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Intermodal traffic rose 13.8% last week from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said.

Air and freight forwarder UTi Worldwide’s fiscal third-quarter net income jumped to $26.4 million, or 26 cents a share, from $18 million, or 18 cents, a year earlier.

By Rip Watson, Senior Reporter

This story appears in the Dec. 13 print edition of Transport Topics.

A bill that would have enabled construction of a new, publicly owned bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, has died in the Michigan legislature.

The Idaho Transportation Department scheduled hearings late last week on whether to issue overweight, oversize transport permits for four massive loads of refinery equipment after a state administrative law judge nullified permits the state had issued to ConocoPhillips Co. in October.

The status of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s plan to release carrier safety information through the Compliance Safety and Accountability program remained uncertain at press time because an appeals court had not ruled on a motion to halt the move.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued new rules that will require brokers working with household goods movers to provide more information to consumers.

U.S. biomass-based diesel producers have the capacity to meet an 800 million-gallon federal mandate in 2011, despite a marked decline in biodiesel production over the past year and a failure by Congress so far to reinstate a $1 per gallon biodiesel tax credit, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and industry experts.

The president of the National Tank Truck Carriers has asked the National Transportation Safety Board to reopen its investigation into a fatal 1997 tank truck accident in Yonkers, N.Y., that he said has become the “poster child” of the agency’s campaign to require purge retrofits for cargo tank wetlines.

U.S. retail diesel has sold at a premium over gasoline throughout 2010, and petroleum market watchers said global competition for the trucking industry’s main fuel likely means that will not change any time soon.