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Choptank Transport, an asset-based third-party logistics company in Preston, Md., opened a regional office in Atlanta, expanding its footprint in the Southeast.

Heathrow airport cargo workers are voting Monday on strike action in a dispute over the use of agency staff and new labor contracts.

To get a sense of the scale of the world’s largest commercial container ships, it may help to stand in New York’s Times Square.

DP World is selling its remaining stake in container services company P&O Trans-Australia to co-shareholder Qube Logistics for $111 million.

Kuehne + Nagel boosted first quarter net income almost 18 percent from a year ago as it gained market share in all business units.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., Japan's biggest electric utility, released a two-stage description of its plan for bringing the ongoing crisis at its Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant under control.

Transplace’s purchase of SCO Logistics is aimed at bringing revenue, expanded services, new customers and new talent to the Dallas-based logistics operator.

Online marketplace uShip, which is doing for shipping what eBay did for sales, is moving deeper into the world of industrial transportation.

When mega-ships disgorge containers at U.S. ports, will mega-trucks haul them away?

Expect North America’s freight railroads to have plenty of good things to say about rail market trends when they report earnings for the first quarter.

The late-night budget deal between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner did not at first appear to make a real dent in the big surface transportation programs tied to freight operations.

The marriage of security and trade facilitation has been Alan Bersin’s goal since he became commissioner of Customs and Border Protection just over a year ago.

North America’s trains are getting longer every year.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection may have enhanced security with a slew of programs since 2001, but even the head of the agency says trade facilitation has suffered in the process.

Shipping industry observers are raising alarms that the strong turnaround in container line profitability over the past year may be reversing course.

While East and Gulf coast ports deepen their harbors and expand container terminals to prepare for the mega-ships expected to call when the Panama Canal is enlarged in 2014, the challenge for West Coa

While ports on the North America’s Pacific Coast are trying to bolster their positions in anticipation of the competitive changes triggered by a larger Panama Canal, U.S.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed three candidates for two federal transportation boards, breaking a logjam of unconfirmed appointments, some of whom have been standing by more than six months.

Legislation to exempt domestic shipping from the Harbor Maintenance Tax made its debut on Thursday in the 112th Congress.

U.S. steel exports fell 10.2 percent in February from January, mostly due to poor weather conditions and a shorter month, government reports said this week.

Transportation Security officials were no-shows at a hearing Thursday on transportation worker credentialing, but Rep.

Mediterranean Shipping Company plans to apply a general rate increase on the Far East-Asia-Indian subcontinent trade lane as well as to the Far East-Asia-Canada lane.

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First-quarter container throughput at the port of Antwerp climbed 7.9 percent from the same quarter last year, as its terminal handled a record volume of 2.17 million 20-foot-equivalent units, compare

Two seamen were knocked overboard and drowned on Thursday when the UK-flag container ship OOCL Finland collided with the Russian-flag freighter Tyumen-2 on the Kiel Canal in Germany.

It may turn out there is a raw political gambit lurking behind the objections South Carolina has raised to the proposed Savannah River deepening.

Increased inventory restocking and improving industrial output helped the U.S.

OOCL said it is scanning all vessels it owns or charters for radiation before they depart from the Kanto ports of Tokyo and Yokohama to protect its crew members and to mitigate the risk of radiation s

The Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, a discussion group of 10 ocean carriers in the trade, published the checklist in order to improve clarity in the contracting process and minimize th

California Treasurer Bill Lockyer warned maritime interests that funding for transportation infrastructure projects could fall victim to the budget impasse in Sacramento.

A Greek shipping company and three others agreed to a $1 million penalty and banishment from U.S.

The U.S. trade deficit narrowed 2.6 percent in February, the first decline in four months, but both imports and exports fell from the month before, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

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Truckload capacity slackened slightly in the week ending April 11 but is still much tighter than it was a year ago, according to a key measure of capacity and demand.

The Department of Transportation is sending nearly $320 million out to states and territories, to reimburse them for repairing roads or bridges damaged by storms going back to 2008.

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A newly finalized $10 million federal grant should help the Port of Vancouver, Wash., get its long-planned West Vancouver Freight Access project done, which the Department of Transportation says will

Box Ships, an Athens-based container ship charter owner, raised $132 million from an initial public offering but its shares slipped on their NYSE debut April 14.

Spot market truckload rates rose 4 percent in March from February and were up 15 percent year-over-year, according to TransCore Freight Solutions.