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The White House said Monday it was considering its options as to whether it should open the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve as unrest in the Middle East sent prices for crude oil and refined prod

Forth Ports received a conditional takeover offer from its largest shareholder that values the UK's only listed port operator at $1.2 billion.

A U.S. Naval vessel attached to the Combined Maritime Forces freed a Japanese-owned oil tanker that had reported it was under attack by pirates.

OOCL is planning to place an order "soon" for a number of big new container ships that will probably be in the ranges of ships capable of carrying 13,000 20-foot equivalent units.

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India plans to acquire 110 vessels at a total estimated cost of $6 billion over the next 10 years, Indian Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan said Monday in New Delhi.

The National Retail Federation is projecting an 11 percent increase in March for containerized shipments over March 2010.

Mainfreight, New Zealand's biggest trucking company, is buying Wim Bosman Group, a large Dutch transport and logistics firm, in a $154 million deal that establishes a bridgehead in Europe.

YRC Worldwide Chief Financial Officer Sheila Taylor will leave the troubled trucking giant March 31 as it attempts to recruit new leadership and restructure its finances.

Ceva Logistics reported revenue and profit increased 25 percent in 2010 from the previous year and expressed confidence both would continue growing in 2011.

Container volume at Neptune Orient Lines, parent of APL, declined 18.5 percent in the first six weeks of 2011 compared to the last period of 2010 but the ocean carrier saw average revenue per box grow

The Federal Railroad Administration, in a legal settlement with the Association of American Railroads, agreed to issue new regulations that could scale back the amount of Class I rail track that must

International Container Terminal Services won a 30-year concession to manage, operate and develop a container terminal in Rijeka, Croatia's biggest port.

The trans-Pacific container shipping market showed the strongest growth among major trade lanes during a year of recovery in 2010, a major reason overall U.S.

Nine years after first making loans, the federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing program is stumbling.

Canada’s two Pacific Coast ports have an aggressive growth strategy focused on two markets, but neither of those markets happen to be in Canada.

Regulators at the Surface Transportation Board insist they are not about to make sudden moves to dramatically toughen federal oversight.

Amid the many troubling reports for Australian exporters during the heavy storms that caused devastating flooding, three dozen deaths in three months and paralyzed the nation’s coal industry was

Carriers and shippers face myriad challenges in Africa, including port congestion, infrastructure and bureaucracy, but privatization and public-private partnerships have improved the working of many p

The future of Canada’s Class I railroads is tied inextricably to trade with the Asia-Pacific region, and the freight moving to and from the U.S.

The Obama administration’s proposed budget for 2012 includes an ambitious plan to collapse a diverse menu of Department of Transportation highway programs into five broad categories and a nation

Kansas City Southern, operator of the smallest of North America’s Class I railroads, is redesigning a federal loan request with an eye to the Obama administration’s focus on making rail lo

Like a black hole, intra-Asian oceanborne trade is known to be massive, and it attracts shipping lines just as absolute gravity attracts all within its reach.

Petroleum provides only a little more than 6 percent of the carload traffic for Canada’s two Class I railroads, but the carriers say energy may offer a bright future.

A guilty plea to a felony antitrust charge. A $45 million criminal fine. A management shakeup including the CEO’s retirement. To put it mildly, Feb.

Khalid Ali Aldawsari studied more than English and chemical engineering in his two years as a U.S. college student.

The cargo carriers typically travel in a convoy, a line of trucks and escort vehicles, figuring there’s strength in numbers.

During his first speech as the new chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. says he noticed a member of the audience who kept looking through the printed program.

The murder of four Americans last month on a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates was an especially ugly reminder of the risks to vessels operating anywhere near East Africa.

The debate over truck driver hours-of-service is bumping up against shipper docks, as some truckers and an influential member of Congress are calling for limits on the time shippers and receivers can

Growing carrier competition will pressure container freight rates between the U.S.

With container supply and demand out of whack, trans-Pacific shippers may face spot shortages of boxes during this year’s peak season for U.S. imports.

One way shippers and truckers can mitigate their risk to cargo theft in Mexico, security analysts say, is to develop strong relationships with key law enforcement officers and agencies.

Even as Florida was finally shedding $2.4 billion in federal grants for a high-speed passenger rail project the governor killed,

Mediterranean Shipping Co. notified its customers that it is increasing freight rates on eastbound trans-Atlantic cargo as of April 1.

Participation in the Customs-Trade Partnership grew at an average rate of 7.5 percent per year for the past three years, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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APM Terminals is converting more than 400 diesel driven rubber-tired gantry cranes across its global network of container terminals and inland depots to combined diesel-electric power to cut costs and

Contract cargo airline Air Transport Services Group saw its net profit grow 15.6 percent in 2010 over the year before to $39.9 million despite a steep decline in revenue from lost business with DHL.