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Rather than wringing their hands over slumping sales and mounting inventories, a number of retail importers are moving to wring every extra penny out of their supply chain costs.

A number of short-sea shipping advocates believe an exemption to the Harbor Maintenance Tax would go a long way toward achieving parity in costs with truck or rail transport.

A controversial provision of the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks provision hit a legal roadblock, but that actually may speed up the introduction of low-emission trucks at the LA-Long Beach harbor.

Air Transport Services Group, still coping with the loss of major business from DHL, lost a major contract with All Nippon Airways this month and will drop four aircraft from the network it operates i

Hamburg Süd will overhaul its Trident Service between Europe, Australia and New Zealand starting in May to cut network costs in the face of changing market conditions.

The Florida Department of Transportation put off until the week of March 30 a decision on how to proceed with the stalled Port of Miami tunnel project.

Columbia Coastal Transport said it will resume its weekly container barge service March 29 from Portland, Maine, to the Port of New York and New Jersey .

Transportation labor applauded President Obama’s choice of Randy Babbitt, former chief of the Air Line Pilots Association, to be the next Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Global terminal operator PSA International announced lower yields, coupled with higher operational costs and lower divestment gains, adversely impacted net profit for fiscal 2008 ended Dec. 31.

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Old Dominion Freight Line doubled its capacity in South Bend, Ind. with its relocation to a 55-door less-than-truckload terminal five miles north of its current facility.

NYK Logistics (Americas) named James Armstrong to the position of senior vice president and general manager of the company's Warehouse Division.

Mid-States Express, a major player in the Midwestern regional less-than-truckload market, was forced to shut down yesterday after their financing was cut off, according to a source at one of the carri

Maersk Line plans to implement a new round of rate increases for the trade moving from the United States and Canada to the Mediterranean.

The American Association of Exporters and Importers is looking for a sharper pencil in the federal regulatory process.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted a permit to Port Freeport in Texas to widen the offshore entrance and jetty channels to the Freeport harbor.

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A key rail customers’ lobby group is urging Congress to sharply expand the size of the Surface Transportation Board, to give the agency the muscle to regulate freight railroads more forcefully a

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The Coast Guard is taking the first step in defining how facilities should use electronic readers for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential.

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation signed an untied loan agreement totaling up to $357 million to finance South Africa's project to expand the Port of Durban.

Karen J. Rae takes office March 30 as deputy administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, the first appointee by President Obama to move into the agency.

The owner of a Norwegian tanker hijacked off Somalia's coast says there has been no recent word from the ship.

Maersk Logistics said it is teaming up with Frankfurt, Germany-based investment advisor First Climate in a partnership that offers a portfolio of environmental services to Maersk Logistics clients.

Maersk Line announced its Singapore-based subsidiary, MCC Transport, is implementing a rate restoration on intra-Asia services.

The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development is slashing its 2009 forecast to show economies in the 30-nation bloc will shrink a combined 4.2 percent, General Secretary Angel Gurria anno

Small trucking companies are calling on the Obama Administration to suspend plans to establish another cross-border trucking program with Mexico until Mexico meets U.S.

Yang Ming Line took delivery of the new 8,200-TEU YM Uniform and the 4,250-TEU YM Eternity, at a ceremony at Kaohsiung Shipyard of CSBC Corp., on March 24.

A key index of short line railroad traffic hit its worst percentage drop of 2009, falling 27.88 percent in the week ending March 21.

President Obama formally tendered the nominations of Joseph C. Szabo as administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, and Linda A. Puchala to serve on the National Mediation Board.

Following a steep slump in cargo traffic, Air France-KLM said it will post an operating loss of around $272 million in the fiscal year to end in March just over a month after it said it expected to en

Standard&Poor's Ratings Services last week placed CMA CGM on its CreditWatch list “with negative implications.” It placed a long-term 'BB+' corporate credit rating and 'BB-' senior uns

The Alabama State Port Authority issued a request for expression of interest from terminal operators and developers in investing in the development of the intermodal terminal on the 74-acre Garrows Be

The Environmental Protection Agency has not met its objectives in ridding ports of polluted air, according to the agency’s inspector general.

February international freight volume on the world’s airlines was 22.1 percent below year-ago levels, the International Air Transport Association reported March 26.

The Indianapolis-based regional Indiana Rail Road wants the Surface Transportation Board quickly to approve its plan to build a 5.2-mile link to a large new coal mine.

Hutchison Whampoa’s ports and port services division, the world’s largest terminal operator, grew overall for full-year 2008 despite the sharp decline in global trade during the fourth qua

OD Global and Hanjin Shipping are partnering in a less-than container load service from China to the United States to speed international transit times.