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The South Carolina State Ports Authority Board on Tuesday adopted an update to its strategic plan that will refocus marketing efforts for the Port of Charleston on its harbor depth.

Port of Tacoma Executive Director Timothy J.

Hyundai Merchant Marine will increase freight rates for the trade moving on its services from China to India and Pakistan.

A driver pre-employment screening program offered by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration fulfills a long-sought goal of the American Trucking Associations.

Dramatically lower freight rates bit deeply into revenue and profit for trucking and intermodal giant J. B. Hunt Transport Services.

Kuehne & Nagel expects air and ocean freight volumes to rise in the fourth quarter, even as it reported a 10 percent drop in third quarter earnings.

The Federal Railroad Administration issued a “preliminary national rail plan” as required under a 2008 law to give some structure to developing passenger train service alongside the freigh

Truckload carrier Werner Enterprises earned a profit of $18.99 million on revenue of $429.3 million in the third quarter.

Overcapacity and depressed truckload rates put a dent in revenue and profit at Heartland Express during the third quarter, but the company continued an extensive overhaul of its tractor fleet as it po

The retail price of diesel jumped an average of 10.5 cents to $2.705 per gallon last week, in the largest increase since a 14.6-cent surge in the week ending June 8, according to the U.S.

Maersk Line and the three carriers that belong to the New World Alliance, APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine and MOL, on Tuesday said they will cut the capacity and services they share on the trans-Atlantic

Israeli ocean carrier Zim Integrated Shipping Services said it is close to getting final approval for a financial restructuring.

Japanese export ship orders sank for the 12th consecutive month in September on a year-over-year basis, tumbling 75.5 percent to 543,500 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Exp

Forwarder UTC Overseas opened a new office in Tullamarine (Melbourne), Australia.

OOCL’s third-quarter revenue fell 42.3 percent to $948.9 million as its container volume dropped by 16.7 percent from the same quarter last year, the Hong Kong-based carrier said Tuesday.

The Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations settled a trucking industry lawsuit against the concession requirement in the port’s clean-truck program, the port announced Monday,

In a major reversal of their colleagues, a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Canadian National Railway said its trains blocked roadway crossings eight times during September when trains stopped for 10 minutes or more along the suburban Chicago rail line it recently acquired.

Kuehne + Nagel will plan, implement and manage the future logistics locations in Europe for global construction technology provider Hilti.

The mayors of New York and Newark, N.J., surprised the trucking industry – as well as the bi-state port authority – by announcing on Sunday their support for a clean-trucks program that wo

Container volume declined at the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles in September, but the contraction was only slightly worse than historical seasonal variations, said analyst J.P.

Aviation authorities in Vietnam granted Trai Thien Air Cargo a license to provide air cargo services in the country, according to Vietnamese press reports this week.

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Marking its 10th anniversary, the FedEx Express hub at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris opened its expanded facilities last week.

CMA CGM wants to delay the delivery of 49 ships it has ordered and is scheduled to receive within the next three years, its CEO Rodolphe Saade said Monday.

Evergreen Line, which is one of the few container lines that has refrained from ordering new ships in recent years, plans to order 100 container ships in 2010 to expand its fleet to nearly 300, the co

Dock workers at Greece´s biggest container gateway, the Port of Piraeus, suspended their two and half week strike after the government said it will re-negotiate a deal with China`s Cosco Pacific

J.B. Hunt Eyes New Intermodal Deal

Pat Moffett, vice president of global logistics at Audiovox, has been through this routine before.

One of the last areas of the freight sector to recover from severe recession may be the rail equipment market. With an estimated 500,000 railcars or more parked across the U.S.

Wal-Mart’s plan for a global sustainability index is good public relations for a company often criticized for hard-nosed tactics.

When logistics industry analyst Steve Banker prepares a report on strategy and trends in supply chains for consumer goods or beverages, he knows where to start.

Heavy truck sales in North America increased for the fourth straight month in September, reaching 10,817 units, largely driven by new emissions standards, according to FTR Associates.

The Port of Corpus Christi’s long-delayed plan to build a container terminal on a 1,100-acre tract of land called the La Quinta Trade Gateway is being resuscitated as part of a multi-phase, mixed-use

When APM Terminals opened its highly automated $500 million container terminal in Portsmouth, Va., in the fall of 2007, it presented a direct competitive threat to the three state-owned and operated c

The world’s largest truck manufacturer is guardedly optimistic that sales in North America and Europe have hit bottom and will improve this year as the economy picks up and demand for trucking service

Congress wants more government regulatory agencies to be involved in the importing process, a move that could place a special burden on customs brokers.

Hallmark Cards once used the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports for virtually all its imports into the United States.

In the fight against climate change, South American seaports do not come quickly to mind as the worst polluters.