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A recent appeals court ruling should send a chill through shippers relying on reliable transportation on U.S. waterways.

More than 120 agriculture producer groups sent a letter Friday to President Barack Obama and the U.S.

A new proposed U.S. Senate bill may help fill the gap in data needed to help marine highway advocates estimate the potential market for waterborne alternatives to landside transportation.

A 56 percent increase in individual truck brokerage sales shot second quarter revenue at Echo Global Logistics 38 percent higher than a year ago to $151.5 million.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is permanently waiving mandatory inspection and weighing of high-quality specialty grain exports, saving shippers $1.46 per metric ton in fees.

Transport Corporation of India, the country’s largest integrated supply chain and logistics service provider, said Friday its net profit in the first quarter grew 10 percent year-over-year to $3

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An Asiana Airlines freighter carrying lithium-ion batteries crashed early Thursday en route from Inchon, South Korea, to Pudong, China, after the crew reported a fire on board.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to be ambassador to China, where he will replace Jon Huntsman as envoy.

The Commonwealth of Virginia is offering shippers a tax credit for moving containers off the highways to the marine highway or railways, Virginia Secretary of Transportation Sean Connaughton said Tues

Work stoppages are spreading among aviation construction projects across the country and construction workers are being sent home, due to a continuing fight in Washington over funding the Federal Avia

Third-party logistics and brokerage giant C.H.

A new slate of eight directors was sworn in as new members of the board of the Virginia Port Authority on Tuesday, which will be headed by a new chairman, Michael J.

U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV on Monday called on top U.S.

Pilot testing of the ocean and rail manifest systems in the U.S.

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard Lidinsky said the FMC has been asked by West Coast members of the U.S.

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell replaced 10 out of the 11 members on the board that oversees the Virginia Port Authority in an effort to spur lagging volume and revenue.

In its first full year of operations as a U.S. third-party logistics operator, Echo Global Logistics took in $33.2 million in gross revenue from 677 customers. That was 2006.

Suddenly, infrastructure spending is catching fire as a national political issue.

The AFL New England made its inaugural call at Boston on July 19, officially kicking off the vessel’s Halifax-Portland, Maine-Boston service, the first stage of a marine highway network American

Logistics 101 states shippers want reliable service at a competitive price.

The proposed two-year $339 billion surface transportation bill received the unanimous support of witnesses of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood repeated his warning that 4,000 Federal Aviation Administration employees will be furloughed Friday night if the U.S.

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The federal government is gearing up for another round of TIGER funding for transportation projects, and the emphasis thi

The Obama administration and Senate Democrats say Republicans’ attempt to cut rural air service subsidies is risking a Federal Aviation Administration shutdown, jeopardizing thousands of public

The start date for testing ocean and rail manifest systems of Automated Commercial Environment is pushed back to Aug. 1 or later, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.

Duisburg, the world’s largest inland port, boosted first half 2011 container traffic by 10 p

Dick Steinke helped to build Long Beach into the nation’s second largest container port during his 14 years as executive director, but one of his proudest moments came in 2003 when he and his st

The U.S. Commerce Department is proposing to make it easier for companies to export military parts with low or no sensitivity to NATO partners and other American allies.

The American Association of Port Authorities will work with the Department of Commerce to help small and medium-sized businesses export goods to overseas markets, part of President Obama’s goal

Former Massachusetts governor and presidential canidate Michael Dukakis said to invest in the future spending on infrastructure is key — even if requires increasing the fuel tax during the

An annual performance measure of the U.S.

The second quarter’s slow growth was disappointing, but the U.S.

Debate over a proposal to reduce a U.S. program that subsidizes rural air service is the latest battleground in Capitol Hill’s partisan warfare.

The European Union’s plan to slash ships’ sulfur dioxide emissions will likely result in

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