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Gulf Coast ports have long been underserved in the main east-west trades, but are counting on their access to the Midwest and the South’s growing population to attract new carrier services.

Where should higher truck rates go? Lana Batts says they should go straight to driver paychecks.

After more than four years of painful delays, prospects for reviving the long-languishing U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement may be getting a significant boost thanks to an unlikely third party: China

Canadian third-party logistics company Kelron Logistics is expanding into intermodal rail, launching a North American intermod

FedEx Freight lost $110 million in its most recent quarter, despite an 11 percent improvement in yield as sales increased and truck shipments declined.

Greenbrier Companies took recent new orders to build 4,200 more railcars, most of them double-stack intermodal wells, valued at $325 million.

FedEx Ground outdistanced its sister divisions at Memphis-based FedEx, increasing revenue 14 percent and operating profit 26 percent in the quarter ending Feb. 28.

New Mexico’s legislature could be poised to exempt Union Pacific Railroad from a locomotive sales tax, to entice UP to build a major intermodal and multi-purpose rail facility just inside the state bo

U.S. freight rail lines in 2010 completed their safest year on record by several measures, said the Association of American Railroads based on preliminary government data.

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The Coast Guard is seeking comment on a proposal for the voluntary use of equipment to read Transportation Worker Identification Credentials.

Spot market truckload freight volume rose 38 percent in February from the previous month and 65 percent from a year ago, according to TransCore.

Railcar manufacturer Trinity Industries and equipment leasing firm GATX agreed on terms for Trinity to supply GATX with 12,500 railroad tank cars and other freight car types over five years.

A key measure of truckload demand dropped 5.3 percent this week after rising sharply in recent weeks, remaining at its highest level since mid-2010.

Teamster multi-employer pension plans are seeking a higher interest rate on deferred pension obligations owed by YRC Worldwide, throwing up a potential stumbling block for the troubled trucking giant

U.S. retail diesel prices increased 3.7 cents to an average of $3.908 per gallon across the United States last week and pushed farther past the $4 mark in several regions, the U.S.

CSX Transportation set new export coal rates as of April 1 that are higher than expected, said an industry research firm, in a short-term tariff that could permit more rate hikes in the third quarter.

Stephen Russell, chairman and CEO of Celadon Group, is selling about 15 percent of the stock he owns in the truckload carrier, the company said Monday.

The momentum many U.S. third-party logistics providers and freight brokers reported at the end of 2010 appears to be extending into 2011. C.H. Robinson, the largest domestic 3PL in the U.S.

North America’s rail freight network, after shaking off a series of powerful winter storms in January, is back on the fast track to growth. But a new threat is emerging: surging fuel costs.

It took years for ocean carriers to follow through on their desire to get out of the chassis business. Now it may take the rest of the industry years to find a new model that works.

The Department of Transportation appears poised to inject hundreds of millions of dollars into rail lines operated by major freight railroads to help build up intercity passenger rail service and use

As Chief Financial Officer Sheila Taylor prepares to leave YRC Worldwide, pressure mounts on the company’s board to find a successor to William D. Zollars.

The trucking industry is hiring again, but at a pace and level far below its pre-recession plateau, placing a limit on the expansion of truck capacity.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is making available $2.4 billion in passenger rail grant money rejected by Florida Gov. Rick Scott so that other states can submit applications for new projects.

European Union trustbusters raided the offices of transport firms in the Baltic region amid suspicions they are involved in a cartel in the rail freight sector.

The replacement of aging tractors and trailers, deferred for more than two years during the recession, is ramping up in 2011, according to ACT Research.

Container volumes moving through the Panama Canal will certainly increase when the canal is enlarged in 2014, but that does not necessarily mean West Coast ports will lose market share simply because

The Department of Transportation is giving the public more time to comment on a proposal that would require electronic onboard recorders in most heavy trucks.

A key measure of truckload demand jumped 18.9 percent week over week in early March, signaling tightening capacity as the nation and the economy warm up.

Ann Begeman, President Obama's choice to join the Surface Transportation Board, told senators at her nomination hearing she will work toward making sure shippers as well as railroads can approach the

Refrigerated trucking company Brown Line is expanding in the Pacific Northwest by purchasing Port Side Trucking, a refrigerated motor carrier in Kent, Wash.

Restructuring and refinancing at Quality Distribution reduced a $180.5 million net loss in 2009 to $7.4 million in 2010, while revenue climbed to $686.6 million.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will stop using the term "Alert" to describe trucking company scores that break thresholds in CSA safety categories, following a settlement between the

The two organizations that have wrestled over the unionization of harbor drayage companies for the past few years promised attendees at the 11th annual

The largest U.S. railroads will spend an estimated $12 billion on capital improvements this year, easily outpacing the record capital expenditures of $10.7 billion they made in 2010.

Logistics operator Dunavant Enterprises acquired Sea Lane Express, a trucking and drayage company operating in the U.S. Southeast, its second acquisition in four months.

The American Trucking Associations wants the Obama administration to stop the opening and inspection of hazardous materials shipments unless those shipments are believed to pose an "imminent danger" o

Electric truck maker Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. raised $58 million in a series of stock sales. The proceeds will help the company pay for its acquisition of Smith Electric Vehicles UK.

Railcar owners in the U.S., Canada and Mexico took 12,457 units out of storage in February, leaving the continent's idled fleet at 20.2 percent of all railcars available for service, said the Associat