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Crowley Maritime promoted David Nickless to vice president of finance and planning for Crowley's shipping and logistics business line.

A new U.S.-Mexico cross-border trucking program could be in place within four to six months, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Monday.

India’s exports jumped 36.4 percent in December to $22.5 billion, the highest year-over-year growth rate in 33 months, according to provisional trade figures released by the Commerce Ministry.

DP World opened its new container terminal in Port Qasim near Karachi in Pakistan on Wednesday.

All dockworkers and a large number of port staff in Le Havre joined a national strike Wednesday shutting down shipping terminals at France's largest container port.

In today's slow-growth environment, customers expect their transportation service providers to help them attain a competitive advantage, and that involves developing innovative solutions based on best

TRAC Intermodal extended its web-based TRAC Connect program to the South Atlantic.

The Port of New York and New Jersey will close all its marine terminals on Wednesday as the port braces for a winter storm expected to drop up to a foot of snow on the region.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J. Donohue on Tuesday called for the abolition of all tariffs on goods moving between the U.S.

The Surface Transportation Board will hold a May 3 public hearing to start the first review in over a decade of regulations that some shippers say allow major railroads to hold many freight customers

Investment in transportation is a key part of rebuilding the U.S. economic foundation, and the U.S.

Cargo traffic at Hong Kong International Airport grew 7.1 percent in November over the same month the year before amid signs that capacity was growing far ahead of demand.

Freight railroads, shippers and railcar leasing firms across North America pulled 1,539 freight cars out of storage in December, as they prepped more equipment for cargo service in the months ahead.

Wholesalers’ inventories dropped 0.2 percent in November, the first month-to-month drop in nearly a year, while sales rose for the fifth consecutive month, the Commerce Department said in a report tha

World Courier opened a logistics service office in Guangzhou, the third wholly foreign-owned office in China for the cold-chain logistics specialist.

Drewry Shipping Consultants is forecasting average ocean freight rates on major east-west trade lanes will decline 7 percent this year as large ocean carriers once again gear up for a fight for market

The number of trucking operations tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped 7.5 percent from 2007 through early 2010, a sign of significant consolidation among motor carriers over the course o

The Department of Transportation's efforts to lock in remaining funds from the 2009 economic stimulus package have it closing in on the main target -- obligating all $48.1 billion that was allocated i

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Dan Stamper, president of the Detroit International Bridge Co., was released late Monday afternoon after spending a few hours in the Wayne County Jail in Detroit.

Crowley Maritime is expanding its reach into the energy and oil market with its acquisition of Jarvis International Freight, a Houston-based freight forwarder.

Joe Cutrona, who led the association representing small parcel shippers for two tumultuous decades of change in the U.S. transportation world, died on Christmas Day at his home in Naples, Fla.

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Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., who chairs the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, intends to start a process in February that can help his panel craft a new multi-year surface transportation bill.

Freight traffic at Los Angeles International Airport fell 2.6 percent in November, the first decline the major trans-Pacific gateway has reported in 15 months.

Retail diesel prices slowed their six-week climb after the first of the year as crude oil futures declined.

New Jersey indicted on charges of loan-sharking and money laundering two men accused last April of participating with a longshore union official in a scheme to extort money from dockworkers at the Por

Dan Stamper, president of the company that owns the Ambassador Bridge, was jailed Monday on contempt charges by a Wayne County (Detroit) judge.

Cargo traffic at the Air France-KLM airline group grew 2.1 percent in December, the slowest year-over-year growth rate since July, the European carrier said Monday.

Chilean carrier CSAV is adding the Port of Savannah to the port rotation of its all-water service from Asia to the U.S. East Coast, the Georgia Ports Authority said Monday.

The new chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said he has a clear understanding from House leaders that changes to future Highway Trust Fund legislation will not use trust

For Jonathan Gold, 2010 was a year for lessons. For Donna Lemm, 2011 is about hope. And for George Macko, the trucking concerns of today will be with us into 2012.

Container throughput handled by Singapore-based port operator PSA International increased 14.4 percent to 65.12 million 20-foot equivalent units at its port projects around the world in 2010.

Some ocean carriers are suspending delivery of hazardous materials at Thailand ports because of a new Thai regulation requiring advance payment of insurance.

Mediterranean Shipping Company announced a general rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe and the Mediterranean, starting Feb. 1.

Shanghai overtook Singapore as the world's busiest container port in 2010, helped by continuing growth in Chinese trade and the business generated by the World Expo it hosted last year, the city gover

UBM Global Trade President John Day announced that Liam Power, publisher of The Journal of Commerce since 2008, is leaving the position to take another post in the company.

The best news for many breakbulk and project operators looking toward 2011 is that plenty of new capacity is entering the market.

Slow U.S. economic expansion will keep North American third-party logistics revenue growth in the single digits through 2011.

Trans-Atlantic trade is supposed to be relatively insulated from isolated economic woes in the United States or Europe, but that truism could be tested in 2011.