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Ports and transit systems have each been allocated $388.6 million for security grants out of a total of $970 million for preparedness grants announced Thursday by the Department of Homeland.

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The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has proposed new rule to allow the import of handmade or rustic goods made in China.

The four Somali pirates who seized and then lost control of the Maersk Alabama continued to hold its skipper, Capt.

Three international airlines pleaded guilty to cargo price fixing charges and agreed to pay a total of $214 million in fines, the U.S.

The Federal Maritime Commission dismissed three cases filed against the Puerto Rico Ports Authority.

As efforts continue in Congress to craft a new rail competition bill that shippers and railroads can both accept, a top railroad CEO says the pivotal lawmakers understand the need for rail firms to ea

Another week of unusually tough springtime weather, on top of a still-bad economy, left bulk railcar volume down 20.5 percent in the latest week for major U.S. railroads.

The Port of Jacksonville handled 656,805 vehicles during fiscal year 2008, a seven percent increase from FY 2007, making it the nation’s second busiest vehicle-handling port after New York/New J

In a report issued April 9, Coface, the Paris-based provider of credit insurance and business information, downgraded 28 countries and placed 19 countries on negative watch because of their vulnerabil

U.S. manufacturers and steelworkers filed anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions against certain imports from China.

The Maersk Alabama was heading to its original destination port of Mombasa, Kenya, a day after it was hijacked off Somalia's coast, CNN reported Thursday, quoting

The Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard have announced program changes to expedite enrollment in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program.

Lufthansa Cargo's freight traffic slumped 19.9 percent in March from a year ago, led by even steeper declines on routes to North and South America.

Although the Red River is subsiding in North Dakota so that railroads can start to dig out or mop up from heavy flooding, damage reports are still coming in.

It is a measure of how bad things are in the rail supply market that equipment builder Greenbrier spent much of its latest earnings announcement talking about ways it is guarding its cash position.

Container traffic in Rotterdam plunged 16 percent in the first quarter of 2009 from a year ago as the global economic downturn impacted all liner services to Europe's biggest box port.

The Commerce Department said Thursday that the U.S. trade deficit dropped by 28.3 percent in February to $25.97 billion, the smallest monthly deficit since November 1999.

Evergreen Line announced plans to upgrade its China-South U.S. West Coast-China Service (CPS) and Asia-U.S. East Coast Service (AUE) with improved transit times on the route.

Continuing to fill out his roster of administrators for transportation agencies, President Obama said he will nominate Peter M. Rogoff to head the Federal Transit Administration and Charles A.

A group of 11 shippers dropped their class action lawsuit alleging the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carriers conspired to fix fuel surcharge prices.

A U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Bainbridge, was in position near the lifeboat believed to be carrying the pirates and their hostage Capt. Richard Phillips.

A University of California business professor predicted that the U.S.

The captain of the Maersk Alabama, the U.S.-flag, Danish-owned container ship that was hijacked in the Indian Ocean early Wednesday morning and then retaken by its American crew, is still being held h

California motor carriers are asking the state air quality board to slow down adoption of its proposed low-carbon fuel standard that the industry says could cause the cost of diesel fuel to double.

Maersk Line announced plans to implement a general rate increase for the trade from the United States and Canada to South Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.

Ryder System is slashing its first quarter earnings estimates by roughly half due primarily to the beating its fleet management division is taking from the slowing economy.

The American crew of the hijacked Maersk Alabama retook the containership Wednesday from the Somali pirates who seized it earlier in the day far off the Horn of Africa, Pentagon officials said.

The board of the Port of Marseilles-Fos said it approved a new port strategy and financing to the year 2013 that includes the transfer of container and dry bulk cargo handling to private operators, wh

April 14 is the deadline for Transportation Worker Identification Credential compliance at the ports of Freeport, Galveston, Texas City, Houston, Port Arthur, Beaumont and Orange, Texas and Lake Charl

Evergreen Line said it will reduce the transit times on its weekly Far East - Panama service (FPS) from China to Mexico and Panama, in order to speed the service to Central America, the Caribbean and

Freight transportation picked up in February in the largest one-month rise since a year ago, marking a recovery from the lowest level in more than five years in January.

Wholesale inventories dropped 1.5 percent in February, the sharpest fall since the U.S. Commerce Department started keeping records on the current basis in 1992.

A Spanish ocean carrier pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston and paid a $2.5 million fine for dumping oily waste overboard, the Justice Department reported.

Cargotec subsidiary MacGREGOR provided a vehicle access outfit for a new Channel cruiseferry and won a separate contract in Japan to fit the first complete set of electrically-driven roll-on, roll-off

Canada States Africa Line added Houston and New Orleans to its regular monthly service between North America and South Africa beginning with a call by the multi-purpose tweendecker Atlantic Runner on

UPS Freight expanded its door-to-door less-than-truckload service in Mexico and shortened transit times in Canada in a move to solidify its market position in anticipation of a stronger economy.

International express carrier TNT said steep declines in volume for its premium transport business stabilized during the first quarter and improved somewhat at the end of March.

An ad hoc coalition of 140 manufacturing, food and agricultural organizations sent a letter to President Obama urging him to quickly resolve the cross-border trucking dispute with Mexico.

The World Bank, the European Commission, Britain, and the African Development Bank pledged $1.2 billion to upgrade infrastructure and improve trade in eastern and southern Africa at a conference on th