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The Federal Maritime Commission on Feb. 16 will take up the thorny question of exempting non-vessel-operating common carriers from maintaining published tariffs.

Con-way Freight hired trucking veteran John P. Burton to help boost the $3.1 billion carrier's less-than-truckload yield.

Germany's largest airports, Frankfurt and Munich, broke cargo records in January and expect significant growth in 2011.

Rising prices for imported crude oil caused the U.S. trade deficit in December to increase 5.9 percent from the previous month, the Commerce Department said.

Amazon.com says it will close its distribution center in Irving, Texas, because the state is demanding the Internet retailer pay $269 million in sales taxes.

DP World inaugurated the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal in India's Port of Cochin Friday.

The Port of Oakland is working with the private sector to increase container volume for the benefit of the entire community, Executive Director Omar Benjamin said Thursday.

Looking to cut landed costs, ARCOP announced in November 2010 it had selected Transplace as its 3PL to manage shipments throughout the United States.

GT Nexus defines landed costs as “the sum of all expenses to purchase, transport and import goods from one place to another, within a country or across continents, including border fees, duties,

The global economic downturn halted, at least for a time, the moves by many companies to manage the movements of goods through supply chains under the principles of total landed costs.

Congress may tackle an overhaul of the tangled transportation security credentialing system.

The Federal Rail Administration approved an $83.7 million loan for the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority that should delay until late 2012 the need for assistance from the ports of Los Angeles

Intermodal provider Pacer International eked out a $900,000 net profit in 2010, compared with a $174.8 million loss in 2009. Revenue dropped 4.5 percent to $1.5 billion in 2010.

Dockworkers called off their strike at India's Port of Cochin Feb.

The number of people filing for state unemployment benefits dropped to a two-and-a-half-year low last week, the Labor Department said in a report that indicated the U.S.

Italian authorities are looking for a way of disposing of a container containing radioactive material that has been sitting on the dock at the port of Genoa for more than six months.

French dockworkers Feb. 10 suspended a six-week-long campaign of strikes after port employers agreed to resume negotiations on union demands for early retirement.

The French holding group Bollore is looking to invest $150 million in a dry port in Guinea to ease shipment of goods through the country, the billionaire head of the conglomerate said.

DP World opened a new inland container terminal in ceremonies Thursday in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city.

Lufthansa Cargo boosted freight traffic 17.5 percent in January from a year ago.

Air France-KLM's cargo unit swung to an $81.6 million operating profit in the final three months of 2010 from a $39.5 million loss a year ago, extending a year-long recovery that has been driven by sh

Inland waterways operator Kirby Corp., using its strong financial position to expand its service reach, will buy the ship fueling operations of Enterprise Marine Services.

Amid almost daily pirate attacks, The Baltic and International Maritime Council warned Indian officials its members would find other routes if the shipping lanes between India and Africa could not be

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., Wednesday introduced legislation to reduce truck pollution at container ports -- and to make it easier for the Teamsters union to organize harbor truck drivers.

What is being billed as a “common sense” bill to reduce regulatory burdens would remove a congressionally-imposed December 2015 deadline for railroads to deploy positive train control technology on ro

The U.S. Postal Service lost $329 million in its last quarter and expects to run out of cash by the end of its fiscal year Sept. 30.

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Index, which measures shipment volume in ton-miles, rose 1.5 percent in December from its November level.

An advocacy group for energy security is calling for a national transportation policy that emphasizes market-based incentives to reduce energy consumption.

Spot market truckload freight volume shot up 62 percent year-over-year in January, according to the TransCore North American Freight Index, setting a new record.

Record-breaking winter storms across much of the country may have chilled trucking activity in January, but they didn't freeze the economic recovery.

Safmarine is introducing a direct service it calls FMX between the Far East and main ports in West India and Pakistan by offering slots it is buying on a service operated by Simatech, the Dubai-based

Maersk Line and Hapag-Lloyd entered a slot swap agreement for services from the Mediterranean to the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast, effective March 1.

Hapag-Lloyd swung to an operating profit of $133 million in the final quarter of 2010 from a year-earlier loss of $211 million as rising cargo volume and sharply higher freight rates accelerate plans

Container volume at Mississippi’s Port of Gulfport grew 4.8 percent in 2010, but the 208,486 20-foot equivalent units remained behind 2008 levels.

New business from acquisitions and market share gains pumped up revenue and earnings at hybrid trucker Roadrunner Transportation Services last year.

The widening of the Panama Canal in 2014 could establish South Florida as a gateway for Asia cargo moving to the Southeast, said James Hertwig, president and CEO of Florida East Coast Railway.

India’s Port of Cochin was at a standstill for the seventh consecutive day on Tuesday as port terminal authorities and unions failed to find an amicable solution to labor concerns despite intense nego

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Contract negotiations resumed this week in Vancouver between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada and the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association following a government-manda

The Federal Maritime Commission's inquiry into the effects of slow steaming on the maritime marketplace is officially under way. The commission announced the study at its meeting Jan.