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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

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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.

The Government Accountability Office took the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration to task for failing to coordinate efforts

London -- Deutsche Post World Net on March 11 unveiled a new strategy that focuses on fusing its freight forwarding, supply chain logistics and express delivery businesses under the DHL brand.

The Government Accountability Office is recommending that the Department of Transportation should modify the way it analyzes the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund to avoid the kind of shortfall that

The cities of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and Memphis, Tenn., signed an agreement to pursue ways to build stringer cargo connections.

Canadian National Railway is starting to move a few trains out of congested downtown Chicago tracks onto a short line route through area suburbs.

Congress passed a huge $409.6 billion omnibus appropriations bill March 10 with a final vote in the Senate of 62-35.

Revenue for Descartes Systems Group in its fourth quarter was not only lower than in the previous year but also lower than the amount of tax credit, which kept the on-demand software-as-a-service prov

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published a final rule outlining the steps importers and manufacturers must take to exempt materials from the lead-content portions of the Consumer Product Safet

Freight transportation services declined in January for the third consecutive month, pulling the Department of Transportation’s index to its lowest level in more than five years.

Consolidated cargo throughput at major ports in India grew by 2.5 percent in the April-February period, amid indications that the slump in trade is affecting traffic growth.

Cargo traffic at Frankfurt airport in February tumbled more than 25 percent from a year ago as the global economic downturn hit Europe's biggest air cargo hub with severe impact.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services changed its service network linking the Mediterranean and the East Coast of South America, effective immediately.

A real estate development company plans to submit a multibillion-dollar offer for the operating rights to the state-owned cargo terminals of the Virginia Port Authority.

Federal regulators cleared the way for Norfolk Southern Railway and northeastern short lines operator Pan Am Railways to launch a New England joint venture railroad.

London -- Lufthansa, Europe's second largest airline, on March 11 reported cargo earnings rose more than 20 percent in 2008 from a year ago but warned revenue and profits will shrink in 2009 as freigh

The 14 container lines that belong to the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement will begin the transition to a new formula for calculating their bunker adjustment factor under their 2009-10 service con