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FedEx Freight, the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carrier, rolled farther into the black in its mos

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Citing a strong Black Friday weekend, the National Retail Federation said it now expects holiday sales to rise 3.8 percent instead of the 2.8 percent year-over-year gain it forecast in October.

The amount of freight carried by for-hire transportation carriers fell 0.2 percent in October, ending a streak of four consecutive month-to-month increases, the Transportation Department reported.

China plans to impose anti-dumping duties on some vehicles imported from the U.S. after failing to block a U.S.-imposed tariff on Chinese tires, according to Bloomberg News.

U.S. retail sales rose 0.2 percent in November, driven by Black Friday bargain-hunting, but the month-to-month increase was the slowest since June, the Commerce Department said.

The Japanese government has revised the nation’s tonnage tax system in response to strong pressure

Walk through the baby food aisle of any Canadian grocery store, and you’ll find big cans, not the convenient single-serving size U.S. consumers prefer.

Refrigerated cargoes are becoming hot commodities in trucking, as truckload carriers launch expedited services to speed refrigerated freight from coast to coast.

Next February, Todd Lush will be among the first customers of a new marine highways venture by the Port of Stockton, Calif., when weekly container-on-barge service begins to the Port of Oakland.

For federal regulators, the latest directive appears to be the old proverb, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”

Kuehne + Nagel will use cloud-based software to better track and communicate with container drayage haulers, giving the logistics operator better management of freight moving to and from ports in the

Truck-related fatalities rose 8.7 percent last year, reversing a long-term trend, while overall highway deaths dropped to their lowest level since 1949, the Department of Transportation said.

The Federal Maritime Commission agreed Thursday to move forward with a long-stalled proposal that would allow unrelated non-vessel-operating common carriers to jointly offer contracts to shippers.

President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper signed two far-reaching agreements on Wednesday designed to make it easier and safer to move goods across the border.

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Some 26,000 holders of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential may not be able to use their cards at an electronic reader because of an encoding error, the Transportation Security Administ

European transport operator Norbert Dentressangle says its acquisition of APC Beijing International positions the company for larger growth in worldwide forwarding.

Technology provider ModusLink Global Solutions named Tom Nightingale, most recently chief marketing officer at Con-way, president for sales and marketing.

U.S. domestic ocean shipping has never seen a year like 2011. Two carriers pleaded guilty to price-fixing. One dodged debt default with a stem-to-stern refinancing.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, long the domain of corporate counsels and senior executives, is getting more attention in exporters’ compliance offices as the government gets more aggressive

A new security standard and certification program for trucking could help motor carriers and shippers close one of the biggest remaining gaps in supply chain security — what happens to cargo onc

It’s not easy to secure a truck, and it’s even more difficult to come up with global trucking security requirements.

In a scathing report issued in late November, House Republicans damned the Transportation Security Administration for becoming an ineffective, wasteful bloated bureaucracy that didn’t carry out

Members of Congress haven’t looked this close to agreement on the goals for a transportation spending plan in years, but the political reality in Washington is that a common goal may not get law

The Export-Import Bank of the United States expects an increase in its lending limit through a reauthorization bill making its way through Congress.

A former Peruvian airline executive has pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix surcharges on cargo shipments from the United States and Latin America following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

ALK Technologies, creator of the PC Miler software used by truckers and shippers in routing and pricing, is restructuring to tighten its focus and expand its reach.

Federal regulators are planning a crack down on “reincarnated” motor carriers after shutting down two closely affiliated trucking operators in one month.

UTi Worldwide says global economic shifts will cut into earnings in the rest of 2011 after the logistics operator reported an 8 percent gain in net profit in the third quarter.

Shippers want governments around the world to adopt uniform standards for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the maritime industry and insist it should come through voluntary use of improvements i

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A 12 percent surge in refrigerated food shipments sent spot market reefer rates up almost 2 percent during the Thanksgiving week, countering soft pricing across most of the truckload market, according

House Democrats proposed a transportation bill on Thursday that tightens ‘Buy American’ provisions on materials used in infrastructure projects, countering a

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Shipper groups are pressing Congress to step in to avert a potential nationwide strike next week, with one warning the disruption of rail service “during the busy holiday shopping seas

The value of trade using surface transportation between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico rose 13.8 percent in September from a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

Thirty-four states and three territories will receive $215 million in federal reimbursement for repairs to roads and bridges damaged by natural disasters, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Mond

Aramex is expanding its presence in China by creating a joint venture with Sinotrans Air Transportation Development Co., as th

Lowe’s says its inventory in the third quarter was up 5.2 percent year-over-year and the home improvement retailer is “more aggressively ramping up for winter.”