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Two years ago the U.S. adopted international standards for regulating exhaust emissions from ships.

The Coalition for Responsible Transportation, the Environmental Defense Fund, and U.S.

Peruvian airline StarPeru is expanding into the cargo business beyond its niche passenger operations with the purchase of a BAe- 146QT freighter for regional shipping customers.

Smaller shippers plan to increase transportation spending this year despite economic uncertainty, according to a customer survey conducted by Saia.

The average price of diesel fuel across the U.S.

Japanese export ship orders fell in May for the first time in 18 months on a year-on-year basis, sliding 41 percent to 551,270 tons, according the Japan Ship Exporters Association.

Greek dockworkers are taking part in a 48-hour general strike and nationwide protests as Parliament debates budget cuts, tax hikes and asset sales to prevent the near bankrupt country defaulting on it

Kombiverkehr, Europe’s biggest intermodal operator, reported traffic and revenue rose to near record levels in 2010 but warned infrastructure bottlenecks will slow growth this year.

Ocean carriers are unlikely to achieve planned freight rate hikes on the Asia-Europe route this week because they have failed to rein in excess capacity, according to Alphaliner.

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Global demand for softwood number jumped 18 percent last year after plunging to a 50-year low in 2009, and lumber prices in North America, Asia and Europe are at 10-month highs, Wood Resource Quarterl

The decline in truck tonnage accelerated in May, as the seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index dropped 2.3 percent

Small railroads at mid-June posted their highest load volumes of 2011 for intermodal containers or trailers, stone aggregate used in construction and ores needed for metal production.

Federal truck safety penalties against motor carriers jumped 23 percent in 2010, according to data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Canada Post ended its 12-day lockout this weekend, sending thousands of Canadian postal service mail sorters back to work Monday to prepare for mail delivery Tuesday.

Container volume at the port of Savannah climbed by 10.1 percent in May from the same month last year, as the port handled 254,329 20-foot equivalent units, the Georgia Ports Authority said Monday.

Consumer spending was flat last month and dropped 0.1 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars, the Commerce Department said in a report indicating high gasoline prices and unemployment levels are slowin

Somalia pardoned six foreigners jailed for illegally bringing $3.6 million into the country to pay ransom for two ships seized by Somali pirates.

It may take federal investigators more than a year to determine why a truck driver smashed into an Amtrak train in Nevada Friday, killing at least six people.

Inventory restocking seems to be on summer vacation.

Maersk Line signed a contract Monday for another 10 18,000 20-foot equivalent units containerships for the Asia-Europe trade, just four months after placing an initial $1.9 billion order for 10 of the

Neptune Orient Lines confirmed Monday contracts with two Korean shipyeards to build 12 container vessels, including 10 of its largest and most efficient vessels.

Container volume at APL rose 7 percent in the four weeks ending June 3 over the same period last year, but parent Neptune Orient Lines said average revenue per container fell 8 percent in a weak envir

Japan and Singapore will recognize their respective trade security and facilitation programs, commonly called Authorized Economic Operator programs, under a new agreement.

Marine terminal operators at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports are delaying a $10 per-container TEU increa

One group watching international economy drivers says it already sees worrying signs in China’s economy.

When Hurricane Katrina barreled into Gulfport in August 2005, the 24-foot surge all but destroyed the Mississippi port’s container and bulk terminals, decimating 700,000 square feet of warehouse

The Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks programs are nearing the end of their first phase, and despite many controversies, the initiatives exceeded all expectations and have set new standards for redu

Two months after the September 11 attacks, Customs and Border Protection struck a bargain with the trade community: Companies would secure their supply chains against possible terrorist incursion, and

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There have been plenty of words, warnings and venting as freight shippers and railroads vie to win over rail regulators who could overhaul decades of federal policies.

Bradley S. Jacobs is buying into transportation in a big way.

On a bright spring day in Taipei, groups of camera-toting foreign tourists are standing atop the long row of steps leading into the massive Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, a white marble structure with

After steady growth earlier in the year, container shipping demand from Asia to the United States tailed off in June, according to a Maersk Line executive.

In any economy, inventory management must strike a balance between costs and cutting into sales.

No one, it seems, is happy with less-than-truckload pricing.

When Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding this month issued his provocative call for radical changes in the way the global container industry operates, one of his three main points was the need for containe

Horizon Lines said its banks agreed to relax their financial covenants under the carrier’s revolving credit facility, preserving the carrier’s access to liquidity while its refinancing eff

The U.S. and European Union plan to implement mutual recognition of their supply chain security programs by the end of October, according to a statement signed on Thursday.

Shipments of automobiles and other vehicles on North American railroads jumped to their highest point since mid-April in the week ending June 18, in a sign the auto industry is overcoming supply chain