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The economic recession spreading around the globe is hitting South America, cutting sharply into containerized shipments as well as exports of automobiles and breakbulk commodities such as steel and f

The South American steel industry has not escaped the global economic crisis.

For six years, copper defied every bullish forecast and every bearish warning.

Vehicle production and exports in Latin America’s top three auto-making countries — Argentina, Brazil and Mexico — are plunging amid the global economic crisis as U.S.

A review of the short-term global economic outlook by leading analysts suggests any attempt at optimism regarding today’s shipping industry would be little more than a Pollyanna daydream.

When Germany began charging drivers by the mile for the use of its highways, commercial trucks were the first to convert from a motor fuel tax. If the U.S.

Trucking companies waiting until next year to upgrade their fleets with cleaner- burning diesel engines may have a tough time passing the extra cost on to shipper customers if the long economic winter

Just five months after launching their clean-trucks program, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are poised to restructure the fee and subsidy elements that are at the core of the nation’s m

IN THE TWO YEARS SINCE Rep. James L.

LONDON — The First Container Terminal in St. Petersburg, Russia’s biggest box terminal, reported traffic in February plunged 27.3 percent from a year ago as imports collapsed.

LONDON — Babcock & Brown Infrastructure, one of Europe’s biggest port operators, said the bankruptcy of Babcock and Brown, Australia’s second-largest investment bank, would not i

LONDON — Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, one of the world’s biggest ocean car carriers, said it expects to idle up to 20 percent of its fleet this year amid a deepening slump in global aut

Canada’s trade deficit widened to nearly $786 million in January, as shock waves from the global economic crisis spilled across the U.S. border and traveled along ocean trade lanes.

Delmas, the CMA CGM Group subsidiary that specializes in the African trade, has started calling at the West Africa Container Terminal in Onne, Nigeria, APM Terminals said today.

NYK Logistics (Americas) has named Timothy J. Nolan as the position of senior vice president and general manager of its non-vessel-operating common carrier and customs house brokerage division.

StreamLines, a subsidiary of Belgium’s Seatrade Reefer Chartering, added calls at the Port of Felixst

The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay is getting the short line its shippers wanted, and the chance to get the mostly closed rail route back in op

The American Trucking Associations is challenging the third attempt by the Teamsters union and consumer safety advocates to change federal truck driver hours

The overall U.S. trade deficit in January dropped to its lowest level in six years, not as a result of strong U.S. export performance but because of weak U.S.

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Short line traffic braked harder in the latest week, as measured both from the same time in 2008 and against the pace of industry activity since January.

Terminal operators at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will eliminate one shift per week under the popular PierPass extended gates program, starting the week of April 6.

Clean truck fees and other port charges in Southern California are hastening the diversion of cargo to ports in the Pacific Northwest and the East Coast.

Hamburg Sud is increasing freight rates on the westbound trans-Atlantic services as of April 10, the carrier announced.

Hong Kong-based Sinotrans Shipping group profit for 2008 rose 146.4 percent to $347.1 million, from $140.9 million the previous year.

The recession kept hitting every category of commodity and consumer goods carried on U.S. railroads in the first week of March.

Net income at Aeroports de Paris fell 15.3 percent from a year ago, and the French airports group on March 12 scaled back its earnings guidance for 2009 amid falling passenger and freight traffic.

Maersk Line announced a change in the port rotation of its weekly Scan-Med Service linking North Europe and the Mediterranean, effective in April.

Telecommunications giant AT&T will spend up to $565 million on 15,000 trucks and cars powered by compressed natural gas, a step hailed as the largest corpor

LONDON – Panalpina almost halved net earnings last year and will cut approximately 10 percent of its workforce amid declining global cargo volumes, the Swiss logistics group said March 12.

The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia is adding a Port of Charleston call to its established ro-ro/breakbulk/container service between North America and the Middle East.

The Port of Freeport, Tex., will begin widening its ship channel from the current 400 feet to 500 feet within the jetties and to 600 feet from the jetties to the Gulf of Mexico now that the Army Corps

YRC President, Chairman and CEO William D.

Kansas City Southern Railway has joined the list of major railroads starting to incorporate the low-emission “genset” switcher locomotives to its fleet, as it refit two engines for its Por

London – NYSE-listed Danaos, one of the world’s biggest containership charter owners, breached loan covenants and is delaying delivery of ten vessels even though earnings and revenue growt

Retail sales declined just 0.1 percent from January to February, according to seasonally adjusted figures released March 12 by the U.S. Census Bureau.

London -- France's state railway, SNCF, on March 11 reported losses at its freight unit widened to a record $430 million in 2008 from $328 million the previous year as core traffic plunged in the fina

Maersk Line changed the port rotation of its weekly Euromed Service that covers the trade between Europe and the Mediterranean.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has already received lists of highway stimulus projects from 31 states, said DOT Chief Economist John V. Wells.

China Shipping Container Lines, the world’s 6th largest ocean container shipping company, selected GT Nexus as its preferred industry portal for e-commerce services.