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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on April 9 affirmed its 'BBB' long-term corporate credit ratings on Denmark-based airport Copenhagen Airports A/S and acquisition vehicle Macquarie Airports Cope

Hyundai Merchant Marine will add two container cranes in May at their Washington United Terminals in Tacoma.

Two major container carriers said they are maintaining the routing of the big ships that ply the trade lane between Asia and Europe via the Suez Canal during the recent spate of pirate attacks off the

Truck brokers tapping the $160 billion 3PL market appear to be adjusting to and recovering from overcapacity and scarce freight faster than their customers.

Charles Michael "Chuck" Csernica, Southeast regional sales manager for China Shipping, died April 7 in Mount Pleasant, S.C., after a long illness. He was 50.

YRC Worldwide is looking to defer millions of dollars worth of payments into Teamster union pension funds to help prop up the company’s cash reserves as it struggles to improve its finances in t

Mexican officials want a cross-border truck program that goes beyond the pilot program that the Bush administration launched in 2007, according to Bloomberg.

The Coast Guard will host a public meeting May 6 to receive comments on proposed rules about the use of electronic readers for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential.

A traffic decline of 30.2 percent from the same week last year was actually a bit of good news from the short line railroad industry. Things had been even worse the week before.

The four carriers in the CKYH Alliance held their 2009 Summit Meeting in Jeju, Korea on April 9 to discuss joint strategies on how to overcome the current crisis in the shipping industry.

The number of foreign trade containers handled by the Port of Tokyo fell for the first time in three months in November last year on a year-on-year basis, edging down 1.1 percent to 313,559 TEUs.

Japan's two largest airlines saw their international cargo volume continue to nosedive in February amid the deep global economic slump.

If you're a U.S. exporter, odds are you aren't covered by trade credit insurance. In this age of insolvency, it's a risk that could come back to haunt you.

America’s freight sector is getting stimulated.

It’s tough for George Adams, president of SA Recycling in Anaheim, Calif., to see much good about the global trading economy when scrap steel exports are down 30 percent this year.

The new wave of attacks on ships in the Indian Ocean, most notably this month’s seizure of the U.S.-flag Maersk Alabama, is reverberating across the maritime industry, driving up insurance rates and r

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With its contract negotiations on hold and a civil racketeering lawsuit moving slowly, the International Longshoremen’s Association is wrestling with another problem -- a financial crisis that has roi

Con-way is reaching across the Atlantic and within its own company in a bid to load more freight and put pressure on the nation’s largest freight and parcel carriers.

Hard times are pushing some shippers to shift the way they build domestic loads, in the process cutting deeply into the use of intermodal truck trailers on trains.

It’s an article of faith among short-sea shipping proponents that waterborne freight transportation can provide an environmentally friendly alternative to overcrowded highways.

When Robin Silvester left Canada four years ago for a leadership position at P&O Ports, Port Metro Vancouver was in the midst of a surge in business from an Asia export boom that fed the Pacific N

For the first time since the Environmental Protection Agency in 1999 brought attention to the health risks posed by port pollution, the stars are aligned at the federal, state and local levels to redu

Some believe the housing sector that led the world into the economic slump may help lead the economy to recovery.

At the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Chairman Jon Wellinghoff has been thinking about freight railroads.

"You at least have to start with a dual locomotive."

"It's not a technology leap. It's an incremental move."

"If the needs match up, then it will get done."

"What he’s really talking about ... is Phase I of the Interstate II idea.”

“I wouldn’t have a problem with the federal government helping the freight railroads invest.”

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President Obama picked a Maryland official with two tours of experience running that state’s multi-modal transportation department for the second-highest job at the U.S.

Sometimes it takes a whole team of railroads to haul a project cargo.

LONDON — The Rotterdam Port Authority’s income rose 32 percent in 2008 from a year ago on higher harbor dues as cargo traffic in Europe’s biggest container port hit an all time high.

The Port of Anchorage in Alaska received $10 million from the Department of Defense for infrastructure improvements, the U.S. Maritime Administration said April 10.

The General Services Administration and Customs and Border Protection plan to spend $720 million on infrastructure improvements along the U.S. border.

LONDON — The containership order book is down to an 18-month-low, but ocean carriers and charter owners face rising overcapacity with shipyards poised to deliver hundreds of big vessels in the n

Hoping to prevent further deterioration in ocean freight rates, shipping lines in the eastbound Pacific are attempting to scrap the spot rates that have crept into service contracts and to establish a

The Port of Long Beach honored 14 shipping lines that led the industry in reducing their vessel speed within 20 miles of the coast in order to reduce harmful diesel emissions.

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