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Cargo volume at major ports in India grew 3.5 percent in the April-May period compared with a year earlier, according to latest traffic figures released by the Indian Ports Association.

ProLogis announced two new agreements Tuesday for large distribution centers in Asia and Europe, giving the logistics site developer contracts for more than a million square feet of new warehouse spac

The Panama Canal Authority awarded Belgian maritime projects specialist Dredging International a contract to dredge the man-made Gatun Lake, a major step in expanding the canal’s ability to hand

The new commissioner of Customs and Border Protection is pledging to balance security with facilitation of trade and to improve a Customs-business relationship he said has become “strained and i

U.S. diesel prices fell for the fourth straight week in the week ending June 7, with the national average price sliding 3.4 cents to $2.946 a gallon, the U.S.

Charter operator Euroseas, joining an increasingly lively market for container ships, announced the purchase Monday of a used Handysize vessel, bringing its fleet to 16 ships.

Trucking employment last month grew at its fastest pace since it began to recover in March, and that mode led a broad gain in May that extended across all freight transportation modes.

Schneider National offered a $5,000 signing bonus for drivers willing to work for its Dedicated Services division in Chambersburg, Pa.

Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill into law today making Georgia the 28th state to ban cell phone texting while driving. The law will apply to all drivers effective July 1.

Logwin is now operating out of a 64,600-square-foot, consolidated freight station “state of the art” facility in Shanghai, the company said June 7.

UPS said Monday it is bolstering its technology to simplify multimodal shipments and give importers more control over packages and less-than-truckload freight.

The world’s airlines will book net profits of $2.5 billion in 2010, the International Air Transportation Association said, just three months after it forecast a $2.8 billion loss.

Tens of thousands of trucks and buses will be stopped for safety inspections by state police this week in the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Roadcheck.

Rickmers-Linie launched a breakbulk, project cargo and heavy-lift liner service linking North Asia with the U.S. East Coast and South America.

Israeli ocean container carrier Zim Integrated Shipping Services has signed a non-binding agreement to sell its stake in an unnamed non-Israeli marine services company for between $130 million and $17

With international package volume rising, DHL Express is hiring as many as 300 workers at its hub in Cincinnati, Ohio.

A nationwide information system that can track the locations and speeds of hundreds of thousands of trucks on U.S. highways is much more than a wild-eyed notion.

Demand for future rail capacity appears to be as clear as mud.

EU to Investigate Ocean Carriers

Chicago is not only the nation’s crossroads, but also its chokepoint.

The top Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure says time is running out for Congress to pass a comprehensive six-year surface transportation bill. According to Rep.

Container lines are steadily returning vessel strings to the trans-Pacific trade, but not fast enough to relieve capacity constraints in both directions.

The less-than-truckload field’s largest network alliance — the sprawling, multicarrier Reliance Network of regional carriers — is undergoing some changes, expanding its reach on the

Bad news was everywhere at the end of May: The Dow was plunging 300 points, North and South Korea were rattling sabers, the eurozone crisis was threatening to spread, and an underwater gusher of crude

President Obama’s goal of doubling U.S. exports within five years generated a set of nation-specific marketing plans, according to a senior U.S. trade official.

Building the more fuel-efficient heavy trucks the Obama administration wants to see on U.S.

If all segments of the economy were firing on as many cylinders as the agriculture industry is right now, the already stronger-than-expected economic recovery would be even more robust.

The trade community is facing a denser compliance jungle than at any time before or since the September 11 attacks as Customs turns its attention to enforcing regulations that for years took a backsea

Because industrial commodity prices tend to be highly volatile, a swing in prices often catches decision makers unawares.

To small trucking companies working the ports in California, using independent contract drivers to haul containers creates a symbiotic relationship, giving owner-operators the freedom they prize and t

Two highway safety advocacy groups often bitterly at odds with the trucking industry honored the top safety executive at one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers, signaling potential

Seaspan said it bought a new container ship this week from China’s Zheijiang Shipbuilding, the first vessel the maritime charter operator has purchased since 2007.

President Obama used a visit to a commercial truck dealership outside Washington, D.C., Friday to highlight how the economic recovery has spurred hiring in equipment suppliers to the freight sector.

The number of Chinese airports allowed to offer direct cargo services to Taiwan will increase from two to six under a new air transport accord between the two countries' civil aviation authorities.

Truckers in South China who are seeking higher earnings reportedly blocked the main road leading to ports in western Shenzhen on Thursday, and threatened to take their protest to larger ports if they

The Army Corps of Engineers issued interim reports Friday indicating existing barriers are keeping Asian carp from migrating through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and related channels, easi

ACL/Grimaldi will start calling at Savannah with its West African Service in early July, the Georgia Ports Authority said Friday.

Truckload rates are spiking 10 percent and higher as rising freight demand collides with deep cuts in capacity, according to freight brokers.

OOCL said Friday it will raise freight rates on southbound cargo it transports from Asia to New Zealand as of July 15.