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Kuehne + Nagel won a three-year contract to handle warehousing and distribution for Vectura, a supplier of logistics services for producers, agents and importers of wine and spirits in Norway.

The number of trucks repossessed by creditors or reclaimed by them in liquidations dropped 55 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2009, says Nassau Asset Management.

Germany's HSH Nordbank, the world's biggest shipping financier, narrowed 2009 net losses to $930 million from $3.9 billion the previous year and forecast a return to profit in 2011.

More ships arrived at their destination ports behind schedule in the fourth quarter, according to the latest Container Shipper Insight report from Drewry Shipping Consultants.

Hanjin Shipping plans to expand its use of the e-commerce services provided by INTTRA, the Internet portal that was founded by a group of carriers a decade ago to create efficiencies for carriers by e

Seaspan said Monday it swung to a profit of $74.7 million in the fourth quarter ended Dec.

Ocean container carriers are significantly boosting cargo capacity on Asia-Europe shipping lanes for the first time in 18 months, threatening to reverse recent strong gains in freight rates.

Looking to raise its profile in the growing problems U.S.

The upward trend in diesel prices moved into its fourth consecutive week but weakened its impact in the week ending March 15, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Hamburg Süd will seek a general rate increase on all cargo moving from the U.S. East Coast and Eastern Canada to Europe as of May 1, the second increase this year.

The Teamsters union said Monday it is considering launching formal talks with ABF Freight System to renegotiating the less-than-truckload carrier's contract

Talks to end Finland's nationwide port strike that has crippled the nation's foreign trade will resume on Tuesday, March 16.

Portec Rail Products, whose offerings range from track spikes to data management, saw fourth-quarter earnings fall 4.8 percent from a year earlier to $1.44 million.

Carrier executives, shippers and industry analysts meeting in Long Beach for The Journal of Commerce’s 10th Annual Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference were in a decidedly upbeat, though cautiou

Industrial production inched up in February, and industry used slightly more of its capacity, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

LEXINGTON, MA, March 4, 2010 – RailRunner, N.A., Inc., the developer of innovative rail products and services providing low-cost intermodal transportation solutions to underserved markets worldw

Trucking supplier TMW Systems says motor carriers are stepping up their purchasing of new software or upgraded technology, suggesting an economic recovery is taking hold in the industry.

Rail equipment supplier Wabtec bought the signal engineering and design services firm Xorail for $40 million in cash, equal to about one year’s worth of Xorail sales.

Hanjin Shipping expects to earn a profit this year and boost sales 27 percent as world trade picks up and shipping lines cut back on their fleet expansion plans.

Potential investors in CMA CGM have until March 15 to agree to terms to acquire a stake in the troubled French ocean container carrier.

Norway's Wilh. Wilhelmsen will spin off its shipping and logistics units in an initial public offering that could raise up to $400 million.

Cosco President Zhang Liang expects to win the rate increase targeted by the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement in new contracts as world trade rebounds and shipping lines curb capacity.

Several months of congressional skirmishing and one large flare-up over funding tried the nerves of the most steadfast advocates for transportation reform.

MSC Chief Blames Shippers

Slow-steaming, Yes; Profit Center, No

With February’s snowbanks melting away and the economy warming up, the flow of rail freight is thawing out across North America.

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At first glance, the former president and CEO of FedEx Freight might seem an anomaly on the board of J.B. Hunt Transport Services.FedEx Freight and J.B.

The inland waterways industry would pay higher fuel taxes to repair and maintain aging locks and dams, if it can get Congress and the White House to agree.

Thirteen shipper groups, hoping the Senate will keep a rail competition bill alive in the face of sharp criticism by top carriers, told lawmakers they want to see it through.

The transportation industry may have gotten involved in pollution reduction later than most industries, and though the transition has been difficult, carriers and shippers no longer doubt the need fo

The devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile could not have come at a worse time for exporters of perishable fruit.

At the end of 2009, the less-than-truckload industry had been razed by a price war that burned away carrier profits.

The recession pummeled less-than-truckload carriers in 2009 without regard to size, driving revenue down at a double-digit rate at all of the top 25 LTL trucking companies.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will ban the oldest drayage trucks from its terminals next Jan. 1 but won’t force owner-operator drivers to become company employees.

When Old Dominion Freight Line first ventured into warehousing, capacity was tight and space was at a premium. Unfortunately, that was in November 2008.

Ask experts on Africa about the economic challenges there and the first thing they point to is likely to be the same: infrastructure.

North Carolina awarded a $14.3 million contract to a Kentucky company to build a 5.6-mile rail spur to connect an aircraft parts manufacturing site to the Port of Morehead City.

The Containership Company, a new Norwegian-registered liner company, will make its first U.S. call May 3 at the TraPac Container Terminal in Los Angeles.

OOCL announced Friday that it will no longer provide chassis for transportation of both import and export containers to and from container yards or retail stores originating from or destined to facili