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As Chief Financial Officer Sheila Taylor prepares to leave YRC Worldwide, pressure mounts on the company’s board to find a successor to William D. Zollars.

North America’s rail freight network, after shaking off a series of powerful winter storms in January, is back on the fast track to growth. But a new threat is emerging: surging fuel costs.

The trucking industry is hiring again, but at a pace and level far below its pre-recession plateau, placing a limit on the expansion of truck capacity.

Sitting on the sidelines at The Journal of Commerce’s Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference, two shippers said their solution to the troubling questions over services and rates sounded simple but wa

Potholes carry a heavy price, and John Q. Public is ponying up a good share to pay for their repair.

Alberto Aleman Zubieta had no illusions about what he was facing when he presided over the Panama Canal’s transition from U.S. jurisdiction to Panamanian control at the end of 1999.

Canada’s two largest airports base their infrastructure development strategy on the theory that efficient, cargo-friendly airports will lead the country to trade prosperity, and Asia will be the

The momentum many U.S. third-party logistics providers and freight brokers reported at the end of 2010 appears to be extending into 2011. C.H. Robinson, the largest domestic 3PL in the U.S.

It took years for ocean carriers to follow through on their desire to get out of the chassis business. Now it may take the rest of the industry years to find a new model that works.

The massive earthquake that struck Japan on Friday closed all ports and airports there, and coastal regions across the entire Pacific Ocean were blanketed with tsunami warnings and bracing for the imp

The U.S.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is making available $2.4 billion in passenger rail grant money rejected by Florida Gov. Rick Scott so that other states can submit applications for new projects.

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced a strategy to plug one of the biggest breaches in maritime security: terrorist attacks by small boats.

European Union trustbusters raided the offices of transport firms in the Baltic region amid suspicions they are involved in a cartel in the rail freight sector.

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U.S. retail and food sales posted a month-to-month gain of 1 percent in February, driven by strong auto sales, the Commerce Department said.

Horizon Lines said its lenders agreed to cancel a default triggered by the company's guilty plea to price-fixing in the Puerto Rico trade and to relax loan covenants.

OOCL and Yang Ming plan to expand the port coverage of their joint China-Pakistan Express service and launch a new service on the trade lane.

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Lufthansa Cargo increased freight traffic 25.2 percent in February from a year ago.

The replacement of aging tractors and trailers, deferred for more than two years during the recession, is ramping up in 2011, according to ACT Research.

Japan's shipping industry and services will be hit across the board by the massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that slammed the country Friday, according to an initial assessment of the impac

President Obama said the U.S.

Container volumes moving through the Panama Canal will certainly increase when the canal is enlarged in 2014, but that does not necessarily mean West Coast ports will lose market share simply because

As the Panama Canal expansion project draws closer to its 2014 completion date and the global economy recovers, ports along the Gulf of Mexico are working hard to attract direct all-water services fro

The Department of Transportation is giving the public more time to comment on a proposal that would require electronic onboard recorders in most heavy trucks.

The Transportation Security Administration is satisfied with its security screening program for goods shipped on domestic passenger airline flights, but TSA said Wednesday challenges remain in meeting

A key measure of truckload demand jumped 18.9 percent week over week in early March, signaling tightening capacity as the nation and the economy warm up.

The Justice Department said it allowed Horizon Lines to pay a back-loaded $45 million fine for price fixing in the Puerto Rico trade because a stiffer penalty would have threatened the carrier's viabi

Ann Begeman, President Obama's choice to join the Surface Transportation Board, told senators at her nomination hearing she will work toward making sure shippers as well as railroads can approach the

The three carrier members of the Grand Alliance plan to overhaul their trans-Pacific services to the U.S. West Coast in advance of the peak season.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took the Obama administration's "bold vision" for a new transportation bill to the Senate this week, but lawmakers were not ready to buy in.

Refrigerated trucking company Brown Line is expanding in the Pacific Northwest by purchasing Port Side Trucking, a refrigerated motor carrier in Kent, Wash.

India’s exports jumped nearly 50 percent year-over-year to $23.6 billion in February, buoyed by increased demand from major markets such as North America, Asia and Africa.

Higher prices pushed the U.S. trade deficit in January to its highest level in six months despite a 2.7 percent increase in exports.

The port of Rotterdam said container traffic with Russia surged 40 percent in 2010 from the previous year, sharply narrowing the gap with Hamburg, the market leader in Baltic feeder traffic.

Restructuring and refinancing at Quality Distribution reduced a $180.5 million net loss in 2009 to $7.4 million in 2010, while revenue climbed to $686.6 million.

Somali pirates released a general cargo vessel and its crew after almost 11 months in captivity, according to the Indian Shipping Ministry.

All Nippon Airways said its international cargo volume rose for the 17th consecutive month in January, increasing 15.8 percent to 40,733 tons.

Clarksons, the world's largest ship broker, reported 2010 profit grew 44 percent from a year ago as shipping markets benefited from a "slow but emerging recovery" in global trade.