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Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it is temporarily using several 8,085-TEU ships, the largest to call at U.S.

A Senate jobs bill skews a federal highway funding formula to benefit four states, and leaves nothing for 22 others, Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., said Friday.

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The Federal Maritime Commission has given members of the carrier discussion group in the eastbound Pacific the authority to talk about strategies intended to reduce air emissions, water pollution and

Snowstorms that slammed the country in early February may have boosted rates for truckload carriers by freezing capacity, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley.

What can Brown do for U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke? Help advance his campaign to double U.S. exports and create millions of jobs.

North American short line railroads carried some of the strongest traffic levels in months even during storm-tossed February, as cargo loadings were consistent with a spreading recovery in the broader

A similar name can cause the kind of confusion USA Truck wants to avoid.

A late-year need to refill store shelves and replenish other stocks after a “historic inventory drawdown” helped boost intermodal traffic in the fourth quarter and push domestic volume sli

The return of growth in freight shipments this year may erase the surplus of trucks this summer and push more business to combined rail-truck intermodal shipments, the Intermodal Association of North

Icelandair Group has confirmed that it plans to sell Bluebird, a freighter arm that sits alongside its own Icelandair Cargo subsidiary and chiefly operates on a wet-lease basis.

In the midst of a massive contraction for the North American freight car industry, equipment builder American Railcar Industries said it has formed a joint venture with US Railcar to produce self-prop

Major U.S.-owned railroads saw their originations of bulk commodity and equipment traffic fall more than 20,000 carloads from the end of January to mid-February, a time when powerful winter storms hit

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals is cosponsoring a broad variety of educational programs in the U.S.

CMA CGM, which is in tough negotiations with South Korean shipyards to delay or cancel orders it placed in 2007 for some 30 new ships, is not laying up any of its vessels and is scrapping “very

CMA CGM, the troubled French carrier that is in talks with its creditor banks about restructuring $5.6 billion in long-term debt payments, expects to receive the balance of the $500 million in short-t

Lufthansa Cargo said it will maintain more than ninety percent of its freighter operations during a four day pilots' strike next week.

APL said Friday it will apply a general rate increase to all cargo moving from the Far East to India and Pakistan.

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India will seek a rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe, as part of what it called a rate restoration program.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority on Thursday announced promotions and new responsibilities for several members of its senior management team.

Rail equipment supplier FreightCar America posted a $5.6 million fourth quarter loss as it said sales of railroad cars fell “significantly” – by 82 percent to $49.4 million.

Panalpina launched two less-than-container-load services as demand starts to increase for end-to-end services.

The Freight Transportation Services Index indicated a stabilizing market as it remained unc

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru issued a decree requiring ship agents to arrange for mooring services for vessels calling at the country’s largest container gateway.

Additional charge applies from March 1 to 20 on shipments from China to Canada

CMA CGM announced Thursday it will raise freight rates on the westbound trade from Asia to ports in North Europe, the Eastern and Western Mediterranean and the Black Sea as of March 15.

TUI shareholders rejected a demand by Norwegian shipping billionaire John Fredriksen for an audit of the company's contribution to the financial rescue of German ocean container carrier Hapag-Ll

The Federal Maritime Commission voted 3-1 today to take the firs

Duisburg, the world's largest inland port, said it handled almost the same number of containers in 2009 as in the previous year despite the global economic downturn that resulted in steep volume decli

The closely watched Leading Economic Index increased 0.3 percent in January, following a 1.2 percent gain in December, and a 1.1 percent rise in November, said The Conference Board on Thursday.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will be the keynote speaker on April 7 during the seventh annual Journal of Commerce North American Marine Highways and Logistics Conference.

A Canadian dockworker was killed at the Tilbury Terminal south of Vancouver when the ramp he was on collapsed, sending the worker and the ramp into the water below.

MONTREAL, Feb.

Santa Fe Springs, Calif., Feb. 16, 2010 – Cliff Katab, who has helped Performance Team (PT) soar to new heights for the past 16 years, was recently promoted to President of the company.

PORTLAND, Ore., and ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Feb. 16, 2010 — Con-way Multimodal, the freight brokerage division of Menlo Worldwide Logistics, today announced that John G.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb.

Industrial production increased 0.9 percent in January following a gain of 0.7 percent in December, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.

YRC Worldwide’s stock value plunged today after shareholders approved the issue of more than 2 billion new shares as part of a debt-for-equity swap with bondholders.