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California’s largest container ports are working hard to protect their market share in the trans-Pacific trade, but their toughest challenge isn’t competition from other ports.

Supply chain education is spreading beyond the campus and reaching for the high school classroom.

Third-party logistics company C.H.

Intermodal interests this summer will have another chance to apply for federal TIGER grants, and by now it’s pretty clear collaboration and multimodal projects are key to attracting federal doll

The Port of Brownsville, Texas, is happy with the electronic readers it has as part of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential system, but that didn’t stop the port authority from tu

This directory is a state-by-state listing of schools offering degrees relating to logistics, transportation or supply chain management.

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As go consumers, so go U.S. imports.

If Congress and the Obama administration are serious about fixing the United States’ aging surface transportation system, and move beyond repairs to true long-term investments, they will have to

For the majority of out-of-work Americans, the two years to late-2010 was a horrendous time to be searching for a job. It was so bad that many states extended unemployment benefits to 79 weeks.

It may not be the worst, but it’s bad enough.

The recovery gave urgency to expedited truck transportation in 2010, as the five largest U.S. expedited carriers increased their combined revenue 22.2 percent.

Textainer Group Holdings President and CEO John A. Maccarone will step down at the end of this year and Executive Vice President Philip K.

Companies are increasingly considering their transportation and logistics operations to be a competitive differentiator.

CMA CGM will add a call at Greece’s Port of Piraeus this month to its Epic service from North Europe to the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.

U.S. freight tonnage will grow 24 percent through 2022, with trucking hauling 70 percent of all freight by that year, the American Trucking Associations said.

MOL will pay $1.2 million to settle numerous allegations that it violated the Shipping Act, one of the largest penalties in Federal Maritime Commission history.

Lufthansa finalized an order for five 777 freighters valued at $1.3 billion at list prices that will consolidate its position as Europe’s biggest cargo airline.

Japan’s parliament gave the green light to a free trade agreement with India on Friday, paving the way for the accord to take effect as early as this summer.

Evergreen Group ordered 10 new containerships with capacities of 8,000 20-foot equivalent units from China Shipbuilding Corp.

The U.S.

For-hire trucking software provider TMW Systems acquired Appian Logistics Software, extending its reach into the private fleet and logistics markets.

Regional less-than-truckload carrier Pitt Ohio will purchase 125 tractors and 100 trailers this year, as the company benefits from a “solid” if not robust economic recovery.

Interlake Steamship Co. says it will christen one of its vessels in honor of Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., the former chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure.

The Japanese economy shrank 0.9 percent in real terms in the first quarter from the preceding quarter, or at an annualized pace of 3.7 percent, the government said, as the country’s production a

Intermodal traffic on U.S.

CSAV, CMA CGM and China Shipping are teaming up to launch a new weekly service with two slings between the East Coast of South America, South Africa and Asia.

Safmarine is bringing back its seasonal SAECS Reefer Express service, first launched three years ago to provide extra capacity during the South African peak fruit season.

Box Ships, a New York Stock Exchange-listed container ship owner based in Greece, said Thursday it took delivery of two more containerships of the six vessels that make up its initial fleet.

Air France-KLM’s cargo unit returned to profitability a year ahead of target, booking $98.7 million in earnings in the year to March 31 compared to a loss of $623.5 million a year earlier.

Container shipping volume will grow at double digits through 2012 but rising fuel, vessel charter and shipbuilding costs may weaken carrier profits in the coming months, consultant Philippe Hoehlinger

The Port of Boston will start handling its first calls by a container service from Asia that transits the Suez Canal later this month.

Recovery in factory production is outpacing overall U.S.

The Singapore-based parent of APL, the world’s seventh-largest container line, is investing $25.8 million in a joint venture to operate a two-berth container terminal at the Port of Qingdao that

Struggling Japan Airlines posted a record operating profit of $2.33 billion in the 2010 fiscal year ending March 31 compared with an operating loss of $1.65 billion a year earlier but the carrier said

Hamburg boosted first quarter container traffic 18.2 percent from a year ago, regaining market share from its slower growing rivals Antwerp

Net orders for heavy trucks surged 31 percent in April from March, an ordering pace that is creating a bulging backlog that will strain truck production lines.

CSX Transportation said it will invest an additional $160 million over the next several years to complete the National Gateway between the mid-Atlantic and Midwest, bringing the project to the full fu

European Union antitrust officials raided the European offices of a number of Asian carriers on Tuesday in addition to European shipping lines as part of a probe into suspected price fixing in the sec

A 15-mile section of the Mississippi River at Natchez, Miss., has reopened to limited barge traffic, restoring traffic on the primary conduit for U.S. grain exports.