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Italy's dock workers' unions suspended a nationwide port strike scheduled for Dec. 18 after lawmakers modified planned reforms of waterfront labor laws.

All major transportation industries reduced their employment levels in November, in line with a still-weak recovery in freight shipping; however, warehousing added jobs.

Dubai World's financial problems will not affect the construction timetable of Europe's biggest container terminal in which its subsidiary DP World is the largest investor, the port of Rotterdam said

Japan is providing financial support to shore up slumping vessel exports amid flagging demand from ship owners.

FedEx will raise list prices for its ground parcel service an average 4.9 percent in 2010, matching the rate increase announced by competitor UPS.

Cargo traffic at Continental Airlines jumped 16.5 percent in November, the strongest year-over-year growth yet in 2009 amid growing signs of stability in the freight market for U.S.

Big U.S. railroads reached a new milestone even as the Thanksgiving holiday trimmed their work week, with bulk carloads showing the smallest decline so far this year from 2008 levels.

If Congress produces a jobs bill after Thursday’s White House jobs summit, state officials have 9,500 reasons why transportation infrastructure should get a major piece of the action.

A lower Canadian income tax rate, realignment of management and cutting back the number of employees helped same-day delivery specialist Dynamex stay even with last year’s profit figures for its

Rail equipment builder GE Transportation signed up Brazilian railway operator America Latina Logistica as a new customer, with an order to deliver 10 new locomotives to ALL this year.

Online sales grew 5 percent on Cyber Monday, Nov. 30, compared with the Monday after Thanksgiving last year, said Web commerce analyst comScore.

Following President Obama’s call in August for a review of the export control system, members of the aerospace industry put together a list of their needs.

Canadian National Railway was ramping its operations back up Dec.

December 1, 2009. Austin, TX – FreightWatch International, a leading Global logistics security solutions provider, announces a change to its executive management structure.

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UTi Worlwide saw its net profit fall by half to $18 million in its fiscal third quarter, but the logistics operator said shipping demand improved during the period and air freight volume posted a gain

Frankfurt airport plans to raise airline fees by 12.5 percent over the next two years to help pay for expansion of Europe's biggest air cargo hub.

Congress must reconsider its mandate that the government scan all ocean containers coming into the United States, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee said Wednesday.

YRC Worldwide is "very confident" it will complete a debt-to-equity swap that would wipe more than $500 million in debt from its books in return for 95 percent of the trucking operator's com

The Teamsters union is stepping up a fight with two of the nation’s largest automakers, claiming a plan by Chrysler and General Motors to shift shipments of new cars to non-union carriers is cos

For the first time, the short line industry won endorsements from a majority of members in both houses of Congress for legislation to extend a track repairs tax credit.

OTTAWA --- Canadian National Railway and the Teamsters union representing 1,700 striking Canadian locomotive engineers reached a contract agreement today just as Parliament was preparing to force them

Supply chain technology provider Descartes Systems Group generated a 15 percent increase in service revenue to boost pre-tax income in the third quarter, but after-tax profit fell 57 percent.

The French government said Dec. 2 it is willing to help CMA CGM, but the troubled ocean container carrier must first sign a debt restructuring deal with its creditors.

The Department of Transportation’s infrastructure project spending under the stimulus law reached $6.3 billion through Nov. 20, up from $5.9 billion a week earlier.

Customs and Border Protection has made “limited progress” in implementing 100 percent scanning of U.S.-bound cargo containers, according to a report released Wednesday by the Government Ac

A Wall Street transportation analyst said market conditions are throwing serious doubt on whether YRC Worldwide’s proposed debt-for-equity exchange can win a vote by bondholders Dec.

DP World’s planned container hub on the river Thames near London is facing renewed uncertainty amid reports of financing problems for the Dubai firm’s flagship project.

President Obama plans to nominate attorney Michael A.

Israel Corp., the majority shareholder in Zim Integrated Shipping Services, said it has named Nir Gilad as chairman of the troubled shipping line, replacing Idan Ofer whose five-year term has ended.

South Korea’s largest container carrier, Hanjin Shipping, expects the recession-bound industry to recover by late next year, Chairwoman Choi Eun-Young said on Wednesday.

As part of its strategy of selling off non-core assets, A.P. Moller-Maersk agreed to sell its Rosti Technical Plastics Holding unit to privately owned Nordstjernan of Sweden for an undisclosed sum.

In a continuing drumbeat of rate increases on its global services, Evergreen Line on Wednesday announced that it will boost rates on all cargoes and commodities including reefer and special equipment

Groupe Eurotunnel, the operator of the Channel tunnel between the UK and France, has acquired the French operations of Veolia Cargo, the biggest private rail cargo company in Europe's second largest r

Italian port unions have called for a 24 hour nationwide strike on Dec. 18 in a dispute over planned reforms of waterfront labor laws.

With the White House preparing for a Dec.

Although ships are keeping their schedules at the Port of Halifax, N.S., the strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway is affecting railcar supply and some marine operations.

The Port of Prince Rupert on British Columbia’s remote northern coast, although tied to the U.S.

The Canadian Industrial Transportation Association warned that the strike by train engineers against Canadian National Railway could derail the economy, and urged members of Parliament to unite around

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