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YRC Worldwide is using everything from online advertising on The Wall Street Journal’s Web site to offering coupons for return customers to win shippers.

For shippers and carriers in the U.S.-Southeast Asian trade lanes, the best times are yet to come.

The trucking industry is adding its voice to a coalition demanding tighter federal regulation of trading in commodity derivatives.

Notwithstanding its unassuming home, Air Tractor is an exporter of note. The company manufactures specialized airplanes for crop dusting and fire suppression.

All across North America, freight railcars that were parked when the economy was in a tailspin are slowly coming back on line. But the rebound will be nowhere near as fast as the collapse.

Bulk shippers and carriers routinely buy and sell futures contracts called freight forward agreements based on the Baltic Dry Index of bulk rates, to hedge against the risk that a rise or fall i

Dean Tracy, director of international logistics at Lowe’s, had a devilish time getting his spring and summer merchandise on vessels leaving Asian ports in late January.

YRC Worldwide is even getting money from the federal government these days, but what the country’s largest trucking operator really needs is more revenue from shippers.

Airbus expects freighter fleets to grow five times by 2030 as region dominates the market

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BNSF Railway officially became part of Berkshire Hathaway Feb.

Due to the heavy snow storms that hit the Eastern United States this week, delivery of the printed Feb. 15 edition of The Journal of Commerce to some subscribers may be delayed.

Senate Democrats late Thursday were touting a second jobs bill that eliminates a number of tax credits and business incentives that were in an earlier bill, but the second measure keeps intact provisi

Mediterranean Shipping Company will apply a general rate increase on all eastbound cargo from Spanish ports to destinations in the Middle East and the Far East.

Cash flowed more slowly through supply chains in January, reflecting longer payment periods among suppliers, transporters and customers in the first weeks of 2010, according to the latest Supply Chain

Four miles of the Houston Ship Channel will remain closed until the 56-foot tug J.R. Nichols, which sank Wednesday evening, can be removed. Five seafarers were aboard the tug when it sank.

A recovering economy and reinvigorated trucking industry will increase demand for heavy- and medium-duty trucks late in 2010 and in 2011, says ACT Research, Columbus, Ind.

“K” Line, which expects to post a loss for the fiscal year ending March 31, said Friday it will issue a public secondary stock offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange later this month to rais

Five shipping lines are setting up a new vessel-sharing agreement that will start service in April between Asia and the East Coast of South America via South Africa.

Norwegian ship-owners Feb. 12 won a legal victory against the government's bid to raise $3.8 billion in back taxes.

Star Reefers, a leading refrigerated ship-owner, said net income slumped 60 percent in 2009 from the previous year because of the bankruptcy of a Russian charterer, lower freight rates and increased c

Ryder System signed a joint venture agreement with export consolidator Cargo Services Far East Limited.

FedEx Trade Networks, the company’s growing international ocean and air freight forwarder subsidiary, opened six forwarding offices in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

The California Air Resources Board will most likely give over-the-road truckers more time to comply with a rule designed to reduce diesel emissions from heavy-duty vehicles.

The winter storm that hit the Port of New York and New Jersey on Wednesday has caused some changes in terminal openings on Lincoln's Birthday and Presidents Day.

Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) announced the hiring of Marise Stewart to be Director of Government and Industry Relations.

The European Commission is charging that forwarder Expeditors International of Washington engaged in anti-competitive actions in air freight shipping from South China and Kong to Europe.

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The purchase of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will free up the railroad’s executives to focus more on developing rail assets for the long term, said BNSF Chairman, Pr

Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states are beginning to lift emergency orders and travel restrictions imposed during yesterday's blizzard.

YRC Worldwide cleared a financial hurdle Thursday by eliminating $70 million in debt not included in its $464 million debt-for-equity swap in December, giving the carrier still greater stability in th

Ocean container freight rates are surging on key Asia-Europe trade routes as traffic rebounds from a year-long downturn and carriers cull capacity.

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Stockholders of the corporation that owns BNSF Railway, North America’s second-largest railroad, approved the $26 billion bid from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to buy the 77 percent

The German government is pressing South Korean shipyards to delay deliveries of container vessels to financially troubled German ship-owners.

The two major eastern-U.S. railroads – CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway – were starting to dig out late on Feb. 10 and on Feb.

Two European intermodal operators said they will jointly develop a multimodal route on a corridor linking Antwerp with Germany, Austria, southeast Europe and Turkey.

The strong winter storms hitting the country this winter are sharply cutting stockpiles of coal held by electrical utilities, said Matthew K.

Logistics and trucking business The Dependable Companies acquired West Coast trucking company Matheson Fast Freight, expanding its stake in the California less-than-truckload market.

Neptune Orient Lines reported losses on Thursday for the fourth quarter and full year 2009 as revenue and freight rates plunged for most of the year before volumes and vessel-utilization started ticki