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The Port of Felixstowe has reached a milestone, handling its 70 millionth 20-foot-equivalent unit since container operations began at the England port in the mid-1960s.

A recent industry survey shows third-party logistics companies and freight brokers are increasing the amount of business they do with LTL carriers significantly as shippers widen their search for capacity beyond the truckload business, and are making a bigger profit in the LTL business than the traditional truckload market.

TransCore Link Logistics’ Canadian Freight Index was basically flat in July compared with the previous month and July 2012, dodging the traditional summer slowdown typical for the month.

J. Harwood Cochrane, 100, founder of Overnite Transportation, and Jack Holmes, president of UPS Freight, discuss less-than-truckload’s origins and the trucking industry's multimodal future.

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Trucking Tonnage Index slipped 0.4 percent in July from June, to 125.4, after inching up 0.1 percent in June.

BNSF Railway has allocated $125 million for maintenance and rail capacity expansion projects in Washington this year.

Old Dominion Freight Line has opened a 100-door facility southwest of Chicago.

The number of truck drivers remains below its peak, as driver pay lags U.S. average wages.

The U.S. economy marked a milestone in June: the beginning of a fifth straight year of recovery as measured by growth in gross domestic product. Don’t worry, you didn’t miss the ticker-tape parade. With GDP increasing 1.1 percent and 1.7 percent in the first and second quarters of 2013, no one’s in much of a mood to celebrate.

PTA Holdings is expanding its refrigerated truckload business, adding a baked goods shipper in San Antonio, Texas, to balance northbound and southbound loads.

Norfolk Southern will hike its domestic intermodal rates in September.

FTR Associates’ Shippers Conditions Index for June fell “only marginally” from the previous month to a reading of negative 8.1.

Marine terminal gates at the Port of Oakland were beginning to reopen at noon Monday following a morning-long blockade by owner-operator truck drivers protesting slow turn times at marine terminals.

Tampa Port Authority has signed a letter of intent with Green Express for the development of an on-dock transload and rail-served facility connecting the port to the Midwest.

Indian Railways reported revenue-earning freight traffic in July totaled 86.21 million metric tons, up 4.9 percent or 4.0 million metric tons from 82.21 million metric tons in the same month in 2012.

BNSF Railway has allocated $115 million for Montana and $220 million for North Dakota for maintenance and rail capacity expansion projects this year.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has acquired certain assets of the U.S. Southeast drayage division of Transport Corp. of America, an intermodal transportation provider in the Southeast, for about $1.2 million.

Southeastern shippers are gaining better intermodal services to container terminals at Savannah and Charleston through the development of inland ports.

Direct ChassisLink Inc. plans to participate in a new pilot program to offer premium chassis with radial tires in Consolidated Chassis Management's South Atlantic Chassis Pool.

YRC Worldwide's stock has been on a wild ride the past few months, but the trucking operator is steadily narrowing losses and striving to make long-term improvements in LTL operations.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has commenced a public offering of 4.3 million shares of its common stock, at a price of $27.00 per share to the public.

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board today adopted a final rule that will require all rail carriers that submit R-1 reports to begin breaking out expenses for positive train control...

Agriculture shippers are concerned that they won’t be able to bring their goods to BNSF Railway’s soon-to-open intermodal terminal in the Kansas City area because overweight containers aren't permitted on the road connecting the facility and the nearby interstate.

The Surface Transportation Board will hold a public hearing this fall related to a petition by The National Industrial Transportation League to modify the board's standards for mandatory competitive switching.

Kansas City Southern’s current executive chairman and employee, Michael R. Haverty, will transition to non-executive chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the executive committee of the board...

Statistics from 2010 and 2011 suggest that the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro claim 83 percent of all recorded cargo crime incidents in Brazil...

UPS Freight will open a facility in Indianapolis on Monday, Aug. 12.

Arkansas Best today reported net income of $4.9 million in the second quarter of 2013, down from $11.8 million in the same period last year.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today reversed a ruling that turned a price-fixing lawsuit against four U.S.-based Class I railroads into a class action.

Spot market truck traffic increased 3 percent in July from June, the first sequential monthly increase in July since 1996, according to load-matching service DAT.

Old Dominion Freight Line has expanded its facility in Manassas, Va., and opened a new facility in Rapid City, S.D., continuing its nationwide expansion program.

North America’s Class 8 net truck orders in July reached 17,307 units, the lowest level since September 2012, dropping 7 percent compared with the previous month, according to FTR Associates’ preliminary data.

CSX has acquired Eastern Associated Terminal in Tampa, Fla., from Ingram Barge.

U.S. Development Group and Gibson Energy have partnered to expand USDG’s crude-by-rail development to Canada, in turn boosting transportation optionality for Gibson’s Hardisty Terminals customers in Alberta.

Schneider National is adding 200 truck drivers in Arizona and opening a facility in Phoenix.

Montreal, Maine and Atlantic, the Maine-based railroad whose oil train caused the explosion in July that claimed 47 lives in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today.

YRC Worldwide today reported a net loss of $15.1 million in the second quarter of 2013, compared with a net loss of $22.6 million in the second quarter of 2012.