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Is $5.1 billion enough to get the attention of Congress? The loss the U.S. Postal Service piled up in the fiscal year that ended Sept.

Shippers turned to freight brokers for truck capacity in increasing numbers in the third quarter, boosting revenue at third-party intermediaries and at asset-based trucking companies that secure extra

If industrial real estate is an accurate barometer of where the international trade economy is headed, the transportation industry should prepare itself for a surge in freight.

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Container shipping’s latest slide into red ink is reviving talk about mergers and acquisitions among carriers.

Agricultural exports are facing delays at the Port of Oakland as terminals struggle to provide longshoremen with documentation verifying refrigerated containers containing farm products have not previ

James P. Hoffa was re-elected to a fourth term as general president of the Teamsters union Friday, winning 60 percent of the vote.

The Transported Asset Protection Association is rolling out global security standards for trucking and the first trucking security certification program for motor carriers and logistics service provid

Container traffic through the Port of Charleston in October fell 6.3 percent

UPS announced it will raise rates for ground and air parcel shipments an effective 4.9 percent in 2012, matching the price increase for this year and showing confidence the carrier can maintain its st

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The California Air Resources Board’s order of all Class 7 drayage trucks to meet the same emission standards that have been in effect for larger Class 8 trucks is intended to close loopholes in

Shippers have reached the “tipping point” in their effort to encourage trucking companies to reduce emissions and conserve fuel, a Swift Transportation vice president said Thursday.

Truckload giant U.S. Xpress Enterprises is expanding its regional operations in the Northeast and its custom critical or expedited business, adding drivers and equipment, U.S.

The issue of whether truck drivers nationwide are employees or independent contractors is far from dead despite a recent

The German travel group TUI plans to sell its remaining stake in Hapag-Lloyd in January and expand further in Russia and China as it redefines its business model, according to

The trans-Pacific and Asia-Middle East trade lanes are most likely to bear the brunt of rate plummeting, as deliveries of ultra-large container ships deliveries peak in 2012 and 2013, according to one

Sea Star Line will plead guilty and pay a $14.2 million criminal fine and the carrier’s former president, Frank Peake, was indicted on a charge of conspiring to fix prices in the U.S.

When the APL Egypt pulled into a berth at Manzanillo International Terminal on the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal last February, it took all of a couple minutes for two ship-to-shore cranes to star

Could Cuba become a new Caribbean transshipment hub? After all, it’s only 90 miles from the United States and has an abundance of labor to work in ports.

Intra-Asia trade will see further growth in the coming years as high-tech companies shift more sourcing to the continent and increasingly target the region’s consumers, according to a survey of

NYK Logistics and Yusen Air & Sea Service, part of Japan’s NYK Group, consolidated operations in India by combining their local arms into a single business unit.

With more than 170,000 ballots counted, incumbent James P. Hoffa commanded 57.2 percent of the votes cast for Teamsters general president in the union’s general election.

Harbor truckers in Southern California are raising concerns that an effort by longshoremen to inspect all chassis before equipment is trucked from Los Angeles-Long Beach will result in unnecessary del

SeaFreight Agencies opened its new 25-acre container terminal at Port Everglades, and the Caribbean carrier plans to boost its volume 23 percent through the Floridian port over the next six years.

Container volume at the Port of Long Beach plunged 20.5 percent in October, reflecting the loss of services by

Intermodal container traffic increased 2.6 percent week-to-week and 6.9 percent year-over-year in the week ending Nov.

The American Trucking Associations is taking its battle against proposed changes to truck driver work hours to the federal Office of Management and Budget, which is reviewing the Department of Transpo

House Republican leaders, pledging a transportation plan of unspecified scale and unstated length, said Thursday tapping into expanded domestic energy production could maintain infrastructure funding

Norway’s Green Reefers saw its operating loss widen to $5.7 million in the third quarter from $1.7 million a year ago, as

Major U.S. railroads have new tentative agreements with four of the 11 unions needed to avert a potential nationwide strike or lockout in December.

Investor Wilbur Ross says the industry is fragmented, leveraged, volatile and ripe for consolidation

It may be in its early stages, but simplifying Customs’ maze of import regulations is on the way.

A maintenance worker at Maher Terminals in Port Elizabeth, N.J., admitted his role in soliciting and accepting bribes to award contracts for demolition and construction projects at the terminal.

Veteran trucking executive Jack Gross is the new CEO of Haney Truck Line, a regional truckload and specialized carrier in the Pacific Northwest.

BNSF Railway’s profit rose 8.5 percent year-over-year to $766 million in the third quarter, as the railroad's revenue rose 13 percent despite traffic falling 1.9 percent.

Steel shipments in October through the Port of Houston rose 49 percent year-over-year and are up 60 percent year to date, while container traffic was flat last month.

Ocean freight rate volatility is ratcheting up global supply chain costs even when rates head downward, said a DHL Global Forwarding executive.

With ballots still being counted, James P. Hoffa opened a broad lead over opponents Fred Gegare and Sandy Pope Wednesday in the Teamsters union elections.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Maryland trucker Gunthers Transport to shut down, saying numerous hours of service and other safety violations made the company an "imminen