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The conversion of over-the-road freight to domestic intermodal could accelerate in the next few years if federal hours-of-service limitations are implemented as planned and motor carrier costs keep rising, according to a third-party logistics executive.

Port Corpus Christi in Texas has promoted Ruben C. Medina to director of business development, under the supervision of the deputy port director of operations and business development.

I.D. Systems, which provides wireless solutions for managing enterprise assets, has received a series of purchase orders from Walgreens for its PowerFleet wireless vehicle management system.

Third-party transportation and logistics provider TTS is merging with Walsh Transportation Group.

Joseph (Joe) M. Baker, Jr., of Annapolis, Md., former executive director of the National Cargo Security Council, died on Feb. 8. He was two days shy of his 86th birthday.

Class I railroad Union Pacific has promoted Kate Betsworth to vice president of intermodal operations, David Giandinoto to assistant vice president and general manager of distribution services...

U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline has denied environmental groups’ request to block construction on the Port Mackenzie Rail Extension, a 32-mile link from the mainline of the Alaska Railroad...

Indian Railways hauled 92.6 million metric tons of revenue-earning freight in January, up 6.4 percent from the total in January 2012.

XPO Logistics, a freight transportation services provider in North America, has acquired the operating assets of East Coast Air Charter, a third-party logistics business specializing in...

German ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd will increase rates by $500 per 20-foot-equivalent unit on its trade route from East Asia to Mexico and the west coasts of Central America and South America...

Liu Hanbo, president of Cosco Americas, has announced two appointments within management of both Cosco Container Lines Americas and its parent company Cosco Americas.

Commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $83 million sale of bookseller Barnes & Noble’s primary distribution center located in New Jersey.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Consumer Product Safety Commission investigators have seized multiple shipments of nearly 30,000 toys imported into the Port of San Juan...

Jim Brieger, 76, a longtime executive in the maritime industry, died on Feb. 4 in Roanoke, Va., from heart-related issues.

Union Pacific Railroad is receiving the first of 225 72-foot boxcars it ordered from Greenbrier Industries.

London-based TT Club, an insurer that provides cargo, property and liability coverage to freight forwarders and logistics companies, recently reported that innovation in the logistics sector is...

SDV has opened SDV Colombia in the capital city of Bogota.

The International Air Transport Association, an international industry trade group, has appointed Jeffrey N. Shane as general counsel.

Rio Tinto, a British-Australian multinational metals and mining corporation based in London, has applauded the Australian Competition Tribunal’s decision that its Hamersley and Robe rail lines...

Eden Prairie, Minn.-based third-party logistics provider C.H. Robinson’s board of directors has appointed Jodee Kozlak, 49, as its newest director.

Bermuda-based intermodal container lessor Textainer Group Holdings today reported net income in the fourth quarter of 2012 was $60.6 million, increasing 10.3 percent from $54.9 million...

For those in the Beltway, State of the Union is a bit like Christmas for the rest of us. It’s a time to hope that President Obama will bring one’s nonprofit, lobby or think tank a juicy present by mentioning or, better yet, endorsing their group's view.

London-based International Airlines Group, the merged British Airways-Iberia Airlines carrier, today initiated the process to eliminate 3,807 jobs at Iberia, in an effort to restructure the unprofitable...

Grupo Aeromexico reported net income in the fourth quarter of 2012 was MXN$612 million (about US$48.0 million), jumping 108 percent from $23.1 million...

Forward Air Corporation, which provides transportation and logistics services to the North American air freight and less-than-truckload market, reported profit in the fourth quarter of 2012...

Cargotec, a Finnish company that manufactures cargo-handling machinery, reported that net income in the fourth quarter of 2012 was 8.7 million euros (about US$11.7 million)...

Last year’s drought in the Midwest, the worst since 1956, slowed U.S. agricultural exports, but the farm sector in 2012 still was on pace to set a second consecutive record in terms of total value of exports.

Danaos booked a $129.6 million impairment loss on 13 older container ships which are laid-up or on short term charter in the fourth quarter of 2012, but the Greek shipowner closed the year with sharply higher operating revenues.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 19 has filed its final reply brief in its lawsuit challenging the Seattle and King County’s signing of...

Only 59 percent of shippers use performance metrics to manage freight costs, and only 43 percent are currently running or planning to implement a transportation management...

UPS has launched a new express air freight service, UPS Worldwide Express Freight, for urgent international heavyweight shipments.

CMA CGM announced today it has finalized a debt restructuring agreement with its banks that will stabilize its financial position and ease the way to an initial public offering of the world’s third-largest ocean container carrier.

The drop in demand for air cargo services out of China since the start of the Chinese New Year holidays has prompted Saudia Cargo to redeploy freight capacity to Africa to meet high demand in Europe for flowers in the run-up to Valentine’s Day.

Japan’s All Nippon Airways Co. said that its international cargo volume grew for the 11th consecutive month in December on a year-on-year basis, soaring 9.3 percent to 51,804 tons.

Cargo throughput at India’s Port of Mumbai climbed 7 percent year-over-year in the first 10 months of fiscal 2012-13, the port authority said in a statement on Monday.

A strike by truck drivers at India’s Port of Cochin has entered its second week, preventing the movement of containers in and out of Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, operated by DP World.