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Owners of GE SeaCo, which operates the fifth-largest container leasing fleet, are seeking a sale that puts the company's enterprise value at about $2.5 billion, the Financial Times reported.

The president’s proposed 2012 budget on Monday left a manufacturing association and a water resource group dissatisfied with the changes.

Colombian truck drivers, on strike for more than two weeks, are blocking major roadways in the capital city of Bogota, causing a complete standstill during rush hour and forcing residents to walk to w

Forward Air nearly doubled earnings in its fourth quarter to give the airport-to-airport trucker a $32 million profit for 2010.

President Obama's proposals for a $556 billion, six-year surface transportation bill, and a

The White House is seeking a 10 percent increase in motor carrier safety funding in its 2012 budget proposal as part of a $4

FedEx is forecasting its earnings in the fiscal quarter ending this month will come up to 40 percent below earlier projections because of the severe impact

U.S. retail sales rose 0.3 percent last month, the seventh straight monthly increase but the weakest gain since June, the Commerce Department said.

Japan and India will sign a free trade agreement Wednesday to eliminate import tariffs on most products traded between the two giant Asian economies, the Japanese government announced Tuesday.

Shipping on the river Rhine River in central Germany returned to normal Monday, Feb. 14.

French dockworkers and port employers Feb. 15 began negotiations aimed at resolving a dispute over pensions that has provoked rolling nationwide strikes since the beginning of the year.

Ocean container carriers will boost capacity between the Far East and the U.S.

Import cargo through the nation’s 10 busiest container ports is expected to increase 6 percent during the first half of this year, the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates said in t

The price of diesel across the United States climbed an average of 2.1 cents last week to $3.534 per gallon in the 11th straight weekly increase, according to the U.S.

The Department of Transportation's budget would increase 66 percent to $128 billion under the president's proposed 2012 budget

The Army Corps of Engineers will have nearly $1 billion cut from 2010 expenditures for civil works, and what money remains will be concentrated on waterways and harbors with the greatest levels of com

The president's 2012 budget proposes a modest increase for the Department of Homeland Security, up 0.7 percent to $43.2 bill

The budget plan President Obama sent to Congress would sharply expand the Department of Transportation's discretionary grants program, which covers multi-modal construction projects, and would create

Fourth quarter and full year profit soared at Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, fueled by strong air freight demand and tight wide-body, long-haul freighter capacity.

Container ship owner-charterer Rickmers Maritime reported a 31 percent increase in fourth quarter net profit and said it reduced its bank debt by 13.5 percent last year amid a strengthening container

A strong majority of Americans want better roads and bridges, but they want someone else to pay for them, according to a survey released Monday.

President Obama is asking Congress for a six-year surface transportation spending plan that would spend $556 billion, including a $50 billion quick-start investment piece similar to what he proposed i

New York state officials agreed to a 20-month delay of stringent rules governing discharge of ballast water from ships entering and exiting the Port of New York and New Jersey.

China is in negotiations over the construction of a rail link across Colombia to rival the Panama Canal.

When Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joe Riley got a few precious moments in front of President Obama at a U.S.

Even before regulators consider bringing various “exempt” rail shippers under federal processes that allow them to file rate and service complaints against railroads, the Department of Tra

The last five years produced a high, low and then a rebound in merger and acquisition activity in the transportation and logistics markets.

A year after the trans-Pacific slack season turned into anything but that, harbor truckers in Southern California are bracing for the slowdowns that come at marine terminals operating with reduced gat

They are both good ol’ boys from the Southeast who returned to native ground after years afield to take on new jobs a little more than a year ago running the two biggest ports in the South Atlan

A year ago, Customs and Border Protection promised to take a new route to completing the Automated Commercial Environment.

Janet Napolitano is taking her message about global supply chain security on the road — and across the oceans.

Freight shipping demand showed resilience in the fourth quarter, as consumers opened their wallets wider and manufacturing activity picked up, pressing retailers to restock inventories.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, the nation’s largest truck freight broker, says the domestic shipping market’s momentum from 2010 is extending into this year.

The less-than-truckload industry is shrinking its way toward profitability as carriers struggle to emerge from three years of decline.

What do a crushed stone supplier in Texas, automobile producers across the U.S. and the Washington state potato industry have in common?

American consumers are coming out of hibernation just in time for spring contract negotiations between trans-Pacific carriers and shippers.

Trouble is brewing in the trans-Pacific trade in the form of Chinese inflation, especially in the main southern manufacturing centers, that shows no signs of slowing.

Thailand repealed a new insurance requirement on shipments of hazardous materials that had caused great concern among U.S.

The country needs to invest in the road, rail and water systems that support U.S.

A former House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staff member faces up to seven years in prison after