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When he arrived in Overland Park, Kan., last July, James Welch began his plan to restart YRC Worldwide by cleaning house at the holding company, starting at the top.

In the fashionable neighborhoods of Bogota, the gourmet restaurants, lively nightclubs and luxurious hotels are brimming with foreign executives eager to sign trade and investment deals in South Ameri

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line opened a drayage facility in Oakland, Calif., expanding its container-hauling business to meet higher demand.

Container volumes at the Port of Tacoma declined 2.2 percent in February compared to the same month last year.

Journal of Commerce Senior Editor William B. Cassidy interviewed YRC Worldwide CEO James P.

FedEx will pay $3 million to more than 21,000 rejected job applicants to settle allegations of hiring discrimination, the Labor Department said Thursday.

U.S. intermodal rail shipments in the week ending March 17 rose 2 percent year-over-year, and traffic was flat on a week-to-week basis, according to the Association of American Railroads.

Maersk Line is implementing a new round of general rate increases in its Far East Asia services, starting April 15.

Florida East Coast Industries will launch a private passenger rail service linking South Florida and Orlando in 2014, the real estate and transportation company said Thursday.

More transportation services and a bigger agent network helped logistics operator AutoInfo increase gross revenue 14.4 percent to $320 million

Coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming, and iron ore from the U.S.

Maersk Line has suspended bookings on its North Europe-to-Asia services effective immediately as it battles to clear up a backlog of containers at clogged European terminals.

Australia’s government will introduce legislation in the lower house of Parliament Friday to remove a tax on domestic shipping companies in an effort to counter a 40 percent decline in the natio

The G6 Alliance’s Loop 3 Asia-Europe service will not include a call at the port of Gdansk, Poland, OOCL said Friday.

When it came time to impose the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement’s recommended March 15 rate increase, the 15 member carriers took different approaches.

In the battle for dominance in the U.S. container shipping trades, Mediterranean Shipping Co. didn’t deliver a knockout, winner-take-all punch, but it sure came close.

What’s going on with the world’s container carriers? Maersk Line and other large carriers say they’re no longer seeking additional market share.

Nippon Express Co., Japan’s largest international freight forwarder, said that its U.S. subsidiary has formed a capital alliance with Colombia’s Map Cargo S.A.S.

Shippers on Thursday got their shot to tell the Surface Transportation Board that it’s unfair for them to pay higher rates to BNSF Railway because of the $8.1 billion premium Berkshire Hathaway

DHL Express is expanding next-day package service between Asia and the U.S. and Western Canada with a new flight connecting Hong Kong and Los Angeles.

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Average spot prices in the Asia-Europe trade slid this week for the third consecutive week following the huge March 1 general rate increase implemented by carriers in the trade.

Lufthansa Cargo plans to sell its 25 percent stake in Jade Cargo International, the China-based carrier that grou

Costa Rica gave the final go-ahead for APM Terminals’ 33-year concession to build and operate a $992 million container terminal at the Caribbean port of Moin.

Container ship charter owner Costamare said proceeds from the sale of 7.5 million shares in a secondary offering on the NYSE will be used to acquire ships and repay debt.

FedEx Corp.’s profit more than doubled during its fiscal third quarter, fueled by record holiday package shipping,

Bowing to intense pressure from the local trade community, India’s Mumbai Port Authority agreed to waive charges levied on vessels stranded at cargo terminals because of the port shutdown in Aug

Japan posted a surplus of $396.39 million in its trade with the rest of the world in February after incurring a record monthly deficit of $17.80 billion in January, according to preliminary figures re

The owner of a Pennsylvania trucking company who pushed drivers to violate hours of service limits could spend years in jail for trying to flout the truck safety rules.

APM Terminals said ports must start to draw up plans now to handle the future generation of giant container ships with capacities up to 22,000 20-foot equivalent units.

Democratic Senate leaders, along with Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, urged House Republicans to adopt their two-year transport bill instead of endangering thousands of jobs by push

Lufthansa Cargo is adding three new destinations in China and ramping up its recently launched freighter service to Detroit in the summer flight schedule beginning on March 25.

The value of surface transportation trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico increased by 14.3 percent to a record $904 billion in 2011, <

XPO Logistics raised $136.7 million through a public stock offering, exceeding its initial expectations as it secured funds for acquisitions and expansion.

Jaguar Land Rover, a unit of India&rsquo;s Tata Motors, is forming a joint venture with Chery Automobile of China to manufacture the U.K.-based automaker's luxury vehicles in China.

Inefficient work and pay practices criticized by the Waterfront Commission should be addressed &ldquo;at the bargaining table &ndash; not publicly in the political world and surely not in the press,&r

Hapag-Lloyd swung to a net loss of $38.3 million in 2011 from a $565 million profit in 2010.

Hiring and work practices at the Port of New York and New Jersey breed inefficiency, favor &ldquo;a privileged few,&rdquo; and invite organized-crime influence, the Waterfront Commission of New York H

Spot rates on the trans-Pacific trade stayed flat week-over-week this week after a 13.6 percent jump last week that followed the rate increase of $300 per 40-foot equivalent unit on March 15

Cosco Container Lines and Hanjin Shipping plan to launch a new service between the Far East, Panama and Houston at the end of April.