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BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Air France-KLM suspended cargo service to Guangzhou, China, effective Jan. 1 as cargo volume fell below sustainable levels. Cargo traffic from the Chinese industrial center to [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher New Breed Logistics will provide 400,000 square feet of distribution space to telecommunications equipment provider Avaya in Memphis, Tenn. New Breed will also provide logistics services. [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Russian-registered cargo ship Sinegorsk ran into rough seas in the English Channel and lost a load of 1,500 metric tons of timber, according to news reports. [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Fourth quarter volume softened for Deutsche Post World Net in most business units. In air and ocean freight, volumes declined at a double-digit rate reflecting the [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Brentwood, Tenn.-based logistics company OHL leased two additional warehouse spaces totaling 250,000 square feet in Southern California. OHL says the region is a hot spot for [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The GAC Group opened a logistics business development office in Lille, France. Guillaume Gilleron, European key account manager, will run the office with responsibility for developing [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The Surface Transportation Board issued a decision Jan. 16 denying petitions to stay its decision approving CN's purchase of the EJ&E, which is scheduled to become [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The head of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association praised what he called a 'first installment' on the capital investment needed to repair and upgrade [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The freight railroad industry praised the Department of Transportation for adopting standards developed by the Association of American Railroads to strengthen tank cars carrying toxic by [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Circuit City Stores will liquidate the assets in 567 U.S. stores after trying unsuccessfully to find a buyer or investor to help it recover from bankruptcy. [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Old Dominion Freight Line will relocate operations in Omaha, Neb. to a consolidated service center. The less-than-truckload regional carrier will open a 74-door facility on a [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher YRC Worldwide on Jan. 16 obtained waivers under its credit facilities, an advance in the company's effort to ease its own credit crunch. YRC's banking group [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Dallas investor Don R. Daseke and Main Street Capital of Houston, Texas, are backing Dan Wirkkala in the purchase of Smokey Point Distributing. The three partners [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher BNSF Railway is offering an express international container service from the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., to Memphis, Tenn., and Chicago. At first, one full [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Industrial production declined significantly in December and the nation's factories, mines and utilities used less than three-fourths of available capacity. Production fell 2 percent from November [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Tucked into the House Economic Recovery Bill, introduced Jan. 15, is a tidy little $1.15 billion for border trade infrastructure. While that amount is far less [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The U.S. Department of Transportation signed an agreement with the state of Washington to improve efficiency along the border with Canada. Freight carriers will be better [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher A high percentage of manufacturers responding in January to a Federal Reserve survey in New York expect conditions to worsen over the next six months. While [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Jet fuel prices and consumption plunged in November to their lowest points all year. U.S. airlines paid $2.556 per gallon for a total of 1.38 billion [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Deflation of wholesale prices slowed in December as the Producer Price Index for Finished Goods fell 1.9 percent following a 2.2 percent decline in November and [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., is the chair of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee. Colleagues on Jan. 14 elected him at a meeting of the Democratic Caucus [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The deepening recession affected all modes of transportation in November as freight services declined for the third of four months driving a key government index to [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Retail and food services sales for December dropped 9.8 percent compared with last year, according to advance estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The seasonally adjusted [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Savi, a Lockheed Martin company, just went live with an automated asset and inventory tracking system at a major U.S. army depot. The Sierra Army Depot [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Genesee & Wyoming bought four short lines during 2008 and pumped up its traffic figures at the end of the year. But declining volumes for nearly [...]

Construction of a 41-acre cargo terminal will soon begin at Port Everglades, which received approval from the Broward County Board of County Commissioners Jan. 13. The South Florida seaport is [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for Department of Transportation Secretary, former member of Congress Ray LaHood, will be on Capitol Hill Wednesday for his first confirmation hearing [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher BNSF Railway sent maintenance crews last week to replace rail, ties and ballast in Alabama and Texas. Six crews will be working on seven miles of [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Truck engine maker Cummins will lay off 800 professional level employees by the end of February and freeze salaries for the year. The second round of [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Import/export trade of goods and services in the United States declined significantly in November, according to a report released Jan. 13 from the U.S. Census Bureau [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The price of diesel this week increased for the first time since July. The average price across the country for a gallon of diesel fuel rose [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Bankrupt trucking company Gainey Corp. secured an agreement with creditors to use its available cash to keep operating its business. A federal judge ruled the move [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Freightliner Trucks is laying off 2,137 employees at its truck and parts plants. The Daimler subsidiary will almost completely idle the facility in Mount Holly, N.C., [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Winter storms Sunday and Monday wreaked havoc on the highways in the Northeast and Northern Plains. Heavy snow led to a pileup of more than 50 [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The slumping Asia export trade pulled business for Hong Kong's main air cargo handler down by nearly a third in December. In the worst month of [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Union Pacific will furlough approximately 230 people in North Platte, Neb. Workers got word Jan. 8 from Chad Wilbourn, general superintendent for the North Platte service [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher A trucking industry Web portal launched a feature that helps measure the profitability of truck lanes. 'Rate Index' will track critical data of more than 12 [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports fell to the lowest point in four years at the end of 2008. After 17 consecutive months [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Teamster members who work at the freight companies of YRC Worldwide voted overwhelmingly to modify the current labor agreements for the company's Yellow Transportation, Roadway, Holland [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Cathay Pacific Airways lost $980 million on fuel hedging in just two months. Hong Kong's largest carrier said paper losses nearly tripled through November and December. [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Delays in production of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft are postponing production of freighters by rival manufacturer Airbus. The 787, with its promise of fuel [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher A sharp downturn in the final week, month and quarter brought an end to the worst year for U.S. rail traffic since 2004. The years 2005 [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The Transportation Security Administration authorized TransCore's TWIC hand-held reader for use in security clearance. TransCore and DAP Technologies, both units of Roper Industries, developed the reader [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher NAFTA-related surface trade fell 2.1 percent in October in the first decline since Feb. 2007 at a pace unheard of in the last five years. The [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Retail sales in December slumped far below year-ago levels in one of the weakest holiday seasons in years. Individual merchant reports show a trend of double-digit [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher While many companies are cutting capacity in the face of a worsening economic downturn, one forwarder believes the recession could provide opportunities for expansion. The U.S. [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Navistar lost $343 million in its fourth fiscal quarter, ending Oct. 31. The truck and diesel engine manufacturer took a big hit from asset impairment charges [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The compensation committee of the YRC Worldwide board on Dec. 30 amended the severance agreements for William D. Zollars and five other senior executives. Under the [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday called for swift and significant action to jump start the troubled U.S. economy. Anticipating rising unemployment and steep declines in [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Effective Jan. 1, Donald C. Orris stepped down from his role as interim president, intermodal segment of Pacer International. Orris will stay with the company as [...]