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Net orders for new Class 8 trucks dropped 11 percent in February from January, the second straight month of decline, according to research firm FTR Associates.

Saudi Airlines Cargo will launch a twice-weekly B747 freighter service to Saigon, Vietnam, on March 25, linking the Southeast Asian country to the Middle East and Frankfurt, Germany.

United Arab Shipping is joining other major ocean carriers in seeking a second general rate increase this year on the troubled Asia-Europe trade lanes.

Maersk Line is teaming up with BNSF Railway to offer day-definite delivery of Asian imports through Los Angeles to Chicago, Memphis, Dallas, Houston and the CSX Railway hub at Northwest Ohio.

Westbound trade from the U.S.

Cosco Container Lines and China Shipping Container Lines are looking to expand their vessel-sharing agreements on China coastal and intra-Asia trade lanes to other routes, said Capt.

Jim Devine hit the roof when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey raised the truck and auto tolls on its bridges and tunnels last September.

Before teaming up with supply chain management software provider Descartes a decade ago, CVS, the nation’s biggest pharmacy chain, relied on historical data and safety inventory to avoid the cos

As TNT Express cajoles UPS to sweeten its $6.5 billion takeover offer, rivals FedEx and DHL Express are scrambling to react to a transformative deal likely to trigger further consolidation of the glob

They have deep water. They have more than 500 acres with a mile of waterfront and environmental approvals in place.

From Valparaiso, Chile, to Vancouver, British Columbia, ports face the reality that their land-use and business growth plans can’t be developed in a vacuum.

Maersk Line’s warning that it would follow up 2011’s $602 million loss with another year in the red underscores the dire forecast by most of the major ocean carriers that have reported ear

A top shipment arriving in Detroit by air not long ago drew the interest of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after the agency got a heads up from data collected by Customs and Border Protection.

U.S. rail growth this year is expected to outpace overall economic expansion as manufacturing expands and the shifting energy landscape gives as well as takes.

The most mundane things in the world could be the subject of anti-dumping cases — catfish, honey, plastic bags, mattress innersprings, even coat hangers. In June 2011, U.S.

Old Dominion Freight Line is driving its trucks to the water’s edge and beyond, expanding its drayage and expedited less-than-containerload services.

Chinese manufacturing in February expanded at the fastest pace in five months, as export orders surged after a production lull caused by Lunar New Year celebrations.

Horizon Lines said Friday it will raise freight rates on cargo moving between the U.S. and Puerto Rico as of April 1.

How many TEUs did Japan export to the U.S. in 2009? What is the forecast for U.S. containerized trade with China in 2012?

Mediterranean Shipping imposed a general rate increase on westbound cargo from India to North Europe and the

Pantos Logistics recently opened a roughly 31,000-square-foot logistics center near the Port of Rotterdam to distribute vehicle parts across Europe.

The Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) will be able to handle deep-draft vessels and expand throughput capacity in roughly two years after India’s top container hub received $320 million for

James River Coal in 2012 expects to ship at least 3.3 percent more coal from the Midwest and Central Appalachia than it did last year despite many railroad analysts’ expectations that coal shipm

When U.S. ports in the Pacific Northwest talk about rival Prince Rupert, British Columbia, words such as “diversion” and “unfair advantages” dot the conversation.

February’s visit to the U.S.

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2011 was a year of contrasts in the Asia-U.S. trade. U.S.

Henry Vander Pol, a trucking pioneer who helped establish two motor carriers in the Pacific Northwest, died Wednesday in Auburn, Wash. He was 95 years old.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Celadon Trucking for allegedly requiring prospective employees submit to illegal medical tests.

Celadon Trucking will get trucks, trailers and, perhaps most important, badly needed truck drivers from its purchase of Teton Transportation’s assets.

James Young, chairman, president and CEO of Union Pacific Corp., the largest U.S. railroad, will take a medical leave of absence for treatment of pancreatic cancer.

The Abu Dhabi Port Co. plans to open a port with an initial annual capacity of 2 million 20-foot equivalent units in the United Arab Emirates in late 2012.

At times, it seems the only thing shippers, forwarders and carriers share is a common mantra: They say they want to talk about service quality but complain their counterparty is only interested in pri

It’s fine to have an opinion but better to base the opinion on facts, especially if millions of dollars are at stake.

Hanjin Shipping joined other carriers on Friday in announcing a second round of freight rate increases on its westbound Asia-Europe service, this time as of April 1.

Truck pricing is expected to rise by low to mid-single digit percentages over the next year, as shippers, brokers and carriers deal with tight capacity and rising costs.

Intermodal volume last week slipped 2.8 percent year-over-year to 214,402 trailers and containers while carload traffic fell 5 percent to 281,644 carloads, the Association of American Railroads report

UPS has named Jeff McCorstin vice president of international air and ocean freight transportation services.

An “unidentified” merchant ship collided with an Indian fishing trawler early Thursday about 15 nautical miles off the country’s southern coast of Kerala, leaving two fishermen dead

When news broke that House Republicans were considering scaling back their surface transportation bill to 18 months from five years, it signaled a further eroding of members’ ability to offer an