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A Miami exporter of heavy equipment for the construction, farm and trucking industries pleaded guilty this week to trying to defraud the U.S.

Sen. John McCain introduced legislation to “fully repeal” the Jones Act, which he said is preventing non-U.S.-flag vessels from helping clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The Senate on Friday afternoon confirmed on a voice vote John S. Pistole to be the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.

U.S. steel imports increased by 4.7 percent in May to 2.2 million tons from 2.1 million tons in April, the American Institute for International Steel said Friday.

Truckload freight demand is slowing, according to the Morgan Stanley Truckload Freight Index.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey acquired the 98-acre Global Terminal on the Port Jersey peninsula in Jersey City and Bayonne.

Truck tonnage slipped 0.6 percent in May, putting a brake on shipping growth after trucking demand reached its highest level of the recovery the month before, the American Trucking Associations said F

Struggling less-than-truckload giant YRC Worldwide said it will sell part of its YRC Logistics operation for $37 million to private equity investor Austin Ventures and partner with that firm on some o

“K” Line America appointed Takashi Saeki its president and CEO as of July 1.

Package carrier FedEx is building a small-package sort and delivery station near Chicago that will be the fifth major facility in that area for its FedEx Ground unit.

A planned UK government replacement of its Airline Passenger Duty with a new per-aircraft flight fee will mean higher costs for manufacturers and shippers and deliver no new environmental benefits, sa

Four emerging conditions promise to have long-term impact on supply chain management, according to Detlef Trefzger, member of the management board of Schenker.

Goldenport Holdings, the London-listed containership and bulk carrier owner, announced a new $35 million share offering June 25 to fund future vessel acquisitions.

German KG investment funds that bankrolled much of the last decade’s container shipbuilding boom have cut back on lending, but speculation about their demise is “total nonsense,” say

Evergreen Line, China Shipping and CMA CGM will work together to launch an upgraded Asia-Europe AEX7 service.

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Vessel utilization factors on services between Asia and the U.S.

The Port Authority of New York and the State of New Jersey agreed to purchase approximately 130 acres of property at the Marine Ocean Terminal at Bayonne, known as MOTBY, which it has been seeking for

Regional Container Lines of Thailand and Middle East-based Simatech Shipping plan to launch a joint container service linking Singapore, Malaysia and the Indian subcontinent, effective this month.

After falling for 14 months in a row, Japanese export ship orders rose for the sixth consecutive month in May on a year-on-year basis.

Con-way Freight is expanding its work for Caterpillar Logistics Services, the logistics arm of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar, to cover trucking in more than half the United States as well as busin

Refrigerated trucking company Stevens Transport ordered 500 heavy trucks from Kenworth Truck, a Paccar subsidiary.

Evergreen Line and Wan Hai Lines will launch the joint Hwa-Bei Strait Service starting early July between China and Southeast Asia.

OOCL notified its customers Friday that it will rates on westbound cargo from Asia to Europe cargo as of July 15.

Nike plans to increase its orders for footwear and apparel 7 percent over the next six months and will turn to greater use of air freight to “meet the tremendous growth in orders” for the

The Federal Aviation Administration issued $125 million in contracts to develop commercial jet technologies that cut fuel consumption, emissions and noise.

An Asian carp has been found for the first time beyond the electric barriers constructed to keep the dreaded invasive species out of the Great Lakes, the Associated Press reported.

The first ship on CSAV’s new, weekly all-water service between North Asia and the U.S. East Coast made its first call at the Port of Charleston Thursday on its outbound leg back to Asia.

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APM Terminals and the Virginia Port Authority each authorized their leadership Thursday to sign an agreement that will lease APM Terminals’ highly automated Portsmouth container terminal to VPA

The Federal Maritime Commission announced Thursday that Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. and Commissioner Rebecca F.

Trucking industry representatives told a House panel the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s latest program needs work on the details.

Canadian Pacific Railway signed new productivity and performance agreements with the two intermodal terminals at the big container port of Port Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, in deals the partners

The Georgia Ports Authority will replace the engines on 17 of its older rubber-tired gantry cranes with more efficient engines that reduce carbon emissions as the result of the $2.72 million grant it

The nation's largest trucking operator, YRC Worldwide, is forging closer relationships with third-party logistics providers as it tries to rebuild its business.

A consortium of Hapag-Lloyd, United Arab Shipping Company, Hyundai Merchant Marine and China Shipping Container Lines will launch a container service between Southeast Asia and Australia, starting in

The chief executive of Overseas Shipholding Group, the largest U.S.-flag tanker operator, said U.S.

Japan posted a trade surplus with the rest of the world for the 14th consecutive month in May thanks to strong exports, especially to the other Asian economies, according to preliminary figures releas

Cheng Lie Navigation, the Taiwanese carrier that is majority-owned by CMA CGM, is launching three new services and upgrading a service linking China to Southeast Asia to meet growing demand on the int

With the exception of transportation equipment, orders and shipments for manufactured durable goods increased 0.9 percent in May, signaling a growing recovery for core manufacturing.