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Capital goods make up 40 percent of U.S. exports, and industrial machinery represents 57 percent of the capital goods shipped abroad, according to the National Association of Manufacturers.

There was a time when Smithfield Foods was famous only for the smoked hams it made in its namesake Virginia city.

Net orders for trailers in April dropped 13 percent from March, according to ACT Research, as trucking companies signaled they are growing uncertain about the strength of an economic recovery.

The head of Norfolk Southern Railway said he is finding nothing to like in the rail competition legislation pending in the Senate, after passage months ago by the Commerce, Science and Transportation

Florida East Coast Railway said James R. Hertwig will become president of that carrier starting July 1, after he leaves his current position as president of CSX Intermodal.

Truck tonnage climbed to its highest level since September 2008, the brink of the financial crisis that precipitated the recession, a trucking industry index shows.

The pace of recovery is slowing for truckload carriers, as truck capacity stabilizes at a lower level, according to the May 28 Morgan Stanley Truckload Freight Index.

U.S. imports of steel mill products increased in April over March by 0.9 percent, reflecting steady but slow improvement in market conditions.

Freight tonnage at Los Angeles Airport grew 28 percent in April from a year ago, but volume slipped slightly from the month before, signaling the rebound at the country’s largest trans-Pacific a

Retirees in multiemployer pension plans whose former companies failed shouldn't be penalized by pension reform, a pension expert said at a Senate hearing yesterday.

Barge and railcar builder Greenbrier is slowing barge output by adopting a four-day workweek for its Gunderson marine operations in Portland, Ore., citing market uncertainty from the Gulf oil spill an

A Chicago-area pension fund that faced insolvency by 2013 will be split in two, with workers from bankrupt firms receiving benefits from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.

Orient Overseas Container Line effective July 1 will increase its rates from Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East to Australia by $250 per-TEU.

Consumer spending was flat in April while personal income edged up at an annual rate of 0.4 percent, the Commerce Department said.

Moya Greene, chief executive of Canada Post, has been appointed the new chief executive officer of the UK's Royal Mail.

Hancock Fabrics says higher freight shipping costs from the company’s attempts to adjust inventory levels helped push the retailer into a steeper loss in its fiscal first quarter.

The Antwerp Port Authority acquired a minority stake in a Belgian inland container terminal outside the port area that will be operated by DP World, the global ports group.

With public budgets stretched thin, governments should be doing more to encourage private investment in needed infrastructure, the CEO of Neptune Orient Lines told an international panel of transport

London - Forth Ports shares fell by more ten percent May 28 after a consortium canceled a planned takeover that valued the UK's only listed ports operator at over $900 million.

Europe’s fiscal troubles will produce five years of economic stagnation on the continent but won’t prevent the global economy from expanding by an estimated 3.7 percent this year after las

Hitachi Transport System signed a basic agreement to acquire 100 percent of Flyjac Logistics, a major Indian forwarder providing services to the United States and Europe as well as local corporate cus

After falling for 14 months in a row, Japanese export ship orders rose for the fifth consecutive month in April on a year-on-year basis, surging 103.3 percent to 833,791 gross tons, according to figur

South Korean regulators, expanding a global investigation against price fixing in the air freight industry, announced nearly $100 million in penalties against 19 airlines for allegedly conspiring on c

The Teamsters union’s Central States pension fund faces insolvency within 10 to 15 years unless Congress acts to stabilize the fund, its executive director said this week.

American meat exporters are struggling with a “dire” shortage of shipping containers that could slow resurgent sales to Asia and other overseas markets, the top executive of the U.S.

The tanker Wilmina was banned from U.S. waters for three years for violations of environmental law, the Coast Guard announced Thursday.

The Port of New Orleans Board of Commissioners decided Thursday to authorize building a $25 million dockside refrigerated terminal at the port’s Henry Clay Avenue Wharf.

Chicago is not only the nation’s crossroads, but its chokepoint.

Lufthansa Cargo and Austrian Airlines created a joint subsidiary to market the whole freight capacity of both airlines in Austria.

International air freight traffic grew 25.2 percent in April, the slowest monthly expansion so far in what has become a banner year for the expedited shipping industry, the International Air Transport

Five states received nearly $80 million in federal grants for high-speed rail projects today from the Department of Transportation.

Container throughput at the six container terminals in New York Harbor in the first quarter of 2010 increased by 9.6 percent over the same quarter last year though overall port activity remains 6 perc

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India’s Port of Cochin will offer concessions on vessel-related charges for mainline container vessels calling at its International Container Transshipment Terminal, the country’s first tr

There’s bipartisan support for quick passage of a comprehensive transportation bill, but members of the House Transportation Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday demonstrated there is still a w

Virginia broke ground Wednesday on a control center for high occupancy toll lanes on a stretch of the I-495 Capital Beltway that ranks as one of the worst U.S. congestion bottlenecks.

Japan's trade surplus with the rest of the world ballooned about 15-fold in April from a year earlier to $8.25 billion thanks to a robust growth in exports, according to preliminary figures released b

Container volume at the port of Marseilles increased 17 percent in April, adding to the strong upturn that marked the first quarter of the year.

Lego is expanding its North American distribution center by nearly 50 percent as the toy maker builds on a strategy to sharply expand its market share in the United States.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services narrowed its first quarter loss to $82 million from $119 million a year ago as increased cargo volumes outweighed lower ocean freight rates.