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The seven largest freight railroads added a combined 1,198 workers to their U.S.

South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries said Monday that it had won a $711 million order to build six container ships for Hamburg Sud.

The six carrier members of the Caribbean Shipowners Association said they are reducing the size of their upcoming bunker increase on March 27 by $30 per 20-foot equivalent unit.

Japanese automakers plan to resume production at some plants in Japan this week but cautioned that disruptions to international supply chains will continue in the wake of the March 11

Japan has started releasing information on radiation levels around main international ports and airports in and near Tokyo in both Japanese and English in a bid to combat what it calls "harmful rumors

The president of the container terminal operator at the Port of Portland, Ore., had just told the maritime audience that he aimed to raise port productivity “immediately.” Jeff Smith then

Ship Finance International, which owns and operates ships for charter to liner companies, said it would acquire two container vessels from French container shipping company CMA CGM for $342 million.

Crowley Maritime and Seaboard Marine, members of the Florida-Bahamas Shipowners & Operators Association, on Friday announced a two-step increase in bunker surcharges, to take effect on April 17 and Ma

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Before the Catastrophic earthquake in Japan, the focus of international news coverage turned from regime change in Tunisia and Egypt to the events in Libya.

Where should higher truck rates go? Lana Batts says they should go straight to driver paychecks.

North America’s freight railroad industry will invest historic levels of capital in infrastructure and equipment, and long-suffering equipment builders are finally booking hefty new orders for m

U.S. exports are suffering because of the nation’s failure to perform maintenance dredging on inland waterways, according to Amy Larson, president of the National Waterways Conference.

Gulf Coast ports have long been underserved in the main east-west trades, but are counting on their access to the Midwest and the South’s growing population to attract new carrier services.

In 1928, American travel writer and adventurer Richard Halliburton swam the 50-mile length of the Panama Canal over 10 days accompanied by a rowboat, a reporter and a marksman with a rifle to pick off

The federal government has a loan program with “innovation” in its name that can provide welcome relief to financially strapped state and local governments looking to fund transportation c

It was no secret during the lockout of longshore workers at California ports in 2002 that the hostility between the heads of the labor and management groups had gotten personal, hindering communicatio

To the builders, engineers and planners working on the massive effort to enlarge and modernize the Panama Canal, the usual descriptions of the ambitious project miss the true scale of the undertaking.

Outside civil engineering and construction circles, concrete doesn’t get much attention.

States can now apply for a newly available pool of $2.43 billion in freed-up grants from the Department of Transportation to develop or improve passenger rail systems.

Forget cutting the daily driving limit and shortening the workday, the most unpopular aspect of the proposed truck driver hours-of-service rule might be a provision that would force many truckers to t

The Pacific coast ports of Canada, the U.S.

Shippers and carriers attending the TSA meeting in Long Beach disagree about the level of bunker surcharges.

Still smarting from the shortage of vessel space that delayed shipments a year ago, importers and exporters are demanding more service guarantees in trans-Pacific contracts.

Horizon Lines is scrambling to contain the damage from its guilty plea and $45 million fine for fixing rates on containerized cargo shipments between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico.

After Japan was hit with an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear energy catastrophe, Toyota quickly halted overtime work at its 13 North American plants on the opposite side of the globe.

Bryan Hansel has little trouble convincing potential customers that his electric delivery trucks are street-ready. It’s the suppliers that challenge him.

The calendar may say 2011, but to many in the trucking industry, it feels like 2006.

Ports in the Southeast and along the Gulf Coast are brimming with optimism about the growth they expect after the Panama Canal expansion is completed in 2014 and larger vessels start moving through th

Three industrial trade associations are asking the U.S.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., on Thursday filed legislation to create a national infrastructure bank to attract capital for major transportation, water and energy projects.

The University of Arkansas is raising the profile of logistics education by establishing a stand-alone supply chain management department.

Pirates hijacked an Indonesian-flag cargo ship with 20 men on board off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, and within a day they used it in a thwarted attack on another ship.

Honda Motor Co. said it will extend a halt in its Japanese production by three days, through Wednesday, and warned U.S.

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation approved President Obama's nominees for appointments to the Surface Transportation Board and Federal Maritime Commission, sending them to

Alexander & Baldwin warned Friday that the recent surge in global fuel prices stemming from u

Some ocean carriers eliminated stops at the Tokyo and Nagoya ports and other ocean carriers added cargo restrictions and changed ship routings around Japan as the country struggled with badly damaged

The newly listed shares of Hutchison Port Holdings Trust began trading at 2:00 p.m. Friday on the main board of the Singapore Stock Exchange.

At one time or another in their modern history, Argentina, Brazil and Chile — like Colombia — have played the role of international pariah through ineptitude, corruption or brutal military

After more than four years of painful delays, prospects for reviving the long-languishing U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement may be getting a significant boost thanks to an unlikely third party: China