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The rainbow-hued terrorist threat warning system devised by the Bush administration will be given the coup de grace Wednesday as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano launches the National Terr

Heartland Express increased operating revenue 10.4 percent to $127.7 million in the first quarter, raising net income 25.2 percent to $14.9 million.

Higher demand for heavy trucks helped boost revenue and earnings at component manufacturer Eaton, which reported $3.8 billion in total sales in the first quarter.

Spot freight rates on the trans-Pacific broke a 16-week downturn this week, as the Drewry benchmark for shipping a 40-foot equivalent container from Hong Kong to Los Angeles increased 6 percent from t

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Savannah increased 4.5 percent in March from the same month last year, at the same time as the number of roll-on, roll-off units passing through the Por

The March 11 earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan disrupted trade as much as they ravaged the countryside.

Union Pacific's freight volume is increasing steadily since the depths of the economic recession, but there is no concern in Omaha about UP's ability to handle the growing traffic.

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Intermodal service provider Hub Group reported a $10.5 million profit for the first quarter, up 21 percent from a year earlier.

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said the free-trade agreement between the U.S. and Panama is ready to be considered by Congress after Panama took actions sought by the Obama administration.

All marine terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey will be closed Friday, April 22 because of the Good Friday holiday observed by the International Longshoremen's Association, said the

President Obama drew a line against slashing transportation upgrade programs to cut the federal budget deficit, less than two weeks after he struck a deal with the Republican House speaker that left t

Evergreen Line, Wan Hai Line and Interasia Lines will launch a new weekly Taiwan-Madras Trunk service starting April 29 from the port of Taichung in Taiwan.

India’s exports reached an all-time high in fiscal 2010-11 ending March 31, surging about 37.5 percent year-over-year, the Commerce Ministry said Tuesday.

Negotiators for the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement covering the ports on

Advances in communication and navigation technologies are spurring a rapid increase in global shipments of GPS-enabled phones, Berg Insight reports.

A key measure of truck capacity and demand dropped 10.7 percent last week, indicating some easing of over-the-road capacity constraints in mid-April.

Spring floods across the northern Great Plains are closing some tracks for major railroads and short lines, delaying some shipments and detouring others.

Horizon Lines, trying to rebuild after taking a major hit to its finances and management, named William A. Hamlin to the position of senior vice president of operations.

OOCL's total revenue increased 17.2 percent to $1.329 billion in the first quarter from $1.134 billion in the same quarter last year, its parent company OOIL said Tuesday.

Rising freight demand is spilling across borders, sending spot market truck freight volume in Canada up 35 percent year-over-year in March, said TransCore.

Ocean container carriers earned an estimated $14 billion in 2010, the most profitable year in the industry's history, almost cancelling the aggregate operating loss of $15 billion in 2009.

Cargolux is in talks about the sale of a stake to a strategic investor amid reports Qatar Airways wants to acquire a minority shareholding in the European all-cargo carrier.

The East Japan Railway plans to fully resume services on the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train line by April 30.

Japanese automakers will measure the radiation levels of their vehicles in a bid to dispel concerns about safety.

China Shipping Container Line on Monday completed the first phase of an expansion project at its Los Angeles terminal, demonstrating to elected officials and the neighboring community that a marine te

Perella Weinberg Partners is buying the railcar leasing unit of insurance giant American International Group.

Maritime piracy costs the global shipping industry anywhere from $3.5 billion to upwards of $8 billion a year, according to Ron Widdows, group president of Neptune Orient Lines and chairman of the Wor

The battle over 100 percent scanning of U.S.-bound ocean containers is taking another sharp turn in a partisan skirmish over maritime security.

April 18 is the first day on which shippers may enter into binding agreements for transporting their cargo under rates negotiated with non-vessel-operating common carriers.

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Somali pirates released the MV Asphalt Venture, a Panama-flag oil tanker, after almost seven months of captivity but later reneged on their agreement to free the entire 15-member crew, all Indian.

Diesel prices climbed 2.7 cents last week to a national retail average of $4.105 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Truck driver pay is heading up, with a 2.2 percent increase in February from January and a 4.6 percent increase year-over-year, according to Longbow Research.

A group of small railroads in central Pennsylvania is receiving $6.8 million in federal grants for infrastructure upgrades to help them tap into the Marcellus Shale natural gas development.

Ocean freight forwarder CaroTrans opened an office in Santiago, Chile, to support expansion in South America.

CMA CGM announced a range of rate increases and surcharges across its global liner network aimed at restoring revenue. Rate news from JOC:

Rickmers Maritime Trust reported first quarter net income increased 72 percent from a year ago to $9.3 million, driven mainly by cash flow gains on interest rate movements.

In one of its largest loans in months for infrastructure projects, the Department of Transportation OKd $418.4 million in long-term, low-interest credit to help extend the congested President George B

APM Terminals moved into the fast expanding Black Sea container market with the acquisition of a majority stake in Georgia's Poti Sea Port