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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is adding a level of security to the Transportation Worker Identification Credential.

President Obama has chosen Craig Fugate, director of Florida’s emergency response agency, to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the White House said.

For the six week period ending Feb. 6, NOL’s container shipping volume dropped 35 percent due to a drastic decline in demand.

Trans Global Logistics named Bill Ip director of freight and logistics, China North region.

Austin, Texas-based express carrier Lone Star Overnight now has overnight parcel delivery to every ZIP code in Texas.

LONDON — Global Ship Lease, the London-based container ship charter owner established by French carrier CMA CGM, reported a fourth quarter net loss of $43.7 million March 4 after a $50.7 million

Buffeted by weak demand from Taiwanese-owned factories in mainland China, Taiwan suffered a 7.9 percent decline in its trade surplus with China in 2008.

Japanese private equity fund Vana World will invest approximately $1.9 billion in a free trade zone under development in South Korea's western port city of Incheon, the company said Wednesday.

World Trade Organization director-general Pascal Lamy said Wednesday in Canberra, Australia that trade ministers could meet by summer to complete a Doha Round final agreement, once the administration

Less iron ore production due to the recession is likely to delay the start of the 2009-10 shipping season on the Great Lakes.

The Industrial Egret, the second in a series of four new ships to enter the Intermarine fleet in the next twelve months, was delivered last month to Intermarine in Portugal.

BNSF Railway says the economic development work it did last year, to build up businesses that could feed into its rail network, helped generate about $4 billion worth of investments and over 4,000 new

London – Poland will begin the enforced auction next week of two shipyards that played a pivotal role in the collapse of communism in order to recoup $3 billion of illegal state subsidies.

Chipolbrok on February 27 launched the multi-purpose vessel Adam Asnyk, the first of six 30,000 dead-weight-ton newbuildings, from the Dalian shipyard in China.

LONDON — French carrier CMA CGM cut capacity in the Asia-East Coast South America service it operates with China Shipping, Maruba and K-Line by 35 percent.

Maersk Line on March 4 announced changes to its SAMBA service linking the East Coast of South America and the Middle East, effective this month.

President Obama began pushing out funds this week in several ways that can help the transportation sector, by sending stimulus money down the pipeline to states and starting to tackle consumer finance

Southeastern Freightways, a major player in regional less-than-truckload (LTL) hauling, is responding to shipper demand for more full truckload transportation as customers look to save money in the we

The sharp edge of the recession chopped the legs off the furniture market in December and January, cutting deeply into shipments of household furniture.

The National Association of Manufacturers is backing the Obama administration’s Trade Policy Agenda, released March 2 by

Container volumes at most Chinese ports will grow at single digits rates this year, and may actually decline at some.

Traffic from short line railroads is running dramatically behind last year’s pace in the RMI RailConnect index.

Union Pacific Railroad is asking federal regulators to help it fend off certain new long-haul chlorine shipment requests, in cases where receiving customers could get the supplies delivered by pipelin

Kansas City Southern named Mary Stadler senior vice president and chief accounting officer. Stadler will report to KCS executive vice president and chief financial officer Michael W. Upchurch.

Bucking the economic downturn, the Kuehne + Nagel Group enjoyed its best results ever in 2008, despite a significant decline in cargo volume during the fourth quarter of last year.

LONDON -- Zim Integrated Shipping Services on March 3 named Rafi Danieli as president and chief executive officer of the Israeli ocean container carrier.

Maersk Line on Tuesday announced plans to implement a rate increase in the trade between Asia and Latin America, as part of a rate restoration program.

The Obama administration figures the $28 billion that the new stimulus law is sending to highway construction and assorted freight projects “will lead to 150,000 jobs saved or created by the end

It took more than five years, but Yellow Transportation and Roadway are finally one company.

Trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners, Canada and Mexico, is declining rapidly as the recession deepens.

A steep drop in heavy truck orders could be an early warning sign for shippers enjoying unprecedented pricing power and a glimmer of hope for carriers forced to slash rates to keep freight in their tr

Strong net revenue margins at Landstar are helping offset significant revenue declines at the non-asset based truckload operator, according to investment banker Stifel Nicolaus.

LONDON -- Containerships, Finland’s leading regional short sea container line, acquired Contaz Maritime of Turkey, thus becoming a pan-European operator.

The unpopular clean-truck fees that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began collecting two weeks ago could be ended within a year if motor carriers continue to finance the purchase of environmen

BNSF Railway shed rail 140 more of its rail network employees, putting 2 percent of its mechanical workforce on the types of indefinite layoffs that railroads call furloughs.

LOS ANGELES -- If the big container lines that have cut rates to the unprofitable bone on the Asia-Europe trade start lowering their rates on the trans-Pacific this season, the other lines are sure to

States will have the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee looking over their shoulders as they spend $40 billion in infrastructure stimulus funds.

When it comes to high-tech purchases, consumers are pressing the “esc” key.

LONDON – The CEO of Zim Integrated Shipping Services, Doron Goder, has quit his post following differences over strategy with the Israeli ocean carrier’s parent company.

LONDON - CMA CGM on March 2 became the latest carrier to announce increases in ocean freight rates across its main trades for the second quarter.