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Chilean container carrier CSAV will impose a general rate increase on westbound trade from India to Europe and the Mediterranean.

Allied Systems Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors June 10, saying it would keep its auto-hauling trucks rolling as it reorganizes.

Diesel prices in the U.S. hit the lowest point since October, falling 6.5 cents in the week ending June 11 as oil prices rose to nearly $85 a barrel.

The U.S. rail shippers don’t appear to heeding the warnings of a national economic slowdown.

Federal regulators shut down Wisconsin trucker WTSA US Express, the seventh motor carrier ordered off th

Schneider National and CSX Transportation have expanded their multiyear contract to allow the truckload giant to provide intermodal service at two rail ramps in Northwest Ohio.

The International Air Transport Association maintained its $3 billion global airline profit forecast for 2012 as oil prices fall, passenger traffic grows faster than expected and the cargo market bott

The Federal Maritime Commission voted to ease technical requirements for non-vessel-operating common carriers

Volkswagen, the German auto and commercial vehicle manufacturer, is mulling the purchase of a stake in U.S. truck maker Navistar International, according to media reports.

APM Terminals has ordered 26 automated rail-mounted gantry cranes and two rail cranes from Austrian manufacturer Kuenz for APMT’s Rotterdam Maasvlakte II terminal.

The volume of containers handled by major ports in India fell 1.71 percent year-over-year in the first two months of fiscal 2012-13, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement on Monday.

Geodis Wilson has opened a new logistics center in southern Vietnam to meet rising demand.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is a hero to advocates of public-private partnerships for successfully negotiating a $3.8 billion deal to lease the Indiana Toll Road.

The words “technology” and “automation” are troubling to longshoremen because they signal a loss of job opportunities.

Major eastern U.S. railroads stand to gain whether or not the Panama Canal expansion brings more freight to the ports they serve.

The idea of using public-private partnerships to build or maintain toll highways and bridges may not be as popular as it was during the Bush administration, when Transportation Secretary Mary Peters c

Shippers are increasingly turning to railroads instead of trucks to tap the booming surface trade between the U.S. and its closest neighbors.

While UPS made a splash with its move to buy TNT Express earlier this year, FedEx appears to be forging a more cautious approach in countering the European and Brazilian expansion of its main rival.

The race is getting tighter for the U.S. container trade triple crown as the leading carrier in imports, exports and total volume.

Could “used-truck salesman” be one of the best jobs in trucking? Follow the money. “It’s a great time to be a used-truck dealer,” said Steve Tam of ACT Research.

Even in a slow economy, third-party logistics is a growth industry. U.S.

Negotiations on a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract for East and Gulf Coast dockworkers have taken a negative turn, confronting shippers with tough choices in the weeks ahead

Delegates to the 35th convention of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union voted unanimously to affiliate with the Panama Canal Pilots Union.

Fitch Ratings said CMA CGM's first-quarter results are evidence that the world's largest container shipping companies are beginning to reap the benefit of a more rational approach to pricing.

U.S. intermodal shipments on major railroads in the week ending June 2 rose 4.1 percent year-over-year but fell 12.6 percent from the week before, according to the Association of American Railroads.

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FedEx Freight, the nation’s largest stand-alone less-than-truckload carrier, is first out of the gate to raise pricing this summer with a

A House committee approved a bill to reform the Lacey Act to avoid what retailers and other businesses say are uni

A suspended pier superintendent at Maher Terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey pleaded guilty to a federal charge of illegal bookmaking using Internet sites and 1-800 telephone numbers.

Celadon Trucking acquired a portion of the equipment of Hiner Transport, a truckload carrier based in Huntington, Ind. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Signs abound that Congress won’t get its act together before the highway spending extension expires at the end of the month.

CEVA Logistics has further committed to operating truck services in China, completing the buyout of CEVA Ground in China, a former joint venture that has now become a wholly owned subsidiary.

Jade Cargo International is being liquidated after shareholders, including Lufthansa Cargo, failed to agree on a restructuring of

United Arab Shipping Company has joined other major container ship operators in announcing a general rate increase on westbound Asia-Europe trades, starting July 1.

Having worked for more than 22 years in the shipping industry, much of the time with ocean carriers, Stephen Aldridge understands that freight rates charged to cargo consolidators will rise and fall w

Sam Woodward was named president and CEO of domestic ocean carrier Horizon Lines

A stevedoring company that plans to use workers from the Operating Engineers union to load military ammunition at Charleston said it is not competing for work currently done by International Longshore

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission certified the final environmental impact report and approved the proposed expansion of the APL terminal operated by Eagle Marine Services.

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission adopted a 2012-13 fiscal year budget that includes projected capi

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