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U.S. containerized imports last month fell 1.5 percent from a year earlier, dragged down by lower shipments of home goods, apparel and toys, PIERS data show.

BNSF Railway’s proposed $500 million near-dock intermodal terminal in Los Angeles-Long Beach will take up up to 1.5 million trucks a year off congested roads and freeways, according to a environ

Republican leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, in a sharply worded letter to President Obama, are asking the White House to drop a proposed rewrite of trucking work rules

The value of cross-border surface trade between the U.S., Canada and Mexico rose 18.1 percent year-over-year in July, the Transportation Department said.

Urban road congestion made U.S. drivers buy 1.9 billion gallons of extra fuel last year and pay an extra $101 billion in total costs, including $23 billion for truck congestion.

Customs and Border Protection officials said Monday it will launch a “simplified entry” pilot project, the first step in a move to expedite the entry of goods into the U.S.

Flatbed trucking rates are on track to rise 6 percent this year after rising 6 percent on average last year, according to investment research firm Stifel Nicolaus.

The Indian Navy captured pirates attempting to seize two foreign-flag cargo vessels in the Gulf of Aden, Navy officials said Tuesday.

Shipments of commercial trailers reached heights in August not seen since 2007, but cancelled orders rose too, and the order rate slowed from previous months.

The Port of Antwerp said on Tuesday it will speed up imports of products made from animals by centralizing their inspection at one border point and pass the savings to importers through 25 percent lo

Plans to build a $1.5 billion container terminal at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) got back on track after the consortium of Singapore’s PSA International and India's ABG Group recei

Horizon Lines, moving to complete a $655 million refinancing this week, said Kimberly-Clark had agreed to drop antitrust claims resulting from the carrier’s price-fixing in the U.S.

Ocean container carriers will lose more than $300 million on trans-Pacific services in 2011 due to falling freight rates and shrinking traffic, according to Alphaliner.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union President Bob McEllrath surrendered to law enforcement officials on Monday to face misdemeanour charges relating to blocking a train from entering a grain e

YRC Worldwide named Jeff Rogers president of long-haul less-than-truckload carrier YRC and Mike Naatz president of regional LTL subsidiary Holland.

A federal court of appeals on Monday struck down a controversial employee-driver mandate in the Port of Los Angeles clean-truck program, dealing a severe blow to Teamsters’ effort to use the env

There may be more of a peak in trucking’s peak shipping season than expected this year, according to Morgan Stanley Research.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner toured the UPS Worldport air hub at Louisville, Ky., Monday, as part of the Obama administration’s push for an infrastructure investment program to spur the e

The International Chamber of Shipping on Monday urged global governments to ratify and implement several maritime conventions needed to maintain safety on ocean voyages.

Good used trucks are getting hard to find. Sales of medium- and heavy-duty used trucks dropped 3 percent from July to August, according to ACT Research.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing New Prime, one of the largest U.S. truckload carriers, for discrimination against women truck drivers.

Sales of new homes fell for the fourth straight month in August, declining to a six-month low and dampening prospects for growth in cargo volumes.

Amtrak, CSX Transportation and other freight railroads in New York state will benefit after state officials got clearance from the Department of Transportation to spend $149.3 million in federal grant

The Georgia Ports Authority board approved a $4.75 million project Monday that will expand the Port of Savannah’s capacity for refrigerated container storage by 45 percent, allowing the port to

Japanese ocean carrier NYK Line imposed port congestion surcharges on containerized shipments moving through Port of Chennai, and other lines hiked their bottleneck fees for cargo through the Indian p

Dubai’s DP World will boost annual capacity of its flagship Jebel Ali container terminal by 1 million 20-foot equivalent units to 15 million TEUs, as the United Arab Emirates’

DP World restarted operations at its Egyptian container terminal on Sunday night following the end of a six-day strike by dockworkers.

Japan’s Sendai Airport restarted regular international flights on Sunday, more than six months after the devastating tsunami

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YRC Worldwide’s new CEO James L. Welch eliminated two executive positions at the trucking giant as he reorganizes its management team and functions.

A $41 million project to better connect the site of Port of Corpus Christi’s long-delayed cargo terminal to the main shipping channel begins next month.

Power technology company American Superconductor will increase shipments of wind turbine controls under a series of contracts valued at nearly $100 million.

Coal producer Alliance Resource Partners’s up to $525 million investment in a Southern Illinois mine being will generate shipments of 6 to 6.5 million tons annually

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica told industry groups he is looking for more revenue to boost his planned transport spending measure, but that it cannot include a h

The Senate’s passage of a bill late Thursday to renew two trade programs brings three long-stalled trade agreements closer to passage.

Panalipina launched three weekly less-than-containerload ocean services from Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines to Singapore, as the Swiss forwarder strengthens intra-Asia connections to its

Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL won a long-running legal battle to block Belgium from giving $406 million in aid to its national mail company, Bpost.

Star Reefers said a leading Russian fruit importer that chartered its vessels has ignored a U.K. court order to pay $16.5 million damages to the Norwegian refrigerated cargo ship operator.

It’s as if David had laid down his slingshot and Goliath his spear and started working together.