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"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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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.