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Tonnage actually hauled by trucks decreased in July, whether compared with June’s dismal contraction or with July of a year ago.

Los Angeles International Airport saw its strongest sign yet that the decline in trans-Pacific shipping has bottomed out as the airport reported its slimmest drop in air freight tonnage in a year in J

Seeking to distance itself from ports that want to take over regulation of harbor trucking, the Port of Long Beach notified shipper organizations this week that it will not join the lobbying efforts.<

Illinois will ask Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to award $300 million to a multi-year project to untangle its congested freight and passenger rail lines, under a $1.5 billion discretionary fundi

The top two officers at the International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association proclaimed peace within the union on Wednesday in the immediate aftermath of an acrimonious leadership meeting that drew pick

Matson Navigation Company Chairman James S. Andrasick is retiring from the company, effective Sept. 1. He has been Matson&rsquo;s chairman since Oct.

New York City is scrubbing soot from its skyline by turning to electric vehicles, from heavy trucks to compact cars.

Maersk Line will make several changes in its trans-Pacific services in September and October as it adjusts capacity to lower demand and tries to push rates back up to what it described as sustainable

Just before the August congressional recess, a member filed a bill to provide grants for ports to clean up the air. The bill is due to be considered when congress returns Sept. 8.

A truck driver working for UPS was killed Tuesday after his vehicle went off road and struck a concrete bridge pillar on an Indiana highway.

U.S. rail equipment maker Wabtec said its subsidiary in Doncaster, England, won a $9 million contract to build 24 specialty trackbed maintenance cars for Irish Rail.

For the first time, China overtook Germany as the world's biggest exporter during the first half of 2009, the World Trade Organization reported Tuesday.

New orders for manufactured durable goods in July made the largest percent increase in two years, according to a report Aug. 26 from the U.S. Census Bureau.

United Arab Shipping will launch a container service called the IEC2 linking the Indian Subcontinent, the Arabian Gulf and North Europe, starting in mid-September.

The city state of Hamburg on August 25 agreed to an additional capital injection for Hapag-Lloyd, boosting the ailing ocean container carrier's chances of securing $1.7 billion in loan guarantees from

Israel Corp.&rsquo;s recovery plan for Zim Integrated Shipping Services suffered a setback after management failed to get shareholder approval for a $100 million cash infusion for the struggling ocean

Three container lines will suspend a joint service between Asia and the U.S.

The state of Illinois is seeking about $550 million in federal passenger rail grants under the Recovery Act, with most of the money aimed at projects that tie into freight rail corridors as well.

Total steel imports to the United States rose 14 percent in July, compared with June, to 893,202 metric tons, according to preliminary data issued Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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The Air Line Pilots Association is calling on the U.S.

Global logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel opened a facility in Sochi, Russia, the city on the northeast coast of the Black Sea that will host the Olympic Winter Games in 2014.

As of September 14, breakbulk and project cargo carrier BBC Chartering will be reducing its tariff by 20 percent for its breakbulk liner routes serving South America.

Stimulus grants from the Environmental Protection Agency are putting millions of dollars into revamping truck stops so they can offer piped-in air and electronic services to parked rigs, allowing truc

Despite the growing importance of supply chain operations in Europe, over 40 percent of European retailers and manufacturers still fail to include any supply chain professional on their managerial boa

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ, August 25, 2009 &ndash; Management Dynamics, a leading provider of Global Trade Management (GTM) solutions, today announced the appointment of Ken Harvey to the company&rsquo;s Bo

After years spent boosting their fleets and adding new services, ocean container carriers are reducing the number of ships in service as cargo volumes shrink across their global liner networks.

DHL Express, the world&rsquo;s largest international express delivery company, will deploy a range of environmentally friendly boxes made from 100 percent recyclable material.

Earlier this year, the Netherlands announced it was not going to carry out its part of a 2005 agreement to dredge to 43 feet some sections of the Westerschelde, the ship channel that passes from the N

Rail equipment supplier Trinity Industries told a state agency it will close a railcar manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, for an undetermined period of at least six months, and furlough 158 wor

Galveston-Texas pilots, adding a new twist to their battle for a rate increase this year, surprised regional regulators Monday by withdrawing their application in its entirety.

Credit ratings firm Standard & Poor&rsquo;s removed both YRC Worldwide and Con-way from its CreditWatch list this month, but maintained a &ldquo;negative outlook&rdquo; for the trucking companies

Diesel prices climbed for the fifth consecutive week, adding 1.6 cents to reach an average of $2.668 per gallon, the highest retail price this year, according to the U.S.

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the top tier or Class I North American railroads, unveiled a second set of management changes following the departure Aug. 7 of Scott E.

GAC appointed Wally Holm as shipping marketing manager for North America and the Caribbean.

Plans to build a cold storage warehouse for frozen poultry exports along the Mississippi River in New Orleans threaten the city's French Quarter as well as other historic neighborhoods, according to a

A class-action lawsuit filed against UPS last week claims the delivery giant has been withholding as much as $100 million in overtime wages from account managers throughout the United States.

Cathay Pacific Airways and subsidiary Dragonair carried 133,233 tonnes of cargo and mail in July, down 6.7 percent compared to the same month last year, but a sharp cut in capacity helped boost the ca

Trucking bankruptcies plunged nearly 62 percent in the second quarter, falling to 370 from a peak of 970 a year ago, according to investment banking firm Avondale Partners.

AMB Property and Panalpina signed a lease agreement for 59,000 square feet in a development immediately adjacent to Madrid's Barajas International Airport.