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Orient Overseas Container Line and Hanjin Shipping returned to profitability in the second quarter and say they’re cautiously optimistic the good times will continue.

Con-way Truckload is looking beyond its less-than-truckload sister company for more business from “external” customers.

APL can’t get vessels back into the water fast enough.

The rail freight industry may be humming, and intermodal may be too tight for comfort, but North American railcar equipment suppliers are mostly holding on until customers need them again.

A return to profitability is helping to sway cautious Wall Street analysts that Pacer International’s strategic shift from a wholesale middleman service to a company focused on moving containers

Was it Christmas in July? Forecasters say this year’s double-digit growth in U.S.

The Brussels-based organization that lobbied the European Union on behalf of liner shipping companies ceased those efforts last month but is staying open as a trade association.

Con-way Freight has a long, hard slog ahead as it struggles to right-size its volume and wrangles with shippers over pricing in what looks to be a slower recovery.

After roaring out of the gate at the beginning of the year with container ships sailing full in both directions and rates more than doubling over the last year, demand in the trans-Atlantic trades is

A motor carrier in Southern Virginia, FWC, shut down this week, ending a 30-year run as it struggled to rebuild business in the economic recovery.

Manufacturing, wholesale and retail inventories rose in June, reinforcing claims that the wave of goods restocking benefiting t

The Port of Portland closed on a 25-year lease of its container and breakbulk facilities at Terminal 6 to ICTSI Oregon, a subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services Inc.

Indian exporters of machine parts, foodstuffs and other commodities scrambled to find an air freight option after a major accid

UBM Aviation, a sister company of The Journal of Commerce, acquired the Manchester, UK-based Route Development Group for an undisclosed sum.

The Pennsylvania Transportation Commission approved a 24 percent cut in the budget for infrastructure improvements through 2022.

GPA Study Shows Diesel Additives Cut Fuel Use, Emissions

Retail and food services sales increased 0.4 percent from June to July, according to a report Friday morning from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Hapag-Lloyd on Friday said it stopped accepting hazardous cargo bookings to and from India's Port of Mumbai, effective immediately.

India's two biggest ports, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port and Mumbai Port, conducted limited operations on Friday.

Etihad Airways took delivery of the first of two A330-200 freighters Aug. 9. A second is expected in October.

Surging international cargoes were the biggest driver in the second quarter for rail hauls of intermodal containers and trailers, said the Intermodal Association of North America.

UPS launched a new service that enlists the U.S.

OOCL is buying slots on a new weekly service between Antwerp and New York that Hapag-Lloyd will start in September.

CEVA Logistics boosted second quarter revenue 30 percent year-over-year to $2.244 billion on the basis of strong freight volume, particularly in the Americas and Asia Pacific, the global supply chain

Chile's CSAV posted $69 million in second quarter profit and said it finished the first half of the year with a $36.8 million net profit, compared with a $402 million loss in the first fix months of 2

New Century Transportation is the latest trucking company to plot a route for Wall Street with an initial public offering to raise cash for expansion in the recovery.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Rotterdam increased by 17.7 percent in the first six months of the year, the Rotterdam Port Authority reported Thursday.

State-owned rail operator Container Corporation of India announced the launch of train services between the ports of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), Mundra and Pipavav.

India's biggest container port resumed partial operations on Thursday, ending the shutdown caused by the collision of two ships in its main channel last Saturday.

Trailer Bridge said full vessels on the southbound leg of its U.S. mainland-Puerto Rico service contributed to a 5.7 percent increase in second quarter operating profit.

Users of railcars pulled another 5,808 out of storage in July from sidings and rail yards across North America, the strongest drawdown since April when freight traffic was stronger.

Freight shipments as measured in ton-miles rose 0.2 percent in June from May, in the latest step of a gradual increase

Non-asset logistics operator AutoInfo increased revenue from transportation services 57.8 percent from a year ago to $69.1 million in the second quarter.

The Department of Transportation unveiled eight marine highway project corridors around the country that it will help through $7 million in current grant funding plus future aid, and listed six major

Icelandic carrier Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics said it will increase the frequency of its new Oslofjord service to weekly from biweekly at the end of August to accommodate demand for refrige

The tonnage of breakbulk cargo handled by the Port of Rotterdam in the first half of 2010 increased by 21 percent, even stronger than the 18 percent increase reported earlier, the Port of Rotterdam Au

The U.S. trade deficit widened in June to its highest level since October 2008 as exports slipped 1.3 percent while imports hit a record high, the Commerce Department said.

Hapag-Lloyd earned record second-quarter operating profit as the German ship line’s volume rose 7.8 percent and average per-container rates jumped 29.9 percent.

Trade moving through India’s Port of Mumbai, which remained closed for a fifth day following the collision of two cargo ships at the ma