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Klinge, a York, Pa.-based refrigeration technology manufacturer, has developed a unit for so-called triple containers, or tricons.

The world’s seventh-largest container shipping carrier acquired 43 acres of land from CenterPoint Properties in the city of Joliet, Ill., to develop an intermodal container terminal that will in

Paramount Citrus has acquired a south Texas-based full-service cold storage facility for the produce industry previously owned by Border Cold Storage.

Kerry Logistics is building an 85,300-square-foot facility in Wuxi, an economic hotspot in China’s Jiangsu province.

Capacity in the U.S. refrigerated truckload sector is tight and approaching the challenging levels of the fourth quarter of 2005, according to several industry reports.

The development of dedicated high-speed rail lines in China is translating not only into faster passenger service for billions of potential train riders, but also a greater emphasis on rail freight.

Gloucester Marine Terminal in Gloucester, N.J., said it is partnering with SunPower to build what it claims will be the largest rooftop solar installation in North America.

APM Terminals will spend $1 billion on a new container terminal in Moin, Costa Rica, as part of a corporate strategy to have container operations gain market share in the produce business in the regio

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Kuehne + Nagel will acquire J. van de Put Fresh Cargo Handling of Amsterdam, a Dutch handling agent for perishable goods.

Frialsa Frigorificos is operating two new plants in Mexico.

Merck will use UPS Supply Chain Solutions to manage its worldwide health care supply chain.

Frozen Food Express Industries saw total operating revenue increase $6.4 million to $101.3 million in the second quarter of 2011, compared with $95 million in the same period of 2010.

Dozens of people died in Europe this summer from what has been called the deadliest outbreak of E. coli in history.

United Airlines Cargo will unveil a new lineup of offerings for pharmaceuticals and other temperature-controlled cargoes on Sept. 20.

Members of Global Cold Chain Alliance lobby administration officials during assembly in Washington

Exporters anxious to locate equipment can breathe a little easier: Container carriers and leasing companies are on track to purchase a record number of new refrigerated containers this year, according

Trucks drove through bridge toll gates an estimated 416,065 times last year to reach the New York Container Terminal on Staten Island. Total cost for the tolls: more than $14.5 million.

Ports around the United States are anxious to encourage greater use of intermodal rail for inbound shipments, but when does that encouragement amount to an illegal subsidy for rail transport?

With two major double-stack corridor projects under way, eastern rail giants Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation plan to offer shippers their most efficient intermodal networks since the r

Distribution planners looking for the ideal location to build an inland port probably wouldn’t zero in on Minot, N.D., but that didn’t stop Greg Johnson, president of North Dakota Port Ser

For years, Russia and China have been major export markets for U.S. poultry. In 2009, for example, each of the countries accounted for 20 percent of all exports.

McDonald’s is opening one restaurant a day in China and plans to continue that pace for the next several years.

The Port of Mobile’s upper harbor is expected to remain closed to traffic through Saturday after a heavy crude oil spill Thursday morning, said Alabama State Ports Authority spokesperson Judith

Trucking employment fell slightly in August and has remained relatively flat since June, according to seasonally adjusted data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Department of Transportation is finally prepared to release $34 million in grant funds it announced last October, so that freight rail giants BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad can proceed on

California’s top lawmakers appear lukewarm to Amazon.com's offer to hire 7,000 workers and build at least two giant distribution centers in exchange for the state holding off on collecting sales

Short line and regional railroads saw total shipments rise 3.4 percent in the final week of August, with gains across various cargoes linked to industrial demand.

UTi Worlwide improved its net profit 22 percent in the fiscal second quarter ending July 31 to $22.9 million as improving yield on shipments helped offset what the logistics company called a “sl

Norwegian Car Carriers said it expects “improved tonnage balance and higher charter rates for car carriers” over the next 12 months, after halving its second quarter loss from a year ago t

The shareholders of Express-1 Expedited Solutions approved a $150 million private equity investment and a change in management and name for the company.

Boeing on Sept. 19 will deliver to all-cargo carrier Cargolux the first of its 747-8 freighters, which the manufacturer believes will be the anchor for future international cargo transport.

INTTRA is countersuing GT Nexus in a dispute the between the shipping industry technology companies over patents in the container booking process.

NYK Line posted a general rate increase for all dry and refrigerated containers moving in both directions on the trans-Atlantic as of Oct. 1.

The transportation and warehousing sector shed 2,400 jobs in August, for a drop of 0.06 percent from July, as larger drops in air and trucking employment offset mild gains in rail, water and warehouse

Pete Reixach has his hands full.

Port executives from Seattle and Tacoma use every forum possible to explain what they believe are the injustices of the Harbor Maintenance Tax.

Hapag-Lloyd said Friday it will increase its port congestion surcharge on containers moving to and from Port of Chennai, and Maersk Line added its own surcharges at India’s second-largest port.

The European Union lifted sanctions on Friday against six Libyan ports, allowing humanitarian relief and trade to resume to the nation in the wake of the violent revolt against the regime of Muammar G

The international air cargo market is stagnating, with traffic shrinking 0.4 percent in July from a year ago and capacity far outstripping demand, said the International Air Transport Association.