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A freight transportation bill filed Thursday calls for a Goods Movement Trust Fund financed by a hike in diesel fuel taxes, but leaves open the possibility of other forms of revenue.

The Department of Transportation served notice this week that it will increasingly tie a low-interest loan account for railroad track improvements to a broad array of Obama administration policy goals

China saw the trade explosion coming even before it received final approval to join the World Trade Organization in 2001. A $100 billion exporter to the U.S.

The Department of Transportation in a new report underlined the importance of enhancing and guarding freight rail while developing a national passenger rail system, but the agency left out any mention

U.S. manufacturing grew at the slowest pace in 10 months in September as inventories rose, signaling slower growth in production and freight shipments.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide completed a 1-25 reverse stock split, boosting its per share value from about 25 cents Thursday to above $6 Friday morning.

United and Continental airlines officially closed their $3.2 billion merger on Friday, extending the consolidation of the U.S.

Unionized truckers late Friday called off a four-day strike at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru, allowing ocean containers to move through Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal.

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CMA CGM on Friday christened the latest in a series of super-large container ships, the CMA CGM Pegasus, in ceremonies at the Malta Freeport Terminal in the Port of Marsaxlokk.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will raise the bunker adjustment factor on Nov. 1 for all cargo from Northern Europe, Scandinavia, the Baltic and the Mediterranean including Israel to the U.S.

The Department of Transportation unveiled a group of stimulus grants to spur states to develop inter-city passenger rail corridors, as federal officials try to get a high-priority program moving.

At its monthly meeting Thursday afternoon, the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey authorized a new lease with FAPS, an auto processor, for approximately 104 acres at Port Newark th

Boeing said Thursday it will delay delivery of the first 747-8 freighter until mid-2011 instead of the fourth quarter of 2010.

Six international forwarders agreed to a total of $50.3 million in criminal fines after pleading guilty to air cargo price fixing, the U.S.

John M. Cullather, one of the most respected maritime experts on Capitol Hill, will retire at the end of the 111th Congress, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James L.

Shares of YRC Worldwide plunged more than 20 percent in trading on Wall Street Thursday after an industry analyst urged investors to "get out of the stock today" when the troubled trucking giant said

With intermodal traffic building toward its autumn peak, major U.S. railroads set a new all-time high in container hauls for the second straight week, said the Association of American Railroads.

The value of trade moving by surface transportation between the U.S.

OOCL plans to increase freight rates for traffic from Northeast Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea) to Australia on Oct. 15.

The national rail companies of Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia on Oct.1 will launch a joint cargo service to Turkey, aimed at winning back traffic lost to rival routes and transport modes during the Balk

Container terminals and port trucking companies in the Port of New York and New Jersey were still struggling Thursday in foul weather to clear out the backlog of containers that was piled up at the pi

The prospects for East Coast ports to latch onto a greater share of containerized U.S.

A strike by container truckers in India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru entered its third day on Thursday, crippling cargo movements to and from Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal, operated by DP

HHLA, Hamburg's biggest stevedore, will end short time schedules for dockworkers in November following an increase in container traffic at Germany's biggest port.

Steel and container volumes rose last month at the Port of Houston. The change followed what port CEO Alec G. Dreyer described as a "good month, bad month" pattern reflecting the overall economy.

First-claims for unemployment benefits edged downward last week, the government said in a report with positive implications for freight transportation, while the estimate of second quarter economic gr

China Airlines agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $40 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices in the air transportation industry, the Department of Justice announced Monday.

Hong Kong-registered T.S. Lines in November will start offering trans-Pacific service by participating in the China-America West Coast Express service of Hainan PO Shipping.

The Teamsters union is offering to extend its current contract with YRC Worldwide for two years and accept dramatically reduced pension contributions in return for an unprecedented say in the manageme

The Department of Transportation is using the last of its transit grants under the economic stimulus law to build wind turbines to power three bus buildings in Lafayette, Ind., and linking several adm

FedEx Freight is raising the ante in what's quickly becoming a reverse less-than-truckload rate war, increasing its general tariff rates 6.9 percent Nov. 1.

Federal officials won’t allow freight railroads to be hurt by government investment in high-speed passenger rail infrastructure, Federal Rail Administrator Joseph Szabo said Wednesday.

The two-day work stoppage at the six container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey ended early Wednesday afternoon when the Philadelphia ILA local whose picket lines had caused the shutdo

Wireless technologies have become the instrument of choice for marine terminal operators seeking to improve truck turn times and reduce pollution at their facilities, information technology experts to

Customs and Border Protection announced Wednesday it was formally ending its effort to reinterpret the “first sale” rule for placing value on imported products.

The American Trucking Association's for-hire truck tonnage index fell 2.7 percent in August from July, its largest month-to-month drop since March 2009.

The Department of Transportation issued a $50 million rail grant under the economic stimulus law to upgrade track of a freight short line in Vermont, as part of its effort to expand the use of passeng

The two-day work stoppage at all six container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey spared the Port of Baltimore despite calls by the Philadelphia chapter of the International Longshoreman

Air France-KLM faces claims for over $675 million in damages by European companies alleging they suffered from the carrier's role in an international cartel that fixed air cargo freight rates.