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Six international engineering companies submitted bids Tuesday to dredge an area of the Panama Canal’s man-made Gatun Lake that is central to the massive project to upgrade the canal and its cap

Teamsters vice president Fred Gegare will challenge James P. Hoffa next year for the top job at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

The president of paper and packaging giant MeadWestvaco is telling other shippers and rail transportation providers that his company expects “prolonged economic softness” rather than a rob

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Orient Overseas Container Lines took delivery Tuesday of the last in a line of 16 vessels with a capacity of 4,578 20-foot equivalent container units that it ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries.

The operator of the Chunnel between Britain and France is acquiring the UK’s third largest rail freight operator in a bid to boost its cargo traffic between the two countries.

Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar is buying Electro-Motive Diesel, one of North America’s two major builders of line-haul freight locomotives, from its private equity fund owners for $820

The European Union is launching an investigation into whether the largest container lines have engaged in price-fixing, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The value of cross-border road, rail and pipeline shipments between the U.S. and Canada, and the U.S.

Manufacturers’ inventories tightened as U.S. factories marked their 10th consecutive month of year-to-year growth, the Institute for Supply Management said today.

Net profit for the Shipping Corporation of India fell 60 percent to $82 million in the year ending March 31 as the global economic downturn hit the national carrier.

The three carriers that belong to the AAUS Group — APL, Hamburg Sud, Hapag-Lloyd and Hyundai Merchant Marine — are teaming up with Maersk Line to add a peak-season service string to the tw

Hanjin Shipping said Tuesday it will start converting its fleet of refrigerated containers this month over to what it calls “eco-friendly” reefers.

Baltimore city officials are considering raising fees on trucks carrying oversize or overweight loads out of the Port of Baltimore, according to a published report.

On any given day in 2008, Caterpillar had some $500 million worth of U.S.

As U.S. container shipments rebound from the dismal 2009 levels detailed in The Journal of Commerce annual Top 100 Importers and Exporters rankings, the question nags: How real is this recovery?

U.S. chemical exporters are optimistic about the future.

Hayden Swofford hopes he never sees another year like 2009. Aided by a weakened dollar, the forest products exporters he represents had plenty of cargo to sell.

Agriculture interests reaped the benefits of a bumper export market in the first quarter. Now they hope to sustain it.

Tipplers downsized during the recession. When you lose your job, you look for any way you can to save money.

The agency that for much of the shipping world has been on the frontlines of supply chain security since the September 11 terror attacks is facing new questions about how it balances security and the

Automakers and their suppliers are steering out of a recession that took them on their bumpiest road in decades.

When the Department of Homeland Security drafted a security strategy in 2006, it limited Customs and Border Protection’s scope to just that: security.

Do shippers really care if their goods move by contract or tariff?

Truck and engine manufacturers supporting national fuel economy standards for heavy trucks are already working on higher-mileage powertrains and vehicles.

Teamsters, YRC Talk Pensions, Competition

Teamsters employees sent a clear message to ABF Freight System when they rejected wage concessions last week: Use pricing, not pay cuts to balance the books.

Rising volumes and rates are starting to yield profits for container ship lines, but the industry still faces a vexing problem: what to do with all those ships ordered a few years ago.

Remember “green shoots?” A year ago, U.S. importers and exporters were scouring economic indicators for any signs of improvement in dismal market conditions.

The footwear and apparel industries are gaining traction in 2010, but sellers and manufacturers realize they’ll have to walk before they run.

For toy manufacturers selling in the world’s largest consumer market, 2010 is all about mobility and affordability.

Stanley Furniture’s decision to close its plant in the small town that bears its name fell like a hammer blow on southern Virginia and resounded across an industry increasingly moving overseas.

When the Long Beach Harbor Commission this summer is presented with the final draft of the environmental impact report for replacement of the Gerald Desmond Bridge, the port staff anticipates approval

In good times and bad, ocean carriers look to scrap metals and wastepaper to fill their vessels in the export trades, and 2009 was no exception.

President Obama is putting the trucking industry on the road to greater fuel efficiency with an order for mileage standards for heavy-duty trucks.

When the 2008-09 recession hammered consumer spending in the U.S., analysts pondered whether its length and persisting unemployment would permanently change consumer habits.

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The U.S. cotton industry expects to have a strong 2010 with planted acreage growing over 2009, which will mean higher production in a harvest that goes from July into next January.

Apple’s unveiling of its iPad this year prompted widespread debate about the impact of the device on the future of book publishing, but its immediate impact on shipping was unquestioned and very