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The dollar value of U.S. surface trade with Canada and Mexico rose 11 percent in June to $77.5 billion, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics said Tuesday.

Irish Continental Group’s first half earnings shrunk nearly 20 percent to $23.2 million from a year ago, as higher fuel bills offset a 12 percent increase in roll on/roll off freight volume.

Regular international container services will partially resume next month at the most important port in the northeastern Japanese region of Tohoku, which bore the brunt of the earthquake and tsunami i

FedEx Freight is expanding in Mexico, adding terminals in Toluca, Puebla and Veracruz through its alliance with Mexican carrier Auto Lineas America.

China Merchants Holdings (International) doubled its first half profit year-over-year to $501.1 million, as the port operator’s container volume grew and it received a one-time gain linked to a

OOCL plans to increase productivity at its Kaohsiung Container Terminal in Taiwan by up to 10 percent by adding two super-post-Panamax gantry cranes to the existing six cranes.

The Indian government will review vessels older than 25 years before they are allowed to sail in Indian waters.

Freight forwarder Panalpina, looking to capitalize on the growing importance of intra-Asia trade

International port companies face rising losses at Vietnam’s showpiece Cai Mep container port as terminals are operating at less than half of their capacity, according to industry analyst Alphal

CSX will spend $59 million to expand its intermodal terminal in Columbus, Ohio, leveraging its new terminal to the north and part of its $850 million initiative to better connect East Coast ports with

Purolator International, moving to double its footprint in the United States, said it plans to open three more branch offices in the U.S. this year after opening seven facilities since January.

Diesel prices across the United States rose 1 cent in the week ending Aug. 29, increasing for the first time in six weeks as oil prices rose on a report of increased consumer spending.

Freight tonnage at Los Angeles International declined for the fourth straight month in July, falling 7.3 percent in an accelerating slump in cargo business at North America’s largest Pacific air

Consumer spending rose 0.8 percent in July, the Commerce Department reported, as strong demand for motor vehicles led the strongest gain in the consumer market in five months and provided a boost for

Three global investors will pump $150 million into a U.S. company that plans to build a nationwide network of natural gas fueling stations for heavy trucks.

The Department of Transportation has paid out nearly $2.2 billion to states in stimulus project funds this summer.

CMA CGM expects 2011 to be a positive year despite reporting a 72 percent year-over year decline in first-half profit to $237 million, as higher fuel costs offset shipping volume gains.

A federal appeals court overturned a rule that would require certain trucking companies to use electronic onboard recorders to monitor drivers.

Major trucking companies along the U.S.

Star Reefers won $16.5 million in damages from a Russian fruit importer that terminated charters on the Norwegian ship-owner’s refrigerated cargo ships 14 months before their expiration.

Maersk Line is launching a direct service connecting Ecuador with Spain, Turkey and the Black Sea in late September, as it targets Latin America banana exports to European and Russian markets.

Big Lots is comfortable with its inventory levels being down more than 70 percent year-over-year, considering the “fragile” consumer market.

Major East Coast ports re-opened Monday and trucking and railroad companies slowly resumed services as they began making a full assessment of damage to transportation operations that took the impact o

APL Logistics is taking a “cautious” outlook for the rest of the year and into 2012, despite a strong first half-year performance and growth in emerging markets and automotive logistics.

Horizon Lines is asking bondholders to swap $330 million in convertible notes for new debt and equity and said approval will allow the carrier to finish a $655 million refinancing by the end of Septem

BSNF Railway will reopen an important flooded out track segment across the Missouri River on Sept. 3, five days earlier than planned.

The Department of Transportation on Friday announced a new maritime advisory panel aimed at helping the Maritime Administration promote marine highways, restoring the panel two years after DOT dismiss

Customs and Border Protection on Friday started advance testing of the ocean and rail cargo manifest systems in the Automated Commercial Environment

The Broward County Board of County Commissioners on Aug.

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U.S. consumer sentiment hit its lowest level since November 2008, a decline aggravated by political battles in Washington, according to a survey.

A federal appeals court, siding with shippers and carriers, blocked the state of Michigan and four other Great Lake states’ request to close Chicago-area waterway shipping locks to prevent Asian

China Cosco Holdings posted a first-half net loss of $432 million, compared with a net profit of $553 million a year earlier, and said reached agreements on bulk carrier charter disputes that led to s

Green Reefers narrowed its second quarter loss to $11 million from $13 million a year ago, but the conventional refrigerated cargo ship operator warned of growing competition from container vessels.

China Shipping Container Lines lost $95 million in the first half of the year compared with a profit of $264 million a year earlier, as slumping rates and volumes pushed revenue down 12.9 percent.

United Arab Shipping will apply a general rate increase on the eastbound trade from North Europe to the Indian Subcontinent and the Arabian Gulf, starting Sept. 15.

Hapag-Lloyd announced general rate increases, effective. Oct. 1, for shipments between the U.S., Canada and Mexico and North Europe and the Mediterranean.

Bulk carload traffic at major North American railroads rose 2.8 percent in week ending Aug. 20 from a week earlier, setting a new volume peak for 2011.

Major railroads in the U.S., Canada and Mexico picked up 1.3 percent more intermodal containers and trailers last week than the week previous, for their second-highest total of 2011.

Orient Overseas Container Line named Paul Devine, a longtime sales executive in the carrier’s North America business, to be the new general manager for corporate logistics at OOCL’s Hong K