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For a region often marked by volatile swings of economic fortune, South America has shown unusual stability in trade in recent years, and PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions forecasts relatively stead

Federal stimulus money is flowing into port projects in Baltimore and Houston, is electrifying truck stop parking spaces in Alabama and Tennessee and will revamp roads leading into an industrial park

On a recent Friday, a trucker hauling lumber to be used to manufacture pallets was stopped at the California state line after inspectors found three unidentified insects in his load.

The Justice Department’s “vessel pollution initiative” has gone from an intensive blitz against maritime environmental crime to a long, hard slog with no end in sight.

Freight rates in the truckload market, competing in many cases with rail-truck intermodal traffic, are steadily declining “without solid evidence of bottoming,” said transport stocks analy

Cargo airline Amerijet said it headed into the second week of a strike by flight crews with aircraft operating normally as the Teamsters union claimed growing support for its walkout.

PT Garuda Indonesia, a member of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, is the tenth and latest airline to be cited by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for alleged cargo pr

OOCL on Sept. 4 christened the ninth Panamax class vessel in its line of sixteen 4,500-TEU vessels ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries.

Small North American railroads hauled more railcar loads of automobiles and other large pieces of equipment in the week ending Aug. 29 than any other time this year.

A Senate Republican believes Democratic support for climate-change legislation is wavering after sponsors announced introduction of their cap-and-trade bill will be delayed until later in September.

Senior trade negotiators agreed to "intensify the negotiations" when they re-launch the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral talks on Sept.

The National Industrial Transportation League sharply criticized environmental groups’ claim that trade groups oppose clean-air efforts at ports this week, calling the accusation “a flagra

Hapag-Lloyd’s owners have returned a stake in a Hamburg container terminal to the struggling German ocean carrier in order to qualify for $1.7 billion of state-backed loans.

Federal stimulus disbursements by the Department of Transportation swelled to $2.354 billion by Aug.

A man and his two sons are facing federal fraud charges in Pennsylvania for allegedly setting up a phony truck brokerage scheme that duped companies out of more than $1 million.

The Alliance St. Louis, a Maersk Line, Limited vessel loaded rolling stock cargo for the U.S. military at APM Terminals Virginia at the Port of Portsmouth.

The Beluga multipurpose heavy-lift vessels Fraternity and Foresight, both ice class E3, have now convoyed with the nuclear-powered Russian Atomflot ice breaker 50 let Pobedy (50 Years Since Victory) t

The US Airline Pilots Association on Sept. 2 filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the trustee of their pension plan.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development issued forecasts showing a broadly based but fragile return to economic expansion in the third quarter of 2009.

South Korean carrier Hanjin and Argentina-based Maruba joined a combined service with CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud between the East Coast of South America and northern Europe.

A.P. Moller-Maersk raised nearly $1.6 billion from the sale of shares with some of the proceeds likely to be earmarked for expansion of its global container terminal operations.

Large U.S. railroads have waited all year for a week like this one.

Horizon Lines will add regularly scheduled vessel container service between Tampa, Fla. and Puerto Rico to its Gulf Express Service.

Veolia Transport sold its Cargo division, including 20 European subsidiaries, to two rail freight operators, SNCF and Eurotunnel.

As YRC scrambles to regain market share, its sales efforts this week focused on high value delivery options with an enhancement to the carrier’s Expedited Precision service.

Union rejection of a contract extension for Atlantic and Gulf dockworkers probably means talks on a new contract won’t resume until next year – and when they do, management’s positio

Logistics provider UTi Worldwide saw its net profit dive 67 percent in the three months ending July 31 but said the market for shipping and logistics services is shoring up heading into the fall.&nbsp

Intermodal consolidator Pacer International’s capital spending will be capped at $6.5 million starting in 2010 under the debt agreement it reached last week with creditors.

Independent Container Line will provide transactional e-commerce services to global customers through the GT Nexus Trade and Logistics Portal.

Maersk Line will launch a weekly feeder service between Vietnam and Hong Kong this month connecting with a trans-Pacific loop the carrier says will provide the fastest transit time from Vietnam to the

Germany did not accept terms of the rescue of container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd, Germany's Bild newspaper reported without citing sources.

International Longshoremen’s Association delegates unanimously rejected a proposed two-year extension of the ILA's contract for Atlantic and Gulf dockworkers on Wednesday.

The new chairman of the Surface Transportation Board opted out of a regulatory ruling this week for what would have been his first controversial case, under a policy of recusal from issues involving h

The New York Terminal conference, representing marine terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey, issued a revised schedule of charges that includes no change in demurrage and free time for cont

Babcock & Brown Infrastructure, the Australian parent of Euroports, the leading European bulk/break bulk stevedore, halted trading in its shares on the Sydney stock exchange Sept.

The Port of Long Beach is seeking ideas from transportation planners for developing zero-emission systems to shuttle containers between marine terminals and near-dock rail yards.

Global owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, AMB Property Corporation, leased approximately 65,000 square feet in AMB Port of Rouen, a development in its Paris market, which is now

The Port of Long Beach on Wednesday is hosting a public meeting to solicit community input on plans to expand a staging area for double-stack trains.

Federal stimulus funds to states for such needs as highway, bridge and transit repairs were supporting at least 76,000 direct jobs as of July 31, says the House Transportation and Infrastructure Commi