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The China Railway Corp., a spinoff of China’s former Ministry of Railways, has launched a new express cargo service to allow it to better compete in the logistics market, Global Times reports.

John Spencer, chairman of KiwiRail, along with the KiwiRail’s board, have announced that they will not renew KiwiRail Chief Executive Jim Quinn’s five-year contract when it expires in February 2014.

The European Commission’s Transport Council has plans to introduce a single European authority for placing railway vehicles in the European Union market and reinforce the central role of the European Railway Agency.

The latest round of general rate increases points to higher contractual pricing to come as LTL carriers seek to regain lost pricing levels.

Six trucking companies have sued Los Angeles and the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission to block the construction of a recently approved $500 million railyard near the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex.

A consortium of Japanese conglomerate Sojitz Corp. and domestic infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro has won a contract to develop the first phase of India’s long-planned rail freight corridor between Delhi and Mumbai.

A study by the nation’s Advisory Council on Rail Safety’s Working Group on Locomotive Voice and Video Recorders calls for the voluntary installation of voice and video recording devices on locomotives by railway companies.

FedEx Freight will raise its general tariff rates 4.5 percent on average July 1, following a route blazed by UPS Freight and ABF Freight System in May and June.

The Dow Chemical Co. and Union Pacific have released a report on the progress of their memorandum of cooperation that began in 2007 to improve rail safety and security.

Suddath Global Logistics, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based warehousing and logistics management company, has acquired PenserSC, a third-party logistics provider.

Con-way Freight has opened a new service center in Lumberton, N.C.

The Port of New York and New Jersey and Norfolk Southern are discussing the possibility of making an intermodal railyard in Bethlehem, Pa., an inland port, The Morning Call reports.

ACF Industries has reopened its rail car manufacturing plant in Milton, Pa., after it was closed in 2009 because of declining sales.

Employment in transportation and warehousing climbed 1.4 percent in May, as the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

An uneven, anemic economic recovery, spending cuts driven by the federal sequester and winter storms all threw up roadblocks for trucking operators in the first quarter, slowing the industry’s drive toward greater profitability.

Preliminary net orders for Class 8 trucks totaled 23,300 units in May, basically flat compared to the previous month, according to ACT Research.

Textainer Group Holdings and Trifleet Leasing have signed an agreement under which Textainer will invest in new intermodal tank carriers to be managed by Trifleet, marking Textainer’s entry into the tank container market.

North America’s Class 8 truck net orders in May reached 22,541 units, dropping 2 percent compared with the previous month, according to FTR Associates’ preliminary data.

Watco Companies has named Matt McKenzie as executive vice president and CFO.

Union Pacific Railroad has started work on a $20 million project that will improve the rail line between Chester and near Scott City, Mo.

PTA Holdings is in negotiations to purchase a U.S. Midwest trucker of ocean containers.

Westport Innovations has received an order for four liquefied natural gas tenders from Canadian National Railway.

A new intermodal terminal in Perron Industrial Park in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, is moving forward, following a groundbreaking ceremony.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has requested a rehearing on its challenge to the Department of Transportation’s cross-border trucking program between the U.S. and Mexico.

The Railway Association of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities have unveiled land use guidelines and a website intended to promote best practices and awareness about the issues...

Fesco’s first quarter profit dipped 3.8 percent from a year earlier as the Russian shipping, port, rail freight and logistics group sold almost half of its vessels.

A Department of Transportation study on the ramifications of allowing heavier and bigger trucks won’t likely end the decades-long debate over the issue, but it could provide Congress with a more definitive roadmap.

UPS Freight today announced a general rate increase of 5.9 percent for non-contractual shipments in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Shippers reluctant to jump into intermodal rail transport have a major incentive to test the waters: relatively low intermodal rates with few signs on the horizon for aggressive hikes.

ART Logistics has launched a multimodal freight service connecting Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand with Central Asia.

Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway, based in Star, N.C., is in the process of developing a multimodal facility and business park in Midland, N.C., according to Cabarrus Economic Development.

Norfolk Southern is rerouting shipments that normally move through Hannibal, Mo., as rising Mississippi River levels have impacted bridge and main line operations in that area.

A weak market for industrial equipment is hurting the flatbed business of Landstar System, according to the trucking company’s chairman, president and CEO.

Canada’s House of Commons is set to vote this afternoon on a bill requiring service contracts between railroads and their customers.

Changes to truck driver hours-of-service rules now just a month away will have little to no impact on Landstar System’s existing business, and may even bring the nation’s fourth-largest truckload carrier more freight, a top executive says.

Con-way Truckload has purchased 525 new tractors in a replacement cycle that will maintain the full truckload carrier’s 2,700 tractor fleet.