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International Shipholding Corporation promoted Peter M. Johnston to executive vice president of the company.

With all the talk about the economy starting to find a bottom to its steep downturn, large railroads are still seeing declines so large that a key industry official is sounding a warning.

Singapore’s PSA International and Hong Kong’s Modern Terminals have decided to put on hold their multi-million dollar investment plans in container terminal projects in eastern China as th

A 73 percent drop in first quarter net income and 15 percent revenue slide still left rail equipment maker American Railcar Industries with $261 million in cash.

Supply chain software provider i2 Technologies matched reduced revenue in the first quarter by slashing costs and restructuring.

A 14-mile stretch of High Occupancy Toll lanes will generate billions of dollars in economic activity for the Washington area long before the first toll is collected.

Expeditors International said its net profit fell 11 percent to $59.3 million in the first quarter as the global forwarder saw its total revenue fall 30 percent to its lowest level in four years.

Finnlines fell deeper into the red in the first quarter of 2009 amid slumping cargo volumes and growing overcapacity on its key Baltic and North Sea liner routes.

OTTAWA — Canada took the first step Thursday in challenging the United States before the World Trade Organization on its COOL food labeling legislation said to cost Canada hundreds of millions o

Import cargo at the nation’s major retail container ports fell 15 percent in March, compared to year-earlier numbers.

European Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton said today she will discuss the long-running Doha round of WTO-sponsored trade talks for the first time with United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk on

The National Industrial Transportation League “strongly” opposes attempts to cap federal size and weight limits on heavy trucks and will support raising those limits to 97,000 pounds.

Pacer International’s main business line, its intermodal segment, lost $129 million in sales or 32 percent in the first quarter as it led the company toward a $177 million net loss.

UPS shareholders on May 7 elected a 10-member board of directors.

The airline industry’s main cargo group in North America is reaching out to freight forwarders by giving that industry a seat on the Cargo Network Services board.

Regulator and regulated would take a step closer to partnership if Customs and Border Protection adopts principles endorsed by the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations at its quarterly meeting

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a Web portal that will provide retailers with a central clearinghouse for information regarding environmental sustainability and compliance, the

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Forced to take a large write-down of “goodwill” as business weakened, intermodal provider Pacer International posted a net loss of $177.4 million for the first quarter and warned it might

Forwarder National Air Cargo is using its airline subsidiary to launch direct flights with construction materials from the United States to Afghanistan to supply the U.S. military.

TransGroup Worldwide Logistics is expanding its North American footprint with the opening of its Nogales, Ariz. logistics center.

Scratch another 2,000 jobs, the Class I railroads told the Surface Transportation Board.

Frozen Food Express Industries lost $6.1 million in the first quarter despite moves to cut costs in the difficult trucking environment.

National Retail Systems opened a 15-acre distribution center in Compton, Calif., to serve retailers and manufacturers who ship through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The Gal-Tex ship pilots have filed for a multi-year rate increase that begins with an eight percent increase on June 1, an eight percent increase the following year, and seven percent increases over e

In a boost that will help Galveston continue to rebound from last fall’s devastating Hurricane Ike and reach a new channel depth of 45 feet, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or stimul

Transfennica's combination "Trafexpress" container/roll-on, roll-off vessel Timca called the Port of Jacksonville this week and discharged about 6,000 tons of breakbulk Scandinavian paper an

Heavy truck orders for major North American manufacturers in April were down 9 percent from March and 57 percent from April 2008 with no improvement in sight, according to data compiled by FTR Associa

The U.S. Postal Service lost $1.9 billion in the quarter ending March 31.

Container ship charter rates plunged to historic lows and are set for further steep falls in the coming weeks as ocean carriers prepare to return scores of hired vessels to their owners in a bid to sh

Somali pirates hijacked the MV Victoria Tuesday afternoon off the southern coast of Yemen for the second time in a year.

Intermodal and logistics firm Pacer International is promoting several executives and changing its management design, in the first phase of a restructuring that Pacer said aims to cut costs, boost com

The nation’s largest shipper organization is backing a new standard for cargo liability in international transport that would supersede current U.S. maritime cargo liability law.

Germany's Deutsche Post DHL reported first quarter operating profit crashed 95 percent from a year ago mainly due to the cost of shuttering its U.S. domestic express delivery service.

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Maersk Line, extending its bid to reverse a slide in ocean pricing, today announced rate increases on its services from Northern Europe to North Africa and the Mediterranean as well as from Asia to th

U.S. airlines reported their worst quarter for cargo ever in the first three months of 2009, recording a 21.1 percent decline in traffic despite signs of growing demand late in the quarter.

Jeffrey A. Rosen, former general counsel and senior policy advisor at the White House Office of Management and Budget, and previously general counsel of the U.S.

Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation hired Todd Hoyt as general manager of its new division, transportation management services.

The International Air Cargo Association elected Ulrich Ogiermann as its new Chairman.