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The United Arab Shipping Company said it signed a $275 million multi-currency loan facility to finance the acquisition of three container ships of 13,100 20-foot equivalent units capacity.

Schiphol Group, the operator of Amsterdam airport, Europe's third largest air freight hub, reported a 29 percent drop in 2009 net profit on reduced passenger and cargo traffic.

Exporters signing up for the Automated Export System or AESDirect will no longer be able to use their Social Security number as identification, according to the Census Bureau.

A federal court in San Francisco on Friday followed through with a plea agreement and fined the operator of the Cosco Busan $10 million for a November 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay.

World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association in Brussels climbed to 109 million metric tons in January, an increase of 25.5 percent from January 2009, the

Container throughput at major ports in India grew 1 percent during the April-January period compared with a year earlier, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement on Monday.

Hamburg Süd said it will replace its current service between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean through a slot-charter agreement with Hapag-Lloyd’s MGX service.

ProLogis signed lease agreements for three of its sites as it announced new investment in European logistics.

TNT, the Dutch mail and express delivery group, reported fourth quarter net income slumped 58 percent from a year ago as one-off charges and impairments outweighed cost savings.

A large European non-vessel-owning common carrier will become the first forwarder to offer less--than-containerload booking through the electronic platform created by INTTRA, the electronic portal fou

CMA CGM, which has been heavily involved in relief efforts in Haiti since the earthquake devastated the country on Jan.

BNSF’s top intermodal executive concedes the western railroads have permanently lost much of their East Coast market share to all-water container shipping services from Asia, but Steve Branscum

Companies that cut back recruiting efforts as the economy slid into recession are beginning to think about hiring again as a recovery begins to take shape.

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The nascent economic recovery is beginning to fuel consolidation in trucking, as healthier carriers expand their networks by buying up smaller competitors and niche players.

As soon as BNSF Railway’s shareholders approved the planned takeover by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Feb. 11, the railroad’s CEO began to fire away at Wall Street.

Call it a lost week for a major slice of the U.S. economy and transportation network.

Eleven months after the Transportation Worker Identification Credential became mandatory for all port-related workers, ports still lack the electronic equipment to read the card’s biometric data

The enemy is a voracious, destructive alien species. Government agencies at all levels are girding for a last-stand battle.

As our Trans-Pacific Maritime conference approaches each spring — this year’s event March 1-2 will be the 10th since it began with 135 attendees in 2001 — there is always something b

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Navigating through a storm of historic magnitude, any ship captain probably would be expected to make adjustments and even look for an entirely new course.

Con-way Freight is starting 2010 by strengthening its sales organization as it tries to bring pricing and profit into line with higher less-than-truckload freight volume.

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The new year has brought shades of optimism for the transportation and supply chain industry. While the overall U.S.

For a company that lost more than $1 billion in 2009 and is almost certain to spend 2010 in the red, Hapag-Lloyd seems an unlikely recovery story.

The North American intermodal business is developing a split personality.

Atlantic Container Line said Friday it will raise rates on east- and westbound trans-Atlantic cargo, effective April 1.

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.