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YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters union will extend negotiations on contract concessions that could save the carrier $500 million into a second week.

China edged past the United States to become Brazil’s leading trading partner during the first half of the year, Brazil’s trade ministry said July 1.

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced tough new air emission standards that will affect ocean vessels.

Calberson, a division of French logistics group Geodis, will acquire Cool Jet, a provider of distribution services in France.

Many exporters are still struggling to get the loans they need to ship their goods, World Trade Organization director-general Pascal Lamy said in a new report, requiring a greater effort on the part o

Pacer International, one of the top consolidators of domestic intermodal shipments on the nation’s railroads, said it has negotiated a compliance waiver for its credit leverage amount with a syn

Monson Trucking of Duluth, Minn., is shutting down following the loss of two major shipper customers.

Shipments of manufactured goods fell in May for the tenth consecutive month.

Source Holding Delaware, parent of Source Logistics, secured a follow-on investment to allow expansion in the growing Mexican and Latin American food market in the United States.

London - The UK government scrapped controversial plans to partially privatize Royal Mail, the state-owned postal company, citing "market conditions."

Danaos, the Athens-based containership charter owner, announced it has reached agreement on waiver terms for three credit facilities totaling $908 million.

A federal court cleared the way Wednesday for the California Air Resources Board to require that ocean vessels use low-sulfur diesel fuel in their main and auxiliary engines within 24 miles of the coa

The first-ever solar-assisted car carrier called Wednesday at the Port of Long Beach in what NYK Line executives said is the first step toward the distant goal of developing a zero-emission vessel.

Union Pacific Railroad sold 33 track miles north of Denver to Colorado’s Regional Transportation District for $118 million, in the first and largest of four land transfer deals to develop commut

The Federal Maritime Commission is proposing a change in rules that would require parties in marine terminal operator agreements to wait 45 days before the agreements take effect.

The Netherlands government, fearing a “spiral of violence” in the pirate-infested waters off the east coast of Africa, will not place military guards on commercial ships, according to loca

Worldwide RFID sales will increase 5 percent in 2009 to $5.56 billion despite the global economic downturn, according to a forecast by IDTechEx, an international market research and consulting fi

The Obama administration handed Congress its wish list for extending the current transportation program until March 31, 2011.

BLG Logistics, the biggest stevedore in Bremen/Bremerhaven, cut the hours of 250 white collar workers after container and auto cargoes slumped in the twin German ports.

Cargo handling at India’s Port of Haldia has been affected by a strike by unionized dockworkers who joined protests calling for wage increases and additional benefits.

In counting up railroads that are spending time on the possibilities of electrified freight train operations, don't include CSX Transportation.

Cosco Container Lines and Evergreen Marine will combine their existing joint ESA and FAX services linking the Far East, South Africa and east coast of South America into a single new weekly ESA servic

Florida-based Amerijet International announced its second acquisition in as many weeks with its purchase of a majority interest in Nations Express, a trucking company based in North Carolina.

AirBridgeCargo Airlines, Volga-Dnepr Group’s scheduled cargo airline, expanded its freight services from Europe to Russia with a new route between Milan, Italy and Moscow.

The surface transportation trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico declined 33.1 percent in April compared to April 2008, according to th

Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., believes another kind of fuel tax could be the cure for the Highway Trust Fund’s ills: a tax on crude oil contracts.

Cuba's trade deficit jumped 65 percent in 2008, propelled by the doubling in the value of its oil imports, higher costs for food imports, three devastating hurricanes, and weakness in its nickel expor

South Korea's trade surplus reached a record-high $7.4 billion in June, reflecting the continued weakness of the country's economy.

A key manufacturing index slowed its decline in June as some signs of growth in production emerged amid slower deliveries and contraction of orders, employment and inventories.

States will receive pro-rated payments for their highway programs as the Highway Trust Fund’s balance dips toward zero, the Department of Transportation announced.

Eimskip, the ailing Icelandic ocean carrier, said it will hand over its North Atlantic shipping operations to its creditors in a $2.2 billion restructuring that involves Yucaipa, a U.S.

Cargo traffic at Miami International Airport fell 19.4 percent in May as the slide in freight business at the key Latin America gateway got deeper, the airport reported.

Ceres Terminals and Ports America have qualified to submit offers for a possible long-term lease to operate Baltimore’s Seagirt Marine Terminal and make improvements that would include a fourth

The founder of a phony New Jersey logistics company will spend some real time behind bars for bilking investors, including members of his own family, of $5.8 million.

The Port of Los Angeles remains on track to deepen its main channel to 53 feet as a result of an agreement with an investment group and local preservationists.

Fleet Management Ltd., the operator of the ill-fated Cosco Busan that spilled 53,000 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay after slamming into the Bay Bridge in November 2007, faces fines up to $40 m

The heavy users of the transportation system should bear the burden of paying for the infrastructure, according to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

Moody’s Investors Service downgraded its outlook for the U.S. port industry as a whole from stable to negative.

Danaos, the largest U.S.