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Canadian Pacific Railway and Teck Resources, its largest coal shipper, agreed to terms on a 10-year deal for CP to carry Teck’s metallurgical coal to export terminals.

Canadian shippers saw overall ground transportation costs rise 3 percent month-to-month in July, according to the latest Canadian General Freight Index.

With an increase in chemical tankcar shipments that make up their largest commodity category, North America’s regional and short line railroads set back-to-back 2010 volume peaks in the last two weeks

The Department of Homeland Security inspector general's office completed an audit of air cargo screening at selected airports, but it said in a report Thursday the results and recommendations are clas

YRC Worldwide's chief operations officer left his union employees no room for doubt about the importance of ratifying wage

The Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor commissions postponed for about 30 days a vote on adopting an update to the ports' watershed Clean Air Action Plan.

Intermodal traffic continued nearly at its peak volume of 2010 in the latest week on North America's major freight railroads.

Retailers say back-to-school purchases contributed to higher September sales, a positive sign for freight transportation and for retailers approaching the holiday selling season.

UPS bought 130 hybrid electric vehicles to add to its growing alternative-fuel vehicle fleet.

Container volume at major ports in India increased 11 percent in the first half of fiscal 2010-11 ending Sept. 30, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement Thursday.

Cargo traffic at Air France-KLM grew 6 percent in September over the same month a year ago as Europe's largest airline group saw growing demand heading into the peak shipping season.

DB Schenker completed the integration of the recently acquired Masped units with Hungarocargo and Romtrans Hungaria into Schenker Kft.

Lufthansa Cargo will nearly double frequency to Japan with 12 flights a week beginning Nov. 1.

Truckload demand is rising although it is still below its peak of mid-June, and capacity remains tight on the West Coast, according to Longbow Research.

China Cargo Airlines will launch regular service to Singapore Changi Airport with 12 weekly flights beginning Oct. 9.

New orders for heavy trucks jumped 21.6 percent in September from the previous month, FTR Associates reports.

The Ivory Coast's Port of San Pedro plans to invest $522 million together with Mediterranean Shipping Co.

The U. S.

Russia's port sector is attracting increasing interest from foreign investors as a recovering economy boosts imports of consumer products and capital goods.

Customs and Border Protection may not revoke a broker's entry filer code without providing some form of due process, the U.S.

The volume of containers handled by India’s Port of Mumbai surged 36 percent in the first half of fiscal 2010-11 ending Sept. 30, the port authority said Wednesday.

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A New Jersey legislator said he will introduce a bill to abolish the troubled Waterfront Commission of New York and New Jersey, which was originally established in 1953 to fight corruption on the wate

The Houston Ship Channel re-opened to inbound vessels piloted by the Houston pilots Wednesday morning.

A long-running legal challenge to freight rail fuel surcharges by the largest U.S.

The Port of Antwerp Oct.

Applied Weather Technology, a provider of ocean voyage routing software, is opening offices in Singapore and Tokyo to expand its services in the Asia-Pacific region.

Retailers expect holiday sales to increase a modest 2.3 percent this year, down from the 10-year average of 2.5 percent but well above last year's tepid 0.4 percent, the National Retail Federation sai

Etihad Crystal Cargo, a division of Etihad Airways, said it will launch a twice weekly service from its hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport to Hong Kong, China.

Reimbursements to states for stimulus work authorized by the Department of Transportation reached $20.08 billion as of Sept.

U.S.

The Port of San Francisco Wednesday will become the first California port to provide shore-side electrical power for cruise ships at berth.

Yang Ming Marine will quit providing intermodal chassis to customers at nine locations in the eastern United States.

Container ship lines have yet to prove they can manage vessel capacity well enough to ensure long-term profitability, the chief executive of Japan’s NYK Line said.

Emirates Shipping Line plans to buy slots on the China India Express service operated by Hyundai Merchant Marine between North and Southeast Asia and India.

APL will begin using cleaner-burning fuel in the 85 ships that call at Hong Kong every week, sharply reducing the carrier's emissions at the port.

France's ports and railways face coordinated 24 hour strikes next week that threaten to develop into rolling stoppages that will seriously disrupt freight transport in Europe's second largest economy.

Safmarine Container Lines reorganized its regional structure to create a new regional unit for its services to and from the Indian Subcontinent.