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Customers should find the billing and invoicing process a lot more efficient — and accurate — at the world’s largest ocean container carrier when Maersk Line completes an overhaul of

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Specialized truckload carrier Prime raised its minimum pay for owner-operators last month to 95 cents a mile, as growing freight traffic sparks higher demand for drivers.

President Obama and members of his cabinet visited several manufacturers and freight shippers Friday to highlight jobs-producing federal investments amid signs the economic recovery is taking hold.

The select group of trucking companies with more than a billion dollars in annual revenue shrank last year, as four companies fell below the revenue threshold.

Malaysia Airlines placed an order for two A330-200 freighters in addition to a previously announced contract for 15 A330-300 passenger aircraft.

Real estate developer CenterPoint Properties signed a build-to-suit lease with a chemical manufacturer attracted by rail service provided by Union Pacific.

Canadian National Railway sold a section of track to a government-owned agency responsible for the Toronto area transportation network.

London - A court barred a walkout by nearly 6,000 signal workers in what would have been the UK's first national rail strike in 16 years.

The federal government is sending out $338.9 million to 18 states and American Samoa to help them repair bridges and roads damaged by a number of storms in recent years.

More than 5,000 trucking companies will be required to install electronic on-board recorders in their trucks, the Department of Transportation said Friday.

March brought increases in employment across U.S. surface transportation industries, with mild job gains in trucking, rail and waterborne commerce breaking a long downtrend during the recession.

Canadian Pacific Railway reached a new one-year agreement with Teck Coal, a major shipper of high-heat coal needed for steelmaking furnaces, to haul the fuel from Teck’s mines in southeastern Br

WILMINGTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Air Transport Services Group, Inc.

The U.S. Maritime Administration agreed to remove 52 rotting ships from the reserve fleet moored at Suisun Bay near San Francisco.

The two largest trucking businesses increased their market share last year despite falling revenue, holding onto business better than many of their smaller competitors.

Traffic jumped at the largest North American railroads as March ended, powered by shipments of finished vehicles and equipment along with materials at earlier stages from metallic ores to metal produc

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will increase rates on exports from all the U.S. ports it serves as of May 1.

Flooding after torrential rains left parts of Interstate 95 in Rhode Island under more than three feet of water Wednesday and Thursday.

Economic activity for manufacturers surged in March at the fastest pace since July 2004, according to a survey of supply executives.

U.S. naval forces said Friday that one of their frigates captured five pirates after exchanging fire with them, sinking their skiff, and confiscating a mother ship.

MOL, the only one of the three big Japanese shipping lines to project a profit in its 2009 fiscal year ended March 31, is setting a goal of generating revenue of $1.066 billion in fiscal 2010, ending

Specialized truckload carrier Prime managed to do something none of the 49 other top trucking companies accomplished in 2009: Increase its revenue.

Hapag-Lloyd will seek a general rate increase on all cargo moving from India to the U.S. East and West Coasts, effective May 1.

Demand for Class 8 heavy trucks will increase just 3 percent this year, but shoot up more than 50 percent in 2011, research firm FTR Associates says.

Sao Paulo, Brazil, 31 March 2010 – CEVA Logistics, one of the world’s leading supply chain companies has announced that Denise Carrion has been appointed Director Freight Management for CE

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—March 31, 2010 (James Street Media Services)—Kenco Logistic Services LLC (KLS), one of the most respected names in the third-party logistics (3PL) industry, has announce

Transportation interests agree that West Coast ports are well-positioned to capture a significant share of the cargo growth that will occur in the coming years, but they emphasized that the ports must

Cargo airline ABX Air announced a new agreement with DHL on Wednesday aimed at maintaining the carrier’s main source of revenue and clearing away uncertainty about ABX’s financial future.

The Federal Railroad Administration will start taking applications this week from states for an additional $115 million in planning and construction project funds, which FRA will target to support the

A congressional panel set a hearing for May 5 on proposals to allow the economic regulation of harbor trucking, an issue that has sharply divided shippers and trade groups from a handful of ports and

Kerry Logistics opened the first phase of a logistics center in Danang in central Vietnam.

New orders in the nation's factories in February increased $2.1 billion or 0.6 percent to $383.5 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday.

The Department of Transportation has paid out $10 billion to states for highway repairs and other transport project work completed under last year’s stimulus package to shore up the economy.

Truckload operator Knight Transportation is working on the potential acquisition of a fellow carrier that generated $450 million in revenue last year.

The Department of Transportation proposed a rule Wednesday that would make permanent a two-month-old ban on cell-phone texting by truck and bus drivers.

The movement of ocean containers to and from British ports faces severe disruption during a four-day nationwide rail strike next week.

HHLA, Hamburg's largest stevedore, said earnings tumbled 55 percent in 2009 from a year ago as container traffic through Germany's biggest box port shrunk by a third.

U.S. sales of new automobiles are strengthening for all the largest car manufacturers, and generating sharp increases in shipments for materials, car parts and finished vehicles.

Retailer Dollar General promoted John Flanigan to executive vice president of global supply chain.