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Bill Zollars, the YRC Worldwide chairman who built the company into the country’s largest industrial trucker and then had to rescue the business from the brink of failure, will retire as chairma

Customs brokers will play a key role in getting small and medium sized businesses into a Customs and Border Protection account management system, Commissioner Alan Bersin told members of the National

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman said it is "long past time" trucking firms took steps to reduce the risk of driver fatigue, after hearing evidence today that acute fatigu

A sudden strike by container truck drivers Tuesday morning threatened serious delays to cargo moving through Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal in India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru, the count

Rising tolls at the Panama Canal are causing some industry officials to question whether increased costs will cause carriers to avoid the canal after a third set of locks allows transits by bigger shi

Canadian National Railway offered new contract terms that include cutting the crew size on some trains, said a spokesman for the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, and the union is preparing a response

The growth in global air cargo traffic slowed in August but remains higher than in the pre-recession peak of early 2008, the International Air Transportation Association said.

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Le Havre's container traffic rose 7.8 percent in the first eight months of the year compared with a year ago, bucking a decline in its overall cargo volume but trailing box growth at its main European

A majority of shippers approve of FedEx's plans to merge its two trucking units and do not foresee diverting freight to competitors, a Wolfe Trahan survey finds.

After two weeks of rising prices, diesel last week fell nine-tenths of a cent to an average retail price of $2.951, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

East Coast container ports have plenty of capacity to handle the bigger ships that will be coming through the Panama Canal after it completes a third set of locks in 2014 and may not have to deepen th

Ocean container carriers pulled around 100,000 20-foot equivalent units of capacity from the Asia to North Europe route during the Chinese vacation week as freight rates decline rapidly on weaker-than

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission Monday approved a schedule by which harbor trucking companies next year must begin phasing employee drivers into their fleets, with 100 percent employee drivers requi

Marine terminal expansion almost came to a halt last year during the global trade recession, but construction of container terminals must resume soon or capacity shortages are likely to occur in some

ABF Freight System said today it will raise its general tariff rates 5.9 percent, following an identical increase announced last week by c

Canadian rail shippers are anxiously waiting to see if Canadian National Railway and 2,700 union workers in the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference can reach a mediated agreement and head off a potential

YRC Worldwide reached a tentative agreement with the Teamsters union on a comprehensive financial restructuring to help the struggling trucking giant survive.

In the latest sign that the freight recovery is hardening, railcar manufacturer Greenbrier Companies announced a second large round of recent orders for 3,000 cars worth $200 million, led as before by

Japan's trade surplus with the rest of the world narrowed for the first time in 15 months in August as imports grew faster than exports, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Minist

Maersk Line is increasingly serving Africa and South America with direct services from Asia as quickening economic growth in emerging markets forces the world's largest ocean container carrier to adju

Standard & Poor's raised the rating on Zim Integrated Shipping Service's bonds four grades to BB+ following its return to profit in the second quarter of 2010.

The American Trucking Associations at the weekend filed its formal appeal with U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

In the first progress report on its ambitious National Export Initiative, the Obama administration rapped a solid base hit, but business leaders are looking for home runs.

The Port of Los Angeles’ timetable for implementing the employee-driver concession requirement in its clean-trucks plan starts next year, but the harbor trucking industry in Southern California

Any trucking industry appeal of a ruling for the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan will hinge on whether a court believes the country’s largest port is run not only by a government agency bu

Nearly three-fourths of rail shippers want Congress to pass a regulatory reform bill, according to a Wall Street analyst’s survey, and many shippers say they might consider filing their own chal

The recovery in industrial real estate is like a building only half completed: The framework for improved business is there, but no one is ready to declare the job done.

At the start of 2007, FedEx Freight was on a roll.

That loud buzz you heard from Washington was the shipping community stirring over the prospects of a bill that would all but abolish ocean carriers’ antitrust immunity.

Warnings of an impending shortage of drivers may be spreading through the trucking industry and its shipping customers, but there’s no sign of the problem at the central Pennsylvania headquarter

Someone forgot to tell importers that the peak shipping season was already over.

The hard-fought agreement between Hanjin Shipping and the International Longshoremen’s Association on reduced staffing requirements does more than clear the way for work on a new terminal in Jac

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Commercial trailer orders rose 2 percent from July to August, and were up 55 percent from a year ago, ACT Research reports.

The World Shipping Council elected Kenji Mizushima, CEO of NYK's Global Liner Management Division, to its board at its semi-annual meeting in September.

Locomotive builder GE Transportation said it signed the largest locomotive delivery deal in Brazil’s history as Brazilian rail operator MRS Logistica agreed to buy 115 units with an option for 100 mor

Dubai Airports reported a 21.5 percent increase in August cargo traffic to 198,543 metric tons handled compared to 163,427 metric tons in the same month last year.

After more than a decade of manufacturing outsourcing by Western companies and slow but steady economic reform by Beijing, China is the United States’ second-largest trade partner and appears to