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The Board of the Georgia Ports Authority on Monday elected Alec L. Poitevint, II, of Bainbridge to serve as chairman.

The average retail price for a gallon of diesel fuel fell back half a penny last week to $2.956 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

M.D. "Mike" Stolzman has been promoted to president of Pacific Harbor Line, the railroad that performs switching services at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

A Palestinian group that has called for boycotts against Israeli vessels at various ports around the world signaled its intention to picket ships at U.S. ports as well.

Sen. Robert C. Byrd left his stamp not just on the U.S. Senate, where he served 52 years, but on the roads and waterways of West Virginia and the United States.

FreightWatch International said its security tracking devices helped to recover a truckload of pharmaceuticals that was stolen Friday while a two-person driver team was eating dinner at a truck stop o

The Customs and Border Protection’s Commercial Operations Advisory Committee will meet in teleconference on July 15 to vote on the Department of Homeland Security’s National Strategy for G

Container ship charter rates are soaring as ocean carriers compete for a dwindling supply of vessels at the start of the peak shipping season.

Container volume at the ports owned by the Georgia Ports Authority jumped by 25.3 percent in May, making it six months in a row of double-digit increases.

President Obama named a top lawyer at chemical shipper DuPont to be general counsel at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A.P. Moller-Maersk logistics subsidiary Damco hired Wade Thompson as its new chief commercial officer for the Middle East region, the company announced Monday.

APL is moving two senior executives in its European operations into new positions to strengthen global trade lane management and build momentum in the European market, the company said Monday.

DP World, the world's fourth-largest container terminal operator, postponed the dual listing of its shares on the London Stock Exchange, citing delays in merging two local stock exchanges in its home

Neptune Orient Lines, parent of APL, established a program to issue up to $1.5 billion in medium-term notes that the company said will be used for general corporate purposes.

Six months after Customs and Border Protection moved to active enforcement of Importer Security Filing rules amid suggestions that the sky would collapse for many importers, the sky looks to be right

A June 16 briefing report by the California Senate Republican Caucus in Sacramento is the latest to slam the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland for declining competitiveness and to predict a

The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken.

Freight brokers and truckers are critical partners in today’s supply chains, but that doesn’t always make them a happy couple, especially when accusations of fraudulent re-brokering of fre

While it may be well into 2011 before Congress can enact a new long-term funding program for surface transportation, the Obama administration could be just weeks away from laying out what it wants in

Mark A. Yeager has a message for intermodal shippers trying to plan out their year: Capacity is tight and will only get tighter leading up to autumn’s peak season.

Emboldened by surging imports and vessel space and equipment shortages likely to persist through October, carriers in the eastbound trans-Pacific ocean trade are increasing freight rates seemingly at

ABF Freight System’s labor costs per driver are more than 15 percent higher than those paid by national competitor YRC, and higher than several other less-than-truckload competitors, according t

Beijing’s stated decision to allow the yuan to gradually float against global currencies won’t dent the country’s booming export growth, but the move will help stabilize the economy

The U.S.

Intermodal traffic at major North American railroads continued to grow into mid-June, setting a new peak for the recovery and rising 5 percent from four weeks earlier.

A Miami exporter of heavy equipment for the construction, farm and trucking industries pleaded guilty this week to trying to defraud the U.S.

Sen. John McCain introduced legislation to “fully repeal” the Jones Act, which he said is preventing non-U.S.-flag vessels from helping clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The Senate on Friday afternoon confirmed on a voice vote John S. Pistole to be the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.

U.S. steel imports increased by 4.7 percent in May to 2.2 million tons from 2.1 million tons in April, the American Institute for International Steel said Friday.

Truckload freight demand is slowing, according to the Morgan Stanley Truckload Freight Index.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey acquired the 98-acre Global Terminal on the Port Jersey peninsula in Jersey City and Bayonne.

Truck tonnage slipped 0.6 percent in May, putting a brake on shipping growth after trucking demand reached its highest level of the recovery the month before, the American Trucking Associations said F

Struggling less-than-truckload giant YRC Worldwide said it will sell part of its YRC Logistics operation for $37 million to private equity investor Austin Ventures and partner with that firm on some o

“K” Line America appointed Takashi Saeki its president and CEO as of July 1.

Package carrier FedEx is building a small-package sort and delivery station near Chicago that will be the fifth major facility in that area for its FedEx Ground unit.

A planned UK government replacement of its Airline Passenger Duty with a new per-aircraft flight fee will mean higher costs for manufacturers and shippers and deliver no new environmental benefits, sa

Four emerging conditions promise to have long-term impact on supply chain management, according to Detlef Trefzger, member of the management board of Schenker.

Goldenport Holdings, the London-listed containership and bulk carrier owner, announced a new $35 million share offering June 25 to fund future vessel acquisitions.

German KG investment funds that bankrolled much of the last decade’s container shipbuilding boom have cut back on lending, but speculation about their demise is “total nonsense,” say

Evergreen Line, China Shipping and CMA CGM will work together to launch an upgraded Asia-Europe AEX7 service.