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North America’s small railroads continued reporting heavy traffic declines in the second week of March, as the RMI RailConnect index said volume for all cargo types fell 24.69 percent in the wee

President Obama said he plans to nominate Robert S.

Cross-country intermodal partners BNSF Railway in the West and CSX Intermodal in the East recently expanded their container service to more Southeast cities.

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) warned March 19 of the damage that could result from the announcement that the government of Mexico will impose tariffs on U.S.

Trucking activity, a bellwether of general trade and economic conditions, is in sharp decline along the United States-Canada border.

The Greenbrier Hotel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections, and said it has a deal under which Marriott will buy the resort owned by railroad operator CSX Corp.

London – France’s main seaports are at a standstill and rail freight is being severely disrupted as thousands of longshoremen and rail workers join a general strike to protest the governme

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FedEx earnings plunged in the company’s fiscal third quarter as a result of the global recession.

President Obama said he wants Joseph C. Szabo, the state legislative director in Illinois for the United Transportation Union, to head the Federal Railroad Administration.

Montreal-based TransForce, Canada's largest all-categories trucking/logistics firm, reports buckling down to a "deteriorating" business economy in North America with hiring and salary freeze

Class I railroads as a group cut 1,678 jobs by mid-January from a month earlier, as the recession deepened and freight traffic remained sharply below year-earlier levels.

The weakening economy reared its head in the latest data on trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico, showing year-over-year surface transportation growth of imports and exports in 2008 to b

The Producer Price Index in the transportation and warehousing sector slowed to 0.5 percent in February from 0.8 percent in January.

London -- France's freight transport system faces paralysis on March 19 as longshoremen, railroad workers, truckers and air cargo handlers join a 24-hour general strike to protest against President Ni

CSX Transportation is putting four new genset yard locomotives into its Barr rail yard in Riverdale near Chicago, doubling its fleet of the low-emission power units.

Truck and engine manufacturer Navistar posted a profit of $234 million in its fiscal first quarter ending Jan.

The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia will add its inaugural call at the Port of Charleston to its North America service during the week of March 30, the South Carolina State Port Authority sa

Kansas City Southern is telling customers that security statistics for its rail operations in Mexico “show outstanding performance and continuous improvement.”

Where some see a transportation landscape littered with empty trailers, shuttered carrier offices and parked trucks and ships, others see opportunities.

The price of an average gallon of diesel fuel fell another 2.8 cents last week to $2.017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Southeastern Freight Lines is replacing carrier partnerships in Alabama with its own direct service to speed delivery and reduce damage claims.

The European Shippers’ Council and the European Rail Freight Customers’ Platform today agreed to merge into a single organization.

Daimler AG is making changes at the top of its North American truck manufacturing unit — the largest supplier of heavy-duty trucks in the United States and Canada.

Business is very slow for manufacturers in New York, according to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

Industrial production, a key measure of shipping demand, fell 1.4 percent in February, according to a report from the Federal Reserve.

Freight tonnage will grow more than 26 percent and freight revenue by 68 percent by 2020, according to a study sponsored by the American Trucking Associations.

President Obama named Francis P.

Just five months after launching their clean-trucks program, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are poised to restructure the fee and subsidy elements that are at the core of the nation’s m

After challenging Bush administration trucking hours-of-service rules several times, the Teamsters union and several safety advocacy groups are taking their fight to the more labor-friendly Obama admi

The economy and efforts to tighten transportation regulation are colliding together in Congress.

When Germany began charging drivers by the mile for the use of its highways, commercial trucks were the first to convert from a motor fuel tax. If the U.S.

While expanding railroad profits during the economic downturn are drawing shipper attention, the hundreds of small carriers that feed into the Class Is are scrambling for any freight and government he

Trucking companies waiting until next year to upgrade their fleets with cleaner- burning diesel engines may have a tough time passing the extra cost on to shipper customers if the long economic winter

The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay is getting the short line its shippers wanted, and the chance to get the mostly closed rail route back in op

The American Trucking Associations is challenging the third attempt by the Teamsters union and consumer safety advocates to change federal truck driver hours

Short line traffic braked harder in the latest week, as measured both from the same time in 2008 and against the pace of industry activity since January.

The recession kept hitting every category of commodity and consumer goods carried on U.S. railroads in the first week of March.

YRC President, Chairman and CEO William D.