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The stimulus law is currently supporting 10,000 active transportation construction projects, and will further ramp up this spring, said Vice President Joseph Biden.

Five Evergreen Shipping Agency (America) ship-stowage planners who disrupted the carrier’s East Coast operations with a 28-day strike in 2002 refused to ratify a new contract but are continuing

President Obama on Thursday signed into law a jobs bill that extends highway programs through the end of the next fiscal year.

Matson Navigation is supporting the one of three candidates in a special congressional election who supports the Jones Act, an online news source reported.

Surface trade with Canada and Mexico in 2009 took the steepest dive in the 15 year history of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the United States inched up 0.1 percent in February to its highest level in the recovery.

FedEx Freight’s losses nearly doubled in the quarter ending Feb. 28, despite a surge in revenue and shipments in the three-month period.

Finland's nationwide port strike appeared to be heading into a third week today March 18 as negotiations between longshoremen and port employers stalled.

Recovery is spreading solidly among North America’s regional and short line railroads, as the latest RMI RailConnect index shows week-to-week traffic mildly higher for the second week of March b

Heavy truck sales rose sharply in February, with net orders climbing 20 percent both from January 2010 and February 2009, ACT Research said today.

The Federal Maritime Commission is starting an investigation of tight vessel capacity that ocean importers and exporters say is hindering their ability to compete in global markets, the commission ann

The House on Wednesday approved a bill to extend the operations of the Federal Aviation Administration through July 3.

Boskalis Westminster, one of the world's biggest dredging companies, reported 2009 earnings declined 9 percent from a year ago and warned the once booming global maritime infrastructure market faces t

China is testing the impact on 12 industries of a possible revaluation of the yuan on their companies, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade announced Thursday.

Hamburg Süd is expanding its services this year between the U.S. West Coast and destinations as far apart as Australasia and North Europe.

FedEx gave a strongly upbeat view of economic expansion Thursday, announcing its net profit jumped 146 percent to $239 million in its latest fiscal quarter on dramatic growth in international air expr

Containership charter rates are rallying as ocean carriers scramble for tonnage in response to a stronger-than-expected rebound in cargo volumes as the industry emerges from its deepest recession.

YRC Worldwide’s regional group of carriers reduced its losses 14.2 percent to $126.7 million in 2009 but saw its operating ratio rise 2.1 percentage points as revenue dropped.

As the Teamsters mull concession talks with ABF Freight System, YRC Worldwide is still trying to get some members to accept concessions approved last year.

Freight transportation advocates re-emphasized the need for a dedicated national freight policy before the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Department of Transportation.

Exports of U.S.-produced steel totaled 951,000 tons in January, an increase of 2.4 percent compared to December.

French logistics provider Geodis acquired small parcel express carrier Ciblex.

YRC Worldwide's truckload and expedited subsidiary, YRC Glen Moore, narrowed its losses by 25 percent in 2009, reporting an operating loss of $8.7 million.

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Business, labor and port groups petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow imports of grapes from earthquake-devastated Chile to continue unrestricted next month.

NYK Group Americas on Wednesday announced a rotation of its top managers that will take effect on April 1.

The Senate on Wednesday morning ended three months of political drama on transportation spending when it passed 68 – 29 a jobs bill that gives states assurance of highway and transit funding thr

YRC Worldwide had a net loss of $622 million last year on $5.3 billion in revenue, the company said yesterday in its 10-K annual report.

Import-export container traffic through Port Authority of New York and New Jersey terminals fell 12.7 percent last year but leveled off in December and rose 10.9 percent in January.

Neptune Orient Lines said Tuesday that APL (Bermuda) Ltd., a division of its liner subsidiary APL, is taking a term loan of $300 million from a syndicate of banks and financial institutions.

After falling for 14 months in a row, Japanese export ship orders rose for the third consecutive month in February on a year-on-year basis, surging 30.8 percent to 383,670 gross tons, according to fig

Severe winter storms froze the economic recovery in February, driving the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index down 0.7 percent.

YRC Worldwide is reporting a 10 percent increase in shipments this month over February, with total shipments per day rising at its regional and national carriers.

The Chlorine Institute, fearing freight railroads could pass along potentially large costs for new crash-avoidance technology to shippers, is asking the Federal Railroad Administration to fix what it

The owners of one in four truckload carriers say they may sell their company and leave the industry over the next 18 months, according to a survey by Transport Capital Partners.

A California Superior Court judge turned down a request from the city of Riverside that would have stopped expansion of the China Shipping Container Line terminal until the Port of Los Angeles complet

The French Port of Marseilles Fos said container throughput rose by 24 percent year-over-year in January and February to 159,202 20-foot equivalent units as trade recovered from the global recession.

China Eastern Airlines acquired a 51 percent stake in Great Wall Airline.

TNT launched its Web-based Express Import system to enable customers to order the collection of import shipments from 170 countries with quotations and billing in their local currency.

Qantas Freight will become an associate member of Cargo 2000, a leading air freight industry quality management program.