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Baird Equity Research is dropping its coverage of YRC Worldwide, as the trucking giant heads toward a financia

A bid to break the deadlock in Washington over several free trade agreements skidded to a halt on Thursday when Republicans boycotted a hearing aimed at jump-starting approval of the pacts in Congress

Pharmaceutical giant Merck is giving UPS a bigger role in its international business, including key emerging markets such as China and Brazil.

The Department of Transportation on Thursday announced a slightly scaled-down version of its popular TIGER transportation infrastructure grant program for 2011.

NYK Line’s eastbound trans-Pacific volume fell 8 percent year-over-year in May, the second straight monthly decline on the trade lane for imports into the U.S., according to an operati

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is adopting a five-year strategic plan that looks beyond truck and bus companies to include shippers and brokers in attempts to improve highway safety.&

The European Union will strictly enforce new customs regulations aimed at tightening security on goods moving through ports.

China’s Chongqing airport plans to double cargo volume in the coming years as the Western China city advances efforts to become a major center for technology manufacturing.

Maersk Line North America named Gordon Dorsey vice president of global contract execution for U.S. military and government cargo services, effective July 1.

Maersk Line suspended operations Thursday at three Iranian ports to comply with U.S.

Mexico may increase the $2.4 billion in punitive tariffs it places on select U.S. goods if the Obama administration fails to implement a cross-border trucking program.

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange, which started trading container freight derivatives on June 28, is asking the Chinese government to relax regulations to allow China’s state-owned shipping lines

Global air cargo traffic fell 4 percent in May from a year ago but was up 1.2 percent on April, the International Air Transport Association reported.

Railroads are expanding their share of the North American freight market in non-traditional areas, with Canadian railroads becoming increasingly competitive in the U.S., eastern railroads returning to

APL IndiaLinx, which has been running container rail service in the country since 2007, double-stacked 90 40-foot boxes on a train from Mundra Port to an inland container rail terminal at Kishangarh,

Japan’s slumping exports to the rest of the world have begun to show clear signs of recovery for the first time since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit the northeastern part of the cou

Looking to calm concerns over moves to allow Mexican trucking companies to operate in the United States, U.S.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey saw its busiest shipping month in nearly a year in May as loaded container volume grew 5.7 percent over the same month a year ago.

The Amtrak passenger system is borrowing $562.9 million in the largest-ever credit issued by a federal rail loan program to buy 70 locomotives for two high-density traffic corridors in the Northeast.<

Business groups rushed to praise new efforts to approve long-stalled free trade agreements with

Opponents of a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico fear it will draw thousands of Mexican truckers into the U.S., threatening American jobs.

Cargo traffic carried by Asia-Pacific airlines fell at the steepest rate in nearly two years in May, sliding 9.8 percent as carriers also reduced capacity for the first time since the end of the globa

The value of surface transportation trade between the U.S.

Christopher J. Connor has been named chief commercial officer for the global organization of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, and Raymond F. Fitzgerald has been named president of WWL Americas.

Food products shipper Campbell Soup is making a series of supply chain moves in the U.S., Australia and Russia to consolidate plant operations and cut staff.

Global port-terminal operator PSA International is poised to win the contract to build and operate the fourth container terminal at India&rsquo;s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country&rsquo;s largest

Shippers are paying more to move truckload freight as both large and small trucking companies hike rates, according to a survey by Transport Capital Partners.

The Maritime Administration and Customs and Border Protection are offering 48-hour expedited processing of Jones Act waivers for parties that purchase oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Overall confidence levels in the ocean shipping industry dropped for the fourth successive quarter in the three months ended May, to their lowest level in two years, according to the latest shipping c

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange launched China's first forward freight container contract, allowing local exporters and shipping companies to manage growing volatility in freight rates.

Neptune Orient Lines opened its new terminal at the Port of Qingdao on Wednesday with the arrival of the APL Dubai.

Hanjin Shipping and Emirates Shipping plan to swap slots on two of their intra-Asian services in July.

The Japanese government is hailing the election of Koji Sekimizu, a former Japanese transport ministry official, as the next chief of the Inter

Ocean carriers are offering a menu of new services to improve the supply chain efficiency and reduce the cost of delivering cargo from Asia to U.S.

YRC Worldwide&rsquo;s stock took a wild ride on Wall Street this week, almost tripling in value on Monday on sudden and unexplained trading before apparent short-selling sent shares falling back more

Horizon Lines struck a settlement with home improvement retailer Home Depot that will release Horizon from antitrust claims for price-fixing in the Puerto Rico shipping trade.

A Senate panel will take steps this week to break a deadlock in Washington over three major free trade agreements that have been stalled over their potential impact on American workers.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has made $5 million available to North Dakota in quick-release road repair funds, while President Obama&rsquo;s disaster declarations for several states means they

Panamax container ships are finding employment today but face growing competition from larger vessels, especially after the Panama Canal&rsquo;s larger locks open in 2014, according to a report by the

Imports through North Europe's six busiest ports will slow to 8 percent this year from 15.9 percent in 2010 while exports rise 10.9 percent, almost level with 2010, according to the monthly North Euro