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Money from the 2009 economic stimulus will become highways, bridges, airports and mass transit systems in 2010, and that’s welcome news to members of the American Road & Transportation Builders Associ

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.

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.

Rail executives, transportation analysts, economists and commodity specialists are looking to the housing market for signs of the direction of lumber shipments, but the market has been sending mixed m

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.

If any segment of the trucking industry were naturally resistant to recession, it would be food hauling and refrigerated transport.

If this were a movie, we’d call it “What Shippers Want.” As the first decade of the new millennium wound down, The Journal of Commerce hosted its 2nd Annual Shippers Roundtable to ta

When the worst recession in a generation spread throughout the global trade community, it became harder for shippers to ignore potential benefits of the latest Web-based electronic technologies for ma

The air freight industry faces an August deadline to meet U.S. government mandates to have 100 percent of the cargo on passenger aircraft screened.

If there’s any safe harbor from the container shipping’s financial hurricane, it’s marine terminals.

A big concern for the trade community this year can be summed up in three letters: A-C-E.

The global economic downturn is creating significant challenges for anyone managing the movement of goods, but experts say it also is creating new opportunities for third-party logistics providers.

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

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.

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,

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.

Trucking executives rolled into 2010 hoping business, if not much better, would not be any worse than in 2009. But they aren’t expecting much of a boost early in the year.

The future of coal is not what it used to be, and that simple fact can alter the business model for freight railroads.

The U.S. is exporting more wastepaper to Asia, and that’s a good sign for the global economy.

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

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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