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Sweden’s AB Volvo reported its fourth consecutive quarterly net loss but said demand for trucks stabilized in the past three months.

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An MOL executive said its container unit may be unprofitable for two more years as rising global capacity and slowing world trade damps rates.

Trucker appointment systems at marine terminals can be beneficial for both parties if the systems are flexible and managed objectively, according to a transportation economist.

Maersk Line reversed its December decision to quit calling at the Port of Charleston and will continue its services there beyond the conclusion of the current 2010 contract.

The industrial real estate market is slowly beginning to heat up as supply chain plans “come off the shelf,” says the head of one of the world’s largest industrial developers.

BNSF Railway’s profit of $488 million in the recession-struck third quarter was down 29.8 percent from a year earlier, as revenue fell 26.7 percent to $3.49 billion.

More federal funding and more “reasonable” regulation are needed to speed freight across the U.S.

Transportation professionals are urging the nation's universities to step up their research into freight movement issues and to develop strategies that ports, carriers and warehouse operators can impl

The settlement of a lawsuit Monday between the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations should serve to expedite the introduction of low-polluting trucks into the harbor, the port's e

Major U.S. railroads continued to load their trains last week at a pace close to recent levels, in keeping with a freight recovery that is now moving in a narrow volume range.

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is rising slowly, according to the monthly Port Tracker report released Thursday by the National Retail Federation and IHS Global

Swift Transportation is the latest carrier to look to its bankers for help in tough times, and get it.

Evergreen Line and CSAV Norasia entered a slot-swap arrangement in the Asia-Mediterranean-Black Sea trades, effective in early November.

People who operate airplanes, locomotives, trucks and buses would still be in violation of Department of Transportation rules against drug use if they use marijuana, despite a reported shift by federa

With an eye on the coming recovery, Old Dominion Freight Line pumped $50.2 million into infrastructure investments even as the less-than-truckload multi-regional motor carrier’s revenue fell 22

Rates charged by less-than-truckload motor carriers should remain low through the holiday season and into the first quarter of 2010, investment firm Stifel Nicolaus says.

FedEx Express shifted deliveries to an earlier schedule for inbound international express service in the Pearl River Delta region of China, including the city of Shanghai.

Amid signs of growing balance between capacity and demand, AirBridge Cargo Airlines, part of Volga-Dnepr Group, is launching 747 freighter service from Amsterdam to Tokyo.

For the sixth consecutive month, the closely watched Conference Board Leading Economic Index increased in September.

A 707 freighter crashed Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Sharjah Airport in the United Arab Emirates. All six crew members are dead.

Parcel industry leader UPS saw its profit fall to $549 million in the third quarter, 43.4 percent below a year earlier, on a 14.9 percent decline in revenue to $11.15 billion.

Japan's trade surplus expanded nearly six-fold in September from a year earlier to the highest level in 18 months, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Ministry on Thursday.

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Union Pacific Railroad generated a profit of $517 million in the third quarter, down 26 percent from a year earlier as revenue fell 25 percent to $3.47 billion.

Major infrastructure development is at a standstill in Southern California and other regions because planners are not leveraging the economic, environmental and community benefits of an efficient good

Container traffic in Antwerp fell 18.4 percent in the first nine months of the year from the same period in 2008, a significantly faster rate of decline than at its close rival Rotterdam.

Truckload carrier Knight Transportation increased its volume in the third quarter, but revenue and income fell as pricing deteriorated.

UAL Corporation, the holding company whose primary subsidiary is United Airlines, reduced net losses 92.8 percent to $57 million, compared with a loss of $792 million in third quarter 2008.

Airport-to-airport trucker Forward Air earned a profit of $3.8 million, down 69 percent from a year earlier, on revenue which fell 15 percent to $103.1 million in the third quarter as the recession re

Intermodal marketing company Hub Group reported a $9.8 million profit in the third quarter, down 42 percent from a year earlier as revenue of $389 million fell 24 percent.

Exports of steel from the United States increased in August by 13.1 percent over July, according to a report from the American Institute for International Steel.

DB Schenker won a three year contract to set up and execute a European distribution network for Systagenix Wound Management, formerly the Professional Wound Care Business of Ethicon, a Johnson & J

Neil D. Morrison, P.E., an experienced civil engineer and manager, has been named Director of Engineering Design for the Port of Long Beach.

AMB Property Corporation boosted third quarter net income 120 percent to $76.5 million compared with third quarter a year ago, strengthening the balance sheet by reducing costs.

Jobs at major U.S. railroads got scarcer from mid-August to mid-September than at any other point in the recession so far.

Piracy attacks on merchant ships in the first nine months of the year exceeded the total for the whole of 2008 after a surge in incidents off the coast of Somalia, the International Maritime Bureau sa

APL, which already participates in two new services from Vietnam launched in June, plans to start a third at the end of October that will connect Vietnamese and Thai manufacturing centers with Japan,

A crime-fighting agency's restrictions on the size of the longshore workforce in the Port of New York and New Jersey are an "anachronism" that places the port at a competitive disadvantage,

Canadian National Railway is ordering 70 new high-horsepower locomotives, splitting them evenly between suppliers GE Transportation and Electro-Motive Diesel.