile devices.