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Two Senate adversaries on health-care reform are standing shoulder-to-shoulder in their determination to steer Customs and Border Protection back on a course of trade facilitation.

The country may be crawling out of the worst recession in decades, and transportation companies along with their customers may be reeling from slack demand and “unsustainable rates,” but you wouldn’t

SHENZHEN, China — No one can accuse Electrolux’s Bjorn Vang Jensen of complaining about volatile shipping rates and not doing anything about them.

Sometime over the next few weeks, the White House Council on Environmental Quality will update its “principles and guidelines” to steer federal agencies making policy decisions on water resources.

Many historians peg the end of the Cold War to the day in 1987 when President Reagan traveled to the Berlin Wall and demanded, “Mr.

Taiwan’s decision last month to remove virtually all restrictions on its imports of U.S. beef could be the best recipe for growth in global U.S. exports of meat.

The proof is in the numbers.

YRC Worldwide says it is gaining new customers even as it continues to lose some shippers, leading to "stabilization" of its customer base and improved yields, top company officials say.

Congress on Thursday gave a six-week lease on life to a transportation spending law that expired Sept. 30.

YRC Worldwide’s regional carrier group reported a $293,000 profit, its first since the second quarter of 2008, largely driven by a turnaround at former USF regional carrier Holland, said YRC Wor

Israel Corp's shareholders are scheduled to vote Sunday, Nov. 1, on a complex financial restructuring of its ocean container unit Zim Integrated Shipping.

Korean Air started 747-400 freighter service to Hanoi this week, the carrier announced in a strong signal of Vietnam’s growing prominence in Asia trade.

Shippers in the National Industrial Transportation League are firm in wanting an expected rail regulatory reform bill to strip railroads of a limited exemption they enjoy from antitrust laws, said NIT

Mediterranean Shipping Company will offer direct service from the U.S. East Coast to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a change in rotation on its GGS USAEC / Far East service.

France's biggest dock workers’ union called for a 24-hour strike at France's seven largest ports on Nov. 6 in the latest protest against government plans to privatize container handling.

Dependable Global Express acquired certain operations of C&H Freight, a forwarder in the Central and South American trade.

Deutsche Post DHL, Europe's biggest mail and express delivery company, agreed to a labor contract with the Verdi union, according to a Reuters report.

Japan's second-largest air carrier All Nippon Airways lost $278 million in the first half of fiscal 2009, ending Sept. 30, compared with a group net profit of $242 million a year earlier.

Three Japanese airlines announced separately that they have been warned by South Korea over their possible violation of that nation's anti-trust law in their international cargo operations.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide, fighting to stay out of bankruptcy, cut its net loss to $158.7 million in the third quarter but saw its volume and revenue fall sharply as shippers apparently moved busin

Mediterranean Shipping Company announced rate increases for export cargo from North America and Mexico to Europe, Mediterranean, Africa, Middle East and India.

China Cosco Holdings, parent of Cosco Container Lines, posted a loss of $101.2 million Thursday for the quarter ended Sept.

The American Association of Port Authorities appointed a new slate of officers for the 2009-2010 year Thursday at its 98th Annual Convention in Galveston, Texas.

The chairman of the Surface Transportation Board is filling his remaining top staff job with a lawyer who has represented industrial firms before regulatory agencies, giving him a pair of senior aides

Traffic edged higher for major U.S. railroads in the week ending Oct. 24, as both carloads and intermodal pickups rose from a week earlier, said the Association of American Railroads.

Surface trade with Canada and Mexico in August fell 24.9 percent from August 2008 to $54.3 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

OOCL named Erxin Yao president of its business in the United States, the ocean carrier announced Thursday, on the retirement of Peter Leng.

International air cargo traffic fell 5.4 percent in September from a year ago but rose 12 percent from its December 2008 low point, the International Air Transport Association reported.

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the seven Class I railroads, saw net income fall 47 percent from a year earlier to $25.8 million in the third quarter.

North American short line railroads picked up more loads in the latest week, with gains across a wide range of cargoes, according to RMI’s RailConnect index.

CMA CGM’s creditors want the carrier to replace founder and CEO Jacques R. Saadé before they restructure the container carrier’s $5.6 billion debt, according to Bloomberg News.

Barge operator American Commercial Lines said it lost $12.2 million on declining shipping demand in the third quarter, but the results included several special charges and the company turned an $8.7 m

Waterways operator Kirby saw its net profit fall 16.3 percent to $35 million in the third quarter on a steep decline in demand and falling barge rates.

Alexander & Baldwin said Wednesday that Matson Navigation, its ocean transportation segment, earned an operating profit of $24.2 million in the third quarter ended Sept.

Trinity Industries, largest of North America’s railcar makers and a large supplier of wind energy towers and barges, did half the business it did a year earlier in the third quarter.

Neptune Orient Lines posted a $139 million loss in the third quarter ended Sept.

The U.S. economy grew 3.5 percent in the third quarter, the government announced Monday, a long-awaited signal that the worst recession in decades is over.

Profit for Transport Corp.

Losses in the cargo sector at Lufthansa soared to $300 million in the first three quarters of 2009 from a $240 million year-earlier profit.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said all terminals in the port except the Port Newark Container Terminal will be closed on Tuesday, Nov.