Schlumberger Ltd., No. 10 on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of private carriers in North America, agreed to buy Cameron International Corp. for $14.8 billion, allowing the world's largest oil field-services provider to bundle its offerings and gear more effectively.

Ceva Logistics, a non-asset-based freight company in Houston, said Aug. 26 it began a guaranteed weekly less-than-containerload service to New York from Singapore with subsequent motor carrier service to 51 destinations on the East Coast and in the Midwest.

American Trucking Associations and two major business lobbying groups filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit asking a three-judge panel to find in favor of a FedEx Corp. subsidiary and against the National Labor Relations Board.

Energy-efficient port operations are expected to rise tenfold over the next 10 years as truckers use more natural gas-powered trucks and ports deploy more technology such as shore power to reduce fuel consumption, a new report says.