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Generations of shipbuilders and engineers have spent years trying to get ocean vessels to travel faster. Now, container lines are applying new tricks to slow the ships down.

Top railroad executives are throwing down the gauntlet, serving notice to Congress and freight shippers they will push back hard against efforts to tighten rail regulations.

Placing an immediate ban on text messaging by truck drivers last week, the Department of Transportation sent a message easy to read even without a cell phone.

The 12 ocean containers Crowley Maritime managed to get to shore at Port-au-Prince’s crippled port late last month provided only a small share of the enormous relief supplies needed in Haiti, bu

The Fed’s latest “Beige Book” survey, conducted by the economics staff of its 12 district reserve banks, said five regional reports show freight transportation was either “up s

Democratic Party officials are scrambling to bolster the economy and jump-start job creation following a series of losses in midterm elections.

As newcomers and established industry players vie for roles in a global market with surging demand for pharmaceuticals, airlines, forwarders and container manufacturers are trumpeting a wide arr

It used to be that simply picking up and delivering freight was enough to keep every “motor carrier of property” in the land fat and happy.

After a 14 percent decline in intermodal traffic last year, the major western railroads are planning for increased container traffic in 2010.

Like other North American ports, Canada’s two big East Coast ports suffered declining container throughput in 2009, but the downturn at Montreal and Halifax hardly stretched to all trade t

Grocery chains seeking greater control over inbound inventory and manufacturers pursuing more sustainable shipping are making business hotter for refrigerated freight haulers.

Manufacturers and retailers looking to cut shipping costs by slowing their supply chains are finding unlikely new supporters of the strategy: the ocean container lines that carry the overwhelmin

Frozen Food Express Industries, parent of refrigerated trucker FFE Transportation, Dallas, promoted two top executives as it looks for a thaw in the recession that would return it to profitabili

The global reefer container fleet shrank in 2009. Carriers scrapped obsolete units, and not one carrier built a new refrigerated container, according to Bill Duggan of Maersk Line.

China’s Hainan Airlines will convert six 737-300 passenger planes into freighters in a move to increase regional and domestic air cargo capacity in the region.

With new clean-air initiatives quieting environmental concerns, the Port of Long Beach is embarking on a $3 billion capital construction program aimed at protecting the port’s share of shipping

Trade and manufacturing groups are offering strong support to President Obama’s call to double exports in five years to create 2 million jobs, but they also want to see substantive action t

Crowley Maritime Corp. discharged 202 20-foot containers of relief supplies across a beach in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday under its contract with the U.S. Transportation Command.

SINGAPORE — All the worried talk about the project market lagging the overall economy and thus facing a tough 2010 as other sectors ramp up for recovery may turn out to be just that -- worry.

ABF Freight System is holding a "dialogue" with the Teamsters union over pension liabilities and labor costs, the company's top executive said yesterday.

U.S. imports of steel saw their worst year since 1991 in 2009, falling 49.3 percent from the year before, said the American Institute for International Steel.

New orders for manufactured durable goods in December increased $0.5 billion or 0.3 percent to $167.9 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Thursday.

Wal-Mart Stores created a group of global merchandising centers and signed sourcing agreements with Hong Kong buying agent Li & Fung as part of a broad plan to cut supply chain costs by consolidat

SINGAPORE -- Africa, the least-developed continent in the world, is attracting increased attention from the world's biggest manufacturing countries looking for natural resources and an outlet for expo

Cargo theft rose 12 percent last year and averaged a record 72 incidents per month, according to FreightWatch International, which provides logistics security services and data.

NYK Line will be implementing a general rate increase in its trans-Atlantic services from the U.S.

Horizon Lines in its fiscal fourth quarter ended Dec. 20 swung to a profit of $1.3 million from a loss of $20.3 million in the same quarter of fiscal 2008.

Air France-KLM signed a letter of intent to sell two new 777 freighters to FedEx as it downsizes its all-cargo operation.

Japanese ocean carrier “K” Line said its net losses in the last three months of 2009 nearly doubled to $203.3 million from $115.2 million a year earlier as weak volume and rates caused rev

Slow economic growth and uncertainty about oil prices will hobble U.S. transportation companies recovering from the recession, Standard & Poor’s says.

Citing a pre-Chinese New Year "cargo rush," CMA CGM said it will impose peak season surcharges on services from Asia to North and West Africa.

The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in six years in the fourth quarter, expanding 5.7 percent as companies scaled back their attempts to cut inventories, the U.S.

Seaboard Marine said most of the 30 containers that fell overboard from a ship 30 miles off Key West, Fla., this week were empty and the rest contained non-hazardous materials such as textiles, the Co

Deutsche Post DHL, the German postal, express and logistics group, faces greater competition in its domestic mail market after a court threw out a minimum wage law that its rivals claim unfairly prote

MOL on Friday more than doubled its profit forecast for its current fiscal year, saying “strong demand” in dry bulk shipping and rising container shipping prices are improving the company&

INTTRA, the carrier-owned portal for ocean-freight bookings, is getting a fresh capital infusion that will enable it to develop new electronic commerce services for new markets.

Wal-Mart Stores will charge suppliers penalties for late deliveries starting Feb. 1, according to a letter to suppliers.

Landstar System is shutting the trailer door on 2009, after reporting a 36.5 percent drop in profit and a 24 percent slide in sales.

Italy’s all-cargo carrier, Cargoitalia, has joined the long list of airlines that have stepped in to help the giant relief airlift for Haiti.

Washington, D.C. – The Institute of International Container Lessors’ (IICL) President, Steven Blust, announces that Joseph Kwok, Chief Executive Officer of Seacastle Inc.