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Shipper efforts to reduce transportation costs and meet sustainability goals are driving changes in carrier networks.

The arrival of a repaired gate that notoriously fell off a Ohio River lock last September will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to begin final work to reopen the facility in March.

Through the worst freight recession in decades and despite fierce trucking competition to keep loads on the highway, the domestic intermodal industry has held up pretty well.

Crowley Liner Services’ settlement this month of civil antitrust lawsuits with U.S.

2009’s bumper corn crop that yielded a record 13.2 billion-bushel harvest should be good news for farmers, but whether they benefit from it will depend on the supply chain, according to an exper

TLR-Total Logistics Resource, a Portland, Ore., forwarder, is having a terrible time getting its customers’ export containers on Asia-bound vessels.

Officials of Hanjin Shipping and the International Longshoremen’s Association tentatively agreed on a contract establishing personnel scales for a highly automated container terminal the carrier

European Union competition regulators Jan. 25 approved the takeover by France’s state railway SNCF of Geneva-based Ermewa, a leading railcar and rail container leasing firm.

By issuing a final regulation on automated train equipment, or positive train control, the Federal Railroad Administration cleared a path for railroads to spend billions of dollars on what is la

Checks sent out to states for stimulus projects from the Department of Transportation reached $8.26 billion through Jan. 15, a gain of about $162 million from a week earlier.

New York’s Kennedy International Airport saw its first year-over-year expansion in freight tonnage in two-and-a-half years in November, eking out a 0.2 percent gain that signaled the gateway is

For the majority of importers, Jan. 26 will pass as any other Tuesday this year.

With 2010 contract bidding in full swing, one shipper has advice for his fellow shippers: “Help the good carriers out.”

As of Jan. 19, Russia has effectively banned imports of U.S. poultry, typically exported as palletized breakbulk cargo, because U.S.

The trucking companies that succeed in the new decade may take lessons from their oldest competitors.

“We’re seeing business activity improving, and supply and demand are beginning to come back into balance,” the co-chairman of the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based truckload carrier said.

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Trucking companies and their customers, parched by a three-year decline in freight shipping followed by a recession that amounted to a depression in consumer demand, are eager for any sign that econom

Net profit for Transport Corp. of India surged 108 percent from a year earlier to $2.6 million in the third quarter ending Dec. 31, despite a 20-percent increase in operating expenses.

Truckers should be green with envy at the pricing power their oceangoing counterparts are beginning to wield.

Like the first few raindrops after a long drought, the freight rate increases ocean and surface carriers are beginning to nail down are not enough to slake their thirst.

The Georgia Ports Authority reported that the container volume handled by the Port of Savannah increased by 3.6 percent over the same quarter of 2008 in the quarter ended Dec.

The U.S. Navy is asking commercial shipping to coordinate their operations in a safety zone in the waters between Haiti and Cuba.

Riviera Beach, FL – At the January 21, 2010 meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of Palm Beach District, Commissioner Edward Oppel made an impassioned plea to the Board to waive cha

The 88,322 shipments picked up by small North American railroads in the latest week were the most since the week of Nov. 21 and were up 1.2 percent from the same point last year.

Trans-Pacific Carriers to Seek Bunker Surcharges

TUI AG said it will ask shareholders to oppose a motion by billionaire Norwegian ship-owner John Fredriksen calling for an investigation into the financial rescue of troubled ocean container carrier H

MISC Berhad will revise the port rotation and coverage of its Halal Express 2 (HE2) Service linking the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East.

DP World’s container traffic declined 8 percent in 2009 from a year ago but the rate of decline slowed in the second half of the year across its global terminal network.

The volume of containers transported by Neptune Orient Lines’ liner subsidiary APL surged by 43 percent in the six weeks from Nov. 14 to Dec.

The National Transportation Safety Board wants the federal government to “require audio and image recorders in the cabs of all locomotives,” after determining that a commuter train operato

AMHERST, N.Y., January 22, 2010 – Columbus McKinnon Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCO), a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of material handling products, today announced it is contributing mo

Crowley Maritime will start delivering relief supplies directly to earthquake-crippled Port-au-Prince next week after successfully completing an experimental ship-to-shore transfer of ocean containers

Space on ocean vessels leaving Asia is tight leading up to Chinese New Year in three weeks, and shipping lines are capitalizing by charging importers at least $200 per container to guarantee the shipm

Crowley Maritime began operating a ship-to-shore transfer of containers at Port-au-Prince’s badly damaged harbor on Friday that authorities hope will provide a more rapid path for relief supplie

Shipments of commercial trailers hit a 32-year low in December while reaching their highest point in 2009, said ACT Research.

Net profit for Container Corporation of India fell 3 percent from a year earlier to $43.5 million in the third quarter ending Dec. 31, despite a marginal increase in overall revenue.

At the request of the Haitian government, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dispatched a portable, temporary control tower to Haiti today to help assist wi

YRC Worldwide will release fourth-quarter financial results Feb.

Pacer International, Inc., a leading North American freight transportation and logistics provider, announced the appointment of Michael D. Gordon as Corporate Controller, effective January 1, 2010.