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The 10 less-than-truckload carriers with more than $1 billion in annual revenue increased combined sales 4.3 percent in 2012 to $23.2 billion.

Indian Railways reported earnings from April 2012 to February 2013 were Rs. 111984.89 crore (about US$20.6 billion), rising 20.4 percent compared with $17.1 billion during the same period in the previous year.

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission certified the final environmental impact report for BNSF’s proposed Southern California International Gateway.

Textainer Group Holdings has named Alvin Chong as vice president and head of the resale division, succeeding Stefan Mackula, and promoted Anthony C. Sowry to senior vice president of operations and acquisitions.

Harbor truckers urged the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to do more to make Southern California the gateway of choice for shippers and carriers, and the top item on their wish list is to reduce congestion at marine terminal gates.

PTA Holdings, through its subsidiary Nortford, today announced that operations at its equipment service facility in Fredericksburg, Iowa, have begun.

BNSF Railway will begin testing a small number of locomotives using liquefied natural gas as an alternative fuel later this year, said Matthew K. Rose, BNSF chairman and CEO, at the CERAWeek conference today.

Florida East Coast Railway has appointed Melissa “Missy” Westerman as vice president and corporate controller, starting April 2.

Edward R. Hamberger, president and CEO of the Association of American Railroads, today told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s subcommittee on railroads, pipelines and hazardous materials that...

Love’s Travel Stops is in the process of adding fast-fill compressed natural gas fueling capability to service Class 8 trucks at eight of its travel stops on highways between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

The Association of American Railroads has rejected the National Industrial Transportation League’s proposal on mandatory switching, saying that it would harm all rail network users.

Etihad Rail has secured a $1.28 billion loan for Stage One of its railway project, which comprises the route from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais in the United Arab Emirates.

Julie A. Su, California Labor Commissioner, has won a California Superior Court trial, after the court ruled that Port of Long Beach truck drivers working for Seacon Logix were employees and not independent contractors.

BNSF Railway CEO and Chairman Matt Rose said Monday the western railroad expects modest volume growth in 2012 but said the U.S. needs to spend more to prepare for a surge of freight growth expected over the next decade.

In the last six months of 2012, KiwiRail reported its operating revenue rose 4 percent year-over-year to almost $363 million and its operating surplus increased 7.6 percent to nearly $47 million.

Berkshire Hathaway reported that subsidiary BNSF Railway’s net earnings rose 13.5 percent year-over-year from $2.97 billion in 2011 to $3.37 billion in 2012.

The nation's 25 largest less-than-truckload motor carriers increased revenue 4.5 percent in 2012, a marked deceleration from 12 percent sales growth in 2011 and a 9.2 percent gain in 2010.

Beginning this month, Canadian National will boost shipments of heavy northern Alberta crude oil through LBC Tank Terminals’ expanded facility at Sunshine, in the Gesimar, La., industrial complex.

No sooner had fast-growing freight broker XPO Logistics hit its first ambitious annual revenue run rate target of $500 million than CEO Bradley S. Jacobs raised the level for 2013 to $1 billion.

Growth in refrigerated rail traffic and equipment serves as a strong signal that U.S. railroads are snatching back business some 60 years after the creation of the interstate highway system helped trucking take command of the temperature-controlled market.

TransForce reported profit in the fourth quarter of 2012 was $36.1 million, falling 13 percent from $41.7 million in the same quarter in the previous year.

XPO Logistics reported a net loss of $9.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared with a net loss of $1.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Hungary has unveiled plans to build a 70-mile double-track railroad crossing the river Danube to exploit the nation’s geographical location to handle freight moving between eastern and western Europe.

YRC Freight has completed its agreement with Clean Energy Fuels to purchase four liquefied natural gas trucks that will serve the Port of Long Beach and other surrounding areas.

For a second time, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied environmental groups’ request to block construction on the Port Mackenzie Rail Extension, a 32-mile rail link connecting the main line of the Alaska Railroad with...

TBG Holdings has acquired Monkey Rock, which will be repositioned to compete in the short line and regional freight railroad industry.

Representatives from major U.S. freight railroads will inform the National Transportation Safety Board today that implementing fully interoperable positive train control across more than 60,000 route miles before the congressionally mandated 2015 deadline is not possible.

buytruckload.com is a new Chicago-based service in the transportation procurement space, initially offering a search to help shippers find prospective carriers and a survey to improve internal processes.

Shippers hoping for an extra three months of breathing room before new hours-of-service rules take effect — potentially reducing truck capacity — will be dismayed after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rejected the American Trucking Associations’ delay request.

Kansas City Southern’s U.S. transportation group has reorganized its management.

Sales of used Class 8 trucks dropped 3 percent year-over-year in January and were down 6 percent from December, according to ACT Research.

Norfolk Southern today will cease regional railcar classification operations at its Roanoke Terminal hump yard in Roanoke, Va.

Third-party logistics provider OIA Global has launched OIA Day-Definite, a new service for less-than-truckload shipments across the U.S.