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YRC Worldwide Renames Long-Haul Carrier
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
YRC Worldwide is rebranding its largest less-than-truckload operating subsidiary, YRC, as YRC Freight.
LTL
Trucking News
Fesco Books Double-Digit Rail, Ocean, Terminal Growth
Bruce Barnard, Special Correspondent |
Fesco booked double-digit growth across its ocean container, rail, port terminal and intermodal units in 2011 as it benefited from soaring transport demand in a strengthening Russian economy.
Port News
Maritime
Rail News
Container lines
Toll Denies Teamsters' Charge It Underpays Drivers
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
Toll Global Forwarding dismissed on Monday Teamsters union charges that the logistics company pays its employee drivers in Southern California below market rates and is trying to delay the u
Port News
Trucking labor
Customs Brokers Take Clean Truck Fee Complaints to FMC
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
Cargo interests and customs brokers complained to the Federal Maritime Commission that trucking companies in Los Angeles-Long Beach are still charging a clean-truck fee even though the ports stopped c
Port News
Trucking News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Long-Haul Trucker YRC to Exit Next-Day Market
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
YRC Worldwide is proposing changes to its long-haul freight network that will speed shipments and take long-haul carrier YRC out of the next-day freight market.
LTL
Trucking News
Eurotunnel Saw Double-Digit Growth in 2011
Bruce Barnard, Special Correspondent |
Eurotunnel, the operator of the subsea tunnel between France and the U.K., booked double-digit growth in rail freight and truck traffic in 2011, driven by new services and the collapse of a French fer
Rail News
Trucking News
ABF Freight Parent Posts $6.8 Million Profit for 2011
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Trucking operator Arkansas Best returned to profit in 2011, reporting a $6.8 million net profit for the full year, compared with a $32.6 million loss in 2010.
LTL
Trucking News
Truck brokers
Mending A Broken Border
R.G. Edmonson |
The growth of U.S.-Mexico trade is doing nothing to clear the gridlock at the border.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Union Pacific Sees Domestic Revival
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Union Pacific Railroad’s pricing leverage may have been strong last year, but it’s due to get even stronger in 2012.
Rail News
Hub Group Takes Aim at Eastern Truck Freight
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Hub Group expects a “transformational year” for the intermodal industry as Eastern rail network expansion boosts intermodal volumes, company officials said.
Intermodal providers
Trucking News
Rail News
Teamsters Press Unionization of Toll Drivers
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
The Teamsters union, as part of its national strategy to organize harbor truck drivers, has taken on Toll Global Forwarding, charging that the company is using national labor law to delay a vote among
Trucking labor
Trucking News
Class 8 Truck Orders Rose 71.7 Percent Last Year
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The trucking equipment market accelerated its recovery in 2011, as motor carriers ordered new tractors and rolling stock to replace aging vehicles.
Truckload
Trucking News
Driver Market, Truck Capacity Tightening, Werner Says
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
A “challenging” driver market will put more pressure on trucking costs, capacity and pricing in 2012, says truckload carrier Werner Enterprises.
Truckload
Trucking News
Inventory Buildup Boosts GDP Growth 2.8 Percent
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Rising inventories and consumer spending caused U.S. gross domestic product to expand at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, the fastest growth in a year and a half.
Industrial Real Estate News
Trucking News
Rail News
Imperial Logistics Expands in Africa Through Acquisitions
Mike King, Special Correspondent |
Imperial Logistics boosted its presence in southern Africa through the acquisition of two transport companies for undisclosed sums.
International ports
Trucking News
J.B. Hunt Transport Revenue Reaches $4.5 Billion
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Higher rates and volumes boosted fourth-quarter net profit 25.4 percent to $72.6 million at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, the nation’s largest intermodal trucker.
Intermodal providers
Trucking News
Rail News
Truckload Spot Market Slows in January
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Spot market truckloads dropped 14 percent in December from the previous month but were still 25 percent higher than in December 2010, TransCore Freight Solutions said.
Truckload
Trucking News
NY-NJ Port Authority to Crack Down on 'Discrimination'
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s new executive director said the agency will use its leases as a lever to end “deliberate discrimination” in hiring on the bistate port
Longshore labor
Maritime
Trucking labor
Knight Expects Truck Rates to Rise 3 to 4 Percent
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Knight Transportation plans to add capacity in 2012, expanding its fleet and services while raising truckload rates 3 to 4 percent, company officials said.
Truckload
Trucking News
CP Directors, Activist Investor on Collision Course
Mark Szakonyi, Daily Content Editor |
The time to switch the tracks and prevent Canadian Pacific Railway from barreling toward a proxy fight is over.
North-American rail
Rail News
CP Profitability Worsens Amid Proxy Fight
Mark Szakonyi, Daily Content Editor |
Canadian Pacific Railway saw fourth-quarter profit rise 19 percent year-over-year to $221 million, but the railroad’s operating ratio worsened as management faces pressure from an activist inves
North-American rail
Rail News
Celadon Group Profit Jumps 86.2 Percent
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Tight capacity, rate hikes and acquisitions helped Celadon Group boost net profit 86.2 percent in the last quarter despite a less than 1 percent rise in freight revenue.
Truckload
Trucking News
Hot Profit for Cold Chain Specialist Marten Transport
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Marten Transport raised its net profit 47 percent to $7.1 million in the fourth quarter as the refrigerated carrier’s revenue jumped 15.9 percent to $158.3 million.
Trucking News
Canadian Shippers Report Higher Surface Rates
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Ground transportation rates paid by Canadian shippers rose 1.6 percent month-to-month in November, the ninth straight monthly increase since March2011.
Trucking News
Rail News
Turnaround at Swift Nets $90 Million Profit
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Swift Transportation reported its first annual profit since 2006 as the nation’s largest truckload carrier rebuilt its revenue base and slashed debt in 2011.
Truckload
Trucking News
Trucking Industry, Teamsters Clash Over Owner-Operator Bill
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
The harbor trucking industry is clashing with the Teamsters union over a bill before the Washington state legislature that would classify owner-operators as employees rather than as independent contra
Port News
Trucking News
Trucking labor
CN Boosts Profit 17.7 Percent on Record Revenue
Mark Szakonyi, Daily Content Editor |
Canadian National Railway’s profit in the fourth quarter rose 17.7 percent year-over-year to $584 million, as revenue jumped 12 percent to a record $2.3 billion on stronger pricing and freight t
North-American rail
Rail News
Norfolk Southern Net Profit Rises 19 Percent
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Higher intermodal, coal and general merchandise volumes helped Norfolk Southern increase net profit 19 percent to $480 million in the fourth on $2.8 billion in sales.
North-American rail
Rail News
Harley-Davidson Shipments Up Nearly 11 Percent
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Global economic headwinds aren’t slowing Harley-Davidson. The iconic motorcycle maker bolstered its profits as it increased sales and shipments in 2011.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Forwarding
Truck Tonnage Soars at Strongest Rate Since 1998
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
For-hire truck tonnage rose 5.9 percent in 2011, the biggest year-over-year freight gain for trucking since 1998, the American Trucking Associations said Tuesday.
Truckload
Trucking News
LTL
KCS Boosts Profit 85 Percent on Record Hauls
Mark Szakonyi, Daily Content Editor |
Kansas City Southern Railway saw fourth-quarter profit skyrocketed 84.6 percent year-over-year to $95.6 million, as the railroad’s 11 percent jump in revenue set quarterly and annual records.
North-American rail
Rail News
Far East Land Bridge Begins Europe-China Rail Service
Michael King, Special Correspondent |
Far East Land Bridge will launch a new rail service in March linking Europe to the thriving manufacturing center of Chongqing in central China.
Intermodal providers
Rail News
EGT, ILWU Reach Tentative Deal Over Grain Terminal
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
Washington Gov.
Trucking labor
Maritime
Forwarding
CSX Profit Jumps 6.3 Percent on Pricing Strength
Mark Szakonyi, Daily Content Editor |
CSX Transportation extended its strong pricing power into the fourth quarter, giving the freight railroad a $457 million net profit to close a year that saw earnings grow strongly despite diminishing
North-American rail
Rail News
Court Sets Hearing on Settlement of Suit on YRC Retirement Plans
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
A U.S.
LTL
Trucking News
Striking Italian Truck Drivers Block Highways to Port
Bruce Barnard, Special Correspondent |
Italian truck drivers kicked off a weeklong protest against higher fuel taxes and road tolls on Monday by blocking highways from the southern container port of Gioia Tauro to the northern industrial c
Port News
Maritime
Trucking News
Forwarding
YRC Worldwide to Sell 61 Truck Terminals
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Looking for cross-dock capacity? YRC Worldwide and NRC Realty & Capital Advisors have plenty of capacity to offer the right bidders — 2,299 terminal doors.
LTL
Trucking News
EU Ban of Iran Oil Sends Prices to Four-Day High
Mark Szakonyi, Daily Content Editor |
Oil prices rose for the first time in four days after the European Union on Monday banned oil imports from Iran, increasing fears that Middle East tensions could raise supply chain costs in the short-
Truckload
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Canadian Pacific Gains Major Export Potash Contract
Mark Szakonyi, Daily Content Editor |
Canadian Pacific Railway signed a 10-year agreement this week with Canpotex to haul the majority of the major potash exporter’s shipments to a terminal in Vancouver.
North-American rail
Rail News
Russia's Vladiovstok Container Growth Outpaces Rivals
Bruce Barnard, Special Correspondent |
Russia’s port of Vladivostok grew container traffic 27 percent in 2011 from a year ago, boosting the Far Eastern gateway’s share of Russian container shipments at the expense of its flat l
Port News
Maritime
Rail News
Forwarding
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