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Several European airlines put test flights into the air Sunday to assess the impact of a volcanic ash plume that has enveloped the skies as the shutdown of European space moved into a fourth day and t

LONDON – More airports across Europe shut down Saturday as a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland spread deeper into the continent and experts began to warn of mounting economic damage from the large

ABF Freight System reached a tentative agreement on new contract terms with the Teamsters union that will likely include wage and work concessions aimed at cutting the trucking company’s operati

Oil refiners’ deliveries of distillates, which include diesel fuel and are closely correlated with overall U.S.

Electro-Motive Diesel, one of the two largest suppliers of locomotives to the freight industry, cut a ribbon this week on a traction motor maintenance and overhaul facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

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Wan Hai Lines will join the India-Far East Express Service operated by a consortium of Shipping Corp. of India, Pacific International Lines and “K” Line.

A surge in chemicals and other industrial cargoes, plus strength in construction materials pushed weekly traffic at small railroads in North America to the highest level in more than a year.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the construction work under way to expand the Panama Canal “will have a profound impact on the way goods move around the world.”

Consumers are buying again and business inventories are creeping back up but retailers say they don’t plan to abandon the lean inventory practices they adopted during the recession.

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The Bunning blockade of March is finally being overturned for about 2,000 Department of Transportation workers who lost 20 percent of their pay for the first two weeks of that month.

Leading German container shipowners have acquired a stake of around 18 percent in CSAV, finalizing a 2009 deal that involved cutting charter rates for the Chilean ocean carrier.

CMA CGM plans to increase the frequency of its Black Pearl Service between Jamaica and New York and Halifax to weekly sailings from biweekly.

Japanese export ship orders sank at their fastest pace in 17 years in fiscal 2009, which ended on March 31, due to ship owners' flagging demand for new vessels, according to figures released by the Ja

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach turned in another winning month in March, with container volume in Long Beach up 13 percent over March 2009.

OTTAWA — Canadian National Railway is sorry, and it promises to mend its hard-nosed ways with shippers and intermodal partners and will not, in the future, look out only for itself.

LONDON – A spreading plume of volcanic ash kept airports from the United Kingdom to Germany shut down for a second day Friday as European authorities said they hoped to end the standstill in air

North American intermodal service provider Hub Group is buying 2,000 new 53-foot domestic containers for about $19.2 million, which would increase its fleet of those boxes by a third.

Environmental and labor interests warned Thursday that the clean-air benefits being realized today by the introduction of thousands of new trucks in Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor will be lost in subse

Freight traffic moved higher last week at North America’s major railroads, after a sizable decline in the holiday week ahead of Easter.

The Department of Transportation is granting $14.7 million to 17 small shipyards in 16 states to help them purchase modern equipment and train workers.

Landstar System increased sales 14.4 percent to $548.1 million in the first quarter, increasing the number of truckloads hauled 16.9 percent.

Rising intermodal volume and truckload improvements boosted revenue 17 percent at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, backing claims of a first-quarter freight recovery.

The Department of Transportation’s chief financial officer became the latest administration official to speak out against raising motor fuel taxes to bolster federal revenue and infrastructure s

SAN ANTONIO — A senior Commerce Department official on Wednesday outlined one of the tactics the government will use to meet the president's goal of doubling exports and creating 1 million jobs in fiv

Drifting ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland forced airports across northern Europe to shut down on Thursday, canceling as many as 4,000 passenger and cargo flights.

Container traffic through the Port of Rotterdam surged 16 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, driven mainly by sharply higher cargo volume in the Asia-Europe trade.

UPS issued a strong signal of recovery in its business Wednesday, saying the company expects its net profit to grow 37 percent in the first quarter on “significant acceleration” in interna

Two years after leaving the U.S. domestic package market, Deutsche Post DHL says it is growing again in the United States as rising international trade spurs a global recovery.

Instead of working on a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico, some members of Congress want the United States to renegotiate the North America Free Trade Agreement.

For the first time since July 2008, major U.S. railroads in March saw a monthly gain in freight carloadings over the same period a year earlier.

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Railroad officials are engaged in “good” talks in Congress on legislation that would reauthorize the Surface Transportation Board and revamp key rail regulations, said Michael Ward, the ch

Tokyo Senpaku Kaisha, part of Japanese carrier NYK Line, ended a vessel sharing agreement with Orient Overseas Container Line and Cosco Container Line covering the Middle East Express Service.

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Index, which measures month-to-month changes in freight shipments in ton-miles, rose for the second straight month in February.

Disbursements by the Department of Transportation under the economic stimulus law reached $10.437 billion as of March 31, an increase of about $1 billion from February to pay for projects dominated by

Retail spending posted its fourth consecutive month of gains in March, the Commerce Department reported.

The port of Marseilles-Fos is setting up a commercial office in Brazil to boost traffic with its biggest trading partner in South America.