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Canadian National Railway reported 50 instances when its trains or those of a short line it bought blocked road crossings in the Chicago area, in the first two months since it took over those tracks e

Transits of the Panama Canal slipped 1.4 percent in the Canal’s second fiscal quarter. A total of 3,914 ships passed through the Canal from January through March.

Retail sales for March fell 9.4 percent compared with a year ago, according to a report April 14 from the U.S. Census Bureau, as the recession took a big bite out of consumer spending.

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The docks that make up port cargo terminals, where millions of steel containers full of freight are transferred from ships to the shore or the other way around, are normally a death-defying place to b

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday unanimously approved an exhaustive environmental study, paving the way for the port’s first major capital improvement project in more than

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday unanimously approved an exhaustive environmental study, paving the way for the port’s first major capital improvement project in more than

The average retail price of diesel fuel went up one-tenth of a cent last week to $2.229 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Maersk Line announced plans to adjust the port rotation of its Oceania Americas Service (OC1), effective in May.

"It's really going to have to be a federal vision, with some federal funding."

MOL (America)’s Product Management Team changed its North America Sales Management.

Sunteck Transport Group, a non-asset 3PL, named Laura Diehl carrier relations manager.

President Obama, Vice President Biden and Transportation Secretary LaHood celebrated the release of funds for the 2,000th transportation project under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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."