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Before last October, the U.S. had exported $8 billion in goods to China in a single month only once: December 2009, at the beginning of the economic and trade recovery. In October, the U.S.

Patrick R. Donahoe Jan. 14 took the oath of office as the 73rd Postmaster General of the United States. He vowed to return the U.S.

Truckload carrier Transport America is expanding by acquiring Southern Cal Transport, a Birmingham, Ala.-based trucking company.

Rising gasoline prices and high unemployment caused a widely watched index of U.S. consumer confidence to weaken in January.

Canadian transportation company Vitran is expanding into the Southeastern U.S. by purchasing the $70 million less-than-truckload division of Milan Express.

Growth in personal computer shipments worldwide slowed down sharply in the fourth quarter, expanding 3.1 percent over the year before, under growing competition from other media devices, according to

Flexi-Van Leasing will add Jacksonville to the list of South Atlantic depots where the company offers its FlexiDay program for daily chassis rentals to motor carriers.

The Frankfurt Airport in 2010 racked up a record tonnage of cargo, which increased 21.5 percent to 2,231,348 metric tons, its parent FRA said Friday.

India’s Port of Chennai, rattled by serious congestion since mid-November, faces more delays as a three-day local festival holiday begins Friday.

Output at U.S. factories, mines and utilities rose a faster-than-expected 0.8 percent in December, the sharpest increase in five months, the Federal Reserve said.

U.S. retail sales rose for the sixth consecutive month in December, capping a year in which sales grew at the fastest rate since 1999, the Commerce Department said.

NATO's anti-piracy force found no crewmembers or pirates onboard a Danish breakbulk ship that Somali pirates hijacked and then abandoned, officials said Friday.

Australian airline Qantas will pay $26.5 million to a group of U.S. importers to settle a lawsuit over its role in an air freight pricing cartel.

Members of four union groups at the two major Canadian railways voted to strike if negotiations fail by deadlines late this month and early next month.

Hamburg Sud North America on Thursday announced the realignment of its top management team. Three executives assumed new responsibilities.

The presidential commission that investigated the Deepwater Horizon disaster said the Jones Act did not prevent

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corporation acquired Optimodal, the largest intermodal chemical sector service provider in the United States.

Traffic surged at major North American railroads in the first full week of January, compared with the same point in 2010, as bulk carload shipments jumped 16.1 percent and intermodal moves increased 7

India plans to spend an estimated $110 billion to develop ports and shipbuilding by 2020 as it aims to expand its overall ocean cargo-handling capacity to 3.2 billion tons and implement major reforms

The members of the Caribbean Shipowners Association announced Thursday a series of general rate increases over

The Port of Los Angeles capped a year of record containerized exports with a 5 percent increase in December over December 2009.

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to post a year-to-year gain of 8 percent in January and to rise modestly during the first half of the year, the National Re

ProLogis plans $800 million to $1 billion in new development this year in Asia, Europe and North America, the industrial real estate giant said Tuesday.

Con-way Freight says it expects the company's operating profit to fall by nearly a third in the fourth quarter because soaring healthcare costs are offsetting improvements in shipping demand.

The new chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, signaling domestic transport goals similar to those of the Obama administration, says he wants to advance several initiatives

The U.S. manufacturing outlook remains healthy despite indications of slowing expansion, a quarterly survey of 62 manufacturers said.

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Port Klang, Malaysia's largest container port, expects double-digit growth in cargo this year, the Port Klang Authority said.

Crowley Maritime named Tony Otero vice president of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba liner services.

The global container industry is headed for long-term growth, thanks to increasing population and incomes in developing countries and a tendency for world trade to expand faster than GDP, the head of

The Port of Charleston will move to a single-gate operating system on Jan. 18 to streamline operations, the South Carolina State Ports Authority said Wednesday.

Borders will close its Nashville, Tenn., distribution center and scale back its supply chain as the bookstore chain struggles with declining sales in a market buffeted by digital book sales and e-comm

The nation’s economy steadily improved in December, and business contacts expressed a modestly optimistic outlook for 2011 in a survey released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve.

Cargo tonnage at Memphis International Airport grew 2.3 percent in November as slowing volume for FedEx Express helped give the airport its lightest month for cargo in nine months.

A commission representing South Carolina's interests in navigational issues on the Savannah River aired its objections to plans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deepen the Savannah harbor.

The Transportation Department's Freight Transportation Services Index, which measures monthly change in ton-miles, fell 0.3 percent in November from October to 98.5, the lowest level of any November s

Canadian Pacific Railway will spend between $964 million to $1.065 billion this year for capital projects, saying the money will help it meet rising demand for rail freight service while cutting costs

The Federal Maritime Commission is ordering three global vessel alliances to provide more timely reports on changes in vessel capacity in the U.S. trades.

Hapag-Lloyd said Wednesday it will apply emergency congestion surcharges on all containerized cargo moving through India’s Port of Chennai.

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited broke previous tonnage records in 2010 even as growth slowed in the third and fourth quarters, the company reported Wednesday.