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The Teamsters union and ABF Freight System are back at the bargaining table. Negotiations on a new multiyear contract resumed Jan. 8 and will continue through next week, the union said in a notice published on its Web site.

U.S. intermodal volume fell for the second week straight, dropping 8 percent year-over-year in the week ending Jan. 5, according to the Association of American Railroads.

After a seesaw year in which freight rates bounded up and down like a yo-yo, shippers and carriers alike are looking for stability and predictability in their businesses.

Lake Oswego, Ore.-based railroad equipment supplier The Greenbrier Companies recently reported profit in the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, ending Nov. 30, 2012, was $10.4 million, increasing 40.5 percent...

Nashville, Ind.-based transportation forecaster FTR Associates has reported that its Trucking Conditions Index for November, published in its January 2013 Trucking Update, rose almost two full points to a favorable reading of 9.7.

The New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad Corporation has received contract approval for more than $900,000 from the New York State Department of Transportation to construct a multimodal rail terminal in Cortland...

The Massena Terminal Railroad Company in St. Lawrence County, N.Y., has signed a contract for the main line track and bridge rehabilitation project...

YRC Freight today named Darren Hawkins senior vice president of sales and marketing, effective Jan. 14.

Class 8 truck orders in December 2012 totaled 20,836 units, a 6 percent increase from November but a 30 percent decline from the same month in 2011, according to preliminary data from FTR Associates.

From labor battles to natural disasters, 2012 was filled with risk for shippers and the companies moving and managing their cargo. Here are the stories that defined the year.

Celadon Trucking Services has agreed to acquire Rock Leasing and Kelly Logistics.

Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies and chairman of RLJ Equity Partners, today announced the acquisition of regional trucking company R. Thompson Trucking, now RLJ Thompson Trucking.

South Carolina-based less-than-truckload transportation company Southeastern Freight Lines today promoted Chris Reynolds from North Atlanta service center manager to director of safety and security.

Intermodal container lessor Textainer Group Holdings has acquired about 24,000 20-foot-equivalent units of standard dry freight containers from its managed fleet for approximately $32.6 million.

Fast food chain Jack in the Box is moving more of its freight via 53-foot containers on intermodal trains.

Cudahy, Wis.-based logistics company Roadrunner Transportation Systems has announced that the underwriters for its recent public offering of common stock exercised in full their over-allotment option to purchase an additional...

Class I railroad Canadian National Railway has completed the merger of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company into its Wisconsin Central subsidiary.

Watco Railroad Company Holdings has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the stock of Ann Arbor Railroad.

The intra-Asia trucking market retains huge growth potential if inefficient border processes and excessive bureaucracy can be improved, according to one leading logistics executive.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has acquired Direct Connection Transportation...

Short-line and regional railroad company Genesee & Wyoming said Thursday that the U.S. Surface Transportation Board has approved its application to control RailAmerica and that company’s railroads, effective Dec. 28, 2012.

Transportation marketplace uShip.com has closed an $18 million round of Series C financing with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to extend the development, sales and marketing of uShip’s commercial freight platform...

French competition regulators fined SNCF, the state-owned rail company, 61 million euros ($80.5 million) for preventing new companies from entering the freight market following liberalization in 2006.

Railcar maker The Greenbrier Companies’ advisors have engaged in discussions with Carl Icahn and his associates regarding an acquisition of Greenbrier by American Railcar Industries...

FedEx Freight increased its profit 90 percent from a year ago as less-than-truckload revenue and freight demand climbed in the three months that ended Nov. 30.

FedEx today reported its income in the second quarter, ending Nov. 30, was $438 million, dropping 12 percent from $497 million in the same quarter last year.

Russian intermodal container transportation company TransContainer reported rail container volume in the first nine months of 2012 was 1.1 million 20-foot-equivalent units, rising 10.2 percent year-over-year.

The American Trucking Associations today reported that its seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 3.7 percent in November, following October’s 3.7 percent drop. It was the first monthly gain since July.