Transport, Trade and Regulation News

GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- GE Global eXchange Services Monday launched Global Rail Exchange, an online mar

FORT WORTH - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. said it opposed many of the provisions of the Surfac

CANBERRA - Truck drivers Monday morning blockaded major fuel terminals and wharves in Melbourne, sou

Deutsche Post World Net AG shares on Monday rose nearly 40n their debut on the Frankfurt stock excha

BOSTON -- For decades, the people running Amtrak had to wince when Americans returning from overseas

For Fritz Cos., it was only the latest piece of bad news. Its stock had been plummeting since Septe

Shippers, shipper organizations and labor unions criticized as lacking specificity the Surface Trans

CANBERRA -Truck drivers on Monday blockaded major fuel terminals and wharves in Melbourne, southe

Germany's Transportation Minister Reinhard Klimmt, has resigned. Klimmt was fined earlier this week

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Con-Way Transportation Services has formed a consulting company called Con-Way B

Container Corp. of India, a state-owned multimodal operator, is expecting both international and dom

Gerald Corbett, chief executive of Railtrack, the company that owns Britain's rail infrastructure, h

MEXICO CITY -- Although negotiations continue for the purchase of a 25 0overnment stake in the Trans

TORONTO - Same day delivery and logistics company, Veredex, has named Roger Curry, former chief exec

EGL Inc. has scored a major coup by snaring Giorgio Laccona from Danzas AEI as its new international

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Celarix Inc., the software company specializing in supply chain and transportati

LONDON - The 156-year old Baltic Exchange, the world's leading shipping exchange, will launch an ele

TORONTO -- Veredex, an Internet logistics company specializing in the sameday delivery market, has

San Ramon, Calif. - SynchroNet Marine Inc., an online service for managing the movement of Containe

Mexican trucking organization Canacar continues to threaten to protest against the operation of U.S.

HOUSTON -- Emery Worldwide has received an exclusive contract to handle all international logistics

Their proposed merger was a bust, but that hasn't stopped Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway C

Ryder System Inc. has decided to begin solving the problem of increasing demand for Internet-based i

Malaysia's national rail operator says it's improving service to move containers and other goods, wi

FORT LAUDERDALE - The major railroads will need to consider the quality of their service if they wan

TROY, Mich. - General Motors has selected global services provider EDS to help convert its entire su

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Edward M. Emmett says the National Industrial Transportation League's leade

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The National Industrial Transportation League has formed a subcommittee to

Transcomp 2000 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - U.S. ports need to improve their efficiency to handle the gro

MEXICO CITY - Federal Express in May 2001 will open a customs-supervised freight-processing warehous

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Despite improved revenues, shortline and regional railroad operator RailAmerica s

FRANKFURT -- Germany's Stinnes AG transport and logistics company -- the parent of the Schenker AG

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The growing presence of transportation dot-coms has caused unease among tra

Canadian National Railway Co. said Monday that it has taken a minority investment stake in FreightWi

No one was surprised when Pacer International announced yet another acquisition this month. But ther

The Inttra ocean carrier web portal that was unveiled this month held out the prospect of a single p

No one was surprised when Pacer International announced yet another acquisition this month. But ther

Raymond L. Smith has resigned as chief executive of Fritz Companies Inc., effective Nov. 17. Fritz c

The Inttra ocean carrier web portal that was unveiled this month held out the prospect of a single p

Attorney Randolph Ferguson pick-ed up the phone and heard sheer panic. One of his clients had U.S. C