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New orders at Hyundai Heavy Industries fell 61 percent in 2009. The world’s largest shipbuilder forecasts lingering effects from containership overcapacity through this year.

Two reports on Chinese manufacturing showed production at the country’s factories surged in December, pointing to a full recovery in 2010.

DP World, the global container terminal operator, on Jan.

Maersk Line announced Monday it will implement a general rate increase on westbound dry cargo moving from South Asia and the Middle East to destinations in North Europe and the Mediterranean.

Hamburg Sud said Monday it will apply a general rate increase to all containerized cargo moving from the United States and Canada to Europe as of Feb. 15.

Chicago’s multi-layered plan to revamp rail connections in the city and region just checked its $13.1 million McCook Connection off its list, improving links between several freight carriers and

Weak economy and all, FedEx celebrated a record day in its express division on Dec.

With their striking orange-on-black color scheme, Schneider Regional trucks are the reverse image of Schneider National’s familiar black-on-orange units.

Ship owners and managers and others in the industry launched a new trade association at the Baltic Exchange in London on Monday with a broad mandate to represent and promote the health and medical int

European ocean carriers may be hurting, but they’re not finding any haven from the recession in Europe’s ports, where 2010 is already shaping up as a make or break year for some oper

If drayage operators had any question that polluting trucks have no future in California, clean-trucks plans implemented at the port and state levels at the start of the new year should dispel a

CMA CGM’s new $500 million line of credit will buy the company time to rebuild its finances, but the world’s third-largest container line already is reconstructing its business.

Cynicism is growing among many shippers besieged with notices of freight rate increases that note ocean carriers are seeking to maintain services.

Container handling came to a standstill Monday at France’s seven largest ports as dockworkers staged the first of two 24-hour strikes to protest government reforms of box terminal operations.

As a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Stephen E. Flynn was an outspoken critic of U.S. supply chain security policy.

It took all of 2009 to get a landmark rail regulatory overhaul bill through the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

Ongoing battles over proposed cap-and-trade legislation and efforts by ports to gain more control over harbor trucking will carry over into 2010.

The supply chain executive suite is looking pretty green for 2010, but it isn’t because of the color of money.

Trucking executives had a handy source of confetti New Year’s Eve: all those less-than-truckload contracts they shredded in a fourth-quarter price war.

Pacific Ship Lines Seek Westbound Hike

The employees of Arrow Trucking are taking the company to court over its sudden shutdown Dec. 23, charging the closure violated federal labor law.

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Smit Internationale, the global marine services company, completed the acquisition of all shares of Minette Bay Ship Docking, a tug operator based in Prince Rupert, Canada, the company said.

Federal regulators, trying to bring order to the chaotic shutdown of Arrow Trucking, are ordering the company’s owners to bring Arrow’s trucks off the roads and under control.

Pirates based in Somalia are holding a British-registered ca ship after hijacking the vessel in the Indian Ocean amid a growing surge of piracy in the region.

International freight expanded for the first time in a year-and-a-half in November, as a sudden peak season surge in Asia-Pacific shipping sent freight up 9.5 percent over the same month a year ago.

Carlen Transport, the largest flatbed truck operator in Maine, ceased operations this week, saying high costs and weak demand from the housing and construction made it impossible to keep the company r

The U.S. Commerce Department is sending grant money to port and rail projects in states around the Gulf of Mexico to help the region’s recovery efforts from two hurricanes in 2008.

Trinity Industries, spreading out beyond the troubled rail equipment market, bought highway construction products manufacturer for about $61 million in cash, the railcar maker said Thursday.

YRC Worldwide said Thursday it had won the critical support from bondholders the trucking giant needed to rebuild its finances and stave off bankruptcy.

Clerical workers at Evergreen Shipping Agency (America) in Jersey City, New Jersey, ratified a three-year contract negotiated by the company and International Longshoremen’s Association Local 19

YRC Worldwide said Wednesday the trucking company “will be open for business as usual on Monday” despite its unresolved bid for a financial overhaul and one investment analyst’s sugg

The Lamberts Point Coal Terminal, the big Virginia coastal site where Norfolk Southern Railway trains deliver Appalachian coal that can be loaded onto ships for export, should have the first of its tw

Air pollution at the Port of Long Beach fell significantly from 2005 to 2008, according to a new air quality study commissioned by the port.

Customs brokers and importers have been able to use remote location filing for several years, but until now Customs and Border Protection classified the practice as a prototype program under the Natio

President Obama on Monday signed into law a bill that extends the U.S. General System of Preferences and the Andean Trade Preference Act for one year.

Freight traffic for European airlines fell 12.7 percent in October, the slimmest decline of a dreadful year in air cargo, helped by a 30.7 percent surge in trade on Middle East routes, the Association

The Federal Maritime Commission will take up a dispute in which container handler SSA Terminals alleges that Oakland, Calif.’s board of port commissioners gave better facility rental terms to Po

The Port of Houston Authority will close its New York / New Jersey office effective Jan. 1, 2010. The Houston office will manage customer needs in the Northeast region.

The Teamsters Union planned to hold an unusual picketing action outside the offices of Brigade Capital Management in New York to urge the hedge fund to cooperate with YRC Worldwide in its effort to re