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The administration’s third nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration will have his day before the Senate Commerce Committee on June 10, the committee announced.

Ceres Terminals signed a lease for 12 additional acres at the Port of Baltimore’s Dundalk Marine Terminal, the Maryland Port Administration said Thursday.

Paul T. Sorrow is retiring July 1 as national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, clearing the way for First Vice President Dennis R.

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VT Halter Marine, a Pascagoula, Miss.-based shipbuilder for the U.S.

CMA CGM announced its West Africa Express [WAX] service to Asia will call at the South African port of Durban.

APM Terminals sold a 25 percent stake in its Zeebrugge, Belgium, container terminal to Shanghai International Port Group under an agreement finalized May 28.

Two vessels hijacked by Somali pirates were retaken on Wednesday in separate incidents and a third vessel managed to avoid capture when it outran pirates.

Horizon Lines elected three Class II directors at its annual meeting Wednesday and re-elected CEO Charles G. Raymond as its chairman.

Ocean carriers have absorbed nearly 100 container ships with a combined capacity of 554,000 20-foot equivalent units by introducing extra slow steaming on key liner trade routes, according to a new re

Air France-KLM’s cargo traffic in May rose 8.7 percent from a year ago, led by a double digit increase on its Americas network.

The U.S. operations of all seven top-tier North American railroads expanded their workforce in April, the first time that has happened since rail employment bottomed in January.

Inventories at Cisco Systems increased 16.4 percent in value, to $1.3 billion, in its most recent quarter ending May 1, the company said.

Steel shipments through the Port of Houston hit a 12-month high in April as container volumes dropped 14 percent from the comparable month in 2009.

Hong Kong International Airport said a 47 percent surge in exports in April pushed the airport to its largest monthly cargo volume in more than two-and-a-half years, extending a strong resurgence in s

Maersk Line is offering shippers the option of paying a fee for priority loading of their cargo on a particular vessel on many global services, except those to and from North America.

The market for hybrid trucks and buses is set for a thousand-fold increase within five years, with more than 300,000 hybrids sold by 2015, Pike Research says.

President Obama’s goal of doubling U.S. exports within five years generated a set of nation-specific marketing plans, according to a senior U.S. trade official.

The Port of Vancouver and Canadian National Railroad announced a supply chain collaboration agreement that is designed to enhance the gateway’s competitiveness for North American exports as well

Descartes Systems Group increased revenue by 22 percent from a year ago, but acquisitions, higher taxes and even volcanic ash shrank its profit.

The National Mediation Board rejected a request by the Teamsters union to release UPS aircraft mechanics from negotiations, which would have set the stage for a strike in 30 days.

Maersk Canada said Wednesday it is selling the Canadian assets of port trucking line Bridge Terminal Transport to Rouge River Capital, a Canadian merchant bank.

Global air cargo volumes surged 26 percent in the first quarter from a year ago and revenue grew as much as 40 percent, the International Air Transport Association said.

Hapag-Lloyd plans to raise freight rates on major trade lanes covering the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East, starting in early July.

The DSV Group launched a new division called DSV Entertainment Logistics, which will provide transport and logistics to the entertainment industries with a particular focus on the music industry at th

Diesel prices fell to their lowest point in three months, sliding 4.1 cents to an average of $2.98 per gallon across the country in the week ending May 31, according to the U.S.

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.