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Trucking and warehouse executives in California urged the state tax commission to refrain from raising taxes on diesel fuel and gasoline.

The chief economist for the National Retail Federation said in a report released Tuesday that figures suggest “the recession is ending,” and she forecast a growing economy in the second ha

Losses sustained by liner companies hit more than $6 billion in the first six months of the year, according to AXS-Alphaliner.

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The Danish Shipowners' Association said its members did not want to see any direct subsidies of their hard-hit industry nor any bending of European competition rules that ban cartel-like activity.

Japan's two largest airlines saw the deep slump in their international cargo operations ease in July, their monthly reports show, amid growing hopes for a global economic recovery.

Agility, the Kuwait-based provider of logistics services, has been awarded a four-year contract to provide local and global forwarding, transportation and customs clearance services for RasGas, the la

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru issued a decree calling on all vessel operators to ensure strict compliance with the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, a global anti-terror leg

Short line operator RailAmerica said its first half 2009 profit rose to $19.2 million from $4.8 million in the same period in 2008, suggesting a surge in in demand in this year’s April-June quar

The Chinese economy is expected to grow 7.8 percent this year while the global economy is likely to drop more than 2.5 percent, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said in its Trade

Goldman Sachs is about to become the biggest shareholder in Eurotunnel, the company that operates the undersea freight and passenger rail tunnel between the UK and France.

The port of Rotterdam Authority said its first half earnings fell nine percent from a year ago as traffic fell and fewer ships visited Europe’s biggest ocean cargo hub.

Evergreen Line will extend its peak season charge for the westbound trade from the Far East and the Indian subcontinent to Europe and the Mediterranean.

The CMA CGM Group will restore freight rates in the North Europe to Asia and the Middle East or Red Sea trades, effective Oct. 1.

Green Reefers, a leading reefer ship-owner, blamed fierce competition from cargo hungry container carriers, for losing money in the seasonally strong second quarter.

Air France announced it will cut its cargo capacity by fifteen percent and eliminate 1,500 jobs to cut costs amid steep falls in freight traffic.

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East side, west side, congestion is choking traffic all around New York City.

If Congress decides to restructure harbor trucking this fall and expose the industry to unionization by the Teamsters, it will do so with eyes wide open.

It’s electrifying. New York City is switching to electric on a variety of vehicles, from heavy trucks to compact cars, to scrub smoke and soot from its skyline.

U.S. railroads are riding a tailwind generated by federal stimulus programs but need to beware: That tailwind may turn out to be a gust that can’t be sustained.

As far as dockside labor is concerned, east is east and west is west. At least that’s how it’s been for 30 years.

After younger union members in Charleston and other South Atlantic ports formed the Longshore Worker’s Coalition more than a decade ago, then-ILA President John Bowers criticized the group for trying

Although the International Longshoremen’s Association shares many of the same employers with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, no one is proposing that the Atlantic-Gulf agreement be id

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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.