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MISC Berhad will open its own shipping agency in India as a joint venture with its existing third party agent, Crescent Shipping Agency India Ltd.

Hanjin Shipping introduced a new electronic booking system on Monday that it has been developing for the last two years in cooperation with Cyberlogitec and IBM GBS.

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More than a year after taking office, the Obama administration is still looking for a chief of transportation security.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to unsnarl a tangle that leaves carriers and cargo owners questioning who should be liable for damages on cargoes shipped from a foreign port.

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For at least one trade-related industry, these are boom times.

If you’ve ever received a package from UPS, you’re all too familiar with those tiny handheld devices the drivers wield to scan bar codes and get your signature.

Container terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach have taken their lumps over the years because of congestion problems, but they have also been innovators in reducing gate delays through the Pier

The Obama administration is forming a national freight transportation policy that can be boiled down to one concept: Get more trucks off the roads.

The marine highways concept has a number of selling points.

Support for broad-based pension reform is growing in Washington as businesses and labor unions seek a federal fix for troubled union and corporate retirement plans.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., unveiled legislation on March 22 that would reform multi-employer pension plans.

Container ship charter rates are rebounding from all-time lows as ocean carriers lease more vessels to cope with an unexpected rush of cargo on long-haul trade routes.

Compliance, cost and control are three reasons customs clearance may soon be the purview of do-it-yourselfers.

Customers should find the billing and invoicing process a lot more efficient — and accurate — at the world’s largest ocean container carrier when Maersk Line completes an overhaul of

Specialized truckload carrier Prime raised its minimum pay for owner-operators last month to 95 cents a mile, as growing freight traffic sparks higher demand for drivers.

President Obama and members of his cabinet visited several manufacturers and freight shippers Friday to highlight jobs-producing federal investments amid signs the economic recovery is taking hold.

The select group of trucking companies with more than a billion dollars in annual revenue shrank last year, as four companies fell below the revenue threshold.

Malaysia Airlines placed an order for two A330-200 freighters in addition to a previously announced contract for 15 A330-300 passenger aircraft.

Real estate developer CenterPoint Properties signed a build-to-suit lease with a chemical manufacturer attracted by rail service provided by Union Pacific.

Canadian National Railway sold a section of track to a government-owned agency responsible for the Toronto area transportation network.

London - A court barred a walkout by nearly 6,000 signal workers in what would have been the UK's first national rail strike in 16 years.

The federal government is sending out $338.9 million to 18 states and American Samoa to help them repair bridges and roads damaged by a number of storms in recent years.

More than 5,000 trucking companies will be required to install electronic on-board recorders in their trucks, the Department of Transportation said Friday.

March brought increases in employment across U.S. surface transportation industries, with mild job gains in trucking, rail and waterborne commerce breaking a long downtrend during the recession.

Canadian Pacific Railway reached a new one-year agreement with Teck Coal, a major shipper of high-heat coal needed for steelmaking furnaces, to haul the fuel from Teck’s mines in southeastern Br

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The U.S. Maritime Administration agreed to remove 52 rotting ships from the reserve fleet moored at Suisun Bay near San Francisco.

The two largest trucking businesses increased their market share last year despite falling revenue, holding onto business better than many of their smaller competitors.

Traffic jumped at the largest North American railroads as March ended, powered by shipments of finished vehicles and equipment along with materials at earlier stages from metallic ores to metal produc

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will increase rates on exports from all the U.S. ports it serves as of May 1.

Flooding after torrential rains left parts of Interstate 95 in Rhode Island under more than three feet of water Wednesday and Thursday.

Economic activity for manufacturers surged in March at the fastest pace since July 2004, according to a survey of supply executives.

U.S. naval forces said Friday that one of their frigates captured five pirates after exchanging fire with them, sinking their skiff, and confiscating a mother ship.

MOL, the only one of the three big Japanese shipping lines to project a profit in its 2009 fiscal year ended March 31, is setting a goal of generating revenue of $1.066 billion in fiscal 2010, ending