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UPS, the world’s largest package delivery company, expects to carry 400 million packages worldwide during the holiday season between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year.

FedEx Freight, the less-than-truckload division of FedEx, agreed to a partnership with Vision Industries to test a tractor powered by the hydrogen/electric hybrid Tyrano drive train.

The American Association of Exporters and Importers is complaining that layers of bureaucracy in Customs and Border Protection’s Office of International Trade are causing importers unnecessary d

Deep discounting slashed less-than-truckload rates in the third quarter as carriers tried to knock the nation’s largest LTL trucker, YRC Worldwide, out of business. No one delivered that kn

Truck buyers put the pedal to the metal in October, sending Class 8 truck sales zooming 104 percent from September and 117 percent over October 2008.

Having redrawn its business model over the years, J.B. Hunt Transport Services now appears intent on redrawing the nation’s intermodal map.

With the economy struggling out of the recession, retailers are implementing innovative supply chain strategies, embracing the latest technologies and going “green” to cut costs and entice

Logistics and distribution real estate providers have had plenty of reasons to feel pessimistic lately.

Global forwarders are struggling to pass on to their customers the higher ocean and air cargo rates they have paid shipping lines and airlines since late summer.

Eight months after completing one of the largest logistics deals of the year, France’s Geodis Group isn’t letting the worst recession in decades interfere with plans to expand in the Unite

Whatever the outcome of the rail reform bill being drafted in the Senate, it is unlikely to strip railroads of their limited antitrust immunity, according to a key Republican senator.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will hold webinars on its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 initiative Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, at 3:30 p.m. EST.

During her Senate confirmation hearing, then-nominee Anne S. Ferro heard an earful about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s record enforcing truck safety rules.

The port of Amsterdam risks disappearing from Europe's ocean container map, as its sole box terminal is about to lose its last major liner shipping service.

Cap-and-trade is aimed at limiting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions at the company level.

The impending arrival of a nationwide cap-and-trade program for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions might be the best new idea since the invention of the Internet.

Intermodal marketing companies, middleman firms that arrange either all-highway or combined rail-truck shipments for clients such as factories or retail stores, used trains for a greater share of thei

APL is telling customers the company plans to reopen 2009-2010 trans-Pacific contracts to ask for higher rates for services to the U.S., a move allowed under most contracts expiring next May once ship

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Retail sales in October surpassed the previous month by 1.4 percent and pulled the comparison for the three-months prior to the peak season into positive territory.

If freight carriers needed another reminder of just how slight their market power is in the face of weak demand and plentiful capacity, the reaction of shippers to the announcement that Maersk Line wi

Despite all the talk that weak intermodal volumes this year meant there was not really a normal “peak,” the major industry group that tracks shipments says traffic actually rose this fall

The Asia-Europe container trade rebounded in the third quarter from the deep declines in traffic during the first half of the year, driven by a surge in shipments on the eastbound trade from Mediterra

Japan's two largest airlines posted mixed international cargo results in September, signaling an uneven recovery.

Total Terminals International, which operates terminals in Long Beach, Oakland and Seattle, said Monday that Maersk Line will start calling its Oakland terminal with two of its trans-Pacific services

Shippers and carriers expect there will be sufficient capacity in the domestic transportation system to handle the modest growth in traffic that will occur in the coming year, but eventually there wil

Customs administrations in Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American countries should reduce complicated customs and regulatory procedures to speed the growth of trade “triangles” in the ne

The Maine Maritime Academy board of trustees selected Dr. William J. Brennan of Falmouth, Maine, to be the school’s next president.

Accidents such as a fatal collision between a gasoline truck and a passenger car last July could be prevented if Congress approves new hazardous material transportation legislation, according to the c

The South Carolina State Ports Authority hired Sarah S. Gaillard for the new position of vice president of carrier sales, starting Jan. 4.

Global forwarder Panalpina won significant new business from two of its long-time customers, oil and gas industry technology and equipment providers Halliburton and Weatherford.

A barge carrying hazardous materials broke free from its tug Friday and grounded off Sandbridge Beach in Virginia Beach, Va.

Charleston, SC – The South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) has hired Sarah S. Gaillard to the new position of Vice President, Carrier Sales, effective January 4, 2010.

The Alabama State Port Authority is looking for a partner to lease and operate its new $100 million Pinto Island Steel Terminal.

Air Transport Services Group came through the third quarter with nearly the same operating income as a year earlier despite the scaled-down U.S.

Smaller logistics operators and freight brokers outperformed their larger counterparts in the third quarter, but a less-than-robust recovery is squeezing profit margins at all 3PLs, said the Transport

Rebounding exports couldn’t keep up with the price of imported oil as the U.S. trade deficit widened in September with the biggest jump in more than 10 years.

Average truckload rates fell 9.4 percent in the third quarter despite sharp cuts in capacity compared to last year, carrier Covenant Transport said in a securities filing.

FedEx Express launched FedEx India, a domestic next-business-day express shipping service covering major cities in the country.

Small North American railroads picked up more tankcar loads of chemicals last week than at the end of October and enjoyed a sizable gain in coal loadings, for a gain in overall traffic in the latest R