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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.

AMB Property earned net profit of $29 million in the second quarter, down 67 percent from a year ago.

UPS on July 13 launched ground service for small packages from Mexico to the United States.

Truckload carrier Covenant Transportation Group lost $3.1 million in the second quarter of 2009 as freight revenue fell 19.4 percent to $129.2 million.

Second quarter profit for Athens-based container ship-owner Danaos fell 35 percent from a year ago, but the company said it detected signs of recovery in the ocean container market in the upcoming pea

Japanese forwarder Yusen Air & Sea Service posted a net loss of $9.7 million in its fiscal first quarter, which ended on June 30.

Truck tonnage in the United States fell at its sharpest year-over-year rate yet in the economic downturn, plunging 13.6 percent, and the American Trucking Associations issued a pessimistic outlook for

More than 30 shipper organizations sent a letter to Rep.

All three Japanese carriers on Monday reported losses for their fiscal first quarters, ended June 30, and two of them, NYK Line and &ldquo;K&rdquo; Line, forecast losses for the full fiscal year.

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel jumped 3.2 cents to $2.528 per gallon in the week ending July 27, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The Senate on Monday confirmed Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. to fill a position on the Federal Maritime Commission.

Asia&rsquo;s airlines had their strongest month for freight business in four months in June and the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines said it was seeing a steady recovery in the air cargo market de

Intermodal and logistics firm Pacer International, in a sharp change in some of its transport operations as it struggles with steep losses, will sell its heavy-haul Pacer Transport trucking business t

Clean diesel and liquefied natural gas trucks now handle 52 percent of the containers moving through the Port of Long Beach, according to a study released by the port.