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The Department of Transportation paid out another $91 million in stimulus payments for construction projects in the week ending July 17, bringing its total disbursements to $774 million.

An ABX Air freighter taking off for New York from the Wilmington, Ohio, Air Park this morning, became the last aircraft operating from the airport that had once hosted the United States’ No.

BNSF Railway struck a different course than most freight companies amid the sharp traffic slump, actually increasing its profit 15.4 percent to $404 million from efficiencies in the second quarter.

China is apparently about to overtake Germany as the biggest export nation, the World Trade Organization's chief economist Patrick Low told Reuters Wednesday.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey authorized $28 million to help truckers finance the replacement of up to 636 of the oldest, most polluting trucks serving the port.

Despite the continued impact of the global recession on the United Arab Emirates, business in one of the small principalities is growing rapidly.

The Panama Canal Authority has begun to see “signs of recovery” in shipping traffic, including in the volume of auto units transported on car carriers, according to Alberto Aleman Zubieta,

The Port of Seattle had its best month of the year for international containerized cargo in June, although volume measured in loaded TEUs declined 10.9 percent compared to the same month last year.

The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners put off for a week a vote on a plan calling for more local control of harbor trucking regulation, but the board said its executive committee will consider an am

Canadian trucker and supply chain manager Vitran returned to profitability in the second quarter, led by its less-than-truckload and logistics businesses.

Canadian trucking and logistics operator TransForce earned a $16.6 million profit in the second quarter on revenue of $418.2 million.

North American short lines got some good news for a change in the latest reading of traffic counts, as an industry index showed the highest shipment counts in a month.

Freight traffic at major U.S.

Labor and business interests converged on Capitol Hill June 23 to urge Congress to pass a multi-year transportation bill despite opposition from the White House and Senate.

TNT on Thursday opened its expanded and re-modeled International and Domestic Operations Centre in Ho Chi Minh City.

GATX, a railcar and maritime asset leasing provider, earned a profit of $12.7 million on total gross income of $288.1 million in the second quarter. Gross income was down 24 percent.

Scania, the Swedish heavy truck manufacturer, swung to a second quarter net loss of $19.5 million from a year earlier net profit of $395 million on plunging sales and orders.

For the second quarter of 2009, ProLogis, a leading provider of distribution facilities, earned a profit of $238.9 million on revenue of $263.4 million.

Union Pacific Railroad posted a $468 million profit in the April-June quarter, a 12 percent fall in income that was milder than the plunge in traffic counts, as the railroad cut costs and boosted some

Cargo moving through the Port of Jacksonville dropped by 20 percent in June, compared with the same month a year ago.

Intermodal firm Hub Group’s 45 percent drop in net profit, to $8.3 million, still left it with “respectable returns even in this difficult freight environment” for all its lines of b

Malta Freeport Terminals, a major Mediterranean transshipment hub, took delivery of four ship-to-shore cranes that are among the largest container cranes in the world.

UPS saw its net profit fall 49 percent in the second quarter, to $445 million, and the company said it expected the economy that has cut deeply into shipping demand to remain just as weak in the comin

Lower revenue and bad debts pushed profit in the second quarter down 71 percent for Deutsche Post DHL. The world's biggest logistics company warned of tough market conditions ahead.

Steep declines in Japanese imports and exports slowed modestly in June, as the country’s trade surplus grew for the first time in 20 months.

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Wednesday that "Buy American" provisions in the U.S.

The Chambers of Commerce in the United States and Canada sharply criticized border crossing procedures in the two countries in a report released Tuesday.

Freight forwarder Lynden International brought in experienced account executives in New York and Chicago.

Ocean carrier ZIM will use Da Chan Bay Terminal One in Shenzhen, China for services covering the Asia-U.S.

GENCO Supply Chain Solutions signed a contract to run Dell’s North American remanufacturing operations.

At a time when normal rail freight traffic has plunged, Canadian National Railway is revving up its jet fuel hauls at Toronto’s Lester B. Pearson International Airport.

TNT is expanding services in the East Kalimantan with the operation of a 737-300 leased cargo freighter to fly the Singapore – Balikpapan route.

Global logistics provider Aramex joined Cargo 2000, taking advantage of the quality management system for the global air freight industry provided by the industry group within the International Air Tr

The U.S. Postal Service this week dedicated its first and New York City’s largest green roof atop the Morgan mail processing facility.

YRC Worldwide Chairman, President and CEO apologized not once but twice to Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa and union employees.

Old Dominion Freight Line earned a profit of $10.7 million in the second quarter, down 55 percent from a year ago, as tonnage declined and competitive pricing drove the operating ratio up.

The European Union on July 22 approved $357 million of government aid to Poland’s Gdansk shipyard, birthplace of the Solidarity trade union that played a key role in the collapse of communism.

Reputed mobster Michael Coppola was convicted of racketeering charges that included extortion of one of the International Longshoremen’s Association’s largest locals for more than 30 years

Truck and heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar earned a much smaller profit in the second quarter as sales dived and the company absorbed the cost of layoffs.