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Union Pacific Railroad tentatively plans to increase its capital spending on network repairs and growth projects 25 percent in 2011 to $3.25 billion, company officials said.

India and the United States plan to create a $10 billion infrastructure debt fund as a public-private partnership to expedite investments in India's infrastructure, according to India's commerce minis

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TNT, the Dutch postal and express group, Nov. 8 rebuffed an ultimatum it dubbed irresponsible by labor unions for cuts in planned layoffs.

Southeastern short-haul carrier Brown Trucking acquired West Brothers' Companies, expanding its capacity and adding new lines of business.

BNSF Railway's net income in the third quarter rose 44.7 percent from a year earlier to $706 million, as revenue rose 22.1 percent to $4.391 billion.

DP World filed an updated prospectus for a $5 billion bond program to fund expansion of the Dubai-based company's global container terminal network.

The NYK Altair, the newest in NYK Line's series of vessels with a reduced environmental footprint, served Hamburg over the weekend on its maiden voyage.

Worldwide shipments of personal computers grew 7.6 percent in the third quarter over last year, falling short of earlier projections thanks in part to lackluster growth in the United States, according

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will increase the surcharges for bunker fuel and currency on cargo between Europe and South Asia as of Dec. 1.

United Arab Shipping Company will launch a container service between the Indian subcontinent and North Europe in late November.

DHL Express is ready to grow again after a radical restructuring prompted by its exit from the U.S. domestic market, the head of the Deutsche Post subsidiary said.

The European Union is expected to fine several major airlines hundreds of millions of dollars this week for fixing international freight rates.

APL’s average revenue per container declined 2.8 percent in October from the month before, reaching its lowest point since June, as demand leveled off at the end of the peak ocean container shipping s

The labor concessions approved by 62 percent of YRC Teamsters employees eliminate fears of an imminent shutdown at the nation’s largest trucking operator, both at its nationwide less-than-truckl

The Obama administration isn’t letting a little politics-altering event like midterm elections get in the way of its passenger rail program.

In the battle to win discretionary cargo destined for the Midwest, the competition among East and West Coast ports can be cutthroat.

It’s a cautious time for railroads. The economy, senior executives say, is too weak to plan for much growth in the year ahead.

Which carriers won last year’s less-than-truckload price war? Based on the financial results across the industry, it was those who refused to fight.

Winning a third round of concessions from its Teamsters employees gave YRC Worldwide its best shot yet at survival, extending until 2015 wage and benefit cuts it won last year and sharply reducing its

When Gill Hicks was general manager of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority in the 1990s, the key to securing approval and funding for what was then the nation’s costliest freight infra

With the election over and Republicans set to take control of the House of Representatives with a big majority in January, policy experts expect Congress to do very little for months to sort out trans

Shippers aren’t counting on the new, larger vessels coming into container ship fleets to change the balance of capacity and demand anytime soon.

The battle between the Teamsters union and the American Trucking Associations will drag out into next year, but the rules of engagement could change significantly.

The gap between new and used truck prices is widening, and that may further restrict truck capacity in coming years as carriers replace aging equipment.

Container ship lines enter the slack winter season hoping to stick with the formula that’s begun to reverse last year’s $15 billion in losses.

A pound of pentaerythritol tetranitrate — PETN — isn’t enough to bring down a target the size of the World Trade Center, but it’s plenty to blow a plane out of the sky.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services will sell its minority stake in the Tin Can Island Container Terminal at the Port of Lagos to a new joint venture between China Merchants Holdings and the China-Africa

BNSF Railway promoted Greg Fox to executive vice president for operations, reporting to Carl Ice, whose promotion to the newly created pos

Zim American Integrated Shipping Services said it will upgrade its weekly fixed-day SAX service this month from the U.S. Gulf to the East Coast of South America.

Container volume at six major North European ports will increase 10.8 percent this year over 2009 despite a decline in the fourth quarter, according to the new Global Port Tracker: North Europe Trade

This year's unexpectedly strong peak season for intermodal traffic suggests that shippers are getting ready for lots of packages under the Christmas tree, according to the Intermodal Association of No

Containerized imports are slowing at the 10 major U.S.

What is shaping up to be the nation's first of the targeted shared-use rail corridors for higher-speed passenger and freight operations is moving into a new phase in Illinois.

President Obama tied U.S.

The JOC Week in Review for November 5 gives you the highlights of top news stories from this week, and also a preview of the Nov. 8 edition of the Journal of Commerce.

In 2011, capacity will be king.

The total volume of loaded containers moving through the Port of New York and New Jersey dropped 7.9 percent in September from August, making it the second month in a row of volume declines.

The European Union Nov. 5 gave its security experts a month to draw up tighter air cargo security measures in the wake of two foiled bomb plots on U.S.-bound flights.

The long reorganization of long-haul less-than-truckload carrier YRC is still a work in progress, as the company looks to consolidate by shedding 50 terminals.