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Net profit for barge operator Kirby Corporation fell 16 percent to $33.7 million in the second quarter as revenue dropped 22 percent to $272.7 million, compared with the second quarter of last year

The European Union approved pre-emptive penalties on its imports of steel pipe from China, accepting an argument from steel producers, including the world's largest, ArcelorMittal, that punitive tarif

Qantas Freight said Wednesday it would launch service between China, Dallas and Sydney, Australia, adding cargo lift in a trans-Pacific market airlines have been targeting for capacity cuts for more t

Lufthansa Cargo swung to an $87 million operating loss in the second quarter from a $95 million profit a year ago amid a "severe" slump in revenue.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Wednesday lowered ratings on several types of Horizon Lines’ debt instruments.

Port workers and truck drivers only need one Florida criminal background check instead of multiple, duplicate checks to work at three South Florida seaports.

Evergreen Line filed a range of rate increases on a number of different commodity exports in the trans-Pacific and the Trans-Atlantic to support what it called “sustainability.”

South Carolina’s Port of Georgetown will gain new ship calls later this year as a result of a 20-year contract with Carolina-Pacific, a producer of wood briquettes used as a renewable energy sou

The Port of Oakland is partnering with government agencies to provide $22 million in subsidies to motor carriers for the retrofitting or replacement of old, polluting trucks.

London -- BAA, the world's biggest airport operator, reported first half pre-tax losses quadrupled from a year ago on falling passenger and cargo traffic and exceptional charges.

Daimler's truck business, the world's largest, swung to a second quarter loss of $716 million from an $857 million year-earlier profit on plunging global sales and restructuring costs in the United St

The Journal of Commerce’s annual Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference will return to Long Beach, Calif., next year for the conference’s 10th anniversary.

Phil Grill, vice president of government relations for Matson Navigation Co., will retire Saturday after 29 years with the carrier.

Latin American manufacturing production, which plummeted during the first quarter of 2009, will remain weak throughout this year but rebound in 2010, according to a report that analyzes trends in 16 m

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The Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council will find ways to integrate short sea transportation into the national intermodal freight system, Chairman Samuel Crane said Wednesday.

Barge operator and manufacturer American Commercial Lines lost $3.8 million in the quarter ending June 30, compared with a net profit of $3.7 million in the second quarter of 2008.

Rotterdam faces an enormous glut of container capacity when a new terminal begins operations in 2013, the head of the port's biggest box stevedore warned.

Global sales of information technology and communications goods surged suddenly in May and June, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday in a report.

Hard hit by a steep drop-off in coal shipments, which account for about half the port’s business during normal years, the Alabama State Port Authority announced today that it is laying off 86 do

The Shipping Corporation of India announced its net profit fell 57 percent in its first fiscal quarter compared with a year ago, as the global economic slowdown hit the national carrier.

CEVA Group, the U.K.-based provider of logistics services, said there have been improvements across all of its markets during the second quarter of 2009, compared with the first quarter, despite the f

Eastern-U.S. carrier Norfolk Southern Railway saw its profit plunge 45 percent from a year earlier in the April-June quarter to $245 million, as revenue fell 33 percent to $1.9 billion.

Maersk Line on Wednesday announced a general rate increase on its Trans-Atlantic services as of Sept. 1.

U.S. imports of steel in June were only 850,000 tons, down 18 percent from May and down 68.9 percent compared with June 2008, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

The American Iron and Steel Institute and the Steel Manufacturers Association released a study Tuesday claiming a negative impact of China's economic policies on U.S. and world economies.

New orders for manufactured durable goods in June decreased $4.1 billion or 2.5 percent to $158.6 billion, reversing an upward trend of the previous two months, the U.S.

The chairmen of two major House committees want to take $5 billion from the general treasury and use it to shore up the Highway Trust Fund, which could go broke in August.

Rail equipment maker FreightCar America said it expects to report sales of $104 million for the second quarter, down sharply from $141 million in the same quarter in 2008 but a strong improvement from

Rail equipment supplier FreightCar America said it has been overstating its accounts payable, and will end up restating past financing reports and raising its profit levels since fourth-quarter 2007.<

States may have to spread out federal money used to repair bridges and roads or go without for longer stretches of time unless Congress gives emergency support to the Highway Trust Fund, the Federal H

CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud will reduce vessel capacity by combining two of their liner services in August into a new direct service between the East Coast of South America and North Europe.

Truck manufacturer Paccar earned $26.5 million in the second quarter compared to $313.5 million earned in the comparable period a year ago.

Meeting in Washington for the second day of their formal Strategic and Economic Dialogue talks, senior officials of the United States and China discussed new ways to support free trade to restore grow

Hapag-Lloyd on July 28 agreed to sell a stake in a Hamburg container terminal to its shareholders for $447 million in the first part of a $2.5 billion survival package for Germany's biggest ocean carr

Customs brokers apparently lobbied successfully to remove language from a bill that would have given the Food and Drug Administration the authority to license and penalize them for violations of a new

The European Union highlighted the Container Security Initiative in its latest annual report on U.S. trade and investment barriers.

Babcock & Brown Infrastructure on July 28 said it will book a pretax loss of around $170 million after agreeing to sell a bigger stake in its Euroports unit at a lower price.

Same-day delivery and logistics specialist Dynamex hired Jason Bergman as vice president of U.S. national sales.

Consumer confidence slipped in July for the second month after some rising hopes in the spring, according to a national survey.