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Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has extended a previously-announced scheme allowing concessions on handling charges for rail containers until further notice, as India’s busiest container handler tries to lure shippers away from trucks to ease congestion in the harbor.

Deutsche Bahn’s troubled domestic freight business played a key role in pushing Germany’s state-owned rail company into the red for the first time in twelve years.

Total Quality Logistics is opening a third facility in South Carolina, continuing a fast-paced expansion driven by shipper demand for truckload brokerage services.

Sandbagged by lower demand, surging capacity and falling fuel surcharges, 19 of the 25 largest U.S. truckload carriers saw revenue decline in 2015. Overall, the combined revenue of the Top 25 Truckload Carriers dropped 2.3 percent to $27.2 billion, according to SJ Consulting Group.

Greece has delayed the March 21deadline for initial bids for state-owned freight and passenger rail company Trainose.

With U.S. truckload capacity at its highest level since the recession, and freight demand slow to rise, truck shippers increasingly are resisting rate increases, the latest indices from Cass and Avondale Partners indicate.

As part of an effort to improve yields and better cost and price shipments, FedEx Freight says it will add eight dimensional scanners to the 45 it already uses to reweigh and classify freight at terminals.

Kansas City Southern Railway is resuming operations and reopening lines after severe flooding on the Louisiana-Texas border shut down intermodal service on both its main lines south and east of Shreveport.

Russia and China have signed an agreement to build a $300 million bridge over the Amur river to link the Russian border city of Blagoveshchensk with Heihe, China, paving the way for truck and containerized rail on the corridor.

Cosco Pacific is being hotly tipped to clinch the bid for Greece’s state-owned rail operator just weeks after winning control of the nation’s largest port of Piraeus, a top Mediterranean container hub.

Chennai Port Trust in coordination with Container Corporation of India has announced a new trade incentive scheme for rail containers in an attempt to lure shippers away from trucks and in turn alleviate congestion in the harbor.

Truckers at DP World-operated International Container Transshipment Terminal, or Vallarpadam, called off a six-day strike that ground inland freight movements to a near-standstill and forced shippers to divert some cargo away from Cochin, India’s southeastern major public harbor.

The Russian government is preparing to launch the first of two new transportation corridors linking Russia’s Far East ports with China’s northeast provinces by taking steps intended to cut transportation costs by 15 percent.

A 14-week program is putting more drayage drivers behind the wheel at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Long Beach City College offers 200 hours of in-the-cab training, and the program is free to the students.

Rail freight transport from Kattupalli Port is gaining speed as state-owned intermodal logistics operator Container Corporation of India introduced a new, regular train service from Kattupalli to Bangalore, a major southern inland point, via Concor’s Tondiarpet Inland Container Depot on the outskirts of Chennai, port operator Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone said in a trade announcement.

A strike by truckers at DP World-operated International Container Transshipment Terminal, or Vallarpadam, in India’s Port of Cochin entered its fifth day on Monday, forcing shippers to reroute some cargo via nearby ports, mostly Tuticorin.

The strong surge in revenue U.S. less-than-truckload carriers enjoyed in 2014 ran out of gas last year, as weaker demand and lower fuel surcharges dragged down LTL trucking’s top line.

U.S. railroads are getting more competitive with trucking companies by lowering domestic intermodal spot rates across many of the major lanes, according to third-party logistics provider IDS.

Revenue at the Top 25 U.S. LTL and truckload carriers declined overall in 2015, and any revenue gains were muted, two industry rankings researched and prepared for JOC.com by SJ Consulting Group show.

Loaded truck miles were up 3 percent in February at Swift Transportation, the latest trucking company to report stronger U.S. freight demand. The carrier said customer inventories are dropping, and the U.S. Census bureau also reports some inventory reduction.

Shippers pressing for lower contract rates in early 2016 should consider the coming electronic logging mandate and its potential impact on truckload capacity in 2017, Swift Transportation executives said.

Canadian Pacific Railway officially filed its proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday outlining a shareholder resolution to be considered at Norfolk Southern Railway’s annual meeting this spring. But, the overture merely asks NS shareholders to consider a trust rather than set the stage for control over the NS board.

The first shoots of spring U.S. freight demand appeared in February, with Saia and Old Dominion Freight Line reporting increases in shipments that could signal stronger or at least more stable manufacturing and freight shipping activity.

The U.S. economy added jobs in February, but payrolls at for-hire trucking companies declined last month for the first time since October,

The European trucking sector has faced complex obstacles in recent years as recession and the increasingly fragmented economic situation of member states have driven protectionism and legislative impediments for trucking firms.

Trucking and logistics operator Mobile Air Transport announced Tuesday it plans to acquire Kings Express, a full-service delivery, trucking, distribution and warehouse service company.

Rail logistics providers in North America are moving deeper into the perishables market with new services aimed at shippers looking for dependable and cost-effective transportation options, particularly for long-haul moves.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing a new rule that requires truck drivers to spend more time behind the wheel before they can take their skills tests for licensing and creates another hurdle for drivers who have lost their license for malfeasance to have it reinstated.

Two more rail services carrying cargo overland from Chinese cities to Iran and Russia were launched in February.

FedEx, the largest less-than-truckload carrier in North America and the second-largest trucking operator in the U.S., has joined the league of logistics industry groups, including rival UPS, opposed to a proposed Canadian Pacific-Norfolk Southern railway merger.

Canadian Pacific Railway has officially requested U.S. rail regulators speed along an official review vetting the viability of its proposed merger with Norfolk Southern Railway in time for an NS shareholder meeting this spring.

Amid the massive protests of long-haul truckers and transport companies, the Russian government has made the unprecedented decision to freeze for several months the planned increase of a controversial highway tariff opponents say could shrink Russia’s domestic transportation market by 30 percent.

Weak export growth is a serious impediment to economic growth and prosperity in the U.S. and is hampered more by inadequate infrastructure than by the strong U.S. dollar, delegates were told at the TPM 2016 conference here.

Intermodal service may have improved last year, but for some shippers, those improvements aren’t enough. “We’ve got a lot of issues in the Chicago area,” said Claudia Andersen, import/export manager of enterprise logistics at 1-800Flowers.com.

TRAC Intermodal, the largest provider of chassis in the U.S., has acquired Interstar Fleet Services, a provider of emergency road service repair service.

Indian Railways is looking to expand its freight reach as sluggish global demand and infrastructure challenges weigh heavily on the public enterprise’s growth plans.

Try as they might, trucking companies have been unable to stop the exodus of drivers from the industry just as new regulations threaten to cut capacity by 15 percent, according to the National Transportation Institute.

BNSF Railway’s profit fell 9 percent year-over-year to $1.08 billion in the fourth quarter due in large part to weaker intermodal carload volume, according to parent company Berkshire Hathaway.

As the deadline for the International Maritime Organization’s controversial new container weight rule nears, it’s still unclear whether railroads will accept containers without their verified gross mass documentation.

Weak demand for energy and steel products sapped loads from the flatbed trailers operated by Universal Truckload Services in the fourth quarter, pulling transportation revenue down 9.1 percent to $177.5 million, the trucking and logistics company said Thursday.