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Total container volume at the port of Hamburg in the first nine months of the year fell 27.8 percent from a year ago to 5.3 million 20-foot equivalent units, driving the port into third place among Eu

The average retail price for a gallon of diesel fuel slipped 1.1 cents during the past week to $2.79, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Output from the nation’s manufacturing, mining and utility industries increased only slightly in October after a three-month run of modest recovery.

Carrier cutbacks are playing havoc with the supply chains of retailers. "Changes in sailing schedules are killing us," said Martin Bernstein, transportation excellence director at J.C.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority’s board of directors on Tuesday elected board-member Bill Stern to a two-year term as chairman, beginning in January.

Truckers moving hazardous materials between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, will have to take a long detour beginning Nov. 23.

China Shipping Container Lines and United Arab Shipping entered slot-swap arrangements in the Asia-Middle East trades, starting at the end of this month.

Japanese export ship orders sank for the 13th consecutive month in October on a year-on-year basis, tumbling 37.3 percent to 358,300 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Exporte

Freight rates in the trans-Pacific will go up in 2010 even though supply-demand economics will most likely not be favorable for ocean carriers, a senior carrier executive said Monday.

Trucking company A. Duie Pyle is expanding its warehousing operations, opening a 243,000-square-foot warehouse in Westfield, Mass.

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The freight transportation industry will see a recovery next year, but it will be painfully slow and will generate only modest increases in freight rates, according to Wall Street analysts.

Pennsylvania’s governor joined with Philadelphia’s mayor and the chairman, president and CEO of eastern-U.S.

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Fatigue “is one of the most insidious issues in the transportation industry,” and more must be done to fight it, said Deborah A.P.

The Indamex service, a vessel-sharing agreement between Hapag-Lloyd, NYK Line and OOCL that connects the Indian sub-continent and Eastern Mediterranean with the U.S.

Investor Warren Buffett said his Berkshire Hathaway firm has moved quickly to shed its holdings in railroads other than BNSF Railway, which it plans to buy out for $26 billion.

Volvo Group will sell its half interest in a Chinese truck manufacturer six years after joining the partnership.

UPS, the world’s largest package delivery company, expects to carry 400 million packages worldwide during the holiday season between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year.

FedEx Freight, the less-than-truckload division of FedEx, agreed to a partnership with Vision Industries to test a tractor powered by the hydrogen/electric hybrid Tyrano drive train.

The American Association of Exporters and Importers is complaining that layers of bureaucracy in Customs and Border Protection’s Office of International Trade are causing importers unnecessary d

Deep discounting slashed less-than-truckload rates in the third quarter as carriers tried to knock the nation’s largest LTL trucker, YRC Worldwide, out of business. No one delivered that kn

Truck buyers put the pedal to the metal in October, sending Class 8 truck sales zooming 104 percent from September and 117 percent over October 2008.

Having redrawn its business model over the years, J.B. Hunt Transport Services now appears intent on redrawing the nation’s intermodal map.

With the economy struggling out of the recession, retailers are implementing innovative supply chain strategies, embracing the latest technologies and going “green” to cut costs and entice

Logistics and distribution real estate providers have had plenty of reasons to feel pessimistic lately.

Global forwarders are struggling to pass on to their customers the higher ocean and air cargo rates they have paid shipping lines and airlines since late summer.

Eight months after completing one of the largest logistics deals of the year, France’s Geodis Group isn’t letting the worst recession in decades interfere with plans to expand in the Unite

Whatever the outcome of the rail reform bill being drafted in the Senate, it is unlikely to strip railroads of their limited antitrust immunity, according to a key Republican senator.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will hold webinars on its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 initiative Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, at 3:30 p.m. EST.

During her Senate confirmation hearing, then-nominee Anne S. Ferro heard an earful about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s record enforcing truck safety rules.

The port of Amsterdam risks disappearing from Europe's ocean container map, as its sole box terminal is about to lose its last major liner shipping service.

Cap-and-trade is aimed at limiting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions at the company level.

The impending arrival of a nationwide cap-and-trade program for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions might be the best new idea since the invention of the Internet.

Intermodal marketing companies, middleman firms that arrange either all-highway or combined rail-truck shipments for clients such as factories or retail stores, used trains for a greater share of thei

APL is telling customers the company plans to reopen 2009-2010 trans-Pacific contracts to ask for higher rates for services to the U.S., a move allowed under most contracts expiring next May once ship

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Retail sales in October surpassed the previous month by 1.4 percent and pulled the comparison for the three-months prior to the peak season into positive territory.

If freight carriers needed another reminder of just how slight their market power is in the face of weak demand and plentiful capacity, the reaction of shippers to the announcement that Maersk Line wi

Despite all the talk that weak intermodal volumes this year meant there was not really a normal “peak,” the major industry group that tracks shipments says traffic actually rose this fall