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The seven largest freight railroads added 612 net workers to their U.S. operations from mid-May to mid-June, after making a small cut in May.

Rail freight shippers waiting for the flood-closed Kansas City Southern lines to reopen in northern Mexico got some welcome news as KCS said it could resume service this weekend over a key bridge and

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Rail equipment lessor GATX took delivery of a low-emission “genset” switcher locomotive from Wabtec’s MotivePower unit, as the popular yard engines continue to spread through the rai

Employers at the Port of Montreal locked out the 850 members of the longshore union Monday morning, bringing cargo handling at terminals to a standstill.

Michael Ward, chairman, president and CEO of CSX, has plenty of reason to sound cheerful after reporting a 36 percent jump in net profit, to $414 million, for the second quarter.

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Railroads serving the U.S.-Mexico border region are telling customers to expect two more weeks of shipment detours from the hurricane and flood disruptions to rail service through Laredo, Texas, and N

European Union regulators cleared Geodis, the French transport and logistics provider, to take sole control of Giraud, a leading French forwarder active across Europe.

Americans need to act quickly to begin a 10 year effort to improve and build new transportation infrastructure, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Thursday.

North American railcar leasing fleets, shippers and railroads pulled 3,064 cars out of storage during June but still had 23.7 percent of their freight hauling equipment sitting idle.

Freight shipments measured in ton-miles fell 0.4 percent in May after two consecutive monthly increases, the Department of Transportation reported.

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Deutsche Bahn said its recently launched rail container service between Duisburg, Germany, and Moscow has proved a success with shippers.

Major eastern-U.S. railroad CSX posted a $414 million profit in the second quarter. That was up 36 percent from the 2009 period, while its $2.663 billion in revenue was up 22 percent.

Rail service between the U.S. and Mexico is resuming after closures because of flood damage caused by Hurricane Alex.

Rail shippers faced with growing ancillary and penalty charges levied by carriers received some relief in Canada from the federal government, which now requires that their complaints to the Canadian T

Truck traffic between the U.S. and Mexico this week skirted flood waters from the Rio Grande with little or no disruption, federal agencies reported.

Intermodal container volume for North American railroads reached its highest level in nearly three years in the week ending July 3 as overall intermodal loads soared 36.6 percent over the holiday-shor

Maher Terminals is taking an unspecified stake in a long-planned container terminal Melford International Terminal hopes to build in Nova Scotia.

Shipper complaint cases against railroads are piling up at the Surface Transportation Board, despite the latter’s efforts to head them off through mediation.

A large part of North America’s railcar surplus is literally melting away.

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Publicly traded airlines, railroads, trucking companies and ocean carriers based in North America are showing improved results despite expectations for a sluggish U.S.

Short line RailAmerica will buy Atlas Railroad Construction for $24 million in a purchase aimed at giving the freight railroad a greater stake in projected investment in railroad infrastructure, the c

U.S. railroads will reap the benefits of the economic recovery more quickly than truckers, Moody’s Investors Service said in a report.

Kansas City Southern Railway said David L. Starling will move up to CEO effective Aug. 1 while longtime Chairman and CEO Michael R. Haverty takes the new position of executive chairman.

M.D. "Mike" Stolzman has been promoted to president of Pacific Harbor Line, the railroad that performs switching services at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Mark A. Yeager has a message for intermodal shippers trying to plan out their year: Capacity is tight and will only get tighter leading up to autumn’s peak season.

Intermodal traffic at major North American railroads continued to grow into mid-June, setting a new peak for the recovery and rising 5 percent from four weeks earlier.

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Canadian Pacific Railway signed new productivity and performance agreements with the two intermodal terminals at the big container port of Port Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, in deals the partners

Norfolk Southern Railway’s long-awaited project to carve a double-stack intermodal train corridor through the Appalachian Mountains just got a bit longer, as the company got approval from Ohio t

The UK's new government said it will sell off state-owned rail, aviation and postal assets as part of a deficit reduction program.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expects to quickly nail down some accords with Class I freight railroads, to spur intercity passenger rail development and begin using some of the billions in stimu

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In moves that reflect the improvement Kansas City Southern has been making in its finances, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its rating on long-term KCS debt to BB from B and took the rai

The Port of Amsterdam said the Betuweroute rail connection was completed this week, giving the port a dedicated cargo rail track towards Germany and into Europe.

Five days after a 28-car derailment, CSX is prepared to reopen a rail line in Porter County, Ind., according to local news reports.

The top seven railroads in the U.S. added just 218 jobs from mid-April to mid-May, the smallest increase since the Class I carriers began adding jobs in February.