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Yang Ming Line took delivery of the new 8,200-TEU YM Uniform and the 4,250-TEU YM Eternity, at a ceremony at Kaohsiung Shipyard of CSBC Corp., on March 24.

A key index of short line railroad traffic hit its worst percentage drop of 2009, falling 27.88 percent in the week ending March 21.

President Obama formally tendered the nominations of Joseph C. Szabo as administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, and Linda A. Puchala to serve on the National Mediation Board.

Following a steep slump in cargo traffic, Air France-KLM said it will post an operating loss of around $272 million in the fiscal year to end in March just over a month after it said it expected to en

Standard&Poor's Ratings Services last week placed CMA CGM on its CreditWatch list “with negative implications.” It placed a long-term 'BB+' corporate credit rating and 'BB-' senior uns

The Alabama State Port Authority issued a request for expression of interest from terminal operators and developers in investing in the development of the intermodal terminal on the 74-acre Garrows Be

The Environmental Protection Agency has not met its objectives in ridding ports of polluted air, according to the agency’s inspector general.

February international freight volume on the world’s airlines was 22.1 percent below year-ago levels, the International Air Transport Association reported March 26.

The Indianapolis-based regional Indiana Rail Road wants the Surface Transportation Board quickly to approve its plan to build a 5.2-mile link to a large new coal mine.

Hutchison Whampoa’s ports and port services division, the world’s largest terminal operator, grew overall for full-year 2008 despite the sharp decline in global trade during the fourth qua

OD Global and Hanjin Shipping are partnering in a less-than container load service from China to the United States to speed international transit times.

China's trade surplus will continue to decline despite the Chinese government's various initiatives to bolster its exports, the chairman of global management consulting firm A.T.

London -- Shipping lines are pressing the UK government to drop plans for increases of up to 67 percent in light dues paid by vessels calling at British ports.

UTi Worldwide Inc., an international, non-asset-based supplier of supply chain services and technology, lost $89.8 million during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, ending January 31.

Major freight railroads got another week of less-bad news, as the year-over-year carload decline was the mildest in the past four weeks.

The Port of Los Angeles is launching an incentive program to encourage ocean carriers to move more containers by rail into the port.

The top executive of China Ocean Shipping Co. said recovery of the container shipping trade depends on revival of U.S.

Maersk Line plans to change the port rotation of its Asia-Europe Service (AE1), effective in May.

Emirates Shipping Line plans to implement a general rate increase on the trade from the Indian Subcontinent to East Africa.

A Chinese subsidiary of Hankyu Express International, a major Japanese air- and sea-freight forwarder, established a branch office in Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang province in east China.

The American Trucking Associations is accusing the City of Los Angeles of misleading the public about ATA’s stance on the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program as a way for the port to divert

Port users delivered a strong message Wednesday to Los Angeles and Long Beach: Improve productivity, simplify business processes and build infrastructure or Southern California will continue to lose m

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Truck tonnage increased 1.7 percent in February from January based on the American Trucking Associations’ monthly survey of approximately 37,000 members.

The federal government is providing millions of dollars in stimulus funding for transportation projects that create jobs and reduce pollution, but applicants must move quickly in order to qualify for

Descartes Systems Group, which provides on-demand logistics software-as-a-service, unveiled its latest generation of solutions at its Global User Group Conference in Atlanta, Ga., which runs from Marc

Trailer Bridge lost $1.1 million in the fourth quarter, leaving the Jones Act tug-barge operator with a $3.2 million loss for all of 2008, sharply worse than the slim loss the carrier reported the yea

China Shipping Container Lines’ profit fell 99 percent in 2008 from the year before, the company reported.

The United States Postal Service faces losses of historic proportion, said Postmaster General John Potter in testimony March 25 before a House panel.

The recession still has a tight grip on the trucking industry, but some truckload carriers may finally be seeing the first signs of recovery, an industry consultant says.

DP World reported a near 50 percent surge in 2008 earnings but said it is deferring half of planned investments in new terminals amid falling container volumes across its global network.

INTTRA, an e-commerce platform for the ocean freight industry, entered into long-term agreements with Maersk Line, MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud for e-commerce and professional services wo

U.S. housing starts, a statistic closely monitored by transportation interests, increased in February after a long string of monthly declines.

Maersk Line announced its Singapore-based subsidiary, MCC Transport, is launching a new intra-Asia service, the Siam Java Express (IA-3), that will connect Thailand directly with Indonesia.

As chair of the full Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., opened a hearing March 25 on the need for transportation investment in relation to the next highway, trans

The Transportation Security Administration’s known shipper program does not provide the security intended, according to a report by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General.

London -- British Airways and Spain's Iberia are edging close to agreement on a merger that would create an airline with a one million tonne-a-year cargo business.

The international president of the largest rail labor organization, the United Transportation Union, is calling for railroads and customers to settle their fight over rail industry regulation, and rea

The Journal of Commerce erroneously reported on its Web site last week that Descartes Systems Group reported a profit in the fourth quarter thanks to a tax benefit.

The global recession led to a 23.1 percent slump in international air cargo traffic for members of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines in February, the group reported March 25.