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FreightCar America is suspending work at a railcar plant in Roanoke, Va., local news services say, in a move that affects 210 workers.

FedEx Express, its business hit hard by the weak economy, will drop 14 aircraft from its freighter fleet by the end of next month, the company said.

London -- Trucking between the UK and France risks total shutdown starting April 16 as French fishermen threatened to extend their blockade of ports to the cross channel tunnel.

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports hit its lowest level in seven years in February as the number of containers dropped below 1 million for the first time in half a

American industrial output fell to its lowest level in a decade in March as capacity utilization hit a historic low.

The Port of Seattle Commission unanimously approved a package of incentives for terminal operators that will provide $7 million in rent breaks and defer some payments in return for steps they take to

Despite the actions most container lines have taken to cut their vessel overcapacity, they are not doing enough to make a difference says Drewry Shipping Consultants in a new report.

By the middle of February, employment levels at the U.S. operations of the seven Class I railroads had been set back by four years.

The new Bahrain Gateway container terminal at Khalifa Bin Salman Port marked its opening with its first call by a container ship, the 2,500-TEU APL Dalian.

Frankfurt airport's freight traffic in March fell 21.2 percent from a year ago, down from a 25.4 percent decline in February in the first indication that cargo volume is stabilizing at Europe's top fr

With three new appointments, President Obama signaled his intent to fill out his emerging international trade team the same week he heads to Mexico amid a sensitive trade dispute.

Japanese export ship orders sank at their fastest pace in 16 years in fiscal 2008, which ended on March 31, as the global economic crisis that erupted last autumn dampened ship owners' demand for new

Cosco Container Lines launched its Coscon Fuzhou-Southwest America Service, effective this month.

Pirates off the coast of Somalia tried but failed to hijack another U.S. cargo ship as they stepped up attacks in the lawless waters of the Indian Ocean.

Supply chain managers in North America, Europe and Asia by a wide margin worry that increasing trade protectionism could push the global recession into a global depression, according to a survey by BD

The Surface Transportation Board will air out some of the most controversial issues between railroads and their customers, in a wide-ranging public hearing on competition issues May 18 and 19.

Rail giant CSX said its profit fell 30 percent to $246 million in the first three months of 2009, as revenue fell 17 percent to $2.25 billion.

The decline in container traffic at the Port of Los Angeles slowed sharply in March, with inbound loaded boxes down 6.2 percent from the same month a year ago.

Yusen Air & Sea Service (India) established a new office at Bangalore airport to improve the quality of its local transportation services.

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In the week after being downgraded by two ratings agencies, Chilean boxship owner CSAV went to Hamburg, Germany to negotiate a capital infusion to weather the growing global economic gloom.

Imports of wind energy turbines and other components continued to grow in 2008, but that may change as investors and manufacturers build more plants in the U.S.

Twelve sections of a bridge to be delivered to and assembled in New York City were loaded at the Port of Tampa last week. Tampa Steel Erecting Co.

Since the mid-70’s, Saudi Arabia’s industrial city of Jubail has grown from a coastal village to the site of a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical complex.

Producer Prices Fell in March, especially for energy goods, according to a report April 14 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.

Supply chain management company CEVA Logistics joined Cargo 2000 with the help of Descartes Systems Group.

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Idled ocean container capacity fell for the first time in six months as carriers re-activated larger vessels amid a seasonal increase in cargo volume, but the jobless figures likely will surge again l

The Federal Maritime Commission has announced its meeting schedule through the summer, and cancelled its April 22 meeting.

The Mexican trucking trade group Canacar filed a notice of arbitration against the United States, alleging that cancellation of the cross-border trucking pilot program violated the North American Free

Canadian National Railway reported 50 instances when its trains or those of a short line it bought blocked road crossings in the Chicago area, in the first two months since it took over those tracks e

Transits of the Panama Canal slipped 1.4 percent in the Canal’s second fiscal quarter. A total of 3,914 ships passed through the Canal from January through March.

Retail sales for March fell 9.4 percent compared with a year ago, according to a report April 14 from the U.S. Census Bureau, as the recession took a big bite out of consumer spending.

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The docks that make up port cargo terminals, where millions of steel containers full of freight are transferred from ships to the shore or the other way around, are normally a death-defying place to b

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday unanimously approved an exhaustive environmental study, paving the way for the port’s first major capital improvement project in more than

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday unanimously approved an exhaustive environmental study, paving the way for the port’s first major capital improvement project in more than

The average retail price of diesel fuel went up one-tenth of a cent last week to $2.229 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Maersk Line announced plans to adjust the port rotation of its Oceania Americas Service (OC1), effective in May.