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A year after Congress told federal regulators to issue $20 million in grants to help short line railroads recover from storm damages, the Federal Railroad Administration is ready to make the final $5

SSA Marine plans to make a huge gamble on new container crane technology which, if successful, will revolutionize cargo-handling in the port industry.

Five Somali pirates were captured today after they mistook a French naval ship for a cargo vessel.

The agency that regulates trucking safety plans to offer carriers access to an electronic database of drivers’ inspection and accident records starting in December.

The Department of Transportation is renewing efforts to ensure the safe transport of lithium batteries.

The top Republican on the Senate’s Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee predicted that truckers, manufacturers and other key industry groups will push for a higher federal motor fuels

Supply chain and logistics services provider Avram Worldwide opened its headquarters in Greenwood, Ind., where it will invest $885,000 to lease and equip an existing 20,000 square-foot facility in Joh

Air France-KLM,Europe's largest air freight airline, will cut cargo capacity 40 percent this winter compared to last year after watching a slump in demand this year extend into September.

Truckload demand is improving across parts of the United States, helping turn around a decline in pricing and raise prospects for higher rates in coming months, an investment analyst said in a report

An alliance between U.S.

West Coast ports, and especially Los Angeles-Long Beach, will have to significantly improve their productivity and establish a reputation for reliability if they are to avoid a further loss of market

The organizations representing ship managers and ship suppliers called upon ship owners to discuss cash flow problems openly as the global slowdown has made many slow to pay.

Shipping lines operating in the Pacific plan to increase freight rates to the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Commerce awarded a $6 million Economic Development Administration grant to the Jacksonville Port Authority to help improve the Blount Island Marine Terminal railroad system.

Introduction of a rail regulatory reform bill in the Senate still awaits agreement with some shippers, said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va.

The Federal Railroad Administration will make grant awards this winter out of its $8 billion stimulus fund for freight and passenger rail systems.

WIL Lines, a South Florida-based forwarder, increased shipments in the third quarter by exporting products to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Lufthansa Cargo Group appointed David Albaiceta General Manager in Asia.

The National Retail Federation on Tuesday forecast holiday retail industry sales will decline 1 percent this year to $437.6 billion.

YRC Worldwide realigned its senior management for the second time this year, naming Tim Wicks chief operating officer Oct. 5 and promoting or reassigning other key executives.

Japan's Hitachi Transport System agreed to acquire a 51 percent stake in U.S. logistics service provider J.P. Holding Company.

Boeing announced Tuesday a $1 billion pretax charge for higher costs and delays in its B747-8 widebody aircraft development program.

Seaboard Marine selected GT Nexus to provide transactional e-commerce services to the ocean carrier’s customers.

MISC Berhad expanded its Halal Express Service 1 (HES1) between the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East with a direct call at India’s Port of Pipavav.

Berlian Laju Tanker, Indonesia's biggest shipping line, will become the world's leading operator of chemical tankers if its planned $174 million takeover of Norway's Camillo Eitzen [CECO] goes through

Australia’s Babcock & Brown Infrastructure is set to sell its UK ports business and a 50 percent stake in one of the world’s biggest coal shipping terminals as part of a $1.5 billion r

Having already lost about four percent of their market share of Asian cargo to Canadian and East Coast ports the past few years, and hoping to avoid a further diversion of cargo when the Panama Canal

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is spending $10 million to study solutions to the Bayonne Bridge’s ship-clearance problems as it seeks solutions to a key barrier to port’s growth, the ag

Container shipping needs “transformation” that goes beyond the changes carriers are undertaking to survive and likely will include consolidation, a Maersk executive told The Journal of Commerce’s East

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association supports a ban on cell-phone texting while driving, but wants better enforcement of existing laws on inattentive or negligent driving by all motorist

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its ratings on Panama Canal Railway Co. (PCRC), including lowering the long-term corporate credit rating to 'B+' from 'BB'.

The average retail price of diesel slid 1.9 cents last week to $2.582 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Challenger Motor Freight, one of the largest truckload carriers in Canada, acquired the special commodities business of Sandrock Specialized Carriers, a Heidelberg, Ontario-based company specializing

The state of the economy and government regulation top a list of trucking industry concerns released by the American Transportation Research Institute.

Crowley Maritime Corporation promoted Tucker Gilliam to general manager Dominican Republic/Haiti for the company's liner services group.

ATC Logistics & Electronics, a subsidiary of ATC Technology Corporation, added Amy Knoth as a business development director.

Ocean carrier OOCL will increase its rates on all dry and refrigerated cargo from Hong Kong, Macau and South China to New Zealand, effective Nov. 1.

Refrigerated trucking company FFE Transportation Services signed a four-year contract valued at more than $3 million for fleetwide deployment of ReeferTrak, a monitoring and management service provide

Momentum Logistics, a subsidiary of international port management company, Gulftainer, signed a contract to provide dedicated warehouse space and other logistics services to United Arab Shipping Compa

As the world economy works toward recovery, prospects for freight transportation in and through Malaysia are improving, according to a report from Business Monitor International.