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Inland ports are helping retailers cover supply chain gaps generated by growing e-commerce demand.

Economic indicator shows no sign of inventory destocking in May.

Truck drivers who have been using a secondary access road to reach a major intermodal complex outside Chicago have been forced to cope with longer turn times, fewer trips and higher costs — but a solution is in the works.

Efforts to attract new intermodal business were not enough to slow the loss of volume and profit at CSX Transportation.

The city of New Orleans is again exploring the sale of the port’s switching railroad.

A U.S. trade group has launched its own online portal to boost efficiency in the drayage sector.

The cargo on this first train to call at the $100-million rail facility at the former Oakland Army Base was originally destined for Canadian ports.

The original deadline for binding bids was April 26, but Greece’s privatization agency has pushed it back three times.

Waste caused by poor infrastructure is thought to cost India around $45 billion per year, or 4.3 percent of GDP, according to McKinsey & Company.

The Jacksonville, Florida-based railroad is reporting significant improvements in its train velocity and availability, both indicators of service, and it is investing $1 billion into its overall rail network.

India is prioritizing dozens of last mile port-rail connectivity projects to speed up cargo evacuation and help address chronic landside congestion problems at its ports.

Trains are a critical tool that can be used to relieve port congestion, but in Europe they face a number of challenges.

How containers moving to on-dock ramps will be weighed is still being worked out just days before the rule takes effect Friday.

A new containerized cargo transportation firm able to compete with global majors may soon appear in Russia.

“Importers and exporters need to work together. It’s a common bond we’re not using,” Dean Tracy, managing director of Global Integrated Services, told the annual Agriculture Transportation Coalition conference.

DP World is continuing its search for investment opportunities along the China-Europe Silk Road.

The North American Free Trade Agreement’s cross-border freight growth of 3.2 percent in 2015 — representing 14.7 million truck and rail containers crossing both borders — exceeds the global ocean container trade’s weak gain of 1.3 percent in the same period.

Reliable, time-guaranteed freight service is becoming the new mantra for Indian Railways.

The potential impact of China’s Belt and Road initiative is starting to emerge.

A new Panama Canal container route to the U.S. Gulf from Asia will replace and build on an intermodal rail service that Maersk Line launched via Mexico.

Competition in the soft market means lower domestic intermodal rates for shippers today, but a peak season turnaround — when volumes are expected to accelerate back to 2015 levels — could end historically low pricing.

Canadian National Railway announced Tuesday that chief executive officer Claude Mongeau will step down at the end of June, just months after returning to the railroad’s helm following treatment for a throat tumor.

Kansas City Southern Railway cross-border and domestic shippers are grappling with disruptions.

Russia is making it easier for shippers to secure spot containerized rail transport.

A container block train bound for Duisburg in Germany pulled out of the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi at the weekend, the latest milestone in the development of China-Europe container rail links.

Switzerland will open the world’s longest rail tunnel June.

"I think that's not something we didn't expect," Canadian Pacific Railway Chief Executive Officer E. Hunter Harrison said Wednesday in New York City at a conference hosted by transportation research firm Wolfe Research.

India’s port connectivity infrastructure, which is a source of regular frustration for shippers and logistics providers, should show some improvement in the coming years.

France’s ports, railways and airports face shutdown.

One of the big three providers of U.S. marine chassis is being sold to a new owner.

Kansas City Southern Railway announced the name of its new chief executive officer Wednesday.

Shippers torn between road and rail have a new tool they can use to help make the decision.

In issuing its guidance on how exporters need to meet the SOLAS container weight rule, Israeli stakeholders have said they will double-check the verified gross mass declarations of containers.

BNSF Railway profit slumped 25 percent year-over-year in the first quarter, hammered by declines in energy-related volumes.

North American intermodal volume growth accelerated in the first quarter of 2016.

The Port of Baltimore is hoping a $425 million fix to a low-slung freight tunnel will help jump-start a surge in business.

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is levying the collective experience of the private sector to fight congestion at U.S ports.

“The rails have taken a hands-off attitude when it comes to SOLAS, which, after all, is a maritime issue,” Larry Gross, a senior transportation analyst at FTR Associates, told JOC.com Tuesday.

Allcargo Logistics, the parent of global non-vessel-operating common carrier ECU Line, plans to more than double annual revenue.

Marine highways, or container transport via inland and coastal waterways, have had a rough go in the United States, but the U.S. Maritime Administration says it has learned from missteps.