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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.

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.