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At a time when the U.S. housing market is in its worst condition since home ownership began to boom after World War II, railroads are hauling more lumber in 2011 than they did last year.

A U.S.-Canada cross-border dispute simmering since last spring may be on the verge of boiling over.

Nearly 500 Canadian Auto Workers employees on Friday notified Canada’s St.

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A 16.4 percent jump in exports spurred a 7.3 percent increase in loaded international container volume at the Port of Tacoma in August from a year earlier.

Mediterranean Shipping Co., the world’s second-largest container shipping carrier by fleet capacity, will raise rates from the United States to the Far East, effective Nov. 1.

The Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said its member carriers plan to implement targeted rate increases on export commodities Nov. 1.

CSAV is living an extreme version of container shipping’s recent ups and downs.

Truck drivers are leaving large truckload carriers for other employers at a faster pace, but smaller competitors are keeping more drivers, a survey shows.

International container services partially resumed Friday at Japan’s Port of Sendai, the largest port in the northeastern Japanese region that bore the brunt of the devastating March 11 earthqua

Ace Hardware will invest $14 million in an import re-distribution center for the East Coast near Virginia’s Port of Norfolk.

Ron Widdows, a prominent leader in the global container industry, is leaving his position as group president and CEO of Neptune Orient Lines as of Oct.

The battle over proposed changes to truck driver hours of service escalated on Capitol Hill this week as a group of shipping executives called on key members of Congress to oppose shortening the time

Intra-Asia transport traditionally has been a game played out by sea and air.

Operating a world-class supply chain requires the ability to respond quickly to transformative events, both sudden and expected.

Rail intermodal volume at North America’s major railroads reached the highest weekly level on record, after a 2.8 percent gain in the week ending Sept. 24.

More than two-thirds of truckload carriers plan more use of accessorial charges, adding income from shipping fees to higher rates, Transport Capital Partners said.

Korean container line Hanjin Shipping will launch an Asia-Pacific to West India direct service in late October.

Horizon Lines has delayed for one week its target date for completing a $655 million refinancing that would stave off bankruptcy by the largest U.S. domestic ocean carrier.

Cargo traffic for Asia-Pacific airlines fell 5.8 percent in August as carriers pulled back freight capacity even as the industry’s peak shipping season neared.

Kuehne + Nagel named former carrier executive William F. Rooney this week as its vice president of sea freight for the trans-Pacific.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will apply a general rate increase on the eastbound trade from North Europe to

Federal regulators are opening a public proceeding on whether the premium Berkshire Hathaway paid in 2010 to buy BNSF Railway should be deducted from the valuation base that shapes the carrier’s

The International Chamber of Commerce tapped Anthony Barone, director of global logistics policy for Pfizer, as chairman of the group’s customs and trade regulation committee.

DHL Global Forwarding launched less-than-containerload direct services from Germany to Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, as the Deutche Post DHL Group subsidiary taps growing German manufacturing and aut

Two private equity companies, Warburg Pincus and Vestar Capital Partners, acquired joint control of IAS, a technology company that specializes in the intermodal sector.

President Obama’s jobs plan, heavy on infrastructure investments to rebuild roads, bridges, ports and schools, would help avert a recession, according to a

The World Shipping Council will keep Ron Widdows as chairman of its board through September 2012 after he steps down as group president and CEO of Neptune Orient Lines at the end of this year.

Colombia’s Avianca will pay about $500 million for four A330-200 freighters, as the South American country’s flagship airline readies itself for the passage of a free trade pact with the U

C.H. Robinson Worldwide acquired Timco Worldwide, one of the largest melon sourcing and distribution companies in North America and Latin America, for an undisclosed sum.

Kintetsu World Express, Japan’s second-largest international forwarder, said on Wednesday it will pay a $10.5 million fine to settle a U.S. antitrust case.

The European Investment Bank approved an $82 million loan to finance the construction of a new container terminal in the Spanish Atlantic port of Cadiz.

Increased demand for machinery, computers and communication equipment was offset by reduced orders for autos and primary metals, causing overall demand for durable goods to slip 0.1 percent last month

Maersk Line doesn’t expect the 20 giant new container ships it has ordered to flood the market, nor does it expect the ships to become the new standard on the Asia-Europe trade lane,

The Drewry Container Rate Benchmark for trans-Pacific spot pricing fell for the second straight week in the week ending Sept.

Maersk Line expanded its Asia-Europe Service 7 with a direct call at Qingdao, China, effective this month.

The port of Felixstowe inaugurated the first deep water berths in the U.K. able to handle the latest generation of mega container ships on Wednesday.

The Department of Transportation’s finalization of a grant this week for rail work near Wilmington, Del., sets the state for improvements to freight and passenger train operations in that state

The month-to-month decline in for-hire truck tonnage slowed in August, and tonnage levels rose more strongly from a year ago compared with July.