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A Department of Transportation discretionary grant pool for 2010 awards drew thousands of pre-applications seeking tens of billions of dollars to aid infrastructure projects, from a “TIGER II&rd

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line approved a 3-for-2 stock split to boost the trading volume of its stock. The split will take place Aug. 23.

Freight traffic at Los Angeles International Airport grew 25.1 percent in the first half of the year, but the tonnage growth slipped back in June in a sign that the air cargo recovery is leveling off.

Agility launched operations in Cambodia, opening an office in the capital Phnom Penh.

Greek truckers ended a week-long strike Tuesday, defusing a confrontation with the government over plans to reform the country’s entrenched trucking industry rules.

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings more than tripled its net profit to $32.8 million in the second quarter on strong demand for chartered aircraft in the resurgent global air cargo market, the freighter ope

Danmar Lines, DHL Global Forwarding's in-house carrier, launched two direct less-than-container-load services from Shenzhen, China, to Europe.

Deutsche Post reported sharply higher second quarter profit and raised its full-year forecast because of higher profits at DHL, which CEO Frank Appel said has become the company’s “growth

YRC Worldwide reported a $48.3 million operating profit in the second quarter on Tuesday and expanded business with shipping customers as the less-than-truckload carrier showed signs it is turning aro

Office clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach pursued contract negotiations into their second month with local issues still dominating the talks.

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Diesel prices climbed an average of nine-tenths of a cent to $2.928 per gallon in the second consecutive week of gains, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Monday.

The Panama Canal Authority and the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport signed a memorandum of understanding Monday aimed at increasing all-water trade between Asia and the U.S.

Container volume at West Coast ports increased 15 percent in the first six months of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009, according to the Pacific Maritime Ass

The Cass Freight Index for industrial shipping fell back 8.6 percent in July, the first decline in six months and a signal that weakness in the broader U.S.

Legislation calling for a national freight transportation policy would short-change the nation’s highways, the American Trucking Associations said.

A bill introduced in the House last week matches Senate legislation calling for a national freight transportation

Dutch postal and express group TNT announced it will separate its mail and express businesses by the start of next year.

U.S. manufacturing growth slowed for the third straight month in July as the sector's year-long recovery showed new signs of weakness, the Institute for Supply Management reported.

Expansion of Chinese manufacturing activity slowed in July, according to an independent survey and a Chinese government report.

Celadon Group's annual profit soared 83 percent last year, boosted by increased demand, diminished capacity and more cross-border traffic with Mexico.

Container throughput at the Port of Savannah increased 34 percent in June to 240,734 20-foot equivalent container units, compared with 179,451 TEUs the previous June.

Soaring air and ocean freight shipping pushed net profit at Expeditors International of Washington up 67 percent to a record $90.3 million in the second quarter, the forwarder said Monday.

Nippon Express, Japan's largest freight forwarder, suffered a net loss of $24 million in the April-June period, compared with a net profit of $26.24 million a year earlier.

Unionized truckers in India delayed for 10 days a nationwide strike planned for Aug. 6, temporarily averting disruptions in the country’s road transport sector.

Seacastle Chassis, the largest lessor of marine and domestic chassis, is changing its name TRAC Intermodal.

The harbor drayage community in Southern California is warning there will be a shortage of truck capacity during the peak shipping season.

When the Obama administration completed the paperwork to release $100 million in a stimulus grant to help untangle Chicago’s time-wasting web of railroad tracks and city streets, it tied the spe

The Senate isn’t giving up on scanning all maritime containers arriving in the U.S., but lawmakers appear willing to ease the law to make it more palatable to opponents at home and abroad.

Swift Transportation pulls up to Wall Street a different company than the one that left the stock exchange in 2007. Swift isn’t just smaller, it’s more intermodal.

The freight rail business is looking more like two markets than one, a fast-paced intermodal segment marked by equipment tightness and other business segments marked by uncertainty about the economic

The best-laid plans to build a new container port in North Carolina are foundering on the shoals of environmental and community opposition.

More than halfway into a year that’s been a seller’s market for freight transportation of all kinds, the surge in ocean container rates may be losing steam.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg knows congestion, and he wants to do something about it.

Shippers and forwarders are relieved, but some wonder whether the Port of Montreal’s concerns are over.

Distribution centers will crop up in unlikely places as transportation corridors shift and energy demands bring new markets to light, a location consultant says.

Trucking magnate Jerry Moyes is driving $2.6 billion Swift Transportation back to Wall Street with plans to raise $700 million in an initial public offering.

Delta Air Lines will pay a $38 million fine to settle charges that the cargo business it bought with Northwest Airlines took part in a global conspiracy to fix air freight prices, the U.S.

A harbor working group that includes 30 terminal operators, trucking executives and labor representatives is moving quickly to address marine terminal congestion in Los Angeles-Long Beach.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday approved a new Water Resources Development Act, the vehicle that authorizes new projects to be carried out by the Army Corps of Engine