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

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

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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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Teamsters, YRC Talk Pensions, Competition

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.

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

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.