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The Port of Seattle will pay BNSF Railway some $81 million for a 42-mile section of track northeast of the port, ending a long negotiation the port says will keep the line open to freight service.

A week after most large trans-Pacific container carriers sought an “emergency” increase in U.S.

Teamsters officials, trying to save carhauling work in the troubled automobile manufacturing jobs, say General Motors agreed to protect existing jobs at the company and remains in talks with the union

WASHINGTON — Congressional legislation has done little to assure the federal government that U.S.

Softwood lumber markets strengthened in the third quarter in China and northern Africa but remained slow in the U.S. and Japan, according to forest industry analysts Wood Resources International.

Global steel production in November jumped 24 percent over a year earlier to 107.5 million metric tons, but was down 5.2 percent from October, according to the World Steel Association.

States with the two largest seaports ranked in the top five among states with the most-congested urban interstate highways, according to a Reason Foundation report.

A Singapore government agency fined a logistics company executive about $50,000 for safety violations that resulted in a 2007 accident that killed a worker, according to local reports.

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Containerized exports at the Port of Oakland soared 39.7 percent in November over the same month a year ago, a new sign of growing demand for U.S. goods overseas.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services held a naming ceremony for the Zim Colombo, a newly built 4,255-TEU vessel, at the state-owned Jaya Container Terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

TOKYO — Japan’s merchandise trade surplus with the United States expanded in November for the first time in 27 months as the pace of decline in Japanese exports slowed significantly, according to prel

Roadrunner Transportation Services expects to launch its initial public stock offering now that the economy is more stable and the trucking company has withstood the downturn in demand.

While many trucking companies are cutting prices to attract customers, Roadrunner Transportation Services is acquiring them.

Kraft Foods is cutting carbon dioxide where the rubber meets the road, shaking 50 million truck miles out of its global distribution operations and taking 50,000 trucks off highways since 2005, elimin

Pacer International is capping a transformational year for the major intermodal middleman with a sudden change in leadership.

For years, executives of U.S.-based multinationals quietly complained the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act put them at competitive disadvantage by making it illegal for U.S.

Santa Claus arrived early this year at the three container terminals in Port Newark and Port Elizabeth, N.J.

Econocaribe, a Miami-based non-vessel-operating common carrier specializing in Latin America and the Caribbean, didn’t handle much cargo for Europe before 2007, when it linked up with Ecu-Line,

When cargo volume in the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex was booming two years ago, terminal operators opened gates early, worked through the lunch hour and offered five night and weekend ga

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey hasn’t decided on the next step to phasing out older trucks, but drayage companies already are apprehensive about the path the port will take.

Another front is opening in the battle over the classification of workers as independent contractors.

It’s been nine years since Congress approved the down payment for the Automated Commercial Environment, the entry processing system that was to take Customs and Border Protection into the 21st c

Given the secretive way a rail regulatory overhaul was crafted in the Senate over recent months, it seemed inevitable the landmark bill would emerge late in a jammed legislative calendar and req

For Bob Scribner, the relative ease of shipping goods out of Asia in 2009 came to a crashing halt late this fall as the holidays approached.

‘Rate Restoration’ Gives Way to ‘Emergency Revenue’

The Senate gave existing highway funding programs a two-month reprieve today when it approved a Defense Department appropriations bill 88-12.

The Home Depot is hammering together a “rapid deployment center” for its logistics operations in the Southeast, the CoStar Group reports.

South Africa’s state-owned rail freight utility, Transnet Freight Rail, is acquiring 100 diesel electric locomotives from GE Transportation.

New hire signals Damco's strong ambitions within reefer logistics December 2009 - Damco accelerates reefer logistics capabilities aimed at companies moving fresh produce and protein in and out of Nort

Zurich, 18 December 2009 - Swissport International, global leader in the air transport ground handling sector, is pleased to announce the appointment of Johannes C.

APL next year will become the first ocean carrier at the Port of Oakland to operate vessels at berth from shore-side electrical power.

Orient Overseas Container Line will introduce new Asia-Europe services in January.

Small North American railroads loaded up more railcars with paper products in the week ending Dec. 12 than any time since June 6, according to the RMI RailConnect index.

Fesco, Russia's biggest ocean carrier, received a $100 million five year loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to support its debt restructuring program.

In a week when many cargoes were down as a heavy winter storm blew across the Midwest, major U.S. railroads had their strongest loadings of scrap materials in three weeks.

DB Schenker launched a program to bolster growth in its contract logistics business unit through additional employees and improved industrial standards.

The Department of Transportation’s reimbursements to states for construction projects under the stimulus law reached $7.164 billion as of Dec. 11, DOT reported.

Orient Overseas Container Line affirmed it would join the “emergency revenue program” announced Wednesday by the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, of which it is a member.

Somali pirates released a Greek-owned dry bulk carrier and its 21 crew members, including 14 Filipinos, after more than a month in captivity, the Philippine government and the ship's owner said Friday