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American Railcar Industries saw fourth-quarter revenue rise 25 percent to $203 million from a year earlier, as production was boosted by an Alabama factory expansion, but net income fell 3.7 percent t

London -- Hapag-Lloyd on March 5 named Peter Ganz as chief financial officer two weeks before the world’s fifth largest ocean carrier is due to be sold by its German parent TUI.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission will hold a public meeting March 12 to discuss how the agency will administer and enforce the section of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act that applies

Australia and South Korea will begin formal negotiations for a bilateral free-trade agreement in May, Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told the press March 5.

London – Fraport AG, the owner of Frankfurt airport, forecast earnings and revenues will fall in 2009 as the global recession cuts traffic at Europe’s biggest air cargo hub.

The Federal Maritime Administration has one of the shortest agendas in recent months for its next regular meeting.

London – Smit Internationale, the world’s biggest marine services provider, broke its own net earnings record in 2008 as a strong second half performance by its heavy lift shipping unit ou

North American LTL carrier Estes Express Lines expanded its Mexico service with the launch of a third-party logistics subsidiary, Estes Logística.

The sinking freight market may push manufacturer Greenbrier to pare back a big long-term supply contract with one of its key lease-fleet customers, General Electric Railcar Services.

LONDON -- Maersk Line, the world’s biggest ocean container carrier, booked a modest increase in profits in 2008 as cost cuts, improved operating performance and higher freight rates in the first

Maersk Line announced plans to implement a rate increase for cargo moving on its services from Europe, the Middle East and Asia to Oceania, as part of a rate restoration program.

The Port of Oakland awarded a 50-year concession and lease agreement to Ports America Outer Harbor to upgrade and operate five container berths in the port's outer harbor area.

CMA CGM (America) selected Denise Steele as an Account Executive for the South Atlantic region. Steele worked for APL for six years previously.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit heard arguments March 4 from the American Trucking Associations, the U.S.

The United Transportation Union is asking President Obama to elevate Francis P. Mulvey to be chairman of the Surface Transportation Board that regulates railroads, Washington sources said.

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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is adding a level of security to the Transportation Worker Identification Credential.

President Obama has chosen Craig Fugate, director of Florida’s emergency response agency, to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the White House said.

For the six week period ending Feb. 6, NOL’s container shipping volume dropped 35 percent due to a drastic decline in demand.

Trans Global Logistics named Bill Ip director of freight and logistics, China North region.

Austin, Texas-based express carrier Lone Star Overnight now has overnight parcel delivery to every ZIP code in Texas.

LONDON — Global Ship Lease, the London-based container ship charter owner established by French carrier CMA CGM, reported a fourth quarter net loss of $43.7 million March 4 after a $50.7 million

Buffeted by weak demand from Taiwanese-owned factories in mainland China, Taiwan suffered a 7.9 percent decline in its trade surplus with China in 2008.

Japanese private equity fund Vana World will invest approximately $1.9 billion in a free trade zone under development in South Korea's western port city of Incheon, the company said Wednesday.

World Trade Organization director-general Pascal Lamy said Wednesday in Canberra, Australia that trade ministers could meet by summer to complete a Doha Round final agreement, once the administration

Less iron ore production due to the recession is likely to delay the start of the 2009-10 shipping season on the Great Lakes.

The Industrial Egret, the second in a series of four new ships to enter the Intermarine fleet in the next twelve months, was delivered last month to Intermarine in Portugal.

BNSF Railway says the economic development work it did last year, to build up businesses that could feed into its rail network, helped generate about $4 billion worth of investments and over 4,000 new

London – Poland will begin the enforced auction next week of two shipyards that played a pivotal role in the collapse of communism in order to recoup $3 billion of illegal state subsidies.

Chipolbrok on February 27 launched the multi-purpose vessel Adam Asnyk, the first of six 30,000 dead-weight-ton newbuildings, from the Dalian shipyard in China.

LONDON — French carrier CMA CGM cut capacity in the Asia-East Coast South America service it operates with China Shipping, Maruba and K-Line by 35 percent.

Maersk Line on March 4 announced changes to its SAMBA service linking the East Coast of South America and the Middle East, effective this month.

President Obama began pushing out funds this week in several ways that can help the transportation sector, by sending stimulus money down the pipeline to states and starting to tackle consumer finance

Southeastern Freightways, a major player in regional less-than-truckload (LTL) hauling, is responding to shipper demand for more full truckload transportation as customers look to save money in the we

The sharp edge of the recession chopped the legs off the furniture market in December and January, cutting deeply into shipments of household furniture.

The National Association of Manufacturers is backing the Obama administration’s Trade Policy Agenda, released March 2 by

Container volumes at most Chinese ports will grow at single digits rates this year, and may actually decline at some.

Traffic from short line railroads is running dramatically behind last year’s pace in the RMI RailConnect index.

Union Pacific Railroad is asking federal regulators to help it fend off certain new long-haul chlorine shipment requests, in cases where receiving customers could get the supplies delivered by pipelin

Kansas City Southern named Mary Stadler senior vice president and chief accounting officer. Stadler will report to KCS executive vice president and chief financial officer Michael W. Upchurch.