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The U.S. Postal Service Monday began contract negotiations with the National Rural Letter Carriers Association.

SAS Cargo will pay $13.9 million to settle class-action lawsuits over price-fixing in international air freight transport, pushing airline settlements in the private claims by attorneys representing s

Two activist rail shipper groups say they see new signs that the Senate could move on long-dormant rail competition legislation in the final months of the current Congress.

The Global Shippers’ Forum called for regulatory reform of the liner shipping industry in Asia at its meeting in Macau last week.

HHLA, Hamburg's biggest stevedore, will invest $90 million to expand capacity at its Odessa Container Terminal in Ukraine to keep pace with cargo growth in the Black Sea, the company announced.

Container volume at APL grew 13 percent in the four-week period ending Aug.

Part of the Commodity Classification Standards Board’s mission is to re-examine classifications when the characteristics of goods may have changed, triggering changes in the transportation profi

President Obama’s new economic initiatives include not only a blueprint for revamping U.S.

With a $50 billion startup infrastructure proposal and a pledge to reform the way Washington sets transportation spending policy, President Obama offered his vision of the next six-year infrastructure

As Commodity Forwarders prepared for the final deadline in tough new rules for screening shipments that move on passenger aircraft, the specialist in perishables shipping faced a problem it had not fo

Ocean carrier visions of multiple peak-season surcharges in the eastbound Pacific are vanishing as imports from Asia level off and the market returns to reality.

If you had spent the past two years in South America, it’s quite possible you wouldn’t know there’s been a global recession.

From a helicopter over CenterPoint Properties’ 6,000-acre integrated intermodal rail logistics hub at Joliet, Ill., about 40 miles southwest of Chicago, the structure that stands out above all o

Wall Street might be bearish on the economy, but truckers are bullish on Wall Street.

MIQ Logistics understands the perils of being the biggest player in any particular market.

Brazil doesn’t have a good road network.

The Teamsters union is telling workers at YRC Worldwide that it will only support concessions sought by the financially troubled trucking company if they come with a “comprehensive restructuring

New rail regulatory legislation appears dead for this Congress, according to the top executive for Norfolk Southern Railway.

The State of Virginia will no longer consider three unsolicited bids from private investors who are seeking to lease its array of container terminals in Hampton Roads, Virginia Secretary of Transporta

Truckload spot rates are “flattening out” heading into the fall after rising sharply in the second quarter, according to a trucking industry executive, but longer-term contract rates are likely on the

Kansas City Southern carried 700 U.S.-bound containers from Mexico’s Port of Lazaro Cardenas during August and expects volume on the route to continue to grow, a KCS executive said.

Overall cargo tonnage at major ports in India grew by a mere 1 percent in the April-August period compared with a year earlier, according to the latest preliminary traffic figures released by the Indi

A freight railroad official with strong ties to shipping out of Mexico says he is seeing some offshore manufacturing shift back to North America as labor costs rise in China.

North American railcar owners took 10,759 parked freight cars out of storage during August, leaving 348,712 or 22.7 percent of the total continental fleet idled as of Sept. 1.

Canadian Pacific Railway expanded its ability to carry intermodal cars on trains 45 percent over the past two years, a company official says, and expects more gains as part of a plan to add capacity b

Miami-based freighter conversion company Aeronautical Engineers delivered four 737SF cargo conversions in the third quarter of 2010.

Barge operators say they are "disappointed and puzzled" President Obama omitted inland waterways from his proposal to spend $50 billion on transportation infrastructure projects.

Truckload carrier Knight Transportation is generating enough profit to update its fleet but sees few current possibilities for growth through acquisition, the company’s chief financial officer s

Frankfurt airport's freight traffic soared 18.4 percent in August from a year ago to an all time high for the month.

ABF Freight System is waging a two-front campaign to cut its labor costs by negotiating with the Teamsters about contract concessions and lobbying Congress for legislation to ease the burden unionized

Procter & Gamble started work this week on a China distribution center the consumer products giant said would be the largest in Asia and an anchor of P&G’s goal to expand domestic and international di

Lufthansa carried 18.7 percent more cargo in August than a year ago, outpacing its main European rivals Air France-KLM and British Airways.

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When the Surface Transportation Board stripped antitrust immunity from truck freight classification in 2007, hope spread that a less adversarial, more cooperative carrier-shipper relationship would em

The UK government Friday said it will press ahead with the privatization of Royal Mail after a report said the com

A sudden spike in business came to the St. Lawrence Seaway, and to U.S. and Canadian wheat producers, in sharply increased wheat exports because of Russia's ban on foreign grain sales.

North America’s largest railroads saw their bulk commodity carloads hit a second consecutive 2010 peak in the week ending Sept.

After three years of enlarging Appalachian Mountain tunnels, Norfolk Southern Railway opened its Heartland Corridor to double-stack operations Thursday between Virginia's seaport area and big Midwest

Shippers can expect expedited general rate increases from less-than-truckload carriers, trucking officials at an investor conference in New York said.