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Earlier this year, the Netherlands announced it was not going to carry out its part of a 2005 agreement to dredge to 43 feet some sections of the Westerschelde, the ship channel that passes from the N

Rail equipment supplier Trinity Industries told a state agency it will close a railcar manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, for an undetermined period of at least six months, and furlough 158 wor

Galveston-Texas pilots, adding a new twist to their battle for a rate increase this year, surprised regional regulators Monday by withdrawing their application in its entirety.

Credit ratings firm Standard & Poor’s removed both YRC Worldwide and Con-way from its CreditWatch list this month, but maintained a “negative outlook” for the trucking companies

Diesel prices climbed for the fifth consecutive week, adding 1.6 cents to reach an average of $2.668 per gallon, the highest retail price this year, according to the U.S.

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the top tier or Class I North American railroads, unveiled a second set of management changes following the departure Aug. 7 of Scott E.

GAC appointed Wally Holm as shipping marketing manager for North America and the Caribbean.

Plans to build a cold storage warehouse for frozen poultry exports along the Mississippi River in New Orleans threaten the city's French Quarter as well as other historic neighborhoods, according to a

A class-action lawsuit filed against UPS last week claims the delivery giant has been withholding as much as $100 million in overtime wages from account managers throughout the United States.

Cathay Pacific Airways and subsidiary Dragonair carried 133,233 tonnes of cargo and mail in July, down 6.7 percent compared to the same month last year, but a sharp cut in capacity helped boost the ca

Trucking bankruptcies plunged nearly 62 percent in the second quarter, falling to 370 from a peak of 970 a year ago, according to investment banking firm Avondale Partners.

AMB Property and Panalpina signed a lease agreement for 59,000 square feet in a development immediately adjacent to Madrid's Barajas International Airport.

ProLogis expanded its lease of distribution space to SpeedFC.

APL Logistics on Aug. 24 opened a distribution center within Dubai Logistics City’s international free trade zone.

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded the Port of Baltimore $3.5 million in stimulus funds to revamp or replace cargo equipment, under a program aimed at curbing diesel emissions.

CMA CGM pushed the ocean container line industry’s price hikes into new Australasia lanes Monday, announcing sharp rate increases for the region’s trade to and from Europe.

Maersk Line on Aug. 24 warned rival ocean container carriers it is prepared to fight a rate war to defend its market share.

After a two-year hiatus, vessels carrying military equipment are expected to call the Port of Philadelphia’s Packer Avenue multi-purpose terminal beginning in September.

The Federal Railroad Administration is gearing up for big changes in the nation’s freight rail system, including direct government spending on track projects, as it implements President Obama’s plan t

Pricing information for container traffic from the West Coast is not publicly available, but industry traffic and revenue figures suggest railroad efficiency efforts have helped rail carriers maintain

Delays with Customs and Border Protection’s Automated Commercial Environment are having a cascade effect on information technology at 45 other federal agencies that will connect with ACE through the I

The executive directors of the West Coast’s six major container ports in early August broke an informal code of silence on an issue that has concerned them since at least 2007.

The case of two Los Angeles-area transportation con men had all the elements of a movie thriller except a Hollywood ending — at least for the scammers.

The man running the nation’s rail safety and financing agency is a fifth-generation rail worker, onetime mayor of a Chicago suburb, longtime union official and someone who brings to his job a personal

Nicholas Lakes and Viacheslav Berkovich used home computers, multiple cell phones, dozens of aliases and a web of false companies to cheat hundreds of victims in the trucking industry out of millions

Chris Connor keeps close track of his customers’ moods because that’s the only way he can tell whether he’s going to be able to fill his car carriers, and he is starting to see their moods change.

Truckload carriers are beginning to report month-to-month increases in demand as the economy shows signs of improvement.

Latin American exporters have long believed they could gain longer shelf life for products by bypassing Miami and flying goods closer to markets in the Midwest.

Maersk Line’s drive to establish a national chassis pool is starting to gain traction, even among critics.

Regional less-than-truckload carrier New England Motor Freight will reach across the border and deep into Canada through a partnership with Manitoulin Transport, a Toronto-based LTL carrier with 66 Ca

Goh Teik Poh has been traveling throughout Southeast Asia during the last six weeks, visiting customers and forwarders in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Bangladesh.

A state report alleging mismanagement, corruption and other abuses at the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor has rekindled debate over whether the 56-year-old agency is still needed.

A “deep and DARK RECESSION” may have slowed Manitoulin Transport, but it hasn’t stopped the Canadian company’s expansion, President and CEO Gord Smith says.

U.S. reefer exports to Latin America total only about 10 percent of the volume of reefer exports to Asia. And only one reefer container goes southbound from the U.S.

It’s a simple fact of life: People get sick. So when economies take ill worldwide, the one area consumers won’t skimp on is their own health.

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Three Beluga vessels, Fraternity, Foresight and Family are now in transit or in port along Russia’s Arctic-facing northern shore, the fabled Northeast Passage.