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The prospects for changing harbor trucking regulation in the United States rest with Congress, but groups fighting efforts to change federal law say the impact of any changes would hardly end at port

The Port of Galveston wants to get back into the container business.

After the debt of Greece, Spain and Portugal was downgraded by ratings agencies, European finance ministers last week moved to avoid a Greek default by extending a $110 billion euro ($146 million) res

Heavy-load carriers, like their breakbulk brethren, are adding lift capacity, flexible hold configurations, specialized dynamic positioning systems and other complicated and customized fixtures to the

The idea that roll-on, roll-off carriers might be infatuated with high and heavy cargo is not a new one, but it has happened again.

Jumbo Offshore, a division of Jumbo Shipping, recently completed a short series of tests of its installation capabilities in fast tidal current velocities.

In early May, super heavy-lift carrier Dockwise announced two awards for transport and installation projects and two for routine marine infrastructure transport.

The world economy is clearly recovering, according to the International Monetary Fund, but some regions are revving up much faster than others.

Ease of trade is as important as tariff reductions when it comes to helping a developing country boost its imports and exports, according to a recent report from the World Bank.

Economists surveyed for the April issue of Consensus Economics expect G-7 and western European nations to require several years to climb out of the economic hole of 2009.

The Port of Antwerp’s bid to revive its breakbulk business suffered a serious setback with the loss of a 750,000-metric-ton-a-year contract.

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Like spring flowers, the buds of economic recovery are beginning to open.

With rail freight traffic improving steadily, capacity is on its way back.

The industrial real estate market didn’t drop as far or as hard as the housing market, but for much of the commercial property world, 2009 was a dismal year that saw property values, rents and o

Breakbulk may be the Cinderella cargo on the European waterfront as ports struggle to emerge from the deepest recession in a generation.

Terminal operator Euroports Holdings testifies to the potential of breakbulk cargo, having in just four years built up a business with 2009 revenues of about US$675 million from handling 55 million me

The transportation sector in Chile has yet to fully recover after a major earthquake and tsunami struck the south-central region of the country two months ago.

After being dethroned briefly by a global financial crisis that, Europe aside, is abating, customer-centered initiatives are returning to the top of the supply chain food chain that is turning away fr

The transportation of wind energy components stalled out in 2009 along with other shipments in the project cargo sector, but the market is stirring back to life.

Project forwarders today are finding themselves shouldering an increasing level of risk compared to the rest of the supply chain, logistics executives concur.

Opportunity beckons in the Asian and Australian project cargo markets, and heavy-lift carriers including Coscol, SE Shipping and Austral Asia Line are positioning themselves to participate.

The breakbulk sector of the shipping industry, as fragmented as the view through a kaleidoscope, has always been opaque and difficult to quantify.

Water covers up to 75 percent of the Earth, but only a tiny fraction is fit to drink.

For generations, unloading tropical fruits from incoming ships and reloading them onto land-based transportation has been a labor-intensive, low-technology business, even at modern European ports such

Reliance on a single cargo can be risky, but in the case of Conti-Lines, a focus on steel is helping speed the Antwerp-based multipurpose carrier’s recovery from the global recession, according

Conti-lines dates back to 1923. The Antwerp-based vessel operator was originally known as Continental Lines and operated two vessels in a service between Antwerp and London.

Not too long ago, a “heavy-lift” cargo referred to a piece weighing as much as 100 tons.

Shipowners or operators who pay ransom to Somali pirates could face U.S. civil penalties or criminal prosecution under a White House “Executive Order concerning Somalia.”

YRC Worldwide sees signs of recovery in the freight that hit its docks in March and April, but the surge came too late to stave off a steep first quarter loss.

In these imprecise economic times, the future of the breakbulk and heavy-lift shipping sector is as difficult to determine as the direction of the wind.

It certainly isn’t the first time ocean carriers and importers have disagreed, and it won’t be the last, but the outcome could determine the fate of U.S.

Last weekend killer storms that flooded out Nashville and other parts of Tennessee and killed at least 30 people in several states will also keep a CSX Transportation line between Nashville and Memphi

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FedEx Express, seeking to take advantage of surging demand, will add six 777 freighters to its order of all-cargo planes from Boeing, the carrier said Friday.

Danish project cargo operator Scan-Trans and Norwegian carrier Oslo Bulk Shipping said Thursday that they will be working together in a strategy of combining commodity base cargoes with project part c

Heavy-load carrier Dockwise suffered a net loss of $3.4 million (before non-recurring items) on revenue of $95 million for the first quarter.

The Federal Maritime Commission will hold a public meeting on May 24 to gather comments about a proposed rule designed to exempt licensed non-vessel-operating common carriers from the legal requiremen

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The Food and Drug Administration should ask Congress for the authority to require companies to recall contaminated food products, according to the Government Accountability Office.