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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday announced $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding for 43 state and local transit agencies.

The Transportation and Security Administration's candidate technology list for air cargo inspection includes four products made by Torrance, Calif.-based Rapsican Systems.

The European Union should add port services to the list of areas where creating a large single market can boost its long-term economic growth, said the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperatio

A.P. Moller-Mærsk recruited a new chief financial officer from outside the group, and from outside of Denmark, an unusual move for a company that usually grows its own executives.

Jade Weser Port started the tender process for companies seeking to establish operations at Germany's only non-tidal deep water container port.

Train traffic is rising on the Chicago-area short line that Canadian National Railway absorbed this year, but CN told regulators it further reduced long train-caused delays at roadway crossings in Aug

The House will consider a three-month extension of the current highway bill rather than the 18-month extension the administration and Senate want.

A senior Wal-Mart executive said Monday a drive to cut packaging on toys saved the retailer some $3.5 million in transportation costs last Christmas, a major gain to the bottom line the company won fr

Exports of steel mill products increased 0.2 percent in July over June according to U.S. government data.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the United States increased 0.6 percent in August.

Container throughput at the port of Marseilles/Fos in the first eight months of the year through August increased by 4 percent to 583,779 20-foot containers from the same period last year, the French

Evergreen Line said it has filed rate increases with the Federal Maritime Commission on all shipments moving from Puerto Rico to Europe, whether moving from or via the U.S.

South Korean carriers Hanjin Shipping and Hyundai Merchant Marine said Monday they will exchange slots on two of their trans-Pacific services starting in October.

The worst global economic and financial crisis in a generation slashed the Foreign Direct Investment plans of 85 percent of the world’s multinational corporations, says a U.N. report.

The seven largest railroads operating in the United States boosted their overall train and engine crews from mid-July to mid-August, but job cuts elsewhere took employment down from a month earlier.

In working with my Nike global ocean negotiation team last spring, I was surprised by the rate reductions our carriers accepted.

They can wish, can’t they? Many container line executives would love to wave a magic wand and — poof!

Domestic freight brokers are weathering the economic downturn with their profit margins largely intact, and scale appears to be providing the best insulation of all.

Container lines can’t wait for this year’s fourth quarter. Even if an economic recovery isn’t under way by then, carriers will at least have more favorable year-to-year comparisons on trade volumes.

In virtually any other year, a weeklong shutdown of Chinese factories at the height of the peak shipping season would put U.S. importers in panic mode.

Stunned by a sharp attack by the head of CMA CGM on the European Union’s antitrust policies, the European container shipping industry is asking whether those policies have exacerbated the plight of Eu

In a windy cornfield of north-central Iowa, the nation’s largest wind tower staging facility is about to get a lot bigger, building on what has been a fast-growing busine

The container lines have the Box Club, where their CEOs can meet to discuss matters of common concern.

US-China Tire Dispute Heats Up, Then Cools Down

With all its pomp and stiff formality, this week’s gathering of diplomats, maritime law experts and dignitaries for a signing ceremony in Rotterdam may end up looking like something from long ago, and

Transportation industry officials are nervous. Congress again is nearing a deadline to fund industry programs.

When President Obama won Florida in last November’s election without winning the Cuban-American vote, it probably signaled the beginning of the end for the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo of Cuba.

The longest-running drama in the history of global trade, the Doha Round of multilateral negotiations, was given up for dead a year ago. Now a new generation of negotiators, led by U.S.

Freight industry officials now confirm what the statistics already show: The worst freight downturn in decades apparently bottomed out months ago. But there’s not a lot of celebrating over that.

In its race to avoid bankruptcy, YRC Worldwide is jumping hurdles like a horse running a steeplechase.

Project cargo is mushrooming at the Port of Mobile, the majority of it bound for the stainless and carbon steel mill ThyssenKrupp is building a few miles north.

The Port of Long Beach is extending its public comment period for the proposed on-dock support facility project until Oct. 9. The comment period had been scheduled to expire on Sept. 25.

China Ocean Shipping Co. announced a peak season surcharge of $400 per 40-foot container and $320 per 20-foot container on all cargo moving from the Far East and Indian subcontinent to the U.S.