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The two Class 1 railroads serving the ports of Virginia are playing musical chairs. When the music stops, the big winner will be the Virginia Port Authority.

For months, year-over-year gains in rail freight traffic have countered gloom-and-doom warnings about the U.S. economy heading back into recession.

The American Trucking Associations announced a new three-year agreement with Bill Graves, the former Kansas governo

Record third quarter freight traffic and record revenue pushed Kansas City Southern’s profit up 99 percent from a year earlier to $99.8 million.

Daimler Trucks North America will create 350 jobs and a second shift at its Portland, Ore., truck plant as it ramps up production of heavy-duty Class 8 tractors.

Diesel prices across the United States rose 8 cents in the week ending Oct. 17, increasing at the fastest pace in 28 weeks as crude oil prices fell amid fears over the European debt crisis.

The plan for a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ont., was dealt a severe blow Thursday after the Michigan Senate rejected a bill critical to funding the proposed $5.3 billion project.

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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wants Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. to drop legislation that would block a new truck driver hours of service rule.

Shortly after buying a stake in rival USA Truck, Celadon Group is purchasing the dry van assets of FFE Transpo

North America’s freight railroads aren’t burning up the tracks with surging peak-season traffic, but they’re still posting moderate gains in volume compared to last year.

Railcar leasing giant GATX saw profit in its rail segment soar 93 percent in the third quarter to $63 million, largely due to increases in pricing and fleet utilization.

Truckload giant Swift Transportation increased total revenue 13.9 percent to $863.8 million in the third quarter, reporting a $30.9 million net profit for the period.

An amendment to the fiscal 2012 transportation appropriations bill introduced in the Senate would block proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules.

The National Resources Defense Council filed suit this week against the Union Pacific and BNSF railroads to require the c

Third-quarter profit at Union Pacific, North America’s largest railroad, rose 16 percent to $904 million despite slim volume growth in what its CEO called an “uncertain” economy.

GE Transportation will spend $231 million to upgrade two factories to meet North American and foreign demand for locomotives, mining equipment and other products including marine engines.

Werner Enterprises increased net profit 22 percent from a year ago to $29.6 million in the third quarter on a 10 percent increase in total revenue to $509.6 million.

A jump in apartment construction caused homebuilding to rise at the fastest rate in 17 months, but other data point to continued weakness in a real estate market that’s dragging down containeriz

CSX Transportation looks for the U.S. economy and its rail freight traffic to keep growing “at a modest rate” in the next few quarters, said Michael Ward, its chairman and CEO.

Groupe Eurotunnel, operator of the undersea rail tunnel between France and the U.K., boosted third quarter revenue 10 percent year-over-year on higher truck and rail freight traffic.

TransContainer, Russia’s largest rail container operator, boosted third quarter traffic by 9.3 percent year-over-year, partly due to 28.7 percent jump in export shipments.

CSX Transportation saw its profit rise 12 percent to $464 million in the third quarter, as revenue increased 11 percent from a year earlier to nearly $3 billion while freight volume edged up just 1 pe

U.S. job growth nearly came to a halt at the seven largest freight railroads from mid-August to mid-September, a period when weekly rail traffic was running slightly ahead of 2010 levels.

U.S. agriculture industry officials are stepping up efforts to restore barley exports to Japan after a steep and rapid downturn in shipments in recent years.

The unsteady state of the economy and proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules top a list of critica

Port planner John Vickerman sees the expanded Panama Canal's effect on U.S. trade shaking out in either of two ways.

Spot market volume on TransCore’s network of load boards rose 10 percent in September from August and 47 percent from a year ago, a sign of stronger demand.

Canadian Pacific Railway is partnering with truck and logistics provider Contrans by using collapsible containers to convert some flatbed-type shipments to double-stack rail intermodal service.

Maersk Line and CSX Transportation signed a contract for the railroad to haul the Danish ocean carrier’s discretionary cargo from APM terminal in Portsmouth, Va., to the Midwest.

Russell Gerdin, the son of a truck driver who founded one of the most profitable companies in trucking, died Oct. 15. He was 70 years old.

Kuehne + Nagel’s earnings grew 1.1 percent in the first nine months of 2011 from a year earlier as the Swiss logistics company boosted ocean container and air cargo shipments in a softening mark

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President Obama stepped into a simmering dispute between rail unions and most major railroads Oct.

The Department of Transportation on Friday approved one Mexican trucking company’s request to operate on U.S.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 1 percent in September, as truck industry fuel purchasing fell back in an indication trucking activity dropped over the summer and into the early fall.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services stayed well ahead of a slowing economy in the third quarter, increasing its profit 32 percent from a year ago to $68.7 million.

North America’s major freight railroads hauled 2.1 percent more intermodal traffic than a year earlier in the week ending Oct. 8, while bulk carload traffic grew 3.3 percent.