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The air freight industry is hoping Polo Ralph Lauren isn’t creating new fashions for international shipping strategy.

The Gulf of Mexico oil patch is the unlikely battleground over the Jones Act.

In troubled financial times, it’s increasingly important to manage your business effectively.

Max Pietsch has a simple formula for expedited trucking companies to survive the recession.

Chances are you’re pinching pennies these days. You’ve whittled all the fat out of your transportation budget and are running lean and mean.

For many trucking companies, the business outlook for the rest of 2009 is pretty bleak.

The state of the trucking industry in mid-2009 is, to put it mildly, chaotic.

The federal government gave plans at Eaton to build plug-in hybrid trucks and utility vehicles a $45.4 million charge with grant money from the stimulus package.

President Obama nominated transportation attorney Cynthia L.

Overall rail traffic declined from a week earlier at North American short lines tracked in the RMI RailConnect index, but small railroads recorded some of the strongest loadings in months for several

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Board of Commissioners on Aug.

Freight traffic for European airlines fell 20.7 percent in June compared to last year, including an accelerating decline in European air trade with Asia, the Association of European Airlines said.

Last year’s gut-wrenching drop in global steel demand appears to be easing as rust-belt steel manufacturers gingerly begin restarting idled mills and recalling workers.

Industrial production in the United States increased in July for only the second time in more than a year-and-a-half, edging up 0.5 percent from the month before, the Federal Reserve said Friday.&nbsp

French carrier CMA CGM will implement a general rate increase for cargo moving on its services from India to destinations in West Africa, effective Sept. 1.

A leader in the New York-New Jersey port trucking community said he is among drayage operators who have signed up to rent Maersk Line chassis under the company’s new Direct ChassisLink program b

Regional Israeli carrier C.A.L.

Cargotec, the Finnish manufacturer of cargo-handling equipment and cranes, said it is merging its business units Hiab and Kalmar and reorganizing the company.

President Obama is calling for broad review of export controls across the government, saying controls need to be brought up to date.

Stimulus money is rolling out of the Department of Transportation at ever-increasing amounts to pay for initial infrastructure projects, as DOT spending jumped by $347 million in the latest week.

Rickmers Maritime Trust, the Singapore-based containership owner and charterer, said its profit for the second quarter ended June 30 dropped 43 percent to $5.33 million from $9.2 million in the same q

Bolstered by a two-year track record of reducing pollution, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are finally positioned to move forward on billions of dollars of capital projects.

Consumer prices stabilized in July, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.

The owners of Hapag-Lloyd, the cash-strapped German shipping line in which TUI AG is the biggest shareholder, have reached an agreement on additional funding, according to Bloomberg news, citing a per

When hearings before the Galveston-Texas City Pilotage Commission concluded last month, maritime industry users in the Houston area, including the West Gulf Maritime Association, the ports of Galvesto

Daniel R. Elliott was sworn in as chairman of the Surface Transportation Board that regulates rail-shipper economic issues, the agency has confirmed.

The 8,400-TEU container ship Zim Los Angeles made its first call at the Port of Seattle, demonstrating that ocean carriers see the Pacific Northwest as a viable gateway for mega-ships.

Northeastern regional LTL carrier New England Motor Freight will reach deep into Canada through a partnership with Toronto-based Manitoulin Transport.

One of the top North American short line companies is branching out to offer freight shippers a range of specialty services to handle their yard operations on a contract basis, from railcar switching

Troubled Chilean carrier CSAV reported a loss of $412.6 million in the first half of 2009 compared to an $18.3 million profit in the same period last year on declining volumes and freight rates.

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Kansas City Southern, operator of the smallest U.S. Class I railroad and a rail unit in Mexico about the same size, said Scott E.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide expanded its produce operations by opening a European based produce sourcing company, C.H. Robinson Sourcing, SAS, in Avignon, France.

The U.S. will not bow to a European Union regulation affecting ship construction.

Retail sales fell 0.1 percent from June to July and 9.4 percent compared with July of last year, according to advance estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

As Hapag-Lloyd reported a second-quarter loss, the troubled German container line’s owners reportedly reached agreement on a financing package for it.

Towne Air Freight acquired Texas Land and Air to expand the company’s air and ocean freight trucking operation.

The container throughput handled by Hutchison Port Holdings, the world’s largest terminal-operator, dropped 8 percent in the first six months of 2009 from the same period last year to 30.3 milli

Hanjin Shipping said it is raising freight rates on four trade lanes from various parts of Asia to Europe and the Mediterranean as of Sept. 1.

Thomas Thune Andersen, the chief executive of Maersk Oil and former president and CEO of Maersk in the U.S., will leave his position as CEO of Maersk Oil and partner of Firmaet A.P.