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Truck, rail, water, and air transport are shut down.

Cargo transportation providers along the Texas coast are preparing for major disruptions from Hurricane Harvey.

Backup routes used to get around the shut down Rhine Valley rail link are proving costly for shippers.

Electronic logging devices will raise costs and complexity of renting trucks for seasonal business. Companies such as Ryder System want an ELD exemption for rental drivers.

Ryder System and Chanje see opportunity for electric commercial vehicles in rapid growth of "final-mile" delivery business.

The two month shutdown of a key rail corridor in Northern Europe is adding almost one-third to the transportation costs from the Mediterranean to Germany.

Since March, parcel giant UPS has shifted at least some of its cargo from CSX to NS.

US and Mexican Customs officials at a KCS-built facility will work to speed growing cross-border rail traffic at Laredo.

The issue threatens the hard-won gains from a government initiative to lower logistics costs for domestic shippers.

Does an atypically "robust" summer for US freight demand signal higher road and rail rates ahead for shippers?

Diversion routes in Germany are also out of service because of engineering work, threatening further delays at Europe’s top container port.

The dispute focuses on efforts to modernize the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The $95 million sale of cold-chain specialist Unitrans follows months of consolidation and rebranding at the multimodal transport operator.

The fastest-growing LTL carriers in 2016 were far from the largest.

The new seven-day-a-week service was announced on Aug. 14 after a trial period with Hapag-Lloyd.

Descartes' acquisition of MacroPoint will accelerate drive toward shipment, SKU-level tracking of freight across modal networks.

The US trucking industry still relies on a pre-regulatory-era pricing model after 30 years of freedom to change it.

The 2017 JOC Directory of Trucking is a one-stop source of information for North American shippers and third-party logistics providers.

The new terminal, pulling in grain carloads from the western Canadian provinces and the US Midwest, will help alleviate equipment shortages for North American outbound moves.

Private equity firm Transplace management to buy company as shippers increasingly demand not just technology, but also realizing the value of that technology.

The 112-year-old company is at the fulcrum of change rippling through the US trucking market and across trade lanes from Asia to Europe, much of it driven by e-commerce and technology.

Evidence shows shippers have pretty much exhausted the breathing room won in 2015 and 2016 after steep rate truck hikes in 2014. Now is the time for fresh planning.

The second-largest less-than-truckload carrier in the United States is not the company it used to be.

The surge in cargo thefts is a side effect of the country’s worst recession in history.

In technology speak, the collecting of data from ELDs is part of the so-called Internet or Network of Things.

The growing popularity of shipping containers by rail from China to Europe is leading to delays as increasing cargo volume begins to overpower European terminals.

Concor’s net profit during jumped 36.4 percent year over year.

Shippers want faster door-to-door service from less-than-truckload carriers.

By volume, JNPT handled 61,383 TEU during the month via rail.

Change takes effect on Oct. 2. Longer hours at Barbours Cut to be phased in later.

Bronka’s proximity to the ring road means that shippers will not have to rely on rail as much to get shipments into St. Petersburg.

Shippers need to plan for multiple challenges when the electronic logging mandate takes effect.

Want to avoid FedEx holiday season surcharges? Cut back on packaging and use last-mile services for heavier freight, a transportation consultant advises

More than 80 percent of CSX shippers surveyed have experienced problems with the railroad’s service.

First-quarter revenue increased 15.8 percent.

"National system issues" at US Customs and Border Protection alleged to cause truck backups at Canadian-US border crossings.

The $14.6 billion logistics and transportation provider accelerated growth at asset and non-asset operations alike in the second quarter, including its LTL division.

The Bangladesh government is welcoming private sector investments in inland container terminals.

A steady increase in freight volumes and e-commerce demand is fueling an expansion of LTL networks, with YRC Freight planning eight distribution centers.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has combined with other ease-of-doing-business measures to speed the movement of truckers.