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Truckload capacity is so tight that even a slowing economy is unlikely to dampen rate hikes this summer, according to investment research firm R.W. Baird.

Maersk Line is rejecting some shipments and retrieving empty ocean containers from customers more quickly to help offset a shortage of containers, according to Bloomberg News.

PD Ports said it will invest around $44 million to almost triple container capacity at Teesport, the UK's third largest port.

“K” Line, China Shipping, and Hapag-Lloyd are teaming up on a new direct service from Asia to West Africa.

MOL, NYK and “K” Line formed a new vessel-sharing alliance to upgrade their container service from Asia to Mexico and the west coast of South America.

APL Logistics and Sumitomo Warehouse formed a strategic alliance to jointly market their global supply chain services.

Anticipating new federal truck safety rules, Con-way Freight purchased 1,300 2010- model-year heavy trucks equipped with anti-crash safety technologies.

The 8,500-TEU Figaro that arrived in Los Angeles this week on its maiden voyage is not only the largest CMA CGM container ship to call at a U.S.

Shipments of smartphones in Western Europe soared 57 percent in the first quarter over last year, marking a dramatic shift in a mobile phone market that has become a foundation of the electronics indu

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. on Wednesday suggested changes in the Shipping Act to allow the agency to resolve disputes between ocean carriers and shippers.

Cargo projections by retailers indicate that U.S.

Averitt Express is expanding into the flatbed trucking market, fielding a fleet of 50 flatbed trailers and ordering 50 more, the company said Wednesday.

Services were held Wednesday in Westbury, N.Y., for Thomas J. Stevenson Jr., who died June 24 at Lehigh Valley Hospice in Allentown, Pa. He was 88.

U.S. railroads will reap the benefits of the economic recovery more quickly than truckers, Moody’s Investors Service said in a report.

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With their contract set to expire at midnight Wednesday, office clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach authorized the leadership of the union to call for a strike at their discret

YRC Worldwide still believes it will "generate positive adjusted EBITDA" in the second quarter, the company said June 29, as it concluded its annual stockholder meeting.

One-time shutdown and termination costs of $9 million to $11 million in the sale of YRC Logistics will bite into liquidity gains for YRC Worldwide.

Container lessor Textainer Group increased its access to capital to nearly $1 billion, providing the company with more money to invest in equipment at a time when ship lines and cargo interests are st

The World Customs Organization on Saturday elected senior customs officials from China and South Africa to director positions in the international organization.

The federal government on Tuesday accepted 22 offers from 12 countries to assist in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the State Department announced.

The Teamsters union is aiming to get YRC Worldwide to resume some pension contributions starting in January 2011, union officials said Tuesday.

CMA CGM may be close to finalizing an agreement that would inject $1 billion to lighten the French ocean container carrier's $5.3 billion debt burden, according to French press reports.

CMA CGM is switching partners and upgrading the vessel size on its Victory Bridge service linking North Europe to the U.S. South Atlantic, Mexico and the U.S. Gulf.

INTTRA is integrating its e-commerce platform for the ocean freight industry with C-Team Systems software, which standardizes operations for companies that facilitate international freight transportat

A consortium led by Grup Maritim of Spain won a contract to build and operate India’s new container terminal at the southeastern Port of Ennore, near Chennai.

The trucking industry is concerned the impasse in Washington over highway reauthorization may stretch into several years without a new spending bill to set planning for important road and infrast

Kuehne + Nagel said it opened a new distribution center near Riga in Latvia.

Truck safety groups are calling for a dramatic reduction in the time truck drivers are allowed to be behind the wheel, saying federal regulators should limit driving time to eight hours and a day and

CSAV’s new weekly Far East service, America Express, made its first call at Port Everglades Tuesday.

A widely watched index of consumer confidence dipped sharply in June, weighed down by concerns about jobs.

The Teamsters union will hold a national conference call Tuesday for its members at YRC Worldwide on the company's "re-entry" into its multiemployer pension plans.

Truck, train and pipeline shipments between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico totaled $65.8 billion in April, a 32.4 percent increase from a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

Active container ship capacity increased by 15.3 percent from the beginning of the year as ocean carriers are launching extra services in response to a larger-than-expected surge in global box traffic

Global air cargo traffic soared 34.3 percent in May from a year ago and is now above pre-recession levels, the International Air Transport Association said.

The nation's largest manufacturers' group called on the Obama administration Monday to enact a broad range of tax, labor and legal reforms it said would make the U.S.

Trucking companies that once kept third-party logistics providers at arm’s length are pulling them in for a closer embrace as they seek new sources of freight.

The contract covering about 950 office clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach expires at midnight Wednesday, and it does not appear that an agreement will be reached by the deadli

President Obama and South Korea President Lee Myung-bak intend to complete a free trade agreement by November, the two announced during a meeting at the G20 summit in Toronto on Saturday.

Kansas City Southern Railway said David L. Starling will move up to CEO effective Aug. 1 while longtime Chairman and CEO Michael R. Haverty takes the new position of executive chairman.