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A construction industry group says backers of a new national transportation bill must provide “transformational reforms” to get a highway spending plan through an increasingly conservative Congress.

The U.S. Postal Service saved $5 million in 2010 by reducing energy, water, solid waste to landfills and petroleum fuel use.

The Port of Oakland announced three hires to advance its five-year strategic plan.

Swift Transportation raised its operating revenue 16.8 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $780.4 million as it increased volume and raised rates.

Pirates off the coast of Somalia captured a German multipurpose vessel with 12 men on board.

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index in January shifted upward to a level not seen since May 2010 as income expectations rose.

Canadian National Railway saw its fourth quarter operating income rise 18.5 percent from a year earlier to $774 million while revenue rose 12.5 percent to $2.1 billion.

Vietnam's Cai Mep International Terminal took delivery of the first two of six super post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes that will enable it to handle the largest container vessels.

DP World reported container traffic rose 14 percent in 2010 from the previous year to an all time high of almost 50 million 20-foot equivalent units as world trade recovered from the global economic r

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CSX Transportation’s net profit rose 42 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier to $430 million, with a revenue gain of 21 percent to $2.82 billion, the railroad announced Monday.

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The Jacksonville Port Authority is delaying for as long as two years construction of the new container terminal it will build in North Jacksonville for Hanjin Shipping.

Hamburg Sud North America, joining the push by ocean carrier to narrow equipment services, said Monday it will stop providing chassis to shippers moving containers with merchant's haulage through Phil

The six members of the Caribbean Shipowners Association will hike their bunker surcharge on containerized cargo as of Feb. 27.

The U.S. should look at the long-term economic benefits of transportation when making infrastructure investments, the two authors of a new Bipartisan Policy Center study said Friday.

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings will add two 747-400 freighters to its agreement with DHL Express, sharply raising capacity on trans-Pacific routes.

Container volumes across Europe ended the year on a high note with estimates for November 2010 reaching just over 3 million 20-foot equivalent units of containers and for 2011 growth in the high singl

The Jacksonville Port Authority Board and its CEO Paul Anderson on Monday announced the promotion of Roy Schleicher to the position of executive vice president of the public seaport authority.

An explosion that ripped through a baggage claim area at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on Monday killed at least 35 people,

Container shipowner Costamare completed financing for a $285 million contract to buy three vessels of 9,000 20-foot equivalent units capacity to be built in China.

Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Auto Workers union reached a tentative contract agreement early Jan. 24 that heads off a potential strike that was less than a day away.

The volume of containers moving through the Port of Savannah in calendar year 2010 increased almost 20 percent to a record 2,826,308 20-foot equivalent units, the Georgia Ports Authority said Monday.

Container ship charter rates are edging higher as ocean carriers compete for a limited volume of available tonnage to keep pace with strong cargo demand on key trade routes.

A.P. Moller-Maersk is targeting emerging markets as a growth area for its business in 2011.

Port operator DP World says its recent sale of much of its Australian businesses was a strategic move and is not a sign that the Dubai-based company needs to raise cash or refinance its debt.

When the Surface Transportation Board in December slapped Canadian National Railway with an unprecedented $250,000 fine over how it reported roadway blockages, it set off the first flare in what is sh

Canada came out of the gate last year with stronger economic growth than its huge neighbor to the south, so its ports benefited from trade volume that rebounded from a mostly dismal showing in 2009.

Cotton exporters feared the worst. The largest U.S. crop in years was hitting the market just as overseas buyers were bidding up prices and demanding rush delivery.

For railroads and shippers monitoring the Surface Transportation Board’s heavy slate this year, add this to your watch list: The board is likely to have a new look.

When supply chain logisticians explain why the Pacific Northwest is a key option in their four-corners strategy in North America, they sum up their argument in two words: intermodal rail.

Why should anyone worry about improving bridges between the U.S. and Canada? U.S. imports plummeted 33 percent between from 2008 to 2009, and U.S. exports slid 21 percent.

The 1998 Ocean Shipping Reform Act redefined the Federal Maritime Commission from a regulator of tariffs to one of the shipping industry.

Faced with the risk that the Obama administration could reject its effort to borrow $553 million from a little-used, low-cost federal rail credit program, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority

Canadian trucking operator Vitran is trying to redraw North America’s less-than-truckload map, and its own expansion strategy, by acquiring the LTL business of Milan Express.

Ocean carriers are losing their bet that they could keep freight rates high this winter during the post-holiday season without cutting capacity, and they could risk losing their antitrust immunity und

The gap dividing the shipping industry and environmental groups on the question of invasive species in ballast water is measured in orders of magnitude.

Trucking operators aren’t buying trucks to expand capacity; they’re buying trucking companies.

Sometime in the next few months, President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will unveil a broad, new vision for the border separating the world’s two largest trading partners, re

It’s generally accepted that the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences is a good thing — good for developing countries’ exports and good for U.S.