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Intermodal traffic at major North American railroads continued to grow into mid-June, setting a new peak for the recovery and rising 5 percent from four weeks earlier.

Truckload freight demand is slowing, according to the Morgan Stanley Truckload Freight Index.

Truck tonnage slipped 0.6 percent in May, putting a brake on shipping growth after trucking demand reached its highest level of the recovery the month before, the American Trucking Associations said F

Struggling less-than-truckload giant YRC Worldwide said it will sell part of its YRC Logistics operation for $37 million to private equity investor Austin Ventures and partner with that firm on some o

Package carrier FedEx is building a small-package sort and delivery station near Chicago that will be the fifth major facility in that area for its FedEx Ground unit.

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Con-way Freight is expanding its work for Caterpillar Logistics Services, the logistics arm of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar, to cover trucking in more than half the United States as well as busin

Refrigerated trucking company Stevens Transport ordered 500 heavy trucks from Kenworth Truck, a Paccar subsidiary.

Trucking industry representatives told a House panel the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s latest program needs work on the details.

Canadian Pacific Railway signed new productivity and performance agreements with the two intermodal terminals at the big container port of Port Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, in deals the partners

The nation's largest trucking operator, YRC Worldwide, is forging closer relationships with third-party logistics providers as it tries to rebuild its business.

FedEx planes may be soaring toward higher profit, but the $34.7 billion transportation company’s freight-hauling trucks are struggling to escape losses churned up by higher costs and deep rate d

A steady increase in container traffic is putting pressure on drayage operators at the Port of Virginia, including Wyatt Transfer, a Richmond, Va., port trucker.

Ocean shipping lines and trucking companies must cooperate more closely to move freight efficiently through their customers' integrated global supply chains, a maritime industry leader told trucking e

Norfolk Southern Railway’s long-awaited project to carve a double-stack intermodal train corridor through the Appalachian Mountains just got a bit longer, as the company got approval from Ohio t

The start of the peak-shipping season is still more than a month away, but marine terminal congestion in Los Angeles-Long Beach is mounting so rapidly that harbor truckers are in a state of panic.

The UK's new government said it will sell off state-owned rail, aviation and postal assets as part of a deficit reduction program.

Truckload carriers are becoming less reliant on brokers as freight volume recovers from the recession, according to a survey by Transport Capital Partners.

A House subcommittee was set to hear testimony Wednesday on new federal truck and driver safety rules expected this year that shippers fear will limit carriers' ability to restore capacity in a growin

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expects to quickly nail down some accords with Class I freight railroads, to spur intercity passenger rail development and begin using some of the billions in stimu

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In moves that reflect the improvement Kansas City Southern has been making in its finances, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its rating on long-term KCS debt to BB from B and took the rai

The Port of Amsterdam said the Betuweroute rail connection was completed this week, giving the port a dedicated cargo rail track towards Germany and into Europe.

The nation’s average retail diesel price climbed 3.3 cents last week to $2.961 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Estes is speeding freight from the U.S. Southwest to Western Canada, launching a three-day service from Texas and Oklahoma to Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.

Net orders for heavy-duty trucks increased 84 percent year-over-year in May, as truck operators anticipated a stronger shipping peak, said ACT Research.

Five days after a 28-car derailment, CSX is prepared to reopen a rail line in Porter County, Ind., according to local news reports.

The top seven railroads in the U.S. added just 218 jobs from mid-April to mid-May, the smallest increase since the Class I carriers began adding jobs in February.

In his June 10 speech to the National Industrial Transportation League, Rep. James L. Oberstar outlined some of the features he and Sen. Jay Rockefeller plan to produce in the new rail law.

Watching containers stuffed with clothing trucked off the docks at the Port of Los Angeles in early June, Wayne Bourne wasn’t much worried about a double-dip recession or economic slowdown.

YRC Worldwide says it may try to raise funds by issuing new equity shares, but the company is hardly a darling on Wall Street.

U.S. rail shippers for years tried to get Congress to act on their complaints and toughen federal rules over rates and service from the nation’s few remaining major long-haul lines.

Sometimes you need to spend money to make money, but that’s proving difficult for YRC Worldwide while the company recovers from massive losses.

Harbor truckers will be able to file drayage vehicle inspection reports, or DVIRs, using either of two electronic systems being rolled out before a June 30 federal deadline.

Last year’s 18.2 percent drop in business logistics spending was a record, according to an annual benchmark report, but it was a record with an asterisk.

Europe’s logistics industry is emerging leaner and fitter from double-digit declines in revenue and earnings spawned by the worst economic and trade recession since World War II.

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DHL Global Forwarding and sister company Danmar Lines are launching a trans-Atlantic expedited less-than-containerload service connecting 19 European ports and New York.

Canadian truckers angry about a reservation system they say is making it difficult to use the ferry linking Newfoundland and the Canadian mainland protested yesterday.

The nation’s highest court will decide whether Alabama can keep collecting a 4 percent sales and use tax on diesel fuel used by railroads, or whether that levy discriminates against rail lines b