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Severe spring storms are hampering freight transportation in the Midwest, as several major railroads closed tracks from as far south as Texas to as far north as Canada.

INTTRA, an electronic booking portal for the ocean freight industry, formed a new advisory board with its customers to set standards for electronic payments.

Container traffic in Rotterdam grew 10 percent in the first quarter of 2011 from a year ago, driven mainly by strong growth in trade with Asia and a recovery in intra-European shipments.

A widely watched gauge of U.S. consumer confidence edged up last month and continues to suggest a slowly improving economy, despite a continued soft real estate market and high unemployment rates.

Container ship owner-lessor Seaspan took delivery of the 8,500-TEU Cosco Vietnam from South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries.

UPS’s profit soared 66 percent in the first quarter to $885 million, and the parcel giant issued a glowing outlook for the full year on Tuesday, raising its earnings projections 24 percent to record a

APM Terminals is considering investing in a new Baltic Sea port in the Kaliningrad region of Russia, according to Russian government press material.

The hard-fought reform of French ports takes effect next week amid optimism the nation’s container hubs can win back traffic lost to foreign rivals during years of industrial unrest.

Emirates Shipping Line will join Hyundai Merchant Marine and STX Pan Ocean in the NIS intra-Asia service, which links Korea, China, Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia.

Record deliveries of container ships in the next few months likely will add further down pressure on ocean freight rates and reverse the rally in vessel charter rates, according to Alphaliner.

Sea Star Line and Crowley Maritime will proceed with their parts of a settlement in which they and Horizon Lines agreed to pay shippers a total of $52.25 million to settle allegations of price-fixing

Retail diesel prices slipped seven-tenths of a cent to an average of $4.098 per gallon last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

TBB Global Logistics said it will offer container freight swap agreements through an agreement with ICAP Logistics, a broker for the freight-futures contracts.

Forward Air more than doubled its profit in the first quarter, raising net income 132.4 percent year-over-year to $7.9 million.

A federal judge in Atlanta on April 15 issued a preliminary injunction to curtail operations by Savannah-based freight forwarder Indigo Logistics.

The world’s largest roll-on, roll-off vessel, the Tonsberg, called at Georgia’s Port of Brunswick Monday with a load of heavy-lift project cargo.

Milwaukee-based shipper Johnson Controls said it expects to take a $500 million hit on revenue during its April-June quarter from automotive manufacturing disruptions in Japan and at Japanese original

ABF Freight Systems increased revenue and tonnage by double digits in the first quarter, but fuel prices and weak pricing contributed to a $22.6 million loss.

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Trucking giant YRC Worldwide said it is making "significant progress" toward completing key steps in its restructuring plan before an April 29 deadline.

United Arab Shipping Company announced a general rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe and the Mediterranean, the second GRI this year.

Ron Widdows, a prominent leader of the global container industry, will retire as group president and chief executive officer of Neptune Orient Lines, NOL Group announced Monday.

A five-day-old trucker strike at the Port of Shanghai eased significantly over the weekend following intervention by the mayor and a series of concessions offered to drivers, including a rollback of f

The Maritime Administration on Friday gave final approval to a Title XI loan guarantee for a $240 million, five-vessel export deal.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reminding travelers that a toy that’s popular on Easter in the rest of the world is banned in the U.S., and subject to seizure at the border.

Labor activists in Northern California will hold a rally Monday in front of the Pacific Maritime Association headquarters in San Francisco to protest a court action earlier this month that was initiat

Trucking giant Knight Transportation's net profit fell 19.5 percent in the first quarter from the same period a year ago to $9.9 million as rising fuel and other operating costs&nb

Italy's Justice Ministry took over the operation of six TNT Global Express subcontractors that have been infiltrated by a mafia organization.

Japan will conduct radiation checks on ships and containers leaving three main international ports in and near Tokyo beginning April 28, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism ann

Werner Enterprises saw its net profit surge 50.3 percent in the first quarter over the same quarter a year ago to $16.3 million as freight demand picked up momentum in the Midwest amid tight capacity

Truckload carrier USA Truck lost $2.7 million in the first quarter despite a 17.4 percent surge in overall revenue to $124 million as tougher operating conditions and higher fuel costs hit the company

Railcar lessor GATX sees a tightening market for freight cars, as utilization rises in its equipment fleet and lease renewal terms lengthen.

The container volume handled by the Port of Charleston increased 5.7 percent in March from a year earlier even though volume growth slowed from the 7 percent pace recorded in February.

North America’s small and regional railroads are enjoying a surge in traffic so far in 2011, with overall volume up 9 percent and some important cargoes growing by double digits.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority detected no radiation above prescribed standards on five vessels that left Japan after March 14

Chinese truck drivers are striking this week in Shanghai due to rising fuel costs and increased fees charged by private warehouse operators.

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TUI, co-owner of Hapag-Lloyd, asked Chinese group HNA and Oman's Onyx Investments to make binding bids for a stake in the shipping group by late May, three people close to the process told Reuters.

Kansas City Southern, the smallest of the North American Class I railroads, posted a $63 million profit in the first quarter, up 91 percent from the 2010 period.