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Longshoremen at the port of Houston are complaining their mandatory high-tech identification cards aren't able to stand up to what seems to be the everyday working environment.

The average retail price for diesel dropped 1.2 cents to $2.979 per gallon last week, following three consecutive weekly increases, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Rail and construction product supplier L.B. Foster is extending to the end of this month its tender offer to buy all outstanding common shares of Portec Rail Products.

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Intermodal traffic at London Thamesport reached a record share of 25 percent of the port’s business in July, port officials said Monday.

Neptune Orient Lines said it finalized an order on Monday to build two new container ships with capacities of 10,700 20-foot-equivalent units that will be delivered in 2012.

CMA CGM took delivery on Monday morning in South Korea of the CMA CGM Corte Real, a very large container ship with a capacity of 13,830 20-foot equivalent units that is the third in a series of eight

Rickmers Maritime Trust, the Singapore-based container ship owner, reported on Monday second-quarter profit plunged 88 percent to $610,000 from $5.22 million in the same period of 2009 as one-time res

Indian Customs, bowing to intense pressure from the local trade community, agreed to facilitate the diversion of export cargo stranded at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) to the neighboring

A meeting between office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Los Angeles-Long Beach was canceled last week.

Container volume at APL grew 18 percent in the four weeks ending July 23 from the same period last year as rising rates pushed revenue per 40-foot container up 39 percent, the shipping subsidiary

Stimulus money is rolling out of the Department of Transportation.

The Army Corps of Engineers is caught in a web of competing political, commercial and environmental interests that impairs its ability to maintain and modernize the nation’s waterway infrastruct

While most of the country wilts under stifling heat, U.S. exporters shipping to Asia are enjoying a rather pleasant summer.

Orient Overseas Container Line and Hanjin Shipping returned to profitability in the second quarter and say they’re cautiously optimistic the good times will continue.

Con-way Truckload is looking beyond its less-than-truckload sister company for more business from “external” customers.

APL can’t get vessels back into the water fast enough.

The rail freight industry may be humming, and intermodal may be too tight for comfort, but North American railcar equipment suppliers are mostly holding on until customers need them again.

A return to profitability is helping to sway cautious Wall Street analysts that Pacer International’s strategic shift from a wholesale middleman service to a company focused on moving containers

Was it Christmas in July? Forecasters say this year’s double-digit growth in U.S.

The Brussels-based organization that lobbied the European Union on behalf of liner shipping companies ceased those efforts last month but is staying open as a trade association.

Con-way Freight has a long, hard slog ahead as it struggles to right-size its volume and wrangles with shippers over pricing in what looks to be a slower recovery.

After roaring out of the gate at the beginning of the year with container ships sailing full in both directions and rates more than doubling over the last year, demand in the trans-Atlantic trades is

A motor carrier in Southern Virginia, FWC, shut down this week, ending a 30-year run as it struggled to rebuild business in the economic recovery.

Manufacturing, wholesale and retail inventories rose in June, reinforcing claims that the wave of goods restocking benefiting t

The Port of Portland closed on a 25-year lease of its container and breakbulk facilities at Terminal 6 to ICTSI Oregon, a subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services Inc.

Indian exporters of machine parts, foodstuffs and other commodities scrambled to find an air freight option after a major accid

UBM Aviation, a sister company of The Journal of Commerce, acquired the Manchester, UK-based Route Development Group for an undisclosed sum.

The Pennsylvania Transportation Commission approved a 24 percent cut in the budget for infrastructure improvements through 2022.

GPA Study Shows Diesel Additives Cut Fuel Use, Emissions

Retail and food services sales increased 0.4 percent from June to July, according to a report Friday morning from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Hapag-Lloyd on Friday said it stopped accepting hazardous cargo bookings to and from India's Port of Mumbai, effective immediately.

India's two biggest ports, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port and Mumbai Port, conducted limited operations on Friday.

Etihad Airways took delivery of the first of two A330-200 freighters Aug. 9. A second is expected in October.

Surging international cargoes were the biggest driver in the second quarter for rail hauls of intermodal containers and trailers, said the Intermodal Association of North America.

UPS launched a new service that enlists the U.S.

OOCL is buying slots on a new weekly service between Antwerp and New York that Hapag-Lloyd will start in September.

CEVA Logistics boosted second quarter revenue 30 percent year-over-year to $2.244 billion on the basis of strong freight volume, particularly in the Americas and Asia Pacific, the global supply chain

Chile's CSAV posted $69 million in second quarter profit and said it finished the first half of the year with a $36.8 million net profit, compared with a $402 million loss in the first fix months of 2

New Century Transportation is the latest trucking company to plot a route for Wall Street with an initial public offering to raise cash for expansion in the recovery.