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Ocean carriers started this year with excess capacity while retailers were carrying far too much inventory, making for a nightmare scenario as the global recession plumbed new depths.

When the United States imposed Section 421 safeguard duties of up to 35 percent on tire imports from China this month, much of the trade world reacted like fight fans eager for an all-out brawl.

Wal-Mart Converts ‘Green’ Into Green

Dave Akers is still arranging for a lot of toy imports this peak season, even if volumes are down from last year.

Douglas G. Duncan, the trucking veteran who became president and CEO of FedEx Freight when the company was created in 2001, will step down Feb. 28, 2010. FedEx did not name a replacement.

Coming up short isn’t a bad thing for a truckload carrier, if you’re talking length of haul.

Fifteen years ago, no one worried whether container ships were too tall to clear the Bayonne Bridge.

For the first time in decades, the share of total U.S.

Fixing the low air draft of the Bayonne Bridge so that new, large ships can serve the Port of New York and New Jersey’s four terminals will be neither quick nor cheap. The U.S.

The western railroads have lost much of their East Coast intermodal cargo to all-water liner services from Asia, and now they must work diligently to preserve their market share in key inland location

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The Surface Transportation Board said railroads saw their capital costs rise to 11.75 percent in 2008 from 11.33 percent the year before, raising the amount carriers could recover in freight rates.

The Group of 20, or G-20 nations, will permanently replace the G-8 as the main forum for international economic cooperation, giving more influence to developing nations, officials said at the G-20 Sum

Federal transportation construction programs spent $3.145 billion through Sept. 18 on highways, bridges and other repairs ranging from transit systems to airports to inland ports and railroads.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s $1.5 billion discretionary grant pool won’t come anywhere close to meeting its requests, as states and other transport groups sent in applications for

The Indian Shipping Ministry on Friday warned of terrorist related pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and along the Somali coast.

Truck tonnage climbed for the second month in a row in August, boosting the American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index another 2.1 percent over a si

A Los Angeles Superior Court decision this week confirmed that motor carriers are correct in classifying harbor truck drivers as independent contractors rather than direct employees.

Los Angeles International Airport, in a new sign of improving stability in Asia-Pacific shipping, reported its busiest month for freight in nearly a year in August and the fourth straight month-to-mon

Rail freight traffic at North American short lines grew moderately in the middle week of September after the previous week saw a slowdown for Labor Day.

New orders and shipments of manufactured durable goods fell in August after increases in July, giving the recovery a choppiness many economists predicted.

In two separate cases announced Thursday, the European Union said that it is slapping antidumping duties against Chinese and other suppliers of aluminum foil and seamless steel pipes and tubes.

West Coast ports will lose ground in the U.S.

Dockers at the Port of Piraeus in Greece plan to hold two 48 hour strikes in early October to protest the takeover by China’s Cosco Pacific of container operations at Greece’s biggest port

The Rotterdam Rules now have 16 signatory nations, with more expected in the near future.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM is meeting with creditor banks and French finance ministry officials in Paris Sept. 25 to discuss its financial situation.

Bouncing back from a shortened week that included Labor Day, major U.S. rail operations had their strongest intermodal performance of 2009 in the week ending Sept.

Container throughput at many Chinese ports showed some positive signs of recovery in August, with a large number of ports recording their highest monthly volumes for the year, according to Paris consu

Zim, the beleaguered Israeli ocean carrier, reached an understanding with a Korean shipyard to delay the delivery of four 10,000-TEU container ships by up to five years, in a major boost to its restru

Same-day package company Velocity Express filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors today, announcing plans to restructure under a new owner, ComVest, in a debt-for-equity swap.

Congress will not pass a new transportation authorization bill until after the 2010 elections, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Thursday morning.

Three U.S. paper companies joined with the union that represents 6,000 of their employees in a complaint to the World Trade Organization accusing China and Indonesia of improper subsidies.

The ports of Tacoma, Everett and Seattle are among those that will receive slightly less than $8 million in federal stimulus funds for port security measures in Washington.

A three-month extension of current federal highway spending programs cleared the House of Representatives Sept.

TBS International took delivery of the Rockaway Belle, the first in a series of six "Roymar Class" vessels.

Japanese trade with the world market slid deeper in August as exports tumbled 36 percent and imports plunged 41 percent, compared with August of last year.

7-Eleven named 32-year logistics and transportation veteran Bill Merrigan vice president of logistics for its network of convenience stores in North America.

Canadian National Railway reached agreement with a Chicago-area suburb that opposed CN’s acquisition of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway, which runs through several suburban communities tha

The Sept. 24 story “Canadian Pacific Seeking to Lure U.S.