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There are plenty of signs suggesting shippers and transportation providers should expect a mediocre peak shipping season, but international intermodal isn’t one of them.

When New Orleans Cold Storage opened a riverfront cold storage plant last month, company and port officials were exultant.

There was less freight for many less-than-truckload carriers to haul in the second quarter, as a slower economy stemmed year-over-year tonnage and shipment growth and in some cases left carriers movin

With little fanfare, three organizations that set international standards for global companies agreed in July on a single standard for the equipment used in supplying shore power to vessels at berth.<

Steel shipments through Gulf of Mexico ports have long been a two-way race between Houston and New Orleans. Now a third port has elbowed into the picture.

Great expectations are colliding with hard reality at the Port of Gulfport, Miss., where state officials are considering modifications to a $570 million rebuilding and expansion project.

Hapag-Lloyd will raise rates in the trans-Atlantic trades effective Oct. 1, 2012.

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President Obama and presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will debate infrastructure if New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Pennsylvania Gov.

A group of mining companies have agreed to work with Canadian National Railway to move forward on plans to build rail line in northern Quebec, the railroad said on Friday.

Commissioners at the Port of Portland, Ore., overrode objections from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in voting 6-1 to defray the port&rsquo;s container terminal operator&rsquo;s losse

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Totem Ocean Trailer Express plans to convert two diesel-powered roll-on, roll-off ships to burn liquefied natural gas on TOTE&rsquo;s service between the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

FedEx is facing a $681,200 fine after the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday accused the parcel giant of failing to properly document hazardous material shipments in August 2010.

Maersk Line plans to impose a series of general rate increases on its Asia services that will take effect Sept. 1.

Spot rates in the Asia-Europe trade dropped this week, resuming their month-long pattern of declines after last week&rsquo;s rebound.

Intermodal shipments on major U.S. railroads in the week ending Aug.

Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud will add an eighth container vessel to their Indian Ocean Service linking ports in the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and Europe.

When supply chain sustainability emerged two decades ago, cargo interests and transportation providers widely viewed it as a cost center and drag on the bottom line.

Building a business case for sustainability is easier if the numbers speak for themselves.

Greek container ship and bulk carrier owner Euroseas fell $1.4 million into the red in the second quarter as charter rates for the type of small box vessels it owns were stuck at lows last seen in the

Celadon Trucking is purchasing a portion of the assets of USA Dry Van of McAllen, Texas, reinforcing its driver pool and increasing its U.S.-Mexico business.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has accepted the application by the Port of Miami for a Foreign Trade Zone license, enhancing Miami-Dade County&rsquo;s status as a Center for International Trade and Commerce.

Lufthansa Cargo carried 10.5 percent less freight in July than a year ago as it continued to slash capacity to stay profitable in a weak global air cargo market.

The Maritime Administration is seeking a contractor to study the safety, economic and environmental impact of double hulls required on tankers built since enactment of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.

Record exports and declining oil prices narrowed the U.S. trade deficit in June to its lowest level since 2010.

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The owner of the fire-damaged container ship MSC Flaminia has complained about European nations&rsquo; refusal to allow the fire-damaged ship to be towed to a port.

India is planning to relax its cabotage law to allow foreign-owned and operated ships to carry cargo between the country&rsquo;s ports.

Container ships arrived on schedule three-fourths of the time in the second quarter, setting a record for reliability, according to Drewry Maritime Research&rsquo;s latest quarterly Carrier Performanc

Pressure intensified on the China to unleash stronger stimulus actions after industrial production growth in July fell to three-year low, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

The UK&rsquo;s oldest shipowner, Stephenson Clarke Shipping, has gone into liquidation after more than 280 years in business.

Container throughput at major ports in India remained almost flat year-over-year from April through July, the first four months of fiscal 2012-13, according to the latest provisional figures released

Container traffic at the Port of Prince Rupert hit a monthly high in July, as traffic rose 5.5 percent year-over-year to 48,977 20-foot equivalent units.

Container ship lines are still struggling to reduce a vessel supply-demand gap that worsened last year and undermined freight rates, PIERS reports in a

Diesel emissions at the Port of Long Beach dropped for the fifth consecutive year since the port&rsquo;s Clean Air Action Plan was adopted in 2006.

DVB Bank&rsquo;s pre-tax net income slipped 5.5 percent in the first half of 2012 from a year ago but the German shipping, aviation and land transport financier, said it is on target to match its 2011

U.S. cross-border truck trade with Mexico by value hit an all-time high in May, reflecting the steadily increasing trade between the NAFTA members and growing consumption by the Mexican middle class.

Bulk trucker Quality Distribution purchased the operating assets of Dunn&rsquo;s Tank Service and Nassau Disposal for $34.3 million, expanding its shale gas business.