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BNSF Railway posted a $607 million profit for the first quarter, up 20 percent from the same period in 2010 and reflecting a mix of higher freight traffic, fuel fees and pricing.

Trinity Industries is getting a needed boost from improving rail business, but the improvement in the transport equipment manufacturer’s financial picture this year goes beyond the railroads.

When intermodal giant Hub Group acquired Exel Transportation this spring, its top executive said Exel’s refrigerated intermodal business was what made the deal especially attractive.

Charles W. Moorman, chairman, president and CEO of eastern-U.S.

If the Surface Transportation Board is inclined to impose new competition and shipper access rules on U.S. railroads, the Obama administration appears to be OK with it.

The $6 billion refrigerated warehouse industry in the U.S.

If there’s been one reliable trend in recent years, through recession years and growth, it’s that rail rates keep rising.

Amid much hoopla and celebration last April, a handful of 53-foot refrigerated containers left the Port of Quincy, Wash., on a BNSF Railway stacktrain to Chicago.

When it comes to rates, there’s an ocean of difference between global shipping lines and North American domestic carriers.

The International Dairy Foods Association supports the Obama administration’s proposed cross-border trucking agreement between the United States and Mexico.

Slow growth, or even declining revenue, isn’t necessarily a bad thing — if it comes with higher earnings.

YRC Worldwide may have cleared perhaps the largest obstacle to its survival by securing an accord on a restructuring plan to cut debt and boost liquidity, but it almost certainly will not be the last

When BNSF Railway decides how to invest its money in infrastructure expansion, it looks to the marketplace for guidance.

Container lessor Textainer reported higher first quarter profit and said it invested $506.5 million on new dry and refrigerated containers to be delivered during the first half of this year.

Transportation and logistics giant Con-way increased revenue 7.2 percent to $1.3 billion in the first quarter, reporting a $6.9 million profit.

The Department of Homeland Security, acting on intelligence seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout, is warning states and other federal agencies al Qaeda has been considering terror plots aga

Less-than-truckload pricing will continue to rise throughout 2011, as a stronger economy “soaks up” excess capacity, said YRC Worldwide’s William D. Zollars.

Union Pacific is boosting its common stock dividend by 25 percent to 47.5 cents per share, and adding $100 million to its railroad capital spending program this year for a $3.3 billion infrastructure

A surge in freight in March and higher prices buoyed YRC Worldwide in the first quarter but couldn’t bring the troubled less-than-truckload giant back to profitability.

Illinois has been notified by the Department of Transportation that it will get another $186 million in rail grants, coming out of $2 billion the DOT is reallocating from funds Florida rejected for a

The Obama administration has been floating draft language for surface transportation legislation that could lead to a tax on vehicle miles traveled, allow states to impose tolls on some existing inter

Labor interests in California are taking the battle over the job classification of drayage truck drivers to the State Assembly with a bill that would define the drivers who serve ports and intermodal

Congressional staff on the House Transportation and Infrastructure is making progress drafting legislative language of what could become the panel’s six-year surface transportation bill, said Ch

Higher tonnage, shipments and pricing drove less-than-truckload carrier Saia further into the black in the first quarter, with a net income of $713,000.

Winter weather, low West Coast demand and rising costs contributed to a $2.5 million first quarter net loss at truckload carrier Covenant Transportation.

Strong demand and higher prices lifted first quarter revenue 20 percent for less-than-truckload and truckload operator Roadrunner Transportation Systems.

CSX Corp., the parent company of CSX Transportation, announced it will split its stock, raise the dividend and buy back $2 billion in common shares.

Matson Navigation swung to an operating loss of $7.4 million in the first quarter ended March 31 from a profit of $10.4 million in the same quarter a year earlier, as soaring fuel prices ate up the in

A Japanese manufacturer of large-scale power transformers will build a new factory at a Memphis, Tenn., site that will use Canadian National Railway tracks, access to Mississippi River barging and tru

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Retail diesel prices resumed their long upward trend after a one-week lull as the average price at the pump rose 2.6 cents to $4.124 per gallon, according to the U.S.

Transportation acquisition activity reached the heavy haul trucking industry with EZE Trucking's purchase of Bakersfield, Calif.-based Patterson Motor Freight.

Horizon Lines said its onetime parent, CSX, agreed to a $3 million annual reduction in charter rates on three ships Horizon leases from CSX.

When a federal regulator throws up its hands and admits defeat in trying to pull railroads and key shippers together over a major issue, only one course of action remains: Battle.

For shippers and trucking companies, the road doesn’t have to end at the water’s edge.

Attendees at the March 31 Pulse of the Ports meeting in Long Beach saw a stark demonstration of what terminal operators believe is the cause of congestion at the port complex.

Railcar leasing giant GATX sees it. So does intermodal service provider Hub Group, and equipment builder American Railcar Industries.

Truck drivers may soon see solid evidence of economic recovery in their paychecks.

New debt restructuring agreements YRC Worldwide reached with lenders and pension funds will allow the carrier to meet a key deadline in its bid to avoid bankruptcy.

Major U.S. railroads and the United Transportation Union, reached a tentative five-year contract agreement that runs through December 2014.