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Supply chain software vendor JDA Software today released a "product roadmap" reflecting the integration of its products with those of recently acquired i2 Technologies.

Truckload spot market freight volume reached pre-recession levels in March, climbing 259 percent from a year ago and 14 percent from March 2008, according to TransCore’s North American Freight I

CSX Transportation is sticking with its earlier guidance to see core pricing gains of 4 to 5 percent during 2010 although its first-quarter price gains were at the top of that range.

Globaltrans, Russia's biggest private rail freight operator, said 2009 profit fell 15 percent from a year ago even as traffic hit an all time high in a shrinking market.

Frankfurt airport handled more than 200,000 metric tons of freight in a month for the first time in March after traffic at Europe's biggest air cargo hub soared 37.4 per cent from a year ago.

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Jeffrey Coppersmith, the new president of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, is taking charge at a time when things are looking up for the organization.

Despite a healthy early start for Great Lakes shipping this year, steamship lines and their U.S.

Domestic intermodal rail weathered the economic recession better than most transportation modes, and the industry appears now to be on the verge of experiencing unprecedented growth.

Eastern-U.S. railroad CSX Transportation saw first-quarter profit grow 24 percent from a year earlier to $306 million, as it boosted receipts and cut expenses.

Freight forwarder Panalpina last week chartered the only extant Antonov AN-225 freighter aircraft to move two laser welding machines with a combined weight of about 150 metric tons.

Cosco Container Lines said Tuesday it will restore capacity on its weekly North China-U.S.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its 'A+' long-term rating to the Virginia Port Authority's series 2010 port facilities revenue refunding bonds.

Norfolk Southern Railway and Electro-Motive Diesel will run “extensive” tests of biodiesel fuel, monitoring the use of two blends in both linehaul and switcher locomotive units.

The Federal Maritime Commission is studying the effects on the market of the European Commission's decision to ban ocean carrier conferences, but Commissioner Rebecca Dye on Tuesday said that it's unl

OOIL Group Chairman CC Tung said Tuesday that it could take three to four years before the container industry works its way out of the glut of vessel capacity that hangs over the market.

GT Nexus appointed Léo Apotheker to its board of directors.

Timothy A. Wicks resigned his post as president and chief operating officer of YRC Worldwide today to return to his former employer, United Healthcare.

Lufthansa Cargo carried 26.4 percent more freight in March than a year ago, outpacing its main European rivals Air France-KLM and British Airways, which booked single digit increases.

LONDON ---Emerging markets offer the best opportunities for trade and investment by the container industry in this year’s slow-growth environment, according to Richard Mitchell, chief commercial

Most cargoes on small railroads slid in recent weeks to the lowest volume since the snowstorm-socked period ending Feb. 20, according to RMI’s RailConnect index.

LONDON -- Europe-based shipping industry analyst group Seabury projected Tuesday that global ocean container trade will grow about 11 percent this year over 2009 despite a stronger showing early in th

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics won the contract to manage vehicle processing and outbound yard management at Honda’s plant in Lincoln, Alabama.

The number of laid-up container ships above 5,000 20-foot equivalent units capacity has shrunk to the lowest level in over 14 months, largely due to slow steaming.

The U.S. trade deficit widened in February as rising imports of consumer and industrial goods offset a small increase in exports, the Commerce Department said.

International cargo climbed 24.3 percent for Japan Airlines and 66.5 percent for All Nippon Airways in February, according to figures released by the two biggest Japanese air carriers.

The chief executive of ship leasing company Seaspan says pain from the global trade downturn likely has not been deep enough to bring needed consolidation and efficiency to the container shipping indu

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will raise prices on U.S.-South America trade lanes next month, taking this year’s rate increases to new markets, the carrier announced Monday.

Electronics giant Sony will change the way it manages shipping contracts, adding quarterly reviews to its annual agreements after unprecedented volatility in international container shipping rates ove

ABF Freight System agreed to an independent review of its finances as it seeks concessions from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Fuel marketers and resellers Monday urged Congress to restore a biodiesel tax credit that expired at the end of 2009, depressing production and raising the price of biodiesel.

The United States and Mexico moved closer to a new cross-border trucking agreement with plans for a "working group" to consider "next steps" toward reviving cross-border trucking.<

Large increases in the last two weeks brought the average price of diesel to $3.069 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Canadian Pacific Railway reached a tentative agreement with its track workers in Canada.

Customs and Border Protection will continue its layered strategy for supply chain security while continuing to look for ways to carry out Congress' mandate to scan all inbound containers, Deputy Commi

CSAV Norasia will expand the coverage of its independently-operated India-Middle East-Europe Express Service, effective in early May.

INTTRA, an electronic booking service for container shippers, launched the first ocean freight invoice transmitted via INTTRA eInvoice, its new electronic invoice presentment and payment platform.

U.S. companies will spend more than anticipated on information technology this year, as demand for communications equipment spurs purchasing, a Forrester analyst said.

Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, watched U.S. and Spanish customs officials screen U.S.-bound containers as she toured the port of Barcelona on April 10.

LONDON-- A senior executive at Maersk Line said Monday the carrier expects the strong shipping growth early this year to slow down in the second half of the year because volume has outpaced gains in r