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To judge from the number of carriers and logistics providers that unveiled temperature-controlled products in 2009, the industry sector was a bastion of stability in a crumbling world.

Never mind the market trends, there’s one reason shipping, rail and trucking executives may be looking at this year with optimism for freight volume and even some measure of profitability.

Despite a drop of more than 10 percent in sales for a foundation of the electronics industry, the Semiconductor Industry Association raised projections for the year ahead, based on better-than-expecte

Rail freight shippers in the United States have plenty of reason to see 2010 as a time when government actions could fundamentally reshape their industry.

With the holidays come and gone, international shippers and ocean carriers are asking whether the rate hikes carriers got last fall on their Asia-Europe and trans-Atlantic services will hold through t

The worst of the recession may be over for U.S. apparel importers and retailers, but the industry may have suffered some permanent damage. U.S.

Although the worst seems to be over in the construction equipment and steel sectors, levels of production and trade remain low, and no one expects the recovery to be rapid.

Although the surge in fourth-quarter imports offered some hope U.S.

Barack Obama’s first year as president had little impact on the global trade community because his administration has zeroed in on several other issues as its top priorities: Health-care reform,

Truckload demand gained strength in early 2010, with little sign of a post-holiday downturn, according to Morgan Stanley.

The state of Illinois returned fire Jan. 5 in the escalating legal battle over closure of locks on the waterways linking Lake Michigan to the Mississippi-Illinois river system.

The Federal Maritime Commission’s newest member, Michael A. Khouri, was sworn in on Jan. 7, the commission announced.

Metro Ports recently announced three new personnel appointments: Patrick Furrow, senior VP HR & administrative services; Kenneth Keane, director, safety; and Steve Mathis, director, business devel

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan.

PHOENIX – The Border Trade Alliance (BTA) today announced that Nelson Balido has been hired as the organization’s new president.

GE Transportation will deliver 50 new freight locomotives to Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Cosan, with the engines built in the United States and the locomotive structures in Brazil.

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.

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