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Roadrunner Transportation Systems, a less-than-truckload and truckload carrier, acquired intermodal operator Morgan Southern for $20 million in cash.

Matson Line's operating profit dropped 14 percent to $11.6 million in the fourth quarter of last year from $13.9 million in the same 2009 quarter.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. announced a series of increases in freight rates and bunker surcharges, all of which are effective March 1.

YRC Worldwide broke into the black in the fourth quarter, reporting a $23 million net profit on $1.09 billion in revenue, and cut its full-year loss to $322 million.

The Port of Oakland received a $5 million grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District for a shore-side electric power project that will allow vessels at berth to operate on clean electrica

The railroad industry is asking the Surface Transportation Board to put off its scheduled May 3 hearing on whether regulators should order freight railroads to give their shippers greater access to co

U.S. Steel appointed Malisa J. Sommers managing director of transportation and president of Transtar, the company’s transportation subsidiary, effective Feb. 1.

ABF Freight System lost $7.4 million in the fourth quarter and $58.1 million in 2010 as it struggled to raise pricing, control costs and get back to profitability.

Chicago, the continent's biggest rail hub area and host to numerous intermodal terminals, was just starting on Feb.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday elected former New Jersey Attorney General David Samson as its 18th chairman.

The Montreal Port Authority and the two companies that operate the port's three key container terminals on Thursday announced two level-of-service agreements that are intended to produce supply chain

Air chartering company Chapman Freeborn said it expects increased demand for aircraft to evacuate foreign nationals from Egypt in the coming days.

The Suez Canal remained open to ship transits Thursday and shipping companies are re-opening offices despite escalat

Major U.S. retailers reported above-expected January sales, despite bad weather in much of the country and continuing concerns about high unemployment and a slow economic recovery.

A strike by unionized dockworkers Wednesday morning crippled operations in India’s Port of Cochin, a major gateway on the southeast coast.

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TUI and a group of German investors are moving toward an initial public offering for German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd in the second quarter, Reuters reported.

PD Ports started work on a project to eventually triple container capacity at Teesport, the UK's third largest port.

The Department of Transportation has sent the Surface Transportation Board a strong endorsement of intermodal service at major railroads, appearing to weigh in against a possible expansion of STB regu

The river Rhine in Germany re-opened to shipping in both directions for the first time since a motorized barge carrying 2,400 tons of sulfuric acid capsized three weeks ago in a narrow bend in Europe'

Nippon Express, Japan's largest freight forwarder, said its net profit plunged 21.9 percent in the first nine months of fiscal 2010, which started in April, from a year earlier to $123.2 million.

Landstar System boosted its net income 29.6 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $24.1 million, while its revenue rose 7.3 percent to $587.5 million.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is adding the Port of Seattle to its California Express service out of Europe with the arrival this week of the container ship MSC Vienna.

Transportation and logistics operator Con-way returned to the black in 2010, reporting a $4 million profit for the year compared with a $110.9 million loss in 2009.

Waterfront employers at Canada’s Pacific Coast ports and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada will resume contract negotiations next week as a potential strike deadline approac

Higher shipment volume helped boost C.H. Robinson's profit 17.6 percent in the fourth quarter to $103.2 million as revenue rose 15.8 percent to $2.3 billion.

China Shipping Container Lines took delivery of the first of eight new container ships whose capacities of 14,100 20-foot equivalent units are among the world’s largest.

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Trade between the United States and India jumped 31 percent year-over-year in the first 11 months of 2010, driven largely by increased imports from India.

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ABF Freight System's lawsuit challenging Teamster wage and pension concessions at YRC Worldwide is on a fast track toward a hearing in a federal appeals court.

UPS Freight didn't increase less-than-truckload shipment volume much in 2010, but its LTL revenue leaped 10.9 percent to $2 billion, a sign higher rates are sticking.

SEA ISLAND, Ga. - International companies report little disruption to their operations in Egypt as a result of the widespread protests against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.

Old Dominion Freight Line more than doubled its profit for the full year and fourth quarter, as a 19.9 percent increase in shipments boosted revenue in late 2010.

Japanese carrier MOL said 97 percent of the ships in the trans-Pacific services on which it participates arrived at ports within 24 hours of schedule during the last quarter of 2010.

The massive winter storm hitting a broad swath of the U.S. is delaying or stopping truck and train transport, as states shut icy highways or impose truck limits.

TNT, the Dutch express delivery and mail company, warned severe weather, strikes and integration costs will shrink its fourth quarter 2010 operating profit by around $62 million.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States is ready with financing and support for U.S.

Eurogate, Europe's biggest container terminal operator, boosted 2010 traffic 5.2 percent from a year ago, trailing double digit increases at rival terminals due to lower Hamburg volume and sluggish gr

French dockworkers, crane operators and other port workers will walk off the job Friday, Feb.