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CSX Transportation, like the other big North American railroads, is rolling fewer trains, paying fewer workers and handling less cargo than last year, but as the first rail line to report second-quart

High-speed passenger rail got a $4 billion gift July 17 from the House Appropriations Committee as part of a $75.8 billion Department of Transportation budget for fiscal 2010.

Containerized imports at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles fell 22.3 percent in June, the steepest combined decline at the nation’s largest port complex since March, according to figures r

UPS said Friday it did not pay for support from a conservative group that was reported to have solicited donations from FedEx in the package carriers’ legislative battle over labor law.

Financiallytroubled YRC Worldwide could see results of a critical vote by its Teamsters drivers on dramatic changes to the labor contract by the first week of August.

British Airways on July 17 announced it will raise more than $1 billion in cash to survive “the biggest crisis the aviation industry has ever known.”

Container traffic at Le Havre fell eight percent in the first half of 2009 from a year ago, around half the rate of decline at its larger rivals Antwerp and Rotterdam.

In a significant policy change that is expected to spur growth in the country’s infrastructure sector, the Indian government has allowed major port authorities to award port developmental contracts wi

Kansas City Southern and Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics will open a vehicle distribution center for automaker Nissan near Houston, using the new rail segment KCS opened there this month.

OOCL today christened the eighth Panamax class vessel in its line of 16 4,500-TEU vessels that it has ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries.

The Baltic Dry Index of dry bulk freight rates ended the week July 17 with an increase of 18.7 percent over rates a week earlier, according to the morning transport note published by Dahlman Rose & Co

Fesco – Russia’s biggest ocean container carrier – reported 2008 revenues surged 40 percent from the previous year, but net income plunged 80 percent.

Japanese export ship orders during the first half of this year sank to the lowest level for a January-June period in 16 years, indicating a recovery in shipowners’ flagging demand for new vessels is n

Short line railroads across North America showed just a mild uptick in traffic after the holiday-shortened July 4 week, leaving traffic weaker than during June for the seven days ending July 11.

Any more legislation that Congress passes to stimulate the economy will be dedicated solely to highways, Rep. James L.

Anne S. Ferro's nomination to be head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is in the hands of the Senate, moving her closer to a confirmation hearing.

A major conservative interest group asked FedEx for a $2 million to $3 million donation in exchange for the group’s backing in a legislative battle with UPS, according to a published report Friday.

The House Transportation subcommittee on highways and transit presented the case July 16 that more economic benefits would flow from quick passage of a new six-year transportation bill than from the S

Kansas City Southern is celebrating a new rail segment in Texas this week that it hopes can open a new era in its cross-border freight traffic and nab more intermodal loads.

Norfolk Southern Railway said it plans to build a $129 million Memphis Regional Intermodal Terminal east of that city in Rossville, Tenn., with a targeted opening date of January 2012.

Art Pruett has joined the South Carolina State Ports Authority as general manager, cargo sales, bringing more than 25 years of experience in the shipping industry.

The American fleet on the Great Lakes is having a very bad year, with a third of the vessels tied up and the remainder carrying 20.9 million tons of cargo for the first half, down 46.6 percent from th

Hapag-Lloyd announced it will raise its rates on the Trans-Atlantic in a series of steps that include an emergency bunker surcharge followed by a two-step general rate increase.

Carloadings of bulk materials and machinery rose in the latest week to the strongest level in three months at major U.S. railroads, as freight picked up after the slow July 4 holiday period.

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China's GDP grew 7.9 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, faster than the 6.1 percent rise recorded in the first quarter of 2009, the National Bureau of Statistics said July 16, but the increas

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After of months of a downward trend in container traffic through the Port of Halifax, some of the most recent statistics are showing a slight positive shift.

Landstar System on July 15 reported lower second-quarter earnings, as the Jacksonville, Fla.-based trucking company continued to feel the impact of the economic recession.

Volumes at India’s 12 major ports have seen growth for the second consecutive month, showing the early signs of a gradual recovery in the global economy.

Hanjin Shipping will join APL's Suez Express Service, linking South Asia, the Middle East and the U.S. East Coast, beginning at the end of this month.

Mediterranean Shipping Co., the world’s second-largest container line, plans to scrap more of its older vessels and return chartered ships to keep its overall capacity from growing as it take on new,

Stimulus payouts by the Department of Transportation, for bills on construction projects around the country, jumped by $160 million in the week ending July 10, or nearly twice the amount it spent the

Maersk Line was named Sustainable Shipping Operator of The Year in an awards ceremony in London on july 15 that recognized its effort to reduce the environmental impact of its business operations.

The Panama Canal Authority formally awarded the contract to design and build a third set of locks to the Consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal, which had submitted the lowest bid.

As the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved a bill to extend the existing highway program for 18 months July 15, the U.S.

Cargo theft and the average loss in each cargo theft have both increased this year, according the Bi-Annual Cargo Theft Report issued by FreightWatch International, a global logistics security provide

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee took the first step July 15 to extending the current highway spending bill until March 2011.

Imports at the leading container ports increased 5 percent in May compared with April, but were down 20 percent compared with May 2008, continuing a trend that has been present in the U.S.

Flying J has a plan to come out of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but it means selling its core truck stop business to Pilot Travel Centers.