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The mayors of Norfolk and Portsmouth are opposing a proposal by Chicago developer Centerpoint to take over the port operations of the Virginia Port Authority on the grounds that the deal does not prov

French ocean carrier CMA CGM will take delivery on March 18 in South Korea of the world's first containership fitted with an oil recovery system designed to prevent marine pollution.

London -- Greece is halting the privatization of container operations at Thessaloniki, the country's second largest box hub.

Japanese export ship orders tumbled on a year-on-year basis for the fifth consecutive month in February as demand for new vessels flagged amid the deepening global economic slump.

Mexico will place tariffs on nearly 90 U.S. products after the United States abruptly canceled a program that allowed some trucks from Mexico to operate across the border.

Where some see a transportation landscape littered with empty trailers, shuttered carrier offices and parked trucks and ships, others see opportunities.

The price of an average gallon of diesel fuel fell another 2.8 cents last week to $2.017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Southeastern Freight Lines is replacing carrier partnerships in Alabama with its own direct service to speed delivery and reduce damage claims.

London -- Idled ocean container capacity hit a new high of 1.41 million TEUs, or 11.3 percent of the world fleet on March 16, with 484 ships lying at anchor as carriers continued to retrench amid decl

The European Shippers’ Council and the European Rail Freight Customers’ Platform today agreed to merge into a single organization.

Daimler AG is making changes at the top of its North American truck manufacturing unit — the largest supplier of heavy-duty trucks in the United States and Canada.

Underlying pre-tax profit at Forth Ports in 2008 grew 34 percent from the previous year.

Business is very slow for manufacturers in New York, according to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

Industrial production, a key measure of shipping demand, fell 1.4 percent in February, according to a report from the Federal Reserve.

The whole world should be committed to overcoming the economic downturn and tackling protectionism head on, said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on March 16.

London -- Net income for Clarksons, the world's biggest shipbroker and shipping services company, in 2008 fell nearly 30 percent from a year ago after the company settled a legal dispute with Russia's

South Korea and the European Union are about to announce the completion of the bilateral free trade agreement they have been negotiating since Mary 2007, the Yonhap news agency reported.

Freight tonnage will grow more than 26 percent and freight revenue by 68 percent by 2020, according to a study sponsored by the American Trucking Associations.

Dock foremen made it official, ratifying a tentative agreement reached three weeks ago that removes the threat of a strike that would have stopped container and other shipping at British Columbia port

United Arab Shipping will increase rates on several trade lanes, as part of a rate restoration program.

Maersk Line announced plans to upgrade its Philippine Feeder Service 1 (PHI-1), effective this month.

Nine companies have expressed interest in bidding for the planned deep-water container terminal project at India's Port of Chennai, as the deadline for submission of request for qualifications ended o

Tianjin Port Development Holdings will buy a $1.4 billion controlling stake in a Shanghai-listed affiliate as Tianjin city government reshuffles its harbor assets to help raise funds overseas.

President Obama named Francis P.

The South Korean government plans to provide temporary tax relief for shipping companies as part of a wide-ranging series of tax changes.

The economy and efforts to tighten transportation regulation are colliding together in Congress.

India tried to globalize its chaotic economy during the economic boom of the past decade, but the country’s intractable hurdles to improving international trade now look like a blessing in disgu

New England’s “New Economy” is bumping up against some of the same logistics and infrastructure challenges plaguing the economies of old.

First the good news: The infrastructure boom that turned China’s coastal regions into one major construction zone will spread inland, and help the country retain its position as one of the world

President Obama and Vice President Biden are highlighting the transportation sector as they begin pushing stimulus money into the economy.

Will the federal stimulus package have a profound effect on the U.S. steel industry?

Amid the deepening slump in the automobile market, car carriers are focusing more of their marketing efforts on oversize, non-automobile cargo to fill the empty space on their vessels’ decks.

Just five months after launching their clean-trucks program, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are poised to restructure the fee and subsidy elements that are at the core of the nation’s m

With their search for freight growing increasingly urgent, less-than-truckload carriers are looking past their traditional shippers for business from the rate-depressed truckload market.

The South American steel industry has not escaped the global economic crisis.

The economic recession spreading around the globe is hitting South America, cutting sharply into containerized shipments as well as exports of automobiles and breakbulk commodities such as steel and f

A review of the short-term global economic outlook by leading analysts suggests any attempt at optimism regarding today’s shipping industry would be little more than a Pollyanna daydream.

IN THE TWO YEARS SINCE Rep. James L.

After challenging Bush administration trucking hours-of-service rules several times, the Teamsters union and several safety advocacy groups are taking their fight to the more labor-friendly Obama admi

Vehicle production and exports in Latin America’s top three auto-making countries — Argentina, Brazil and Mexico — are plunging amid the global economic crisis as U.S.