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In the week after being downgraded by two ratings agencies, Chilean boxship owner CSAV went to Hamburg, Germany to negotiate a capital infusion to weather the growing global economic gloom.

Imports of wind energy turbines and other components continued to grow in 2008, but that may change as investors and manufacturers build more plants in the U.S.

Twelve sections of a bridge to be delivered to and assembled in New York City were loaded at the Port of Tampa last week. Tampa Steel Erecting Co.

Since the mid-70’s, Saudi Arabia’s industrial city of Jubail has grown from a coastal village to the site of a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical complex.

Producer Prices Fell in March, especially for energy goods, according to a report April 14 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.

Supply chain management company CEVA Logistics joined Cargo 2000 with the help of Descartes Systems Group.

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Idled ocean container capacity fell for the first time in six months as carriers re-activated larger vessels amid a seasonal increase in cargo volume, but the jobless figures likely will surge again l

The Federal Maritime Commission has announced its meeting schedule through the summer, and cancelled its April 22 meeting.

The Mexican trucking trade group Canacar filed a notice of arbitration against the United States, alleging that cancellation of the cross-border trucking pilot program violated the North American Free

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.

Truck brokers tapping the $160 billion 3PL market appear to be adjusting to and recovering from overcapacity and scarce freight faster than their customers.

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

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.

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

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

"It's not a technology leap. It's an incremental move."