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Detroit billionaire and bridge-owner Manuel "Matty" Maroun may oppose a government-owned span linking the Michigan city and Canada, but that won't stop him from setting up trucking operation

Old Dominion Freight Line will raise its rates an average of 4.4 percent, effective Jan. 18, the regional less-than-truckload carrier said Friday.

Small railroads across North America lost one fourth of their freight volume in 2009, according to the RMI RailConnect index of short lines and regional railroads.

YRC Worldwide paid one of its top executives $400,000 this week as part of a non-competition and confidentially agreement that includes an additional $400,000 in incentive pay if he stays with the com

Railcar and barge builder Greenbrier lost $3.2 million in its September-November fiscal first quarter of 2010, less of a decline than its $3.9 million loss a year earlier.

Port Corpus Christi decided to proceed with the design of a multi-purpose dock and terminal project to be constructed on the port’s 1,000-acre site at La Quinta.

With the lowest cargo volume in 71 years for iron ore and the worst in 77 years for coal, the two chief backbones of U.S.

Miami-based ASTAR Air Cargo will lay off over 300 pilots by July 1, 2010 as a result of reduced flying for DHL.

The latest in a series of strong winter storms is disrupting all forms of surface freight transportation, as rivers and rail switches ice up and some Interstate highways have closed at times from heav

Hong Kong’s largest air cargo handler saw tonnage soar 38.5 percent in December, capping a huge expansion in shipping late in the year that still left business for all of 2009 down 8.3 percent f

Container throughput at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru dropped by 8 percent in 2009 compared with the previous year as the slump in trade hit cargo volume moving through the country’s la

UPS said Friday the economy and shipping demand are improving faster than the company anticipated, but the package carrier announced new cost-cutting plans that will eliminate 1,800 jobs across the Un

The Coast Guard is seeking comments from the public on methods for securing cargo in transport vehicles and freight containers.

Singapore-based port operator PSA International said its terminals handled 9.9 percent fewer containers in 2009 compared to the previous year, the first decline ever, as the worldwide recession hit gl

The 2009 plunge in bulk U.S.

The two big Canadian Class I railroads suffered a sharper decline in bulk carload traffic in 2009 than U.S.-based major lines, while their drop in intermodal matched the U.S.

A Port of Long Beach advertisement promoting its clean-truck plan to neighboring communities attracted the support of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13.

The Panama Canal Authority on Thursday awarded the fourth and final contract for dry excavation for a channel to its third set of locks to FCC-ICA-MECO, a joint venture between Spanish, Mexican and Pu

Late-year gains in some commodity cargoes and in intermodal business were not enough to let large U.S. rail lines escape double-digit declines in both types of traffic.

Deutsche Post DHL, extending its push away from domestic parcel delivery in Europe, said it plans to sell its French domestic parcels unit in the first quarter this ye

Major U.S. railroads hauled fewer intermodal units in 2009 than any time since 2003, meaning the deep recession took six years of growth away from intermodal train traffic.

Although container freight rates are on the rebound on many routes, this does not mean the ocean container shipping industry will recover any time soon, and many carriers may run out of money before a

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FreightCar America, Inc. (NASDAQ: RAIL - News) announced today that Michael D. MacMahon has been appointed as Vice President, Business Development and Strategy. Mr.

Discount retailer Half Price Books selected software from Manhattan Associates to manage its distribution process.

Penske Truck Leasing entered into an agreement with the Bright family to acquire Bright Truck Leasing & Bright Distribution. Financial terms were not disclose

Exel will provide dedicated delivery services to dealers from Chrysler’s Mopar parts distribution center in St.

Less-than-truckload pricing, which took a sharp turn downward toward the end of the 2009, will begin to firm by the second half of 2010 regardless of whether YRC Worldwide is still in business, invest

Fewer shippers are considering diverting freight from YRC Worldwide in the wake of its successful debt-for-equity swap, but a significant percentage of shippers are still shifting volume to other carr

Dennis Copeland is leaving his position as senior vice president and chief administrative officer at Quality Distribution.

Hanjin Shipping and United Arab Shipping Co. plan to launch a joint service between Spain and West Africa on March 1, the South Korean carrier said Thursday.

Evergreen Line on Thursday announced another rate increase on all westbound cargo moving from the Far East, Japan and the Indian subcontinent to Europe and the Mediterranean.

Container traffic in the port of Amsterdam crashed by more than half in 2009 compared with the previous year as the port lost two of its three deep-sea liner services to neighboring Rotterdam.

Bud Streeter is the new Vice President and Marine Manager for the United States, including responsibility for Panama, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS—Port San Antonio has added Antonio R. Salinas III as its newest manager on the facility’s business development team.

The escalating fight to prevent Asian carp from getting out of a Chicago barge and ship canal into the Great Lakes now has the Coast Guard ordering a year-long regulated zone while the Army Corps of E

Shippers are returning to YRC Worldwide "pretty aggressively," Chairman and CEO William D.

Private equity firm Calera Capital took over majority ownership of Rock-it Cargo, one of the largest specialty forwarders focused on the entertainment and arts field.

The ocean port at Everett, Wash., will build a rail spur to expand its freight train operations, largely paid with federal funds for disaster preparations.

The Alaska Railroad won approval from the Surface Transportation Board to build an 80-mile northern extension from the town of North Pole, outside Fairbanks, southeast to Delta Junction, an area now s

Demand for petroleum and coal products led the growth of new orders, shipments and inventories of manufactured goods in November.